eresources@cambridge

The university has access to a number of external film and video services to support education. Listed below are the main moving image services. Those marked Raven require an institutional (Raven) password for full access.

BFI InView: British history through the lens (access: Raven password)

NewsFilm Online (access: Raven password)

News on Screen (formerly British Universities Newsreel Database) (access: Raven password)

TRILT (access: Raven password)

BUFVC

The University Library administers the university’s membership of BUFVC (British University Film and Video Council).

The BUFVC records and retains more than 65,000 hours of UK broadcast television and radio each year. Copies of these programmes can be ordered online and supplied to staff through the university’s membership. There is a limit of 50 on the number of requests per year supplied on DVD.

The Off-Air Recording Back-Up Service currently records BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, ITV1, Channel 4, Five, BBC Radio 4 (since September 2008) and BBC Radio 7 (since September 2009).

Staff may order programmes via the Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT). Simply locate and select the desired programme in TRILT to generate a programme request. The university’s BUFVC member representative (Patricia Killiard) will then authorise it for processing. TRILT carries information on nearly all broadcasts in the UK since September 2001 and selective data back to 1995.

The BUFVC hosts further databases for locating sources of moving image material:

The Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,000 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas.

Researcher’s Guide to Screen Heritage

Shakespeare: An International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio

Educational Recording Agency (ERA) Licence: Recording and use of broadcasts

The University holds ERA and ERA Plus Licences which permit the recording of television and radio programmes for educational purposes and the playing of those recordings to students within the University under the following conditions:

• Recordings must be for non-commercial educational purposes only.
• Recordings must not be edited or modified, although extracts may be used.
• Recordings must be marked/labelled with the date of the broadcast/recording, the title of the programme, the name of the broadcaster, and the following statement: .This recording is to be used only for educational and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the ERA Licence.
• Copies may be made of the broadcast recording, but not of videos and DVDs sold commercially.
• Programmes may be recorded in analogue or digital format and may be made available in digital form on a password-protected intranet such as CamTools, but only if they cannot be accessed outside the UK.
• Recordings of broadcasts or extracts thereof may not be incorporated into any commercial video or DVD or other production, nor may they be sold.

FAQs on ERA Licence conditions are available at: http://era.org.uk/FAQ.html.

University of Cambridge Video and Audio collections

The University’s extensive Video and Audio collections are drawn from over 80 institutions and are updated daily with new content.

Selected content is also available via iTunesU.