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General Background Sources:
- Credo Reference Academic Core This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive collection of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. A useful background information source for starting your research. Simultaneous user limit: 5.
- Britannica Academic This link opens in a new windowProvides access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, an interactive world atlas, a world data analyst tool, images, timelines, videos, and primary sources.
Discipline-Specific Background Sources:
Digital Transformation in Journalism and News MediaCall Number: OnlineISBN: 9783319277868Publication Date: 2016
Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public DiscourseCall Number: Online and Stacks Upper Level PN4784.O62 S53 2018ISBN: 9781138630239Publication Date: 2018
Journalism Ethics for the Digital AgeCall Number: Stacks Upper Level PN4756 .M85 2014ISBN: 9781922070951Publication Date: 2015
Sports Journalism: A Practical IntroductionCall Number: OnlineISBN: 9781526401939 (ebook)Publication Date: 2017
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The Library provides current, free-to-you access to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Chronicle of Higher Education. Click here for info on how to create accounts with all three!
Newspapers with Both Current and Historical Coverage
- Nation Archive This link opens in a new windowContains all issues of The Nation, beginning with its first in 1865 to the present. Articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles are included.
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowContains full-text access to major international and national newspapers. Also includes television and radio news transcripts.
- Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowFunded in part by the generosity of the Flora and Jeremiah Buckley Library Fund. Contains local, regional, national, and international news with deep archives. Provides extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes as well as law reviews. Also includes business information on U.S. and international companies.
- US Newsstream This link opens in a new windowEnables users to search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format.
Newspapers With Only Historical Coverage
- African American Newspapers Series 1, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new windowA full-text collection of newspapers published by or for African Americans.
- Connecticut Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowA collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers published in Connecticut. Content includes general news, election returns, legislative acts, letters, poetry, shipping news, and advertisements.
- New York Times - Historical This link opens in a new windowProvides every issue in PDF format from 1851 (with a three year embargo). Includes news articles, editorials, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, advertisements, and more.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Hartford Courant This link opens in a new windowAccess to digitized issues of the Hartford Courant from 1764-1922. Access to 1992-Present is available in U.S. Newsstream.
- Chronicling AmericaAn Internet-based, searchable database of historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages being developed and maintained by the Library of Congress. Digitized material currently covers the historic period 1756-1963.
Magazines with Both Current and Historical Coverage
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary database contains peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, ebooks, and videos.
Magazines With Only Historical Coverage
- Life Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Collection of cover-to-cover format archives of Life Magazine, from the very first issue in November 1936 through December 2000.
- Sports Illustrated Archive This link opens in a new window
A cover-to-cover format archive of Sports Illustrated Magazine, from its very first issue in August 1954 through December 2000.
- Time Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
A cover-to-cover format archive of Time Magazine, dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000.
Use Additional Online Resources
- American Press InstituteAPI is is an educational non-advocacy 501(c)3 nonprofit organization affiliated with the Newspaper Association of America dedicated to the analysis of media and its effect on the world around us. Here you can browse through key topics they cover, read through the latest research on digital media, and fact checking strategies.
- The Journalist's ToolboxThis is a go-to-site for journalists who need to do research as well as view news websites by subject to find the latest information.
- Pew Research CenterA "fact tank" with information concerning the issues, attitudes, and trends in both domestic and international society.
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The Library isn't the only resource available to you! The following departments are housed in the Library, but provide different services than the Librarians do:
- The Office of Accessibility
- The Fredrickson Family Innovation Lab
- Global Fairfield
- The ITS Help Desk
- The Math Center
- The Science Center
- The Writing Center
Course Guides in this Subject
Digital Journalism Course Guides
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