This research guide relays some basic information on library and info resources pertaining to the concerns of this program, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.

1. To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library of Congress Subject Divisions)

Books on subjects associated with this field are shelved under the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined subjects.

Newspapers, AN ------- Periodicals, AP1- AP271 ------- Advertising, HF5801- HF6182 ------- Public Relations, HD59- HD59.6 ------- Communication, Mass Media, P87- P96 ------- Journalism, the periodical press, etc., P4699- P5650 ------- Broadcasting, PN1990- PN1992.92 ------- Radio Broadcasting, PN1991- PN1991.9 ------- TV Broadcasting, PN1992- PN1992.92 ------- Journalism--relation to the state, Government and the press, Liberty of the press, PN4735- PN4748 ------- Technique, Practical journalism, PN4775- PN4784 ------- Amateur journalism, PN4825- PN4830 ------- Magazines and other periodicals, PN4832- PN4836 ------- By region or country, PN4840- PN5648 ------- Applied Photography (including Photojournalism), TR624- TR835 ------- Cinematography, Motion Pictures, TR845- TR899

2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)

The following services are recommended for use by first-year students and non-majors:

• Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier: These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full-text.
• Facts on File News Digest: Delivers the complete full-text of the authoritative Facts On File News Digest since January 1980, updated every week.
• Google Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.
• Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost): (EBSCOhost) Provides full text for 128 regional U.S. newspapers, fifteen international newspapers, six newswires, and nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times, for a total of 160 full text newspapers and other sources.
• LexisNexis Academic: full-text news, law, business, and finance items, including newspapers, wire services, and broadcast transcripts from U.S. and international news sources. Also includes U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, and law reviews.
• NewsBank: full-text of newspapers, including local, national, and international titles.
• Times (London) Digital Archive: Online tool researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), to retrieve full facsimile images of articles from 1785-1985.
• (Historical) Los Angeles Times: Another complete digital rendering with full facsimile images of articles from 1881-1986.
• (Historical) New York Times: Complete digital rendering with full facsimile images of articles from 1851-2004.

The following services are recommended for use by advanced students and researchers:

• ArticleFirst: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• Alt-Press Watch has full text of over 170 alternative and independent newspapers, magazines and journals.
• Alt-Press Index: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
• ComAbstracts: Maintained by the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, this database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field.
• HeinOnline: Contains cover-to-cover full-page images for all issues of over 1,200 legal journals, cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, and English Reports Full Reprint (1694-1867). Also contains all issues of the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and U.S. Statutes at Large. HeinOnline also contains all issues of the Congressional Record (1873 to present), the Annals of Congress (1789-1924), Register of Debates (1824-1837), and Congressional Globe (1833-1873). Also includes many sources for international law, United Nations, and treaty research.
• Journalism & Mass Communications Abstracts: Formerly Journalism Abstracts, includes abstracts of dissertations and theses accepted for graduate degrees. Print version also available (see Monographic Works section below).
• JSTOR: Provides the full text/full image web access of the complete archival collections of a large number of journals, up to the most recent three to five years.
• PerAbs: Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals (FirstSearch database accessible to graduate students and faculty, and to undergraduates by special permission).
• Project Muse: Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
• Reader's Guide Retrospective 1890-1982: Contains all information from the printed Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature in a single database. Indexes over 375 leading magazines and journals (many peer-reviewed). Also includes PDF full text of the Wilson Library Bulletin from 1914-1983. Subject headings have been updated with modern terminology, although the original subject headings are also available.
• WilsonSelectPlus: Full-text articles in science, humanities, education and business (FirstSearch database accessible to graduate students and faculty, and to undergraduates by special permission).
• Vanderbilt Television News Archive: The world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989.

Special resource:  TDNet Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries' electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles; includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
Special resource:  KenCat [A searchable catalog of the collections at the Kentucky Library & Museum. KenCat includes manuscripts, letters, sheet music, photographs, museum exhibits, images, journals, and books.]

3. Monographic Works in the Helm Library

• Newpaper Indexes (eg., Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Chicago Tribune and others) can be found in the Reference Periodical Index section (AI121).
• Journalism &Mass Communication Abstracts (PN4725 .J67x Ref. Per. Indexes) An annual listing of master's theses and doctoral dissertations in journalism and mass communication.
• Index to Journals in Communication Studies Through 1990. (2 v.) Volume 1 lists the tables of contents for 19 journals used in communications studies from the first volume issued through the final issue for 1990. Volume 2 carries a series of indexes: contributors, subjects, and keywords.
• A Dictionary of Communication and Media Studies (P87.5 W38 1997): This 4^th edition included new terms like "guard dog metaphor," "cyberspace," and "cultural memory."
• International Encyclopedia of Communications (P87.5 .I5 1989): This four-volume set is somewhat dated, but contains useful information.
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (H40. A2 I5 Main Ref): An older set of almost 20 volumes that can fill in the historical gaps (from 1968).
• Webster’s New World Dictionary of Media and Communications (P87.5 W45 1996): Award-winning coverage of public relations, journalism, advertising, film, and television.
• Who’s Who in the Media and Communications (P88.8 W567) Brief biographical entries on people in telecommunications, journalism, publishing, advertising, marketing, computers, and broadcasting.
• Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook (P94.5 W65 W667 1996 Main Ref): A compilation of essays about the lives and accomplishments of women in communications.
• Other handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc.: available in Helm Reference, mainly in the P87-94, PN4726-PN4888 range of the collection.

4. School of Journalism & Broadcasting Faculty

WKU School of Journalism & Broadcasting Faculty http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/AHSS/Journalism/faculty.htm This page also links to information on various degree concentrations, news, events, core courses, financial assistance, organizations, newsletters, and jobs/internships.

5. Related Professional Societies (for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)

• Advanced Television Systems Committee http://www.atsc.org/
• American Advertising Federation http://www.aaf.org/
• American Amateur Press Association http://members.aol.com/aapa96/
• American Copy Editors Society http://www.copydesk.org/
• American Society of Journalists and Authors http://www.asja.org/index9.php
• American Society of Newspaper Editors http://www.asne.org/
• International Communication Association http://www.icahdq.org/
• International Federation of Journalists http://www.ifj.org/
• Journalism Education Association http://www.jea.org/
• Kentucky News Photographers Association http://www.knpa.org/
• National Association of Black Journalists http://www.nabj.org/
• National Association of Broadcast Employees http://www.nabet41.org/
• National Association of Broadcasters http://www.nab.org/
• National Association of Hispanic Journalists http://nahj.org/
• National Cable and Telecommunications Association http://www.ncta.com/
• National Conference of Editorial Writers http://www.ncew.org/
• National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association http://www.nlgja.org/
• National Press Club http://npc.press.org/
• National Press Photographers Association http://www.nppa.org/
• National Society of Newspaper Columnists http://www.columnists.com/
• National Writers Union http://www.nwu.org/
• Native American Journalists Association http://www.naja.com/
• Newspaper Association of America http://www.naa.org/
• Public Relations Society of America http://www.prsa.org/
• Public Relations Student Society of America http://www.prssa.org/
• Society of Environmental Journalists http://www.sej.org/
• Society of Professional Journalists http://www.spj.org/
• The Washington News Council http://www.wanewscouncil.org/
• White House News Photographers' Association http://www.whnpa.org/

6. Web Sites Recommended by Journalism & Broadcasting Faculty

Individual Journals: Online Homepages

• Advertising Age http://www.adage.com/
• American Journalism Review http://www.ajr.org/
• Columbia Journalism Review http://www.cjr.org/

Copyright, Free-Press, Advocacy, etc.

• Committee to Protect Journalists [news, advocacy, etc.] http://www.cpj.org/
• Copyright and Intellectual Property (ARL) [links] http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html
• Electronic Frontier Foundation [news, advocacy, etc.] http://www.eff.org/
• International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [news, advocacy, etc.] http://www.icij.org/icij/
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press [legal assistance for journalists] http://www.rcfp.org/
• Student Press Law Center [free-press rights, advocacy, etc.] http://www.splc.org/

Television, Radio

• The Museum of Televison and Radio http://www.mtr.org/
• NewsLab [resource center for tv & radio newsrooms] http://www.newslab.org/
• TV News Archive Vanderbilt University http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

Misc. Research, Resources, Information Gateways, Statistics

• Arbitron [media marketing/research, data] http://www.arbitron.com/home/content.stm
• Assignment Editor [resources for reporters, writers & producers] http://www.assignmenteditor.com/
• Edison Media Research [survey research] http://www.edisonresearch.com/
• Facts about Newspapers (NAA) [includes many stats, facts, industry-level data, etc.] http://www.naa.org/
• Federal Communications Commission http://www.fcc.gov/
• Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. [educational services] http://www.ire.org/
• Journalism Net [gateway for Web-based journalism information] http://www.journalismnet.com/
• The Journalist’s Toolbox (API) [resources for journalists] http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/toolbox/
• Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/
• Law.com - U.S. Supreme Court Monitor http://www.law.com/us_supreme_ct/
• Nielsen Media Research http://www.nielsenmedia.com/
• Pew Research Center for the People & the Press http://www.people-press.org/
• Poynteronline [journalism resources] http://www.poynter.org/
• Pulitzer Prize http://www.pulitzer.org/
• VOANews.com (Voice of America) http://www.voanews.com/