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Databases

  • Communication and Mass Media Complete

    This comprehensive database covers journals specific to Communication and Mass Media studies and relevant content from publications in other fields discussing issues related to communication and mass media topics.
    The Faculty of Information and Media Studies at UWO kindly provides access to this resource.

  • Communication Abstracts
    Communication Abstracts is a comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale. Coverage includes articles, reports, chapters and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions and information sources. Literature from other disciplines relevant to communication research is also included.
  • Google Scholar
    "Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research." (from publisher)
  • ProQuest Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive

    Database includes digitized cover-to-cover versions of nearly 30 major entertainment trade and consumer magazines including Billboard, Variety and Film Weekly.  Can be searched simultaneously with other ProQuest databases to find a wide range of information about all aspects of the entertainment and media industry.

  • SCOPUS
    This database indexes publications in Social Science as well as Science and Technology.  It allows you to find articles on your topic and connect to the full-text using the GetIt@Western links.  It also lets you see the reference list for each article and find out what other authors have cited each article since it was published.
  • Film Indexes Online

    Film Indexes Online is a portal to three important film resources including:

    Film Index International (FII)
    The American Film Institute Catalog (AFI Catalog)
    FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals

    Film Indexes Online can be used to cross-search these three resources or to search the individual databases separately.

    This portal was created in partnership with three distinguished film research organizations, the British Film Institute, the American Film Institute, and the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).

  • ProQuest Social Science Search

    Simultaneously searches for your keywords across 28 social sciences databases.

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Dictionaries

  • Dictionary of Media and Communications
    "Tthis authoritative reference provides a complete listing of media concepts, figures, and techniques with illustrations and historical commentary." (from publisher)
  • Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies

    This 8th edition of the classic Watson and Hill Dictionary  includes more than 100 new entries plus an up-to-date Chronology of Media Events from 105 CE (first known production of paper in China) to the present (influence of social media in Middle East uprisings). 

  • Oxford Reference Online Premium
    Check here for definitions, synonyms, and quick facts.
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Encyclopedias

  • Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
    This ONLINE encyclopedia provides students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of contemporary communication theory. Entries address topics related not only to paradigms, traditions, and schools, but also metatheory, methodology, inquiry, and applications and contexts.
  • Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications
    This 4 volume, print encyclopedia provides a comprehensive description of the contemporary status of international media activities and relations.
  • Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking
    This resource, available electronically through NetLibrary, offers comprehensive coverage of the most important concepts, issues, trends and technologies in the multimedia discipline including multimedia evolution, design, communications, e-commerce, education, security, and virtual communities. It presents perspectives from contributors around the world and is a valuable reference source of background information on any topic relating to multimedia technology.
  • 21st Century Communication - A Reference Handbook
    Highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates affecting the field of communication in the 21st Century.
  • International Encyclopedia of Communication
    This 10 volume reference set spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas. Entries include Rhetoric and Gender, Advertising, Cross-Cultural, Consumer Culture, and Addiction and Exposure.
  • International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
    Available electronically and in print format, this encyclopedia maps the social and behavioural sciences on a large scale, by describing the state of the art in all the fields encompassed within these areas.
  • Playbill Broadway Yearbook, v.1 2004/05 - v.6 2009-10

    Encyclopedic source provides comprehensive details about each play on Broadway from the 2004/05 to the 2009/10 season. Includes photos of cast, details of productions and images of advertisements and playbills.

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Multimedia

  • CBC Archives
    CBC Digital Archives is a fully searchable database of hundreds of radio and television clips from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's archives.
  • Rock's Backpages: the Online Library of Rock Writing
    Billed as the "ultimate archive of music journalism" Rock's Backpages includes a searchable database of articles about bands and artists who have been and continue to influential in the development of popular music.  Audio files of interviews with many artists including David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and k.d. Lang are included as well as news and reviews of current interest.
  • Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest: Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975

    This fabulous resource provides access to colour digital images of archival material from key libraries in Britain and America, including: The Browne Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley and the Rock Source Archive. The collection includes videos and photographs as well as print documents.

  • National Film Board of Canada
    The National Film Board of Canada has made some of its content freely accessible online.
  • Vanderbilt Television News Archive

    This is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news.  The collection is mainly regularly-scheduled newscasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News.  Western Libraries does not subscribe to this resource so only free content is accessible.  Payment is required for some transcripts and video clips.

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News Sources

  • Factiva
    Factiva provides access to news from over 8,000 sources, available from 118 countries in 22 languages.  There are 96 Canadian publications including The Globe & Mail, Toronto Star and National Post.
  • Canadian Newstand Major Dailies
    Also a database, this resource offers full text access to articles, columns, editorials and feature articles from many leading Canadian news sources.  Following a two-day embargo period, the content is updated daily.
  • Lexis Nexis
    A comprehensive resource providing full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications. Areas of interest include: U.S. and International newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, and non-English language sources.
  • London Free Press Archives, 1995-current

    Find the text of stories published in LFP for the past 17 years. The database allows you to limit your results by date, use a variety of complex searching techniques and print the text.  Help using the LFP Archives is available at http://save6.sunmedia.ca/Save/classic/sp/sunmedia/web/Save6_help.html.  (Note that the Weldon Library still provides access to the microfilm version which includes photographs and advertisements.)

  • Canada's Heritage: The Globe and Mail from 1844

    Access to a searchable image database of the paper since 1844.  To connect, click on Canada's Heritage: The Globe and Mail from 1844 in the sidebar on the right.

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