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The Mediascape aims to introduce you to some useful online resources for finding sound clips,
videos and images. It will help you to see how each might be useful in the course of your
academic studies. Click in the boxes below to find out more. Return to this page by clicking on
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Video
Images
Sound
Find further information and tutorials
Sound resources could include
lectures, music or sound effects.
Sound
Find Sounds is a search engine
which enables you to search for
sound effects available on the
web. You should refer to
copyright information on each
site that it links you to.
Visit Referencing@Portsmouth
to find out how to reference
Audio or Video Podcasts.
Listening to lectures or ‘oral histories’
can offer an alternative way of learning
about a subject.
Music might be your subject area, so you
can expand your understanding of a
composer or genre by listening to some
examples.
Perhaps you require sound effects to
create media-rich presentations.
The Library provides access to some
sound resources. British Library Sounds
is a good place to start. It includes
music, spoken word and sound effects.
Naxos Music Library is an excellent
recorded music resource.
A full list of the Library’s recommended
sound and video resources can be found on
our Audio and Visual Resources page.
Band of HM Royal Marines, Portsmouth and HMS Daring, by Between a Rock, Flickr
Video resources could include
television programmes, films,
newsreels, lectures and short clips.
Video
YouTube is perhaps the most
popular video search tool. Refer to
the JISC tutorial Internet for video
and moving images for information
on copyright. Vimeo is a resource
which encourages copyright holders
to share content freely.
Visit Referencing@Portsmouth to
find out how to reference video clips
from websites: Streaming video.
You could use video as an
alternative way of learning about a
topic. Perhaps you are a media or
film studies student and watching
videos is integral to your course.
Video clips can also be used to
enhance presentations.
The Library provides access to some
video resources. Box of Broadcasts is a
good place to start. You can record,
watch or listen to terrestrial television
and radio programmes and even make
clips for presentations.
A full list of the Library’s
recommended sound and video
resources can be found on our
Audio and Visual Resources page.
Images could be diagrams, photographs,
works of art or templates for specific
purposes, such as to assist the generation
of computer games characters.
Images
Photo-sharing sites such as Flickr are
places where you can upload your own
photos and look at other peoples’.
Images are often licensed by Creative
Commons. Wikimedia Commons is an
alternative resource, but all images can
be shared. Caution: not all users who
upload images understand copyright!
Visit Referencing@Portsmouth to
find out how to reference Images,
illustrations and diagrams.
Images can enhance coursework or
presentations, support arguments
and illustrate processes or concepts.
The Library provides access to many
image resources that have been
copyright cleared for educational
purposes. However, note: they
must not be uploaded to the web.
Artstor is a good place to start as it
contains more than a million images
relating to visual arts and culture.
A full list of the Library’s
recommended image resources
can be found on our Audio and
Visual Resources page.
JISC Digital Media website gives guidance on all
aspects of finding and using sound, video and
images. Click on the box to enter the site.
Click on the relevant box to enter a tutorial
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