Abell Library: MEDA 463 Research Guide (SP23): Home

Welcome

Welcome to this library and research guide for MEDA 463 / What is TV? course with Dr. Erin Copple Smith. In this guide, you will find the library resources discussed in class, tips for searching, useful links, and other information related to doing research. Have a question? Get in touch!

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TIP: To locate scholarly content, use Academic Search Complete or JSTOR. For articles from newspapers, magazines, websites, or trade publications, use Gale OneFile, New York Times, Nexis Uni, & U.S. Newsstream.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal collections are offered, covering more than 50 academic disciplines. At present, JSTOR contains a range of Arts & Sciences collections, a multidisciplinary Life Sciences Collection, discipline-specific collections across several fields, and four primary source collections. Collections on JSTOR include the complete archival record of each journal. Coverage begins at the first volume and issue of the journal ever published, and extends up to a publication date usually set in the past three to five years.
Also includes the Austin College Newspaper Collection, with over 400 issues written, edited, and published by Austin College students. Newspapers in the collection include: The Kangaroo, 1918-1968; The Hopper, 1972-1981; and The AC Observer, 1982-2006.
Gale OneFile: Communications & Mass Media This link opens in a new window
Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window