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A Selective List of Resources Electronic Sources | World Wide Web Resources Print Indexes, Directories and BibliographiesBi- Monthly. Abstracts about 1,500 items annually on a range of mass media fields, including mass communication, advertising and marketing, broadcasting, journalism, public relations, radio and television, and communication theory. Excludes "film related topics." International coverage of journals, reports and books. Author and subject located at the back of each issue. Refer to the abstract citation numbers (not page numbers). Index P 87 .C652x A Directory of Women's Media, 17th Edition, 1994 A valuable source of information about the women's media network, the primary aim of which is to improve access to material by for and about women. Several categories and the number of items described include: Periodicals (980), Presses/Publishers (94), News Services (6), Radio/TV (36), Film/Video/Tape (30), Music (40), Theater/Dance/Multimedia (22), Art/Crafts (23), Writer's Groups (14), Distributors (16), Media Organizations (34) and a number of other categories. Indexed by publication title, name of organization, and names of individuals. There is also a County and State index. Reference P 88.8 .D57x Henritze, Barbara. Bibliographic Checklist of African American Newspapers, 1995. Contains a checklist of African American newspapers identified in more than one hundred resources. Lists 5,539 newspapers and assorted periodicals that have served Americans of African descent, being owned, published , edited, and/or read predominantly by African Americans in forty-four states and the District of Columbia. Also includes African American bibliographies, yearbooks and several specifically African American newspaper sources. Reference PN 4882.5 .H46 1995t Index to Black Periodicals, 1984-1996. Arranged alphabetically by author and subjects, this title indexes "Afro-American periodicals of general and scholarly interest." Index AI 3.O4 Index to Journals in Communication Studies Through 1990, 1992. Published every five years. Volume 1 contains tables of contents for 19 journal titles from their inception to 1990. Volume 2 comprises contributor, classified and keyword indexes. There is considerable overlap with Communication Abstracts, but is more convenient for retrospective searching. Ref. Desk Z5632 .M394 1992x Mass Media Bibliography: An Annotated Guide to Books and Journals Research and Reference, 1990. Though a bit dated, this source remains the most comprehensive listing of sources for research on mass communication. Reference Z 5630 .B55 1990 RETURN TO TOP AlmanacsConsists of twenty-seven topical chapters that cover significant documents in African American history, civil rights, demography, artists, writers and academics, media, biography, etc. Includes photographs, tables, and a selected bibliography. The Media chapter includes African American newspapers, publishers and television and radio stations. Includes many World Wide Web sites (though some are now inactive). Reference E 185 A37x 7th The Hispanic-American Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics in the United States, 1993. Consists of twenty-five topical chapters which detail the contributions of Hispanics to American culture, including history, business, literature, art, theater, media, film, etc. Includes a useful chronology, bibliography, and subject index. Reference E 184 .S75 H557 1993 The Native North American Almanac: A Reference Work on Native North Americans in the United States and Canada, 1994. Consists of seventeen topical chapters, including demography, major culture areas, literature, media, biography, etc. Some chapters include bibliographies. Includes a general bibliography and a subject index as well as an index of occupations organized by tribe. The Media chapter includes Native American newspapers (tribal, confederation, national, state, provincial, regional), magazines, academic journals, and radio, television, and theater organizations. Reference E 75 .N38 1st Edition RETURN TO TOP Electronic SourcesCD-ROM database containing the complete text of more than 250,000 articles, editorials, and reviews published in nearly 180 ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines, and journals published in the United States. Provides viewpoints on current events and issues from the perspectives of African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, Native Americans, Asians, Jewish, Arab, and European Americans. May be searched in either English or Spanish. CD-ROM (Inquire at Reference Desk, Library 2nd floor.) FirstSearch, (Years vary by database.) An interactive on-line reference system available through the Internet on the World Wide Web, accessible via the Libraries' homepage. Provides information about journal articles, films, computer software, and other materials. The 60+ databases span all subject areas. The Libraries' workstations are set up for immediate access to FirstSearch through Netscape. Faculty, staff, and students who wish to access FirstSearch from a remote location should contact the reference desk to obtain an authorization number and password. Relevant FirstSearch databases include the following: Dissertation Abstracts (DISS) Humanities Abstracts (HumanitiesAbs) Social Sciences Abstracts (SocSciAbs) Wilson Business Abstracts (WilBusAbs) Wilson Select (for electronic full-text articles) RETURN TO TOP World Wide Web Resourceshttp://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/african.html African American Publications: http://www.aawc.com/Zaap.html African American Media: http://www.ethnicprintmedia.com/ MelaNet: The UnCut Black Experience http://www.melanet.com The African-American Mosaic http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html Gateway to African American History http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis/ Selected Hispanic American Websites: LatinoWeb http://www.latinoweb.com National Hispanic Media Coalition http://www.nhmc.org Selected Native American Websites: Native American Journalists Association http://www.naja.com/ Index of Native American Resources on the Internet http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/ Selected General Website: Gender,Race and Ethnicity in Media http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/ RETURN TO TOP |