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Journal Articles for Communication

• Academic Search Premier
• AltPressWatch Alt-PressWatch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals from alternative and independent presses.
• See also the Alternative Press Index Archive, 1969-1990.
• Communication and Mass Media Complete
• General Business File
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
• New York Times 1851-2004
• Newsbank
• ScienceDirect College Edition A full-text database for journals in the life, medical, social, behavioral, and physical sciences.
• JSTOR (Journal Storage) Scholarly articles in over 150 academic journals. Articles date from the 1800s up to a "moving wall" of between one and eight years before the present. That means that there are no current articles. Coverage includes the arts, business, general science, the humanities, and social science.

Websites for Communication

• Accuracy in Media Non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage. Conservative bent.
• Civic Practices Network (CPN) Civic Communication Links to stories about public journalism in cities around the US.
• Fairness and Accuracy in News Reporting (FAIR) Offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. Check out Extra!, their bi-monthly journal of media criticism.
• Media Channel Another media watchdog group, with a stronger emphasis on the international.
• Google News See current news coverage from thousands of US and international online sources. Set alerts. See also Yahoo! News.
• Institute for Media, Peace, and Security: Resource Center Site "aims to educate people in the many ways the media interact with issues of war and peace." Provides links and citations to media coverage of a variety of conflicts. From the United Nations' University for Peace (Costa Rica).
• Online Journalism Review A blog about journalism from USC's Annenberg School for Communication. Special focus on Internet media.
• Poynter Online Covers media issues including diversity, ethics, leadership, photojournalism, and TV/radio. Articles and links to relevant sites. From the Poynter Institute, a non-profit journalism think tank.
• State of the News Media Comprehensive, scholarly look at journalism each year. From journalism.org.
• Today's Front Pages 246 front pages from 32 countries for today's paper. From the Newseum in Washington.
• Who Owns What A comprehensive guide to what media outlets are owned by which media companies. Includes selected articles from the magazine Columbia Journalism Review, which is also available in the library and on the Expanded Academic library database.
• World Communication and Information Report 1999-2000. International coverage of freedom of the media, public-service broadcasting, editorial independence, the use of the Internet in education, cultural pluralism, worldwide access to information resources, challenges to intellectual property, and censorship on the Internet. Regional reports available as well. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader; download the reader here).
• Yahoo! News A good alternative to Google News. Includes news photos and search alerts, all for free.