Research

Lab Excercise 3: Library and Research SkillsThe following databases were found on the TAMU library website.
TAMU Library Databases Related to Media Industries

1. Academic Search Complete: All purpose article database containing both scholarly and popular material.
2. Communication and Mass Media Complete: The most comprehensive Communication and Journalism database/search engine.
3. Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications: Online Encyclopedia with 200 articles covering communication and mass media concepts.
4. Communication Abstracts: This database provides abstracts for articles, reports, and books in communication related disciplines.
5. Communication Studies: SAGE: Contains full-text articles for forty SAGE journals. Covers communication studies, cultural studies, mass media communication, journalism, and many more communication sub-disciplines.

TAMU Library Databases Related to Media Policy

1. ERIC: Government sponsored database of education oriented articles. Contains over one million abstracts.
2. ICPSR: This database is a source of freely available datafiles covering politics and social sciences.
3. JSTOR: This is an archive of historically important academic journals in science, social science, and humanities. Many articles are full-text. This database has over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content.
4. FACTIVA: News from over 14,000 newspapers, magazines, and trade journals.
5. Periodicals Index Online: Index for three centuries of arts, humanities, and social sciences.ss

Five Sites With Media Industry News Pages

1. Media Global Industry Guide:Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Media industry.
2. Media Industry Today:Latest media news for media industry professionals & analysts. Breaking companies, personalities. new media, newspaper, radio, TV & entertainment news.
3. Online Media Industry:Online Media Industry Information - Daily news and information regarding online publishers and Internet news sources.
4. BNET Media: BNET Media provides daily industry trends and news coverage with insights for managers and executives in publishing, print, broadcast, and film.
5. MiniOnline:This website is the authoritative source of breaking news, upcoming events, media