Introduction to Communication
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Finding Media Sources
See a list of all article databases via the Library Homepage -- Articles A-Z (in the Find box).
MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database contains scholarly and popular sources, including a number of magazines and newspapers. Narrow results by Source Type to Magazines or to Newspapers on the left sidebar of your results list.Google News (http://news.google.com/)
"Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from more than 4,500 English-language news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests."LexisNexis Academic
Indexes and provides full-text of major newspapers, nationally and internationally. Also includes newswires, transcripts of TV and radio broadcasts, and a very limited selection of blogs. Updated daily. Coverage from as early as 1980 to the present, but varies by publication.Morning Call
Allentown based newspaper, covering news for the city of Allentown, the cities of Bethlehem and Easton, and the greater Lehigh Valley. Full-text coverage from 1984 to the present.Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/)
Aggregated portal of news sources.ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SOURCES
Alternative Press Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. A comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Coverage is international and interdiciplinary. Indexing from 1991 to the present. (No full text.)Indepedent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org/)
"Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage."BLOGS
Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/
"Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. [...] Your results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger; our blog index is continually updated, so you'll always get the most accurate and up-to-date results." Search for blogs from around the world.Technorati
http://technorati.com/
"Technorati was founded to help bloggers to succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the online global conversation. [...] Technorati index[es] more than 1.5 million new blog posts in real time."
GETTING THE ARTICLES
- When searching for articles in library databases, you may find the full-text of an article linked in the database.
- If not, you need to search the Trexler Library Catalog to see if we own the journal in which the article is published.
- Most databases have a Get It! link embedded. Click the link to check our holdings.
- Otherwise, search the catalog by journal title or by ISSN . Verify that we have online, print, or microform access to the year/volume you need.
- If we do not own the journal you need, request the article via Interlibrary Loan.
- Some databases have a Request on Interlibrary Loan link embedded. Click the link to fill out the form. Click Submit.
- Otherwise, use the Interlibrary Loan Journal Article Request Form (Library Homepage -- ILL (in the Services & Forms box) -- Articles request form). Fill out the form with as much information as possible. Ask for help, if you have questions.
Citing Your Sources
For help using APA Style, consult the following resources:
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001.
Reference Desk Reserve 808.06615 p976m 2001 (at Reference Desk)Concise Rules of APA Style. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2005.
Reference Desk Reserve 808.06615 C744r (at Reference Desk)Trexler Library handout on using APA style: http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/reshelp/apa_example.pdf
Writer's Handbook (Writing Center, University of Wisconsin--Madison)
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html
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Last modified: 17 February 2009
