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Communication & Mass Media Complete (available through EbscoHost) Indexes and abstracts 26 journals in communication studies, plus articles related to mass media from other research journals, as well as major journalism reviews, recent encyclopedias, and handbooks in the area of communications studies. Full text of over 200 journals. MEDAILLE ONLY FULL TEXT
EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite Provides full text and indexing/abstracts for academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. MEDAILLE ONLY FULL TEXT
EBSCOhost MasterFILE Select Provides full text and/or indexing & abstracts from general reference, business, consumer health, general science, humanities, and multi-cultural periodicals. MEDAILLE ONLY FULL TEXT
LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe Search system of databases containing full text articles from newspapers, medical journals, and law reviews; company and business news and financial reports; accounting, auditing and tax sources; federal and state case law, codes, regulations and more. MEDAILLE ONLY FULL TEXT
ADAM: The art, design, architecture and media information gateway
A catalog of over two thousand selected and annotated web sites and other Internet sources.
American Communication Journal Completely online, peer-reviewed publication. It's purpose "is to create an interactive digital canvas, upon which communication scholars may articulate their thoughts, arguments, and findings in pedagogically rich and meaningful ways."
American Journalism Review
Communication Studies Resources
Cyber Newseum The online version of the Newseum, an interactive Museum of the News in Arlington, Virginia. Among the cyber exhibits are: Pulitizer prize winning photographs, editorial cartoons, photojournalist of the month, and news stories of the century.
Douglass: Archives of American Public Address Archive of famous American speeches and related documents, searchable by speaker, topic, title of speech or browse chronologically. From Northwestern University Department of Communication Studies.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 Over 9000 images, including database information about the early history of advertising in the U.S.
Encyclopedia of Television Over 1000 original essays on television history, programs, policies, trends, broadcasting and related subjects.
FACSNET Online data source for journalists. Includes links to Top Issues, Reporting Tools, Sources Online and other Internet Resources.
FAIR : Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Web site of a national media watch group offering criticism of media bias and censorship. FAIR seeks to "invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press."
The First Amendment Handbook Published by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the handbook covers issues such as copyright, freedom of information, gag orders and libel.
Internet & American Life An initiative of the Pew Research Center, this project provides academic research reports on the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life.
Journalism and Mass Communication Resources Over 40 annotated pages of resources compiled in support of academic journalism departments and professional journalists.
Journalism Ethics Directory of web resources on ethics in journalism and media includes links to articles, centers, organizations, issues, media watchers and other resources.
MediaChannel.org A media issues metasite, featuring media criticism, news, reports, resources, research and perspectives from hundreds of organizations and contributors worldwide.
NewsLink Links to newspapers, magazines and other media sources from around the world.
Online Journalism Review
People and the Press homepage Web site of Pew Research Center, an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues, and publishes national surveys and polls about political and social attitudes.
PR Newswire Full text news articles, public relations and press releases on companies, industries, technology, etc.
Reporter's Internet Resources Developed by the National Press Club's library, this site provides links organized by who, what, when, where, why and how. Users can find fast facts about current events, people, places, businesses and institutions.
State of News Media 2006 Annual report on American journalism, covering Newspapers, the Internet, Network and Cable TV, Local TV, Magazines, Radio and Ethnic/alternative journalism.
Studies of the Mass Mediums Meta-site providing Web links and essays on all aspects of the media - television, news, cyberculture, censorship, and more.
SYMBOLS.com - Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms - This online encyclopedia of graphic symbols contains more than 2,500 signs, plus short articles on their histories, uses and meaning. There is both a graphic index and a word index.
The UCLA Internet Report: Surveying the Digital Future Annual report on the growth of the Internet and how computers and information technology are shaping and changing society. Reports available online from 2000 -
Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers
Woodward and Bernstein's notes from source interviews, drafts of newspaper stories and books, memos, letters, tape recordings, research materials, and other Watergate papers are made available through the University of Texas.