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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
    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.
  • 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.

  • ProQuest - Research Library
    This is a general bibliographic database that includes newspapers, popular magazines and scholarly publications.
  • SocINDEX
    SocIndex is an excellent resource for information about the society and technological change.  It includes abstracts for more than 590 journals dating back to 1895, with extensive indexing of books, monographs, and conference papers.
  • International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
    Provides full-text coverage to scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, with broad coverage of the arts and entertainment industry, including film, television, drama theatre and broadcast arts. 
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Encyclopedias

  • International Encyclopedia of Communication
    This 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.
  • Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security
    This resources covers current topics such as digital music piracy, cyber-terrorism, online identity theft, and young people using online chat, as well as more "traditional" information topics such as artificial intelligence, gathering survey data online, internet usage and RFID.
  • 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). 

  • Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking
    This resource, available 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 hundres of contributors around the world and is a valuable reference source of background information on any topic relating to multimedia technology.
  • Encyclopedia of Television
    This on-line resource focuses mainly on televsion programs, people and topics from the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia. 
  • Encyclopedia of New Media: An essential reference to communication and technology
    This encyclopedia presents entries that explain the key terms, concepts, trends, and buzzwords that have become the everyday language of the Internet and global society. It includes contributions from an international group of scholars as well as science and technology writers and editors.
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News Sources

  • LexisNexis Academic
    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.
  • Canadian NewsStand Major Dailies
    Searchable, full-text access to major Canadian daily papers from across the country. Includes the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun, the Edmonton Journal, the Montreal Gazette and the Vancouver Sun. (Content does not generally include papers published on the most recent two days.)
  • Factiva
    This database provides access to news from over 8,000 sources, from 118 countries in 22 languages. There are 96 Canadian publications, including The Globe & Mail, Toronto Star and National Post. Extensive company and industry search capabilities are also available. An excellent Help Guide, produced by the Business Library is available.
  • 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.

  • Alt-Press Watch

    Alt-Press Watch™ showcases unique, independent voices from many grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals. It features over 670,000 articles from around 200 publications, offering a wide range of critical coverage of the news.

  • Ethnic NewsWatch Complete

    Ethnic NewsWatch Complete is a ProQuest database that indexes newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. Ethnic NewsWatch covers 1990 to the present and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History gives access to over 30 full-text titles which focus on African American, Hispanic American, and Native American presses from 1959-1989. The resource provides researchers with a wide spectrum of perspectives that are often overlooked and includes national and regional coverage.

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