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In this guide you will find an overview of databases, journals and books on the subject of Journalism and Media Studies. This guide covers a set of high-quality information sources. These sources will be a good starting point for the research of bachelors and masters in Journalism and Media Studies.. They include the sources your professors expect you to use for research and writing papers.
Handbooks
Reference works
Bibliographies / Articles
These are the main bibliographies in the field of Journalism and Media studies.
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Communication & Mass Media CompleteBibliographical and full-text database on communication and mass media
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Academic Search Premier (ASP)This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further back are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
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Historical AbstractsOnline bibliography covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. The database provides indexing of more than 1,800 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)Bibliographic database with references on sociology, political science, economics and anthropology
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Nexis UniNexis Uni is an online database with full text articles from the archives of newspapers and other news resources. International and national newspapers are included, but also e.g. news agencies.
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ScopusCovers a large part of the English-language literature in science, medicine and parts of the social sciences and arts and humanities.
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SocINDEXOnline bibliography for the discipline of sociology and its subdisciplines, including demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, politics, religion, violence, welfare, and many others. It features about 2 million records and contains journal articles, books, papers. For some journals it dates back to 1895.
Smartcat
GoogleScholar
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Blogs / Links
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Google NewsGoogle News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests.
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Media History Digital LibraryContains historical printed materials related to cinema, broadcasting and recorded sound.
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MediamonitorThis site is managed by the Commissariaat voor de Media.
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World in progressNews about progress in the world.