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Media Research Links Page |
Magazine & Journal Databases (to access articles):
Gale PowerSearch databases on campus or off-campus w/ library card
articles from academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers and reference sources; excellent general periodical database.o To narrow searches, use the Advanced search mode
o PLEASE NOTE: When search results are first displayed, only magazine articles are shown, if available for your search.
Click on the “Academic journals” tab to display journal articles on your topic; click on the "News" tab for news articles; click on the "Reference" tab for reference articles.
- Once you find one article specifically on your topic, click on any relevant subject headings (near the bottom of the article page) to find more articles on that topic.
- Some relevant subject headings:
- Mass media -- Objectivity
- Mass media policy
Ethnic Newswatch - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text articles from about 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, in English and Spanish. Enter key words for your search topic in the "Words in Articles" box on the Search screen and click on the "Submit Search" button.
InfoTrac Newspapers on campus or off-campus w/ library card: a database of full-text articles from N.Y. Times, S.F. Chronicle, L.A. Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Seattle Times, Fresno Bee, Times (London, England), Financial Times (London, England) & Manila Bulletin (Philippines).
The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System.
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Type
search words (keep your search words broad) in the first search box & click
Submit.
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The
search results will show books and other materials in all libraries in the
PLS system.
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To Limit your search results to materials at Skyline College
Library:
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Click
on Modify Search near the top of the screen.
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You
will be brought back to the search screen and your search term(s) will
reappear.
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Scroll
down to the Location selection box (2nd box under Limit
to: below the search boxes).
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Then
click the Submit button.
Recommended
Web Sites:
FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Columbia Journalism Review: Who Owns What
Merchants of Cool (PBS Frontline)
Journalism Ethics Links (from SFSU Dept. of Journalism)
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)
Marketing of Violent Entertainment to Children
(Federal Trade Commission Report)
Bias in the
Media (from University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign Library)
Some suggested news
stories for media analyses:
Don Imus / talk radio racism
Voter
Fraud
Economic development in
No Child
Left Behind
Homicide
rate in
Alternative
energy / nuclear energy
Enron -
corporate corruption
Philippines
Muslim separatists / Islamic militants
Illegal
immigration
Terrorism
Sweatshop
Labor
Genetically
modified foods
Global
warming
Israel-Palestine
conflict
Internet
“network neutrality”
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last revised: 4-20-07 |
