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* Use books to find older, historical or encyclopedia information.
* Browse the Reference Stacks and General Book Collection using call numbers starting with P 87- P 96.
* Use journal articles to find information on current research in communications.
* The ERIC database includes many communications journals.
Resources for Research Help
 
Communication and Mass Media Complete
* Merger of  CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index
* offers full text for over 200 titles
* coverage of over 40,000 articles related to mass media and published in over 60 research journals
*access from campus or off-campus with APSU ID
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Academic Search Premier
* contains indexing for 8,200 publications
* contains full text for more than 4,650 titles
* PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over 100 journals
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Newspaper Source
* full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers
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contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers
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full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc
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Television News Archive
HELP:includes descriptions of and some online video of TV news broadcasts
HELP:covers current events, history, political science
HELP:includes broadcasts from 1968 to present
HELP:in order to use this free resource, you must complete a brief registration form
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ERIC 
*provides full text for thousands of digests
* lists citations and short summaries of education journal articles and documents, many which contain links to full-text
* covers education topics
* covers items published from 1966 to the present
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CQ Researcher plus Archive
HELP:contains articles reviewing the history, statistics, and pro/con viewpoints of current-interest topics
HELP:covers a wide variety of topics and the Issue Tracker feature allows you to track the progress of an issue through several decades
HELP:articles published 1923 to present
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Project MUSE
HELP:includes full-text of articles from scholarly journals
HELP:covers social sciences, arts, and humanities
HELP:covers items published from 1993 to present
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Points of View Reference Center
*provides a balanced series of articles representing multiple viewpoints
*use this resource as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and critical thinking skills
*includes essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books
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SIRS Researcher
HELP:indexes articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues
HELP:sources include international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications
HELP: covers 1988 to present with abstracts since 1994
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Dissertations and Theses
* Dissertations and Theses is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master’s theses
* Overall dates of coverage: 1861 - present
* Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts.

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Alternative Press Index
HELP:subject index to  alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines
HELP:covers anarchism, democracy, labor, ecology,  feminism, socialism - theory and practice, gay and lesbian issues  
HELP:covers items published 1991 to present
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Alternative Press Index Archive
HELP:subject index to  alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines
HELP:covers anarchism, democracy, labor, ecology,  feminism, socialism - theory and practice, gay and lesbian issues  
HELP:covers items published 1969 to 1990
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Internet resources
* authoritative, credible, and reliable Web sites
* selected for accuracy and relevance to the subjects taught at APSU
* updated regularly
* access from anywhere
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Additional books may be identified through:  
*Other Libraries' Catalogs: local and national
*Books in Print: books available from publishers
*WorldCat: catalog of libraries worldwide
*Online Books Page: Books freely available on the web
* These books are not usually in the APSU Library, but you may request them.
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