G120: World Affairs and Media: Global Village
Selected Reference Works
Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2003.
Journalism Library and Wells Research Collection Reference Desk P87.5 .E532 2003The Europa World Year Book. London, England : Europa Publications Limited, 2005.
Research Collection Reference Desk JN1 .E89World Press Encyclopedia: A Survey of Press Systems Worldwide, 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003.
Research Collection Reference Desk PN4728 .Q53 2003
Finding Books
Search IUCAT to find out what books, government publications, journals, videos, etc. the library owns.
Hint: Limit your search to: "Blmgtn - All Bloomington Libraries" to only find items that are on this campus.
Hint: Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT), and Truncation Symbols ($) to construct your searches.
Finding Articles: Databases
More relevant databases can be found at the Journalism Databases page: ?pageId=1697&subjectId=14&mode=subjectId
The online path to these databases is: Library Homepage -? Databases by Subject -? Journalism
Major Full-Text Newspaper and Magazine Databases
*** Academic Search (EBSCO)
Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journals for almost every academic discipline.*** Lexis-Nexis Academic
NEXIS includes full text of many newspapers (including the NYT 1980-today), magazines, transcripts and more. LEXIS includes laws, statutes and legal articles. Coverage: varies*** World News Connection
Translations of foreign news and information sources from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Coverage: 1995-Factiva
General news and business information. International newswires and pictures, TV and radio transcripts. Company search for competitors, comparisons, SEC documents. Coverage: 1985-current
Scholarly Journal Article Sources
Communication and Mass Media Complete
CMMC incorporates "CommSearch" and "Mass Media Articles Index" plus additional journals in the fields of communication and mass media, over 200 journals available in full-text. Coverage: 1915 - presentPAIS International
Index to articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government. Coverage: 1972-present
Citing Your Sources
No matter where your information comes from, you always need to cite your sources. The most frequently used citations have been compiled by the reference librarians on a webpage and handout (APA, MLA and Chicago). These can be found by visiting: http://www.indiana.edu/~libinstr/cite/.
Chicago: The Chicago manual of style, 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003
Z253 .U69 2003 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - ReferenceAPA: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. Washington, DC: APA, 2001.
BF76.7 .P83 2001 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - ReferenceMLA: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003
LB2369 .G53 2003 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference
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