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Article databases

NameDescription
ABI/INFORMBusiness, economic, industry, and trade news from local, regional, and global publications. Nearly 3,000 full text titles. Scholarly and popular coverage. Proquest
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
Communication & Mass Media CompleteIncorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. Full text for 326 journals. EBSCOhost
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
FactivaLocal, national, and international business and general news coverage. More than 9,000 sources, including newspapers, periodicals, company reports, profiles, stock quotes, and more. Full text coverage. Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive
LexisNexis AcademicFull text for more than 6,000 print, broadcast, and online media sources. Worldwide coverage of general interest topics, news, business, economics, and more. Includes Shepard's® Citations for legal research. LexisNexis
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OED OnlineElectronic version of the 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

AE - Encyclopedias AG - Dictionaries and other general reference works
AN - Newspapers AY - Yearbooks. Almanacs. Dictionaries
PN - Literature - General PN4699-5650 - Journalism. The preiodical press, etc.

Reference books

BookCall number
Encyclopedia of Communication and InformationREF P87.5 .E53 2001
Oxford English Dictionary (also online)REF PE1625 .M7 (also OED online)

Web resources

American Journalism Review online
Annenberg Political Fact Check
Center for Communication
Center for Public Integrity
Columbia Journalism Review
Federal Communications Commission
Journalism.org
Newspaper Association of America
PowerReporting
PoynterOnline
U.S. Census Bureau