Performing Arts and Music blog

How are you getting on with using Box of Broadcasts?

Isn’t it a brilliant resource?!

For anyone who hasn’t discovered it yet, Box of Broadcasts (often know as BoB) is an on-demand TV & radio streaming service. The University Library subscribes to this resources so that our staff and students have access to BoB’s archive. It also gives the ability to record upcoming programmess over 65 free-to-air channels from the UK and beyond.

This series of short videos will help you get the most out of this resource for your studies and research including:

• How to access and search BoB.
• Using the programme guide.
• Using your own personal area of BoB.
• How to make a playlist and clips.
• How to request a programme.

The Library subscribes to a database called IBISWorld. It contains company information providing industry intelligence that analyses the environment of over 400 UK industries.

Each industry report provides detailed performance data and analysis on the market, leading competitors, operating strengths and weaknesses, external drivers, industry profit and cost structure benchmarks. It is not aimed at higher education but provides real-world data, making it a really valuable resource.

For example, music students and performing arts students could use it to look at external drivers in the music industry which may impact on the profession. Currently you’ll also see Brexit and Covid impact statements which give that contemporary context in fields such as sound recording and music publishing. You could use as a useful resource to complementary the research you’re doing for your assignments.