LibGuides: Subject Guides for Websites: Communications & Media

COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA Subject Guide

Ad*Access
• http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/
• Duke University Libraries
• .edu
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Provides images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911-1957 in five main subject areas: Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II.
BBC News - Country Profiles
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm
• British Broadcasting Company
• .co.uk (United Kingdom)
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Provides profiles of countries around the world. These profiles include an overview, map, facts, current leader, timeline of key events, information about the media and how it is used in that country, and links to key stories and clips from the BBC archives.
C-Span Video Library
• https://www.c-span.org/quickguide/
• C-Span Archives
• .org
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Provides free access to every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, totaling over 170,000 hours.
Center for Media and Public Affairs - CMPA
• http://www.cmpa.com/
• George Mason University
• .org
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Provides access to their own scientific studies of news and entertainment media. Topics covered include: presidential elections, political humor, political studies, international affairs, science & health reporting, religion and the media, and others.
CRS Reports
• https://www.everycrsreport.com/
• Every CRS Report - a project of Demand Progress in collaboration with the Congressional Data Coalition — a bipartisan coalition.
• .com
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Provides access to Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports that are already in the public domain. The Congressional Research Service is a publically funded "think tank" that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events.
Dialogue TV & Radio
• http://www.wilsoncenter.org/dialogue-tv-radio
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• .org
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This site includes access to the streaming audio of all Dialogue programs since 1998, searchable by subject and year.
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides a comprehensive, subject-organized list of open access journals that are peer reviewed. Defines “open access journal” as any which does not charge readers or institutions for access.
Freedom of the Press
• http://www.freedomhouse.org/report-types/freedom-press
• Freedom House
• .org
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http://www.freedomhouse.org/report-types/freedom-press
Internet Archive
• http://archive.org
• Internet Archive
• .org
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This digital library preserves and provides free access to digital cultural artifacts. Collections include texts, audio, moving images, software and archived web pages. Also provides specialized services for information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
• http://images.google.com/hosted/life
• Google
• .com
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Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2020
• http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/
• Museum of the Moving Image
• .org
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Provides access to more than 300 recorded television commercials from presidential elections in 1952 through 2020. Credits, transcripts, descriptive text, and an online resource list are also available.
Media History Digital Library
• http://mediahistoryproject.org/
• David Pierce, founder and owner
• .org
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Provides access to collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain. The Collections Gateway categories include: Fan Magazines, Early Cinema, Broadcasting, Technical Journals, Government & Law, Year Book, Non-Theatrical Film, and Hollywood Studio System.
National Urban League Archive - NUL
• http://www.nul.org/
• National Urban League
• .org
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Provides access to the full text of selected speeches, articles, columns, and press releases from NUL
OpenSecrets.org
• http://www.opensecrets.org/
• Center for Responsive Politics
• .org
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In keeping with its mission to track money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy, this Website provides information, analysis, news stories, and data about federal election campaign contributions, and special interest influence and lobbying.
Public Agenda Alert
• https://www.publicagenda.org/programs-reports/publics-agenda/
• Public Agenda, a non-profit
• .org
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Public Agenda’s Newsletter provides journalists, policy makers and citizens with a review of the latest Public Agenda studies as well as commentary on public opinion research and other activities.
Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs
• http://www.pugwash.org/
• Pugwash Conference
• .org
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Provides the full text of Pugwash Conference Reports from 1988 to the present as well as other Pugwash publications. The purpose of Pugwash is to bring together influential scholars and public figures as private individuals to explore alternative approaches to armed conflict.
Rand Newsroom
• http://www.rand.org/news.html
• RAND Corporation, a non-profit
• .org
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Provides research, analysis, and policy reports to the media on national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, science and technology, community development, international relations, regional studies, and more.
Statistical Assessment Service - STATS
• https://senseaboutscienceusa.org/stats/
• STATS, a non-profit organization
• .org
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STATS is our collaborative project with the American Statistical Association to improve statistical literacy among journalists, academic journal editors, and researchers.

Last update: 8/11/2021

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a variation of Google. It is designed specifically for scholarly literature searches.

Advantages

It’s free to use.
It has a simple, familiar interface that works much like regular Google.
It finds scholarly books, articles, and conference papers from a wide range of disciplines.

Disadvantages

Coverage is not comprehensive. It is a good first place to start researching a paper, but not comprehensive enough to be the only place you look.
Criteria used for selecting “scholarly” materials is not given. Search results can be a mixture of articles and books as well as unpublished manuscripts, course syllabi, and high school term papers, so you must critically evaluate what you find.
Results are not always full-text or free like regular Google. Often the link for an article will take you to the publishers website where the full article is available only if you buy it.