Media Studies
Reference
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Handbooks
Communications Standard Dictionary REF TK5102 .W437 1996
Communication and the Mass Media: A guide to the reference literature REF P90 .B53 1991
Dictionary of Marketing Communication REF HF5412 .G68 2004
Encyclopedia of Communication & Information REF P87.5 .E53 2001 (3 vols.)
Encyclopedia of International Media & Communications REF P87.5 .E532 2003 (4 vols.)
Handbook of International & Intercultural Communication P94.6 .H36 2002
Handbook of Visual Communication P93.5 .H363 2005
Longman Dictionary of Mass Media & Communication P87.5 .L66 1982
Webster’s New World Dictionary of Media & Communications REF P87 .W45 1996
Yearbooks/Annuals
Communication Yearbook P87 .C5974
The State of the News Media: An annual report on American Journalism (full-text Internet Resource
accessible through the library catalog)
Directories
Bowker’s News Media Directory REF PN4875 .W6
Editor & Publisher (available online through the library catalog as an e-book)
Gale Directory of Media and Broadcast Communications REF DESK Z6951 .A97
The American Directory of Writer’s Guidelines REF PN147 .A479
Selected Databases & Indexes – accessible from the Libraries’ Databases’ page
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Communication & Mass Media Complete – Provides quality research in areas related to
communication and mass media. Some full-text.
Academic Search Premier – Cross-disciplinary; may limit to scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles
Ad*Access - An image database of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five
product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II
propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
JSTOR – Database to cross-disciplinary scholarly literature; A database of archived issues of
academic journals. Articles are available as scanned versions of journal pages."
LexisNexis Academic – Cross-disciplinary; using the Guided News Search limit to Magazines &
Journals, or Abstracts, or Policy Papers.
Project Muse -full-text access to over 100 scholarly journals primarily in the Humanities and
Social Sciences.
Proceedings First – Search by keyword or descriptor to locate citations from every congress,
symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library
Digital Dissertations
ArticleFirst – Citation index covering over 12,500 artilces on social sciences, humanities, popular
culture, and other disciplines.
Communication Abstracts (paper) – Located on the third level of the Thomas Jefferson Library,
these abstracts may be found in the Reference Indexes area. P87 .C59733
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Selected Internet Resources
Communication
CCMS: Communication, Cultural, Media Studies Infobase
CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
Online Communication Resources. - Compiled by the Univeristy of Iowa.
Media Studies
Hollywood Reporter- Box Office, Media Analysis
Ethics Updates, University of San Diego
Critical Media Studies Resources, Buffalo State College Communication Department
Film Literature Index 1976-2001
Museum of Broadcast Communications
SCMSTV Online Directory: Society for Cinema and Media Studies -Television Studies Interest Group
Televisions Market Research Reports (from Television.com)
Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies
Poynter Online
Film/Movies/Cinema
Box Office Report
IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
CineFiles Database
ScreenSite
Selected Journal Titles in the TJ Library
These are just a few of the journals that may relate to your Media Studies research. Some are in print,
and some are only accessible in electronic format.
Communication
Communication Monographs
Communication Law and Policy
Communication Quarterly
Communication Research
Communication Studies
Communication Theory
Media Studies
Journalism and Mass Communication Educator
Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Journalism Practice
Journalism Quarterly
Media, Culture & Society
Media Ethics
Media History Monographs
Media Industry Newsletter
Media Law & Policy
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Film/Cinema
Cinema Journal
Film & History
Film & Video
Film Comment
Film Criticism
Film History
Film International
Film Journal
Film Journal International
Film Philosophy
Film Quarterly
Film Studies
Films in Review
Movies & Entertainment Industry Profile
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