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Subject Guide for Journalism and Mass Communication
Class: Journalism 6871
Instructor: Dewitt
Date: Friday, September 2, 2005
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E-Journal Finder - http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/research/ejournalfinder.htm
Search the E-Journal Finder for databases that provide a specific journal's content.
Find Articles & More - http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/research/findarticles/
The library's article databases are listed alphabetically or by subject.
(Subject examples: Journalism , News and Newspapers , etc.)
Chinook - http://libraries.colorado.edu/
Chinook is the library catalog for materials at CU. Chinook is also used to manage your library account (including renewals, holds, recalls, saved searches, etc.).
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Prospector is a union library catalog of 23 libraries in Colorado and Wyoming . CU students, staff and faculty can request materials not held by CU through Prospector.
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If the item you're looking for is not in Chinook or Prospector, request it through ILLiad.
Subject Guides - http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/research/subjectguides/
Librarians have compiled subject guides of the important resources (print, Internet and databases) for many disciplines, including Journalism and Mass Communication.
You can combine your search terms using operators and punctuation:
Operators :
AND: undergraduates AND alcohol (must find both terms)
OR: undergraduates OR alcohol (must find one of the terms)
NOT: undergraduates NOT alcohol (must find first term and NOT second term)
Punctuation :
Phrases: “alcohol abuse” (must find that phrase in that order)
Synonyms: (undergraduates OR “college students”) AND alcohol
Wildcards: alcohol* will find alcohol, alcoholism, alcoholic, etc.
Recommended Newspaper Resources |
ProQuest Newsstand
URL: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/research/findarticles/alpha-p.htm
About: This database provides access to over 350 newspaper titles from around the country. Most of the titles have the full text available.
Searching Tips: You can limit your results by date of publication, by specific newspaper, by person or subject, or by choosing a specific document type. You can expand your results by using the subjects that are provided with each article. You can email the articles or print the full text or PDF, where available.
LexisNexis Academic
URL: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/research/findarticles/alpha-l.htm
About: Interdisciplinary database that contains the full text of national, international, and regional news, newswires, transcripts, magazine articles, legal and business information, public opinion polls, and other sources.
Searching Tips: Choose the Guided Search option to refine your search. You need to choose a news category and news source for your search. You then can limit your results by date of publication and by specific publication title. You can email the full text of individual articles, or mark multiple articles and email only citations.
Other Recommended Databases : Expanded Academic ASAP, National Newspaper Index
Recommended Academic Resources |
Academic Search Premier
URL: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/research/findarticles/alpha-a.htm
About: Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Searching Tips: You can limit your results to full text only, by date of publication, by publication type (i.e. “newspaper”) or by specific title. You can expand your results by searching the full text of the article. You can email the articles or print the full text or PDF, where available.
ComAbstracts
URL: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/research/findarticles/alpha-c.htm
About: The core index of communication journals, with bibliographic records and abstracts for over 120 journals. Does not contain the article full text.
Searching Tips: Use the “Check your library for full text access” link in the article records to link to the E-Journal Finder to see if the library has full text access to the content through another database. If no full text is available, check Chinook for the library's print holdings.
Other Recommended Databases : International Political Science Abstracts, Political Science Full Text, Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science), Social Science Abstracts/Full Text
Accessing Library Resources from Off-Campus |
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Complete instructions on downloading and using the VPN software can be found at the ITS VPN Information Page: http://www.colorado.edu/its/vpn/ . For questions (and answers) about using the VPN, please call the ITS Help Desk at (303) 735-HELP.
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