THE CRAFT OF JOURNALISM

Selected Library Resources

 

Electronic:

Academic search premier
Multi-disciplinary database that includes full-text and indexing and abstracts for both scholarly and popular journals. Some journalism titles included: American Journalism Review, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Journalism Studies, New Media & Society .

Accessible Archives
Electronic access to the full-text of selected 18th and 19th century American newspapers
http://www.accessible.com/search/prdcls.asp?s=75532

AP archive
AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the AP's current photos from their 50 million image print and negative library, as well as charts, graphs, tables, and maps from the AP's graphics portfolio. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user

Expanded Academic ASAP
Multi-disciplinary database that includes full-text and indexing and abstracts for both scholarly and popular journals. Some journalism titles included: American Journalism Review, Communication Studies, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Journalism History Journalism Studies, Media, Culture & Society, New Media & Society.

Factiva
Provides full-text access to global news and business information, including newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs. Formerly Dow Jones News Retrieval.

LexisNexis academic
Full-text access to articles from major U.S and foreign newspapers. Dates of full-text coverage varies.

Historical index to the New York times, 1851-1922
Coverage: 1863-1905 and 1913-Sept. 1922
Fully searchable database of index entries to the New York times for the available date range; valuable reference material for students of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Searchable database with access to every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF from the first issue in 1851 to three years before the current year. Additional year of coverage added once a year.

Palmer's index to The times, 1790-1905
Fully searchable database of index entries to the Times for the available date range;

Web sites and Weblogs

Poynter Online
The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalism .
http://www.poynter.org/

Media Institute

E-Media Tidbits
“A group weblog by the sharpest minds in online media/journalism/publishing”
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31

American Press Institute
Search for “weblog”
http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/cj/

The CyberJournalist List
The Internet's most complete directory of J-Blogs (aka Journalists' Weblogs)
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/cyberjournalists.html

Online Journalism Review
Web-based journal produced at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/page_one/index.php

The Guardian Unlimited
British daily newspaper on the web.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/special/0,10627,744914,00.html

Microfilm and Paper
 

Chicago Tribune, 1860-current
Current issues in Current Periodicals Center, HESB 1st floor
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] Newspaper Collection 
Microfilm N2665

Chicago Tribune Index
Paper index covering 1972-current
Hesburgh Reference [1st Floor]  Index Table E,  AI 21 .C45 C47

New York Times, 1851-current
Current issues in Current Periodicals Center, HESB 1st floor
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] Newspaper Collection 
Microfilm N5

The New York Times Index.
Paper index covering 1851-current
Hesburgh Reference [1st Floor] Index Table I AI 21 .N489 

Times ( London), 1788- current
Microforms [Lower Level HESB] Newspaper Collection 
Microfilm N1

Times Index
Paper Index covering 1788- current
Hesburgh Reference [1st Floor] Index Table K, AI 21 .T583

G. Margaret Porter

September 2005