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REFERENCE

Printed Sources

The following is a list of major reference sources available in the Reference Room:

  • Bass, Frank. The Associated Press Guide to Internet Research and Reporting. Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 2001.
    Ref PN4784.E5B38
  • Christian, Darrell, Sally Jacobsen, and David Minthorn, eds. Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law. 43rd ed. New York: Associated Press, 2008.
    Ref PN4783.A83
  • Kelly, Mary, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, and Denis McQuail, eds. The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Research Group. 4th ed. London: Sage, 2004.
    Ref P92.E9M39
  • Martin, Paul R. ed. The Wall Street Journal Guide to Business Style and Usage. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
    Ref PN4783.W26
  • Metter, Ellen. Facts in a Flash: A Research Guide for Writers: From Cruising the Stacks to Surfing the Net. Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1999.
    Ref PN146.M47
  • McGuire, Mary et al. The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers and Journalists. New York: Guilford Press, 2002.
    Ref ZA4201.I566
  • Watson, James and Anne Hill. Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies. 6th ed. London: Arnold, 2003.
    Ref P87.5.W38

 

On-line Sources

Here you may find a list of pertinent on-line reference resources.

  • Encyclopedia Britannica gives access to basic reference information.
  • Oxford Reference Online contains dictionaries and other quick reference sources, including quotations, maps, timelines, and illustrations.

    Note: the links mentioned above work only when you are on-campus. To use these resources from off-campus, start from the databases webpage

 

BOOK SEARCHING

Most of the books on communication can be found on the shelves under the P class, according to the Library of Congress Classification System. Books on Communication Science are located under P87-99, books on cinema and broadcasting under PN1990-1999, and books on journalism under PN4699-5650.The Library catalog allows different kind of searches, icluding Subject Keyword and Subject Browse. A Subject Keyword search will retrieve all the subject strings containing the word you searched for. A Subject Browse search will lead to the controlled subject headings list. Determining which "controlled" subject headings are established for aspects of a topic is an important step in finding relevant material. You may want to browse on the broader subject (e.g. communication) to find out what’s available in the Library.

As an example, some official subject headings and heading patterns are listed below:

JOURNALS

The Library does not subscribe to print journals in this field. A large collection of electronic journals is available through library databases such as EBSCO (Communication and Mass Media Complete, Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier), JSTOR, and LEXIS-NEXIS.

Basic full-text journals

These are the most important full-text titles, directly accessible through Journals, A to Z:

On-line Journals

The following journals are freely accessible through the Web:

 

Newspapers, Magazines and Newswires

For current information, the Library has some printed newspapers (e.g. International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, etc.) and magazines (e.g. Time, Forbes, etc.) and many others are directly accessible through LEXIS-NEXIS. Under the NEWS section, the database has a large collection of worldwide local newspapers and magazines.
News services and newswires are also available (e.g. ANSA, Associated Press, etc.) together with TV and radio news transcripts (e.g. CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, etc.).

On the free Web there are also a number of websites combining news resources or offering news searches:
  • Google news - it draws current headlines and present the most popular on the main page, with the possibility to serarch for specific news.
  • Newsmap - a web site offering a visual representation of popular headlines and it can be narrowed or expanded by country, date, and time frame.
  • Topix - a web service that creates topically driven web pages and populates them with only news about that particular topic.
More websites are listed in the Online Newspaper Resources.

 

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Last updated: 22-4-2009