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 | Subject Librarian: Van Houlson E-Mail: houls001@tc.umn.edu The subject of journalism covers the collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary and feature materials through old and new media. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Communication and Mass Media Complete    Find academic journal articles on topics in mass media, film, television, marketing, and communications in business, health, and other communication studies.
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| Film and Television Literature Index with Full-Text This database can be used to find research articles on film studies' topics. List of titles included. Aspects covered include theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, reviews (back to 1914) and more. The database allows full searching of more than 270 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Articles are available for more than 80 journals and texts from nearly 50 books. If the article you are interested in is not available online, click the Find It-button to see if the article is available in another library database, or to see if the library has the article in print.
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| Google Scholar Connect to Google Scholar through the Libraries' web site to gain off-campus access to all the articles and journals in full text in the Libraries. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. To connect to the full text, click "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities" in your Google Scholar search results. Learn more: Google Scholar FAQ
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| Web of Science (ISI) Indexes over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk(*).
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| EBSCO MegaFILE The EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of the complete content and functionality of Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News. Includes, for example, articles from several marketing/advertising trade publications.
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| Expanded Academic ASAP Offers balanced coverage on a wide-range of topics including social sciences, humanities, education, science and technology. Comprised of more than 3,500 indexed and full-text titles — of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed — in all disciplines with more than 20 years of backfile coverage.
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| Factiva Full text source of global news and business information, major daily newspapers, newswires, academic and trade journals, magazines, transcripts of media programs, web sites, images. Covers multiple-language content of 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages.
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| LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis Academic is a full text databases for news, business, and legal research. It includes sources for researching accounting, environmental studies, health and medical care, government and politics, people, consumer information, and countries worldwide. Locate company information, including the Hoovers Company Profiles.
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| World News Connection Full-text summaries of foreign newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Formerly published as FBIS and JPRS Reports.
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Indexes, Other
| Television News Archive The Television News Archive available from Vanderbilt University, is an index to more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC (August 1968 - present), and CNN daily news (1995 - present). Also, there are more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since September 1988. University faculty, staff, and students can view online video from the Archive's collection of CNN material; copies or compilations of other site material can be ordered for a cost-recovery fee paid to Vanderbilt. Note: 60 Minutes, 20/20, and other news magazine programs are not included here.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
| Center for Research Libraries CRL holds over four million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. Holdings include such diverse materials as 800,000 doctoral dissertations (including those of Albert Einstein, Dag Hammarskjold and other Nobel laureates), some of the earliest African-American newspapers and the 100,000-plus-page archive of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge security force. Emphasis is on materials produced outside the United States, and the Center has special strength in publications and archives from many developing nations. Detailed information on areas of the CRL collection is available from http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=23
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| Google Books Searches the full text of the books for thousands of past and current books. Full view for many older titles and previews available for mostly recent b ooks. To find a book from the library, click on the "Find in a Library." or search MNCAT, the libary catalog for the University of Minnesota.
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General Reference Sources
Almanacs
| Infoplease.com Infoplease.com combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records into a single web site.
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Biographical Sources
| Marquis Who's Who Features comprehensive profiles on 1.2 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment,sports and more.
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Dictionaries
| Dictionary of Media & Communication Studies [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Directories
| Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook Profiles of thousands of radio and television stations in the United States and Canada. Includes a station's call letters, frequency or channel, address, telephone, fax, e-mail, Internet address, ownership, and programming format, and circulation figures from Arbitron. Also information on industry associations.
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| Editor and Publisher International Yearbook International directory of newspapers that includes statistics for the U.S. and Canada. International listings of newspapers are organized by geography and include circulation statistics and contact information. The directories for the U.S. and Canada include dailies, weeklies, shopper publications and other niche markets by ethnic group and target audience ( real estate, parenting, seniors), college presses and other speciality newspapers. Separate sections for syndicated news services, trade associations, and a buyers guide of equipment for the newspaper industry. Statistical tables for newspaper advertising revenue, circulation, and rankings for the U.S. and Canada. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| World Press Encyclopedia [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of American Journalism [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| History of the Mass Media in the United States edited by Margaret A. Blanchard Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c1998 [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sage Reference Online - Communication and Media Studies Encyclopedias and Handbooks See titles under "Communications and Media Studies": Encyclopedia of Journalism SAGE Handbook of Media Studies, Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media Encyclopedia of Communication Theory Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media SAGE Handbook of Advertising Encyclopedia of Public Relations Handbook of Public Affairs Handbook of Marketing The Persuasion Handbook [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Works
| Associations Unlimited The online version of Encyclopedia of Associations, a key source for information on associations and professional societies from around the world.
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| BBC College of Journalism Includes training sessions on newsroom skills for writing, video, web, audio, writing, storytelling, along with briefings for key subjects, ethics and values, and legal matters. A useful resource for students wanting to learn the best practices of news reporting from the BBC
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| Editor and Publisher Market Guide Statistics of retail sales, income levels and demographic breakdowns of geographic regions in the United States. Includes newspaper circulation data, industries, and other useful statistics for geographic areas.
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Handbooks and Manuals
| Communication and the Mass Media: A Guide to the Reference Literature |
| Journalism : a guide to the reference literature Jo A. Cates 3rd ed. Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2004 [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Media Law Handbook Professor Jane Kirtley, Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota, explores how free societies establish the privileges and responsibilities of a free press.
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Yearbooks
| Communication Yearbook Annual reviews of research in mass media, communication studies, and media theory. A publication of the International Communication Association to advance the knowledge and understanding of communication systems, processes, and impacts.
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Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites
| Public Agenda Online This site provided extensive information on current and controversial issues such as abortion and legal gaming, the family, education etc. Each segment has an overview, facts and trends, different perspectives, links to news stories, and results of public opinion polls.
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Electronic Journal Collections
| OCLC ArticleFirst Index of articles from the contents pages of journals. Includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals. Describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record. Provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items.
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| Sage Journal Package Scholarly articles from Sage journals in the social sciences and humanities, the life sciences, biomedical sciences, neuroscience, pharmacology, engineering, and material sciences.
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Journal Titles
| E-Journals Search Use to search for electronic magazines, newspapers and journals that the University Libraries provide online. Please also see our Electronic Journal Collections.
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| Iowa Guide: Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields Now available online, this publication helps scholars find appropriate journals in which to publish their work and offers advice on how to prepare manuscripts for publication.
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News Sources
| Government Documents in the News Full-text of documents in the news from the University of Michigan. The database covers 1995 to the present.
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| News in the Future The News in the Future (NiF) research consortium provides a forum for the MIT Media Laboratory and member companies
to explore and exploit technologies that will affect the collection and dissemination of news.
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| Proquest Historical Newspapers Click on "Publications" to view the list of digital archives that include:
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| ProQuest Newspapers ProQuest Newsstand provides indexing and abstracting for 150 full-text titles, plus another 200 regional news sources. Full-text titles include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Christian, Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other newspapers of record.
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| Star Tribune.com Use this to find daily news stories plus articles in the news archive back three weeks. If you want an article older than three weeks, then go to the paid archives, where you can search and preview a story for free, but you will be charged $1.95 when you retrieve the full text of an article.
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| Twin Cities Newspapers A guide to the St. Paul and Minneapolis newspapers and newspaper indexes owned at the University of Minnesota.
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| University Library News Sources Links Electronic Full-Text News Sources; Online newspapers; United States and international; Online Collections of Newspaper Links; Online News Services; Newspapers on CD-ROM; Newspapers in Wilson Library(print);Indexes to News Sources; Online Indexes to Articles in Newspapers and News Magazines; Guides to More Information on News Sources. (Some resources linked from this page are available only to students, faculty, and staff of the U of M unless accessing from a U of M campus library.)
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Primary Source Materials
Reports
| Audit Bureau of Circulations Independent, third-party circulation audits of print circulation, readership and Web site activity. The Audit Bureau (ABC) has 4,000 members in North America that includes major magazine and newspaper publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies. The ABC provides credible, verified information essential to the media buying and selling process. Access this academic account to view reports and search for statistics, media audit reports, and use analysis tools.
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Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites
| Media Diversity Beyond 2000 Designed to help journalists improve the way they understand and cover people and communities typically underserved by the media.
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Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources
| Gallup Brain The Gallup Brain is a searchable database providing a record of more than 70 years of public opinion information. The Gallup Brain provides full-text answers to more than 125,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935. This poll database also houses current Gallup Poll News Service articles that feature the latest in-depth poll analyses and replicas of news stories and press releases linked to the surveys.
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| Polling the Nations Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 500,000+ questions and responses, from 14,000+ surveys, conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Style Manuals
| AP Stylebook Online The style and usage guide used by newspapers and news industry in the United States. Contains the most current updates from the Associated Press Use this guide to check for grammar, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation, spelling, numerals and other reporting practices. Designed for reporters, editors, broadcasters, magazines and public relations firms.
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Writing Guides
| Elements of Style Online The electronic version of the classic work by William Strunk, Jr. that
includes rules of grammar and usage, principles of composition, and
commonly misused and misspelled words.
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University of Minnesota
Related U of M Web Sites
| University of Minnesota, School of Journalism and Communications, Web Site [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Library Information
Primary Subject Location
Wilson Library
Wilson Library houses the main humanities and social sciences collections of the University Libraries.
Campus: West Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: 309 19th Ave. S.
Telephone: Reference: 612-626-2227; Circulation: 612-624-3321
Main URL: http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/
Reference URL: http://infopoint.lib.umn.edu/
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/OMWL/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/wilson/hours
Secondary Subject Location(s)
Journalism Library (Eric Sevareid)
Journalism, advertising, public relations, visual communication, and general mass media studies; Heggen library on creative writing.
Campus: East Bank, Minneapolis
Address: 20 Murphy Hall
Telephone: 612-625-7892
Main URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/journalism/
Reference URL: http://infopoint.lib.umn.edu/
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/MurH/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/journalism/hours
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