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Journalism Subject Guide

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Business, Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Desk

Library Hours
Telephone: 808-956-7214
General E-mail Reference: emailref@hawaii.edu

 

Collection Development Librarian for Journalism

Vicky Lebbin / 808-956-2527 / vickery@hawaii.edu

Hamilton Library
2550 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, HI 96822

 

 = Database available to authorized UH Manoa users on or off campus

 


Find Articles and Journals

 

ABI-INFORM Global Edition
The premier business and management database providing extensive coverage of North America and the world. Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal.

 

Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals.

 

Alt-PressWatch
Alt PressWatch is a full text database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. Current coverage includes approximately 100 titles going back to 1995.

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Ethnic NewsWatch Complete
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text general reference database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press -- English and Spanish language. The titles in Ethnic NewsWatch represent the diversity of the American population in ways that are generally not seen in the mainstream media.

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Pacific Business News
Citations and abstracts of articles from Hawaii's business weekly Pacific Business News.

 

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
PAIS International is an index to the world's public and social policy literature in the fields of business, economics, local and federal government, political science, international relations, finance, and other social sciences. It has references and in some cases abstracts of articles from over 3,660 journal titles, books, gray literature, internet material, conference proceedings, government and ngo documents and statistical publications.

 

Social Sciences Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Online coverage from 1980 to present.

 

FirstGov
FirstGov.gov, the official U.S. gateway to all government information.

 

World News Connection
A foreign news service provided by the National Technical Information Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce. It contains translations and English-language news and information gathered by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) from non-U.S. media sources in various regions of the world: Central Eurasia, China, East Asia, Near East and South Asia, East Europe, West Europe, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Find Dissertations and Books

 

Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog
Use the online catalog to find books, journals, dissertations, videos, more.

 

Dissertations and Theses
Dissertations & Theses (PQD&T) includes bibliographic citations for the doctoral and master's work of authors from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. More than 750,000 dissertations and theses from 1997 on have been digitized and are available for PDF download.

 

New Books at UHM Library
Interface for identifying new books. Can be limited by keyword and date range.

 

 


Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias and Guides

 

 

DIRECTORIES

 

Alternative publications : a guide to directories, indexes, bibliographies, and other sources
Hamilton Main Reference Z1033.L73 A45 1990

Annotations : a guide to the independent critical press
Hamilton Main Reference PN4784.U53 A565 1999

Editor & Publisher International Year Book
Hamilton Main Reference PN 4709 .E4 

Editor & Publisher Market Guide
Hamilton Main Reference HF 5905 .E38

Field guide to alternative media : a directory to reference and selection tools useful in accessing small and alternative press publications and independently produced media
Hilo Reference Z6944.U5 F5 1984

Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
Hamilton Main Reference - Reference Desk Z6951 .A97

Guide to Newspapers of Hawaii: 1834-2000
Hamilton Main Reference Z 6952 .H3 C43

Membership Directory, American Society of Journalists and Authors
Hamilton Main Reference PN 4841 .S62

The progressive guide to alternative media and activism
Hamilton P88.8.P76 1999

Working Press of the Nation
Hamilton Main Reference - Reference Desk Z6951 .W6

 

 

DICTIONARIES

 

A Taxonomy of Concepts in Communication
Hamilton P90 .B52 1975

Longman Dictionary of Mass Media and Communication
Hamilton P87.5 .L66 1982

 

 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND BIOGRAPHIES

 

Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism
Hamilton Main Reference PN4871 .B56 1989

Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists
Hamilton Main Reference PN4871 .B57 1995

Censorship
Hamilton Main Reference Z658 .U5 C38 1997

The Encyclopedia of American Journalism
Hamilton Main Reference PN4728 .P35 1983

Encyclopedia of Television News
Hamilton Main Reference PN4888 .T4 E53 1999

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Journalists
Hamilton Main Reference PN4871 .T34 1986

International Encyclopedia of Communications
Hamilton Main Reference P87.5 .I5 1989

Journalists of the United States: Biographical Sketches of Print and Broadcast News Shapers from the Late 17th Century to the Present
Hamilton Main Reference PN4871 .D68 1991

 

 

HANDBOOKS AND YEARBOOKS

 

Annual Newspaper Industry Review & Forecast Issue
Hamilton (January issue of Editor & Publisher) PN4700 .C4

Journalism Ethics: A Reference Handbook
Hamilton PN4756 .J67 1997

The Media in America
Hamilton Main Reference P92 .U5 H58 1995

The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques
Hamilton Main Reference PN4781 .R38 1991

 

 

STYLEBOOKS

 

The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual
Hamilton Main Reference PN4783 .A83 1996

UPI stylebook
Hamilton Main Reference PN4783 .M47 1992

U.S. News & World Report Stylebook for Writers and Editors
Hamilton Main Reference PN4783 .R6 1990

The Washington Post Deskbook on Style
Hamilton Main Reference PN4783 .W35 1989

 

 

INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS

 

Communication Abstracts
Hamilton Main Reference P87 .C598733

Global Newsbank
Hamilton Main Reference
CD ROM Menu

 

 

RESEARCH GUIDES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES

 

Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature 
Hamilton Main Reference PN4731 .C38 1997

Communication Research: Strategies and Sources
Hamilton Main Reference P91.3 .R83 1996

Mass Communications Research Resources
Hamilton Main Reference HE7631 .M37 1998

Press Freedom and Development: A Research Guide and Selected Bibliography
Hamilton P95.8 .P74 1997

Search Strategies in Mass Communication
Hamilton P91.3 .W37 1997

 

 

EDUCATION AND FUNDING

 

Financial Aid for Minorities in Journalism/Mass Communications
Hamilton Main Reference (Financial Aids) LB 2337.2 .F53 1998

Quick Guide to Financial Aid for Journalism and Mass Communications
Hamilton Main Reference  (Financial Aids) PN 4788 .Z85 1997

 

 


Selected Journals for Journalism

 

The following is a list of periodicals for which UHM Library has a current subscription. You may search for a specific periodical title by doing a 'Journal Title' search, or you may search for periodicals in a subject area by doing a keyword search and include the term 'periodicals'.

 

American Editor * +
PN 4700 .A58

Columbia Journalism Review * +
PN 4700 .C65

Communication Booknotes Quarterly: CBQ P87 .M28 *

Culture Watch
Z 5961 .U5 C85

Editor & Publisher * +
PN 4700 .E4

Extra! +
P 96 .O242 .U634

Gazette: International Journal for Mass Communication Studies *+
P 90 .G38

I.F. Magazine
E 740 .I18

IPI (International Press Institute) Report
PN 4712 .I552

Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs *+
PN 4700 .J677

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly * +
PN 4700 .J826

Media Studies Journal * +
P 87 .G36

Nieman Reports * +
PN 4700 .N57

The Quill * +
PN 4700 .Q5

St. Louis Journalism Review *
PN 4899 .S25 S25

Utne Reader * +
PN 4784 .U53 U88

Victorian Periodicals Review +
PN 4811 .V63

World Press Review *
AP2.A833

Notes:
* Identifies journal titles indexed in Academic Search Premier
+ Identifies journal titles indexed in ingenta

 

 


About the Journalism Collection

 

The UHM Library Journalism Collection emphasizes 20th century U.S., Asia, the Pacific, and intercultural/multicultural materials. The Library of Congress classification for information on journalism is PN4699-PN5650. The UHM Library contain approximately 4,700 books and 28 current periodical subscriptions in this classification. In addition, thousands of other books and materials relevant to the study of journalism can be found in the classification for communication and mass media (P87-P99).

 

Library Collection Policy Statement for Journalism

 

Notes:
The number of books and serials were calculated by combining the title count from the Library of Congress Classification areas PN4699-PN5639 and HD59 . The figures are based on the 1997 North American Title Count (University of Hawaii at Manoa Library) and active serial subscriptions.

 

Last modified: Thursday October 9, 2006

 

 


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