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- Academic OneFile
- Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles on a variety of subjects, including communications and mass media.
Includes audio with transcripts of National Public Radio (NPR) broadcasts since 1990.
- Search Academic OneFile
- Art Bibliographies Modern
- Covering art, including the theatre arts, since 1974, this database includes information about the period from the late nineteenth century through the present.
- Search Art Bibliographies Modern
- Communication Abstracts
- Indexes journal articles in the fields of general and mass communication, including broadcasting.
- Search Communication Abstracts
- ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
- A database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides extensive
access to educational-realted literature--documents and journal
articles, selected theses and dissertations, audiovisual media,
selected books, from 1966-present.
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- Film & Television Literature Index
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This database covers a broad range of subjects in the television and film industries and is designed for film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subjects covered include film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
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- InfoTrac Onefile
- One-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics,
including history and containing many full-text articles, covering
1980-current.
- LearningExpress Library
- Comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests.
- Search LearningExpress Library
- LexisNexis.
- The major topics covered by this database are news, business,
legal research, medical news, and reference.General reference coverage
includes biographical information, quotations, public opinion
polls and surveys, country and U.S. state profiles, and world
almanac. Most of the files are full-text.
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- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- Covers all aspects of the study of language, from 1973 to present.
- Search Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
- Provides overs one million citations from journal, books, essays, dissertations
and bibliographies. Subjects include folklore, lange, linguistics, and literature.
From 1962 to present.
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- Project Muse
- Offers nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, including
theater and the performing arts.
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- Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
- Provides full text from Art Index, Humanities Index, and Legal Index, as well as other sources.
- Search Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
- WorldCat
- Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide; contains more than 62 million records.
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Selected Web Sites
- Advertising Media Net
- Department of Advertising at the University of Texas provides links to
research, quotes, biographies.
- http://advertising.utexas.edu/research/Topics.html
- American Communication Association--Communications Study Center
- An annotated collection of communication-related hyperlinks organized
by subfields within the communication discipline.
- http://www.uark.edu/%7Eaca/acastudiescenter.html
- Broadcast Education Association
- BEA's web page; includes scholarships, research, media.
- http://www.beaweb.org
- Journalistic Resources Page
- Resources designed to serve scholars, journalists and other professional
to access information on the Internet
- http://www.markovits.com/journalism
- Public Relations Society of America
- For news and professional development
- http://www.prsa.org
- Theater Connections
- UNC Charlotte library site which provides links to almost everything about
the theater.
- http://personal.uncc.edu/jvanoate/theater/
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ETSU Departmental Web Sites
- Department of Communication
- The accredited programs prepare majors for professional careers in advertising,
broadcasting, journalism, and public relations. In addition to
the mass communications programs, the department also contains
active speech communication and theater programs.
- http://www.etsu.edu/cas/comm/index.htm
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Selected Bibliography
- Backstory : inside the business of news.
- Auletta, Ken
- New York : Penguin Press, 2003
- SHERROD Books PN4867 .A94 2003
- The broadcast journalism handbook : a television news survival guide.
- Thompson, Robert.
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2004
- PN4784.T4 T48 2004
- Communication Research.
- Hocking, John E., et al.
- Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2003.
- SHERROD Books P91.3 .S7 2003
- Communication abstracts.
- Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications
- SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) P87 .C59733
- The radio handbook
- Carole Fleming
- London : New York : Routledge, 2002.
- PN1991.55 .F54 2002
- Shaking the foundations : 200 years of investigative journalism in America.
- Shapiro, Bruce.
- New York : Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, c2003.
- PN4781 .S4553 2003
- The advertising red books.
- New Providence, NJ : LexisNexis, 2003-
- Reference Index Table 1 (No Loan) HF5805 .S72
- New York : Penguin Press, 2003
- The World encyclopedia of contemporary theatre
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Reference Room (No Loan) Call Number: PN1861 .W67 1994.
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