Box of Broadcast (BoB): On Demand TV & Radio for Education
Our resource of the week this week is Box of Broadcasts (BoB). BoB allows users to record items broadcast on over 65 free to air channels including BBC channels, ITV, Film 4, and 10 foreign language channels.
You can request up to 10 items a day to be recorded and added to BoB. The 9 most popular channels are listed first and programmes aired on these will be immediately recorded and added to BoB. If you would like programmes from other channels you can request these within 30 dys of broadcast. You can also request programmes up to seven days in advance.
BoB is therefore a really good catch up service and there is no need for a TV license as the University has a license which allows students to access content via BoB.
BoB also has an archive of over 2 million broadcasts that date back to the 1990s, these include TV programmes, documentaries, films and radio broadcasts. You can also make your own playlists and create clips.
Access BoB via our eResources A-Z page.
Kanopy is another great resource for watching films and documentaries online, again you don’t need a TV license to access this!
It provides access to over 6,000 videos on a range of different subjects including humanities, education, the arts, business, health and sciences.
Also included are a lot of Hollywood films, British Cinema, international cinema and also early cinema.
This is a great resource and is again free to use, access Kanopy via our eResources A-Z page.
If you would like to learn about these resources or any others please contact your information consultant