Journalism Databases Available for Students, Faculty & Staff of MU
Journalism Academic/Scholarly Databases- Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,052 journals in the collection.
- America History & Life - contains citations and abstracts of books, dissertations, and articles from approximately 2,000 journals published worldwide. Covers all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture, and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present.
- Art & Humanities Citation Index - is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals.
- Art Index - contains citations to articles and book reviews in about 270 periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins published primarily in the U.S. and Europe. Includes archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, film, industrial and interior design, and photography.
- ArticleFirst - is an OCLC index of articles from approximately 12,500 journals. Subjects covered include business, social science, science, technology, humanities, medicine, and culture. Coverage is 1990 to date.
- Bibliography of the History of Art - covers the current literature of European art from the 4th century to the present, and of North and South American art from the European discovery of the Americas to the present. Includes photography.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete - Communication and Mass Media Complete is comprised of two databases, CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index. It indexes journals, encyclopedias and handbooks in the area of communication studies. Full-text is available for over 200 titles.
- Communication Studies: Sage full text collection - Includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,000 articles.
- Dissertations & Theses @ University of Missouri - Columbia - In addition to citations and abstracts, the service provides free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format, when available. In most cases, this will be graduate works published in 1995 forward. Print copies of pre-1995 MU dissertations are held at the UM Depository and can be requested using MERLIN. For more details, see http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/MuchowM/Information_Commons/dissertations.html
- MU Graduate School Electronic Thesis/Dissertations archives for Journalism
- Dissertation Abstracts - is the subject, title and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at accredited institutions. It also includes many Canadian dissertations as well as dissertations form Europe and abstracts from Masters Abstracts.
- ECO - Electronic Collections Online - contains the original content and images from scholarly journals. Fulltext (primarily archival) access is available for over 200 journals to which the MU library also subscribe in print format.
- Education Full Text - provides full-text for over 133 periodicals since 1994 together with indexing and abstracting of records going back to 1983 for the 478 periodicals covered in the Education Index.
- Eric - provides access to the educational and related literature available in periodicals published worldwide and in the ERIC documents microfiche collection. Coverage is 1966 to date.
- Factiva - contains business and financial data on companies from around the world. It also provides access to current issues and an archive of over 10,000 + global publications including 600 newswires, Reuters, radio & TV transcripts, websites, company & industry information, market charting, etc. License terms restrict access to MU students, faculty and staff only.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. - Ingenta - Full-text of over 600 journals.
- Google Scholar
- JStor - A full-text database consisting of the Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections which provide access to the back files of over 300 scholarly journals. Areas included are history, sociology, business, economics, ecology, literature, mathematics, music, political science, population studies, Asian studies, philanthropy and finance.
- Masterfile Premiere - Provides searchable full-text for over 1100 general interest, business, health, and multi-cultural magazines and journals.
- Networked Digital Library of Thesis/Dissertations - The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. Some theses and dissertations are freely available to download from this service.
- Oxford Reference Online Premium - Searchable database of over 100 reference works covering history, literature, art, religion, philosophy, law, science and many other areas.
- Pais - Covers the range of the social sciences, with emphasis on national and international economic, political and public policy issues.
- Project Muse - provides full-text access to more than 100 scholarly journal titles from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other University presses covering the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Mathematics.
- PsychArticles - is a database of over 44,000 full-text articles from more than 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association and participating publishers. The journals cover psychology and related behavioral and social sciences. Coverage is 1985 to date.
- PsychInfo - contains references to articles in more than 1,300 periodicals as well as technical reports, dissertations, and other materials in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences.
- Sage Journals Online - Fulltext access to over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology, and Medicine from Sage. more info...
- ScienceDirect - provides electronic access to the latest 12 months of Elsevier journals to which the MU Libraries also subscribe to in print.
- Science Magazine Online - Searchable full-text articles from Science Magazine from 1995 to present more info...
- Scirus - A free search engine for scientific information on the web that covers journal articles, e-print archives, patents, technical reports and scientific web sites. more info...
- Scopus - Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Scopus offers: 14,200 titles from 4,000 different publishers; Over 12,850 academic journals including coverage of 535 Open Access journals; 750 conference proceedings; 600 trade publications; 27 million abstracts; 230 million references, added to all abstracts; Results from 200 million scientific web pages; 12.7 million patent records from 4 patent offices. Alerts to keep you up-to-date on new articles matching your search query, or by favorite author.
- Sociological Abstracts -
- List of our print newspapers held at the Journalism Library
- Google News Archive
- Newseum's Today's Front pages - The Newseum displays these daily newspaper front pages in their original, unedited form. Some front pages may contain material that is objectionable to some visitors. Viewer discretion is advised. Links to Archived front pages and Analysis of News.
- Special Collections Electronic Newspaper Resources - Some historic newspapers that are available through Ellis Library subscriptions or at no cost to the general public.
Advertising, Business info and Market info
- Advertising Red Books - License is for single user access.
Provides competitive intelligence and prospecting data on agencies and advertisers. Includes detailed profiles of nearly 13,500 US and international advertising agencies as well as information on over 24,000 US and international advertisers who each spend more than $200,000 annually on advertising. - International Financial Statistics (IFS) - International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a database provided by the International Monetary Fund. It offers approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries, 1948 - present (data availability may vary by country and date). It includes exchange rates, fund accounts and main global and country economic indicators.
- John W. Hartman Center - The Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke's Special Collection Library acquires and preserves printed material and collections of textual and multimedia resources and makes them available to researchers around the world. Through these collections and related programming, the Center promotes understanding of the social, cultural, and historical impact of advertising, marketing, and sales.
- Mergent Online - Updated weekly. Provides immediate access to data on more than 10,000 NYSE, AMEX, Nasdaq and other select regional exchange companies. Coverage includes: history, business description, properties, subsidiaries, officers, directors, long-term debt, Moody's rating, capital stock, income statement, balance sheet, statements of cash flow, auditors, exchange and ticker symbol, number of employees, number of shareholders, address, telephone number, annual stock price ranges, trustee, registrar, transfer agent, stock splits, annual meeting date, Moody's news reports, and direct, real-time access to the EDGAR, the SEC website which includes are annual, quarterly, and special corporation records.
- NetAdvantage
NetAdvantage provides information on companies, industries, stocks, mutual funds and the economy. Sources include Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Bond Reports and Corporation Records. The type of information includes, but is not limited to, financial statistics, commentary, and directory listings, e.g., security dealers. The Industry Surveys is an excellent resource to locate information on 53 industries. The Mutual Funds section provides a quote, name of fund manager, rate of return, and sector allocations. - SRDS - Standard Rate and Data Service - Online editions of the following SRDS directories for advertising and marketing: Business Publication Advertising Source, Consumer Magazine Advertising Source, Newspaper Advertising Source, Direct Marketing List Source, Radio Advertising Source, TV & Cable Source, Interactive Advertising Source and Out of Home Advertising Source.
- Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage - NetAdvantage provides information on companies, industries, stocks, mutual funds and the economy. Sources include Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Bond Reports and Corporation Records. The type of information includes, but is not limited to, financial statistics, commentary, and directory listings, e.g., security dealers. The Industry Surveys is an excellent resource to locate information on 53 industries. The Mutual Funds section provides a quote, name of fund manager, rate of return, and sector allocations.
Broadcasting
- Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,052 journals in the collection.
- America History & Life - contains citations and abstracts of books, dissertations, and articles from approximately 2,000 journals published worldwide. Covers all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture, and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present.
- Art & Humanities Citation Index - subset of Web of Science) is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals.
- ArticleFirst - is an OCLC index of articles from approximately 12,500 journals. Subjects covered include business, social science, science, technology, humanities, medicine, and culture. Coverage is 1990 to date.
- Communication Abstracts - Communication Abstracts is a comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale. It covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources. Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers. CA has recently expanded its coverage to include international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete - Communication and Mass Media Complete is comprised of two databases, CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index. It indexes journals, encyclopedias and handbooks in the area of communication studies. Full-text is available for over 200 titles.
- Communication Studies: Sage full text collection - Includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,000 articles.
- Current Contents - provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data from current issues of leading scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
- Dissertations & Theses @ University of Missouri - Columbia - In addition to citations and abstracts, the service provides free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format, when available. In most cases, this will be graduate works published in 1995 forward. Print copies of pre-1995 MU dissertations are held at the UM Depository and can be requested using MERLIN. For more details, see http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/MuchowM/Information_Commons/dissertations.html
- MU Graduate School Electronic Thesis/Dissertations archives for Journalism
- Dissertation Abstracts - is the subject, title and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at accredited institutions. It also includes many Canadian dissertations as well as dissertations form Europe and abstracts from Masters Abstracts.
- ECO - Electronic Collections Online - contains the original content and images from scholarly journals. Fulltext (primarily archival) access is available for over 200 journals to which the MU library also subscribe in print format.
- Eric - provides access to the educational and related literature available in periodicals published worldwide and in the ERIC documents microfiche collection. Coverage is 1966 to date.
- Factiva - contains business and financial data on companies from around the world. It also provides access to current issues and an archive of over 10,000 + global publications including 600 newswires, Reuters, radio & TV transcripts, websites, company & industry information, market charting, etc. License terms restrict access to MU students, faculty and staff only.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
- Google Scholar
- Ingenta - Full-text of over 600 journals.
- JStor - A full-text database consisting of the Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections which provide access to the back files of over 300 scholarly journals. Areas included are history, sociology, business, economics, ecology, literature, mathematics, music, political science, population studies, Asian studies, philanthropy and finance.
- Masterfile Premiere - Provides searchable full-text for over 1100 general interest, business, health, and multi-cultural magazines and journals.
- Pais - Covers the range of the social sciences, with emphasis on national and international economic, political and public policy issues.
- Project Muse - provides full-text access to more than 100 scholarly journal titles from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other University presses covering the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Mathematics.
- PsychArticles - is a database of over 44,000 full-text articles from more than 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association and participating publishers. The journals cover psychology and related behavioral and social sciences. Coverage is 1985 to date.
- PsychInfo - contains references to articles in more than 1,300 periodicals as well as technical reports, dissertations, and other materials in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences.
- Social Sciences Citation Index - is a multi-disciplinary database indexing every item from 1,725 journals plus selected social science articles from 3,300 additional journals worldwide.
- Sociological Abstracts -
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive - The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.
Finding Info on People
Biographies
- Lexis Nexis Academic
This interface will not be available as of August 6, 2007. Try the link below for the Lexis Nexis Academic new interface. more info... - Literary Index
is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references more than 145,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 191,000 titles into one source. more info... - New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Premier music encyclopedia. Includes the New Grove Dictionaries of Jazz and Opera. more info...
Finding Local People and Information
Web Resources for Finding Information on People
- http://www.yoname.com (note if you put in an email address it will send the person an email saying someone is searching for you in yoname.com. It doesn't say who but better to look up name or display name.
- http://www.peoplesearch.com/
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- www.intelius.com
- http://wink.com/
- http://email.people.yahoo.com/py/psAdvSearch.py
- http://www.peekyou.com
- http://www.anywho.com/
- http://www.nettrace.com.au/resource/search/people.html (this one searches all kinds of stuff)
- http://www.privateeye.com/Search/People/Default.htm
- http://www.pretrieve.com/
- http://artmam.net/Dir-People_Search.htm
Searching for people? Businesses? Biographies?
• Commercial databases are good (Reference USA/InfoUSA/D&B)
• Print City Directories: Columbia Missouri City Directory F474.C72 A18 in the
Journalism Library Reference
• Freedom of Information Center – http://foi.missouri.edu/access/index.html
This page, called “ACCESS” which contains complete information on local
government for Boone County and Columbia. This includes contact people,
addresses phone numbers, etc. It also gives information on what records are
retained by which agencies, and whether or not you have a right to see those
records.
• Web based directories (use carefully)
• Social Networking searches: http://yoname.com - searches across social networks
• http://www.journalismnet.com - a journalist’s collection of people finding tools
• http://zabasearch.com - free people search
• Don’t forget Google
• Commercial databases:
o Factiva
o Lexis Nexis
- Academic Search Premier - provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,052 journals in the collection.
- America History and Life - contains citations and abstracts of books, dissertations, and articles from approximately 2,000 journals published worldwide. Covers all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture, and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present.
- Art Index - contains citations to articles and book reviews in about 270 periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins published primarily in the U.S. and Europe. Includes archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, film, industrial and interior design, and photography.
- ArticleFirst - is an OCLC index of articles from approximately 12,500 journals. Subjects covered include business, social science, science, technology, humanities, medicine, and culture. Coverage is 1990 to date.
- Artstor - ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Partial funding was provided by the Student Fee Capital Improvement Committee.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index - (subset of Web of Science) is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals.
- AP Images - Provides access to photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning 160 years of history.
- Avery Index - indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on architecture, archaeology, city planning, interior design and historic preservation. Coverage is from the early 1930's to date.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete - Communication and Mass Media Complete is comprised of two databases, CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index. It indexes journals, encyclopedias and handbooks in the area of communication studies. Full-text is available for over 200 titles.
- Communication Studies: Sage full text collection - Includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,000 articles.
- Current Contents - provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data from current issues of leading scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
- Current Research@MU - indexes MU dissertation from 1899 to present. Provides full-text of MU dissertations from 1995 to present. Print copies of pre-1995 MU dissertations are held at the UM Depository and can be requested using MERLIN. For more details, see http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/MuchowM/Information_Commons/dissertations.html. more info...
- Dissertation Abstracts - is the subject, title and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at accredited institutions. It also includes many Canadian dissertations as well as dissertations form Europe and abstracts from Masters Abstracts.
- Duke University's Digital Documentary Photography Collection - Among the collections that have been partially digitized or digitized in connection with an exhibition are the following: William Gedney, Alex Harris, Mel Rosenthal, James Karales, "The Urban Landscape" Digital Image Access Project,
- Duke University's Digital Exhibits - includes Carl Mydans, R.C. Maxwell Company Collection, Steven Smith,
- William Gedney, Lynn Saville , and James Karales.
- ECO: Electronic Collections Online - contains the original content and images from scholarly journals. Fulltext (primarily archival) access is available for over 200 journals to which the MU library also subscribe in print format.
- Education Full Text - provides full-text for over 133 periodicals since 1994 together with indexing and abstracting of records going back to 1983 for the 478 periodicals covered in the Education Index.
- ERIC - provides access to the educational and related literature available in periodicals published worldwide and in the ERIC documents microfiche collection. Coverage is 1966 to date.
- Factiva - contains business and financial data on companies from around the world. It also provides access to current issues and an archive of over 10,000 + global publications including 600 newswires, Reuters, radio & TV transcripts, websites, company & industry information, market charting, etc. License terms restrict access to MU students, faculty and staff only.
- FIAF - indexes the film and television literature from 300 periodicals.
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - The Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.
- GenderWatch - is a database of periodicals and newsletters that focus on women and women issues.
- Historical Abstracts - World history from 1450 to present excluding the United States and Canada. Historical Abstracts indexes over 1800 scholarly journals.
- Ingenta - Full-text of over 600 journals.
- JSTOR - A full-text database consisting of the Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections which provide access to the back files of over 300 scholarly journals. Areas included are history, sociology, business, economics, ecology, literature, mathematics, music, political science, population studies, Asian studies, philanthropy and finance.
- Lexis Nexis Academic - offers access to the fulltext of current and back issues of major newspapers, journals, newsletters, and news sources from around the world and the fulltext of legal materials, (court cases, legislation, statutes, regulations, law reviews, and more).
- MasterFile Premier - Provides searchable full-text for over 1100 general interest, business, health, and multi-cultural magazines and journals.
- New York Public Library Digital collection - The NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
- PAIS - Covers the range of the social sciences, with emphasis on national and international economic, political and public policy issues.
- Project Muse - provides full-text access to more than 100 scholarly journal titles from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other University presses covering the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Mathematics.
- PsycINFO - contains references to articles in more than 1,300 periodicals as well as technical reports, dissertations, and other materials in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences.
- Social Sciences Citation Index - is a multi-disciplinary database indexing every item from 1,725 journals plus selected social science articles from 3,300 additional journals worldwide.
- Sociological Abstracts - CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
- CQ Almanac - The annual CQ Almanac summarizes major activity of the U.S. Congress. It provides in-depth review and analysis of legislation and policy for each Congressional session from 1945 to the present. The online version of this popular reference source arranges the historical Almanac contents thematically, chronologically, and by information type. Includes information about key people, elections, legislation, and controversies. Comprehensive roll call votes for all major legislation are also included, but in pdf format only. Access has been provided with support from the Gourley Family Foundation and the MU Law Library.
- Internet Law and Regulation - Updated daily, this database provides digests, topical commentaries and a large case law library on Internet-related matters. Also includes a collection of Internet-related pleadings, motions, treaties, regulations and more. Access provided by the MU Law Library.
- Resources for Historians
- Reader's Guide Retrospective 1890-1982 - Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.