Le Moyne College

Gretchen Pearson

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Library Resources for Communications

Communications Department Home

Simon the online catalog

• Books, web sites, audiovisual materials
• Journals, both print and online
• Course Reserve materials
• My Account: lets you renew, find out due dates, see if you have any fines
• Subject headings in Simon (subject heading are more precise than keywords, and will save you time)
  • Broadcast journalism
  • Documentary films
  • Documentary television programs
  • Journalism
  • Journalistic ethics
  • Mass media
  • Newspapers
  • Radio broatcasting
  • Reporters and reporting
  • Television broadcasting

Journal articles, newspapers (* recommended to begin research)

• *Academic Search Elite (general)
• *Communication and Mass Media Complete
• *Lexis Nexis
• National Newspaper Index (eight newspapers)
• New York State Newspapers
• New York Times 1857 - 2005
• New York Times 1980 - present
• Newsbank America's Newspaper
• New York State Newspapers (Gale) (includes Post Standard and Daily Orange)
• ProQuest (Humanities)
• ProQuest Newspapers (27 US newspapers)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers
  Christian Science Monitor: Historical File 1908 to 1993
  New York Times: Historical File 1857 to 3 yrs ago
  Wall Street Journal: 1889-1990
  Washington Post: 1877-1990
  Washington Post: 1987-1996/12/03

General, background, reference sources: gain a broader understanding, develop a vocabulary, find recommended sources from experts

Online radio and tv programs (free on the web)

• Old time radio internet archive http://www.archive.org/details/oldtimeradio 
• Old Time Radio Network http://www.otr.net/
• RadioLovers.com http://www.radiolovers.com
• Botar's Old Time Radio http://www.botar.us/archives.html
• Radio Days: News & Events: http://www.otr.com/news.shtml
• Hear It Now (real Player) : http://hearitnow.umd.edu/
• First World War Radio clips: http://tinyurl.com/dkba7r
• Authentic History: http://www.authentichistory.com/ click on time period in black box on left, then select audio files wanted
• Radio Broadcasts 1939 - 1943: http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/WW2timeline/radio/0.html
• Museum of Broadcast Communications archives: http://archives.museum.tv/ Requires free registration
• Documentary films: Channel 4 Fourdocs: http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/F/fourdocs/about.html Search the Archive A-Z Index to the right for full-length documentaries, or use the search box. See also http://blogs.channels4.com/fourdocs/ .

 Speeches

• American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank  Historic and contemporary, speeches in films, scholarly resources, Native American section. Links to other sites. Some video

 Web resources

• Blinkx search engine for video and audio on the Web. VERY up-to-date
• Communication, Cultural & Media Studies Infobase  Dictionary, encyclopedia, papers, essays

 Organizations, Associations

• American Communication Association
• Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
• Society for Cinema & Media Studies
• Communication Initiative Network
• Media History Project

Page compiled by Gretchen Pearson updated 04/01/09.