Selected Resources for: Journalism
 | Subject Librarian: Van Houlson E-Mail: houls001@tc.umn.edu Subject Description:The subject of journalism covers the collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary and feature materials through old and new media. |
Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject IndexesComAbstracts   This index provides abstracts to articles from the major journals in the field of communication. A total of 100 journals indexed, with the earliest starting in 1915. List of journals indexed [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Film and Television Literature Index This database can be used to find articles on film studies' topics. It is an index to over 300 core publications covering the film medium, and a selective index an additional 300 (journals indexed). Date of indexing starts in 1865 (The Nation), although more recent is more common (example: Film and History, 1970 - present, or Journal of Popular Film and Television, 1990 - present). Use the Find It link to link to any articles available online, or to find print holdings in the Libraries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Google Scholar - U of M students, staff and faculty Use Google Scholar through the Libraries' web site, or by setting your Scholar Preferences to the "University of Minnesota (FindIt@U of M Twin Cities) to gain off-campus access to all the articles and journal subscriptions the library has already acquired for you. Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. 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. When using any one of the three access methods below, the text link, "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities", will appear in your Google Scholar search results. Then clicking the "Find It" link will present you with a menu of full-text and related service options for the Scholar search result you followed. To benefit from this service, access Google Scholar via:
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| PsycINFO Covers all areas of psychology. Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles from more than 1300 international journals in psychology and related fields. In addition, PsycINFO covers books, book chapters, and dissertations. PsycINFO supports searching cited references. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sociological Abstracts Updated bimonthly, this core database for the field of sociology contins information on sociology and social policy worldwide. All citations and abstracts are in English. The database officially covers 1963 to the present, but includes many citations from the 1950s as well as key Web sites linked by topic. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Web of Science (ISI) Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover 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, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| African American Newspapers This collection of African-American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s. It also contains large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements, all of which embody the African-American experience. This database will ultimately contain the complete text of seven African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century, including Freedoms Journal, The Colored American, The National Era, and The Christian Recorder. See Database Description for detailed information about individual newspapers. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Alternative Press Index Indexes articles, editorials, reviews, interviews, obituaries, speeches, fiction, songs, recipes, regular columns from 250 publications. The bibliographic citations cover North American alternative, radical and left analysis and opinion sources concerning cultural, economic, political, and social change. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, The Full text of major articles from the Charleston Mercury, the New York Herald and the Richmond Enquirer. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Ethnic Newswatch Articles (full-text, no images) from American ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines and journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| General (Newspapers & Magazines) at the University of Minnesota [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| New York Times (1851-2004) Full-page, digital archive of the New York Times, 1851-2004. Search content, and view images of pages and articles, advertising and more. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Newsbank Limited access to America's Newspapers of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--click on the link for St. Paul Pioneer Press. Portal for other Newsbank databases including America's News Magazines and the Latin American Newspapers [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ProQuest Newsstand This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Regional Business News This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. Full text coverage for regional business publications; Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Wall Street Journal Contains the full-text Wall Street Journal newspaper which has extensive coverage of stock markets, finance, investments and business-oriented news. Database version from Proquest includes business and financial news and analysis, company news, regular columns, special reports, articles on the national and world economy, editorials and opinion, interviews, and Reuters news stories. Excludes charts and free standing tabular data, such as stock tables and other exchange listings. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Indexes, Other
| Al Jazeera Al Jazeera is the only Arabic News Channel in the Middle East offering news coverage 24 hours a day from around the world with focus on the hottest regions of conflict. Founded in 1996, and based in Qatar, the Al Jazeera focuses primarily on news coverage and analysis. Programs are devoted to various topics including Politics, Business, Culture, Sports, and Health. Programming also includes a wide selection of political talk shows and documentaries with uncensored debates and free arguments covering events as they happen. This source contains noteworthy segments that are translated and transcribed. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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. To view the CNN content, you will need the free RealOne media player from RealNetworks or Real Alternative. For more information please see the Television News Archive FAQ [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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 [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| WorldCat This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 65 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
AlmanacsBiographical Sources
| Dictionary of Literary Biography A valuable resource providing background information on important literary figures.Use the index in the latest volume. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Journalist biographies master index A guide to 90,000 references to historical and contemporary journalists in 200 biographical directories and other sources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Journalists of the United States: Biographical Sketches ... from the Late 17th Century to the Present. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Political Commentators in the United States in the 20th Century: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Dictionaries
| Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Directories
| Advertising Red Books Competitive intelligence and prospecting data on advertising agencies and on advertisers. The database contains information on nearly 18,000 U.S. and international advertisers who each spend more than $200,000 annually on advertising. The Advertising Agency database contains detailed profiles of nearly 14,000 U.S. and international agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, and more. Previously known as Standard Directory of Advertising Agencies and Standard Directory of Advertisers. Currently licensed for single user access. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Benn's Media Provides directory listings for national and regional newspapers, consumer and business magazines, TV, Radio and electronic media in UK, Europe, and other countries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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!] |
| Encyclopedia of Associations. National organizations of the U.S. Contains information for approximately 22,000 nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SRDS - Standard Rate & Data Service These directories are used by writers and advertisers to find target audiences. Identify leading magazines for a wide range of consumers, professions, other niche publications. This print set is only available at the Wilson Library. It includes directories for Business Publications, Consumer Magazines, Spot TV & Cable, and Newspapers. Each listing contain information about the number of subscribers and the cost for advertisement placement. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Dissertations and Theses
| Center for Research Libraries Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database This database is no longer being updated. The titles included in this database as well as almost 600,000 other dissertation titles are cataloged in CRL’s catalog and in OCLC’s Worldcat. We update our catalog and Worldcat daily. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Digital Dissertations Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities: http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/CICUniversities.shtml [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Index To Theses accepted for higher degrees in the universities of Great Britain and Ireland [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Designed to promote access to scholarly research and increase sharing of knowledge, this database provides free online access to thousands of theses and dissertations from all over the world. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Theses Canada Search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| History of the Mass Media in the U.S. An encyclopedia of journalism history. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| International Encyclopedia of Communications 1989 Provides information on all aspects of communication, including speech, language, mass media, communication theory and technology as well as biographical information and references. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Works
| Ad $ Summary Print resource also known as LNA, Leading National Advertisers or CMR. Currently published by TNS Media Intelligence. Ad $ Summary lists brands alphabetically and includes the total advertising expenditure for those brands across 10 media. Also includes parent company and PIB Classification for each brand. Listed also are industry class totals and rankings of the top 100 companies in each of the 10 media. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986: From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
| Communication and the Mass Media: A Guide to the Reference Literature A guide to the reference literature. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Journalism : a guide to the reference literature 2nd ed. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Market Research Surveys
| Mediamark reporter (on CD ROM) The MediaMark CD-ROM is no longer available in the Business Reference area in Wilson Library. Please use the SMRB/Simmons Choices 3 instead, which is available in the Wilson Library Business Reference area. For questions, please contact the Business Reference Desk at phone 612-624-5073 or email busref@umn.edu. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Simmons Choices 3 National survey data to locate consumers of products and brands along with their media usage, hobbies, and other demographics. Data is available at a single workstation at the Wilson Reference Desk and at the Sevareid Journalism Library. Use these tutorials: Online Tutorial to Simmons Choices Guide to Using Simmons Choices CDROM slide show. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites| Attack on America: Tuesday 11 September 2001 Developed by a librarian, this site provides a wealth of links on the terrorist attack and the aftermath. Used by many librarians to locate information quickly, this is a good choice for a bookmark for you as well. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Internet Movie Database The most comprehensive movie source on the web. Provides information on movies around the world, from earliest times to the latest releases. Includes filmographies, plot summaries, reviews, biographical data, etc. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sage Complete Journal Package Complete title listing of all Sage journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
News Sources
| Current Newspaper Subscriptions in Wilson Library: United States Guide listing current holdings information for newspapers in Wilson Library. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Government Documents in the News Full-text of documents in the news from the University of Michigan. The database covers 1995 to the present. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Newspapers on the Internet: Internet Public Library This site contains links to web editions of newspapers around the world [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| PioneerPlanet The St. Paul Pioneer Planet Web site offers free full-text articles available for the last seven days only. Indexing goes back to 1988. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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 $1.95 when you retrieve the full text of an article. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Twin Cities Newspapers A guide to the St. Paul and Minneapolis newspapers and newspaper indexes owned at the University of Minnesota. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| University Library News Sources Links Electronic Full-Text News Sources; Online newspapers; United States and international; Online Collections of Newspaper Links; Online News Services; Newspapers on CD-ROM; Newspapers in Wilson Library(print);Indexes to News Sources; Online Indexes to Articles in Newspapers and News Magazines; Guides to More Information on News Sources. (Some resources linked from this page are available only to students, faculty, and staff of the U of M unless accessing from a U of M campus library.) [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Primary Source Materials
Reports| Audit Bureau of Circulations Independent, third-party circulation audits of print circulation, readership and Web site activity. The Audit Bureau (ABC) has 4,000 members in North America that includes major magazine and newspaper publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies. The ABC provides credible, verified information essential to the media buying and selling process. Access this academic account to view reports and search for statistics, media audit reports, and use analysis tools. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites| Media Diversity Beyond 2000 Designed to help journalists improve the way they understand and cover people and communities typically underserved by the media. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Statistics and Data
Data Resources| AdSpender (Ad$pender) TNS data on advertising expenditures for brands and companies across all print media, outdoor advertising, internet, and broadcasting. Select expenditures for brands, product categories, industries and companies to create customized tables of data. Reference guide on how information is organized. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Polling the Nations The online version of the American Public Opinion Index, this database is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and universe. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals
Writing Guides
| Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation This popular book is an indispensable and entertaining guide for writers, proofreaders, editors, managers, clerical staff, teachers, and students. Use this site to find the answers to your questions concerning proper English grammar and punctuation. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Citing Electronic Resources Guide prepared by the Internet Public Library. Includes both Internet links and print resources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Citing Government Information Sources This guide shows users how use a standard citation format, MLA, to cite government information. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Elements of Style 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
University of Minnesota
Related U of M Web Sites| Digital Information Resource Center/Eric Sevareid Library Collection information and resources, including pathfinders, contact information, hours, and uncataloged collections. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| University of Minnesota, School of Journalism and Communications, Web Site [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Library Information
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