Communication
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Print and Electronic Reference Books
All-In-One Directory. REF.P88.8. G4 This directory gives names, addresses, and phone numbers for selected periodicals, news syndicates, newspapers, television , cable, and radio networks and stations. Communication Yearbook. P87 .C5974 (circulating stacks) An annual publication of the International Communication Association with essays on current topics in communication from a behavioral science perspective.
Directory of Women's Media. Ref. P96 .W6 M4a Entries include periodicals, publishers, radio/TV, etc. Also has indexes of individuals and state and country institutions.
Encyclopedia of Television, Cable & Video. Ref. P87.5 .R44 1991 This is a subject-specific encyclopedia including brief essays on a variety of subjects related to the field of communications.
Mass Media: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Television, Radio, Motion Pictures, Magazines, Newspapers, and Books in the United States. Ref. P92.U5 H77 1987 Brief annotated entries document the origins of key media happenings. These can be as diverse as the release of a motion picture or the opening of a journalism school.
Media Law Reporter. Ref. KF2750 .A513 Decisions of federal and state courts in the field of media law.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications. Ref. P87.5.W45 A dictionary of communications terms and acronyms.
Journal Indexes & Databases
NOTE: These are subscription databases and require Bradley login and password for off-campus access.
Communication & Mass Media Complete. Contents include 2 databases in communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index.
MediaMark Reporter MRI+. To use the Web version, please see the user's guide.
MLA International Bibliography. 1963+. A bibliography of scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. About 75% are language and literature journal articles.
Simmons Choices III (CD-ROM) Study of Media & Markets. Available on the computer named LIBREF13. View user's guide in MS Word document.
All Subjects/Multidisciplinary indexes and databases.
Internet Resources A-F
American Press Institute The API’s mission is to train and improve the news industry and journalism education. It gives valuable information that can be used for research papers and projects.
Big Cartoon Database Features over 70,000 cartoons from film and television. Good Web compendium for history of animation.
BBC News The largest newsbroadcaster in the world, with more than two thousand journalists in forty-eight bureaus around the globe.
Classic TV Ads:Free Classic Television Commercials' Free access to videos of early television commercial, available on either RealPlayer of Windows Media Player format.
Crash Course in Copyright Covers Copyright and fair use as well as the broader area of intellectual property for creators and users.
Newslink (formerly AJR Newslink). Offers a vast number of links to magazines, broadcasters, news services, and newspapers around the world. Also provides weekly articles reviewing the current state of affairs in US journalism.
Douglass: Archives of American Public Address: A collection of speeches, searchable by speaker, title, chronology, controversy or movement.
FACSNET: Valuable data source for journalists, includes top stories from the day's Associated Press wire, summaries of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and much more.
FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting: Contains criticism of media performance.
Finding Data on the Internet: a Journalist's Guide: Lots of useful information for a journalist when pursuing a story.
Internet Resources G-N
JournalismNet: "A working journalist's guide to the Net" with thousands of links of useful information -- facts, news sources, people, help in searcing, etc.
Journalism Resources: Reliable, practical information for journalists. Includes, among many other resources, a citation style guide for electronic and Internet resources.
Kidon Media-link: Provides links to newspapers, magazines, TV stations, radio stations, film studios, news agencies and much more. International coverage of the latest news.
Literature Resource Center. Provides full-text access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors and their works from every age and literary discipline. It covers thousands of novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers. Searchable fields include: Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement, and Literary Themes.
Media and Communication Studies Site: Excellent source for essays, information and useful links.
NewsWatch: A consumer's Guide to the News: Covers "the news behind the news," studies the forces that shaped the news.
Internet Resources P-Z
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: Presents survey results on public opinon polls.
Radio-Locator Radio-Locator links to Web sites of more than 10,000 radiostations throughout the world.
STATS A very interesting resource which attempts to bring quality and reliability to the media’s use of statistics. Each report is analyzed as to whether the statistics used in the media are correct or not.
Television news archive: Vanderbilt University: An index and source for network television news. Searchable by date or keyword. The index is free, but text of source material can be ordered for a fee. Also links to radio and television networks, newspapers, magazines, etc.
Theory.org.uk: A communication-theory Web site. Primarily deals with television, movies, and Web-oriented theory.
VOANews Voice of America News presents the policies and ideologies of the US government, and pledges to present the news fairly and objectively. Though intended primarily for other countries, it is an excellent source of information all around. The news is timely, often including staff-written reports with the wire-service news.
If you need help,
Ask a Librarian or call 677-3502 or the liaison (subject) librarian
Manual Search (using paper resources):
Index to Journals in Communication Studies edited by Matlon and Ortiz is in the Reference collection at the Bradley Library at REF. Z5630.M37.
To use this source, you look under “Keyword Index of Subjects” in the back of the book.
The articles indexed are listed by an abbreviation for the journal title in which the article is listed: JC395, for instance, stands for Journal of Communication, number 395. Then you need to turn to the main body of the volume to “JC Journal of Communication” to find no.395, which turns out to be an article dated March 1967 in that journal.
Make a note of the journal title, date etc. Then the next step is to locate the journal itself. The Bradley Library subscribes to all (or almost all) the journals listed in this index. If you check the “Library Catalog,” you can determine the format of the journal. If it is on microfilm, the reels will be on the first floor. If the title is in hard copy, it will be on second floor, arranged alphabetically by title.
Communication Abstracts is in the Reference collection at REF. P87.C628. Look in the Subject Index at the back of bound volumes for the subject or in the back of each issue, if there is no cumulated index. Since you cannot predict WHEN a particular article may have been written on your subject, you must be willing to look at all the volumes individually. The numbers listed refer to the number of the abstract listed in the front of the volume.
Finally, you need to find out if Bradley owns the particular journal title and date needed.
CD-ROM Sources:
There are some CD-ROM services you may wish to try. They are located in the Reference area, on stand-alone computers (not networked).
MediaMark Reporter. To use the Web version, please see the user's guide.
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--updated by Bryan Clark, baclark@bradley.edu, 1:37, 19 August 2009 (CDT)
