*New Resource* - BoB

The University has recently purchased a subscription to Box of Broadcasts (BoB). 

BoB is an off-air recording and media archive service that allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are due to be broadcast over the next seven days.  As well as this, you also have access to programmes broadcast over the previous week.  You can also create video clips and access transcripts of the programmes.

BoB has excellent video tutorials that take you through the basics of searching and recording, through to creating video and audio clips and searching transcripts.

BoB is produced by the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), Cambridge Imaging Systems and Bournemouth University

Box of Broadcasts Trial - Available until 12 December ONLY!

We have secured a trial account to Box of Broadcasts, an off-air recording and media archive service. BoB allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days, as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels.

After a programme is recorded users can stream a Flash video in a web page - in a similar way to BBC's iPlayer. BoB stores recorded TV and Radio programmes in an archive indefinitely* for all users to enjoy. The archive currently offers over 45,000 TV and radio programmes covering all genres, including medicine, health and science, and that number is set to rise as more higher education institutions join BoB.

Please contact Clare Scott c.scott@sheffield.ac.uk for details of how to access this trial.

This trial is only available until 12 December. It is expensive to subscribe so we really need to know what you think. Please let give us your feedback on this service here:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/cdfiles/trialfeedback