We now have access to JISC Media Hub.  This database contains a wealth of moving and still images copyright-cleared for educational use.   It has material which we already had by means of Newsfilm Online and Film and Sound Online and also a vast amount of material not available to us previously. There are links to JISC Media Hub within iFind Discover and iFind Research.  The direct url is http://jiscmediahub.ac.ukJISC Media Hub contains ·         Over 3,000 hours of digitised news stories from the ITN/Reuters archives (including the complete Gaumont and Paramount newsreels, dating from 1910 onwards and 1934 onwards respectively) ·         17 collections of documentaries and sound (such as the Imperial War Museum film footage)

·         Over 56,000 still images (many depicting events in the last 25 years) from sources such as Getty Images, the Imperial War Museum and the Royal Geographical Society.

The Collections within JISC Media Hub are listed and described at http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/about/inside

Coverage is from 1910 to 2010.

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