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ABI/INFORM      BU-px
ABI/INFORM GLOBAL (1971-) is an abstracting and indexing tool for more than 1500 business periodicals. Abstracts and full text.

Alternative Press Index      BU-px
ALTERNATIVE PRESS INDEX: indexes roughly 380 alternative, radical, and left publications.

American Film Scripts Online      BU-px
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AP Images      ChRiv-px
ACCUNET/AP MULTIMEDIA ARCHIVE is an electronic library of photographs and other graphic images, drawn from the collections of the Associated Press. The archive currently contains 700,000 photos, most of which are contemporary photographs taken since 1995.

Business Source Complete   1965+   BU-px
BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER indexes, abstracts and provides full text of business publications, scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals. 8,000 journals with full text for over 4,000 of these titles

Communication & Mass Media Complete      BU-px
Offers unprecendented scope and depth in these areas. Partial full text.

CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts      BU-px
CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.

Ethnic NewsWatch   1990+   BU-px
ETHNIC NEWSWATCH is a full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. English and Spanish.

Factiva      BU-px
Factiva is a Dow Jones-Reuters database providing full text access to all editions of Dow Jones publications, the Wall Street Journal (back to 1979), Barron's, three months of the New York Times, and 8,000 other publications. In addition, this database provides reports for over 30,000 companies worldwide, over 8,000 selected business Web sites, and Reuters Business Briefings.

FIAF Film & TV Indexes      BU-px
Articles published in more than 300 film and television periodicals from 1972 to the present. Mainly French and English journals.

Film Indexes Online      ChRiv-px
Brings Film Index International and AFI Catalog together in one site.

Historical Newspapers of the New York Times   1851-2006   BU-px
A full-image archive of the entire historical run of The New York Times, from 1851-2001. Includes ads, cartoons, editorials.

JSTOR (Journal Storage)      BU-px
A full-text collection of back issues (from volume 1 to approximately five years ago) of core scholarly journals.Includes business journals, as well as film studies and performing arts journals and other pertinent journals.

LexisNexis Academic      BU-px
A full-text database that includes newspapers, wire services, transcripts of television and radio broadcasts, medical and health journals, trade journals, accounting literature, company financial reports, law reviews, statutory and case law, and public opinion polls. Includes foreign sources in foreign languages.

LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)      BU-px
Abstracts only. 1973 to present.

Press Display      BU-px
"PressDisplay provides online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format. The ever-expanding collection currently includes over 260 titles. Just like reading the familiar print edition, viewers can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices. The service also provides a 60-day backfile and the ability to perform keyword searches within any issue."

Readers Guide Full Text      BU-px
A database that indexes and abstracts more than 240 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. Some full text.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive TVNEWS Database      ChRiv-px
Searches all years of news coverage for ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS.

World News Connection      BU-px
Provides full-text summaries in English of international newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals.


Selected Websites


American Journalism Review      WWW
Provides links to newspapers, magazines, radio, and television plus collection of resources for journalists.


Ethics Resource Center      WWW
Nonprofit organization. Provides research, education, training, and consulting services.

Federal Communications Commission      WWW
Regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.


Freedom Forum      WWW
A nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people.



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