Communications & Media
Communications & Media Research Guide
LOCATING BOOKS - access to catalog
Library of Congress Numbers: Tier 3 HF, HQ, LB Tier 4 P, PN
LOCATING ARTICLES
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. It is updated on a daily basis.
CIOS Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
The Open Journals Index database contains bibliographic information for journal articles published in academic journals that serve the communications field. With URL linking you will be able to link directly from Open Journals Index search results to the full text of articles for journals to which our library subscribes. The Visual Communication Concept Explorer shows the relationships among concepts by displaying them in clusters. The ComAbstracts database requires a subscription.
Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media and other closely related fields.
Project Muse
Project MUSE provides full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
Proquest Direct
Proquest Direct encompasses the many Proquest databases, which include various journals and newspapers with wide-ranging coverage.
Lexis Nexis
Lexis Nexis is a full-text database including articles from newspapers nationwide on news, business, law, and medical research. The coverage includes articles from today's newspapers. Selecting news, legal research, business, medical, reference, congressional, or statistical, can narrow searches. There are four types of searches: Quick News Search, Guided News Search, Company Information (public and private, U.S. and international) and Get a Case, which allows you to search for a court decision using a citation or a party name. The "Search Abstracts" feature locates statistics in the publications of federal, state, and intergovernmental organizations.
INTERNET RESOUrCES
Accuracy in Media
http://www.aim.org
Accuracy In Media is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques news stories and works to set the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage.
Benton Foundation
http://www.benton.org/
The mission of the non-profit Benton Foundation is to articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems. The site is a source for articles and reports.
European Audiovisual Observatory
http://www.obs.coe.int/
This site provides articles and information about European media. Topics include media law, intellectual property, film and TV production, and advertising.
Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov/
The FCC is an independent U.S. government agency, which is directly responsible to Congress. Established by the Communications Act of 1934, it is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC Library contains a wide variety of legal and technical information on telecommunications and related subjects, including the Code of Federal Regulations
Television News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news with more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989.
The State of the News Media 2006
http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2006/
This study is the work of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an institute affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. For each of the major journalism sectors, the authors produced original research and aggregated existing data into a comprehensive look at many of the pressing issues facing the news media. The statistical data also exists in an interactive area called Charts & Tables where users can customize their own charts. The authors took a new approach by carefully examining how one day, May 11, 2005, was covered by the news culture nationally and in three cities locally. That look includes audio, video and photo links.
UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/
The UCLA Film and Television Archive is internationally renowned for its pioneering efforts to preserve and showcase not only classic but current and innovative film and television. It is the largest university-based moving-image collection in the world, containing over 220,000 films and television programs.
WEB GATEWAYS
CMC Studies Center
http://www.december.com/cmc/study/center.html
"The December List" serves the needs of researchers, students, teachers, and practitioners interested in the study of human communication via computers. It provides a comprehensive collection of information sources about the Internet and computer-mediated communication. The Resources page is a portal to a wide range of sites.
University of Iowa Department of Communications - Online Resources http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/
This portal provides links to websites under such categories as "Advertising," "Film Studies," "Political Communication," "Speeches and Speechmakers," "Rhetorical Studies," and "Gender, Ethnicity and Race in Mass Communication."
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Press Institute
http://www.americanpressinstitute.org
Founded by newspaper publishers in 1946, the American Press Institute is the oldest and largest center devoted solely to training and professional development for the news industry and journalism educators. The site includes articles on many communications topics and coverage of the institute's many seminars.
American Women in Radio and Television
http://www.awrt.org/
AWRT's mission is to advance the impact of women in the electronic media and allied fields by educating, advocating and acting as a resource to its members and the industry. Founded in 1951, AWRT has worked to improve the quality of broadcast programming and the image of women as depicted in radio, television and cable.
Association for Women in Communications
http://www.womcom.org/
Disciplines represented within the association include: print and broadcast journalism, television and radio production, film, advertising, public relations, marketing, graphic design, multi-media design, and photography.
Manhattanville Communication Studies Department