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Journalism History
JoMC 842: Prof. Frank Fee
  School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 
PARK LIBRARY COLLECTIONS SERIALS  & PERIODICALS BIBLIOGRAPHY: Books & Serials
ARCHIVES & MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
(full text)
HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS (electronic indexes)
POLLING RESOURCES WEB SITES HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS (microfilm)
ONLINE CATALOGS DATABASES SEARCH ENGINES 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES MEDIA TIMELINES LITERATURE REVIEWS
  SCHOLARLY INTEGRITY PITFALLS

PARK LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

SERIALS and PERIODICALS: [Available in Park Library and in Davis Library.]

  • American Journalism
  • Communication Research
  • The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics
  • International Journal of Public Opinion Research
  • Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Communication
  • Journal of Popular Culture
  • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
  • Journalism History
  • Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs
  • Mass Communication & Society
  • Media History Monographs
  • Media Psychology
  • Newspaper Research Journal
  • Problems of Journalism: Proceedings of the American Society of Newspaper Editors [Note: title changed in later years to ASNE: Proceedings of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.]
  • [Note: check with Park Librarian for other journal titles.]

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Books & Serials

  • Poynter Institute for Media Studies (bibliography on journalism history)
  • Journalism History: Developing a Way to Analyze Historical Work. Book chapter by William David Sloan in History of the Mass Media in the United States, 1998. Edited by Margaret A. Blanchard. (In The Park Library, Call # SPE-fac .B639 1998)
  • Encyclopedia of Advertising, 2003. Edited by John McDonough and others. (In Park Library. Call number ADV-ref .A244 2003
  • Encyclopedia of Public Relations, 2005. Edited by Robert L. Heath. (In Davis Library reference Call # HD59 .E48 2005) 
  • From Headline Hunter to Superman: a journalism filmography, 1997 (In Park Library Call # FLM-flg .N463 1997)
  • Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature. By Jo A. Cates. Third Edition. Libraries Unlimited, 2004. (In Park Library)
  • [Note: to find other books about journalism history and biography in our Park Library, students may search the UNC Online catalog using the Park Library call numbers for journalism history: 
          JH-bio 
     
          JH-nws
    .
    or search for journalism bibliographies under this Call # REF-bib
    or consult with Park Librarian, Barbara Semonche.]
  • Guide to Sources in American Journalism History (Park Library: REF-bib.C356 1989)
  • Library Resources for Communication (ACRL) http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/communications/lrcs/guides/journalism.html
  • N. W. Ayer & Son's Directory of Newspapers 1930 - 1969.  (Davis Library; Z6951.A97) This reference book offers circulation data for U.S. newspapers from 1930 to 1969.

ARCHIVES and MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

INDEXES to SERIALS [Note: check with Park Librarian]

ONLINE CATALOGS

DATABASES [Available via UNC-CH electronic resources and selected other sources]

  • AEJMC Conference Papers Searchable Archives
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete (Go to http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/ and select "C." Scroll to Communication & Mass Media Complete. Click on it and proceed with your search.)
  • Social Citation Index (Go to http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/ and select "S." Scroll to Social Citation Index. Click on it and proceed with your search.)
  • JSTOR
  • UNC-CH Electronic Indexes & Abstracts (Go to http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/eid/  click on "Subjects" pop-down box; browse the list of subjects; highlight you selection, e.g., "History," then click on the "select" key. You will discover 61 databases for researching historical topics.)
  • UNC-CH Online Catalog: Documentaries (Go to http://www.lib.unc.edu/ and search using subject headings for "documentary films," or "documentary television programs," etc.)
  • UNC-CH History Collections (includes an overview of history collections in Davis Library as well as other resources in campus libraries.) 
  • New York Times Historic Newspaper. The New York Times, in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers 3,400,000 pages of full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the entire publishing history of the newspaper, from 1851 to 2001.
  • UNC-CH Sources for Newspaper Research (includes a list of U.S. and foreign newspaper indexes dating from the early18th century to the late 20th century) 
  • Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876
    Early American Newspapers includes over 400 historic newspapers and features cover-to-cover reproductions of more than one million pages of fully text-searchable facsimile images. For students and scholars of early America, this unique collection -- based largely on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" -- offers an unprecedented look back into the extraordinary history of the United States -- the story of its people, ideals, commerce, and everyday life.

SEARCH ENGINES

WEB SITES

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

LITERATURE REVIEWS

Scholarly Integrity and Plagiarism


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