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Associations, Institutions, Etc.

• Journalism Associations
  • American Society for Newspaper Editors
  • Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc
  • Journalism Organizations (complete listing)
  • National Association of Broadcasters
  • National Newspaper Association
  • National Press Club
  • RTNDA (Association of Electronic Journalists)
  • Society of Professional Journalists
    • Cleveland Chapter
    • Cleveland State University Chapter
• Marketing Associations
  • The Direct Marketing Association
  • MarketingPower.com (American Marketing Association)
• Other Communication Associations
  • American Communication Association
  • Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
  • The Association for Women in Communications
  • Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (includes access to ComAbstracts, ComWeb MegaSearch, an excellent tool for exploring research topics, a Communication jobs database, two Communication journals, and other items of interest to Communication scholars)
  • International Communications Association
  • International Listening Association
  • National Communication Association
  • Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

Censorship & Civil Liberties

• ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
• The Center for Democracy and Technology
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation Action Center (censorship alerts)
• Freedom Forum Online
• Freedom House

CSU Communication Department

• About the CSU Communication Collection
• Cleveland State University CRC: Communication Research Center
• Course Reserves
• Department Home Page
• New Acquisitions

Film

• Film Reviews
  • All Movie Guide (reviews, essays and production information)
  • Internet Movie Database
  • Movie Review Query Engine
  • Rotten Tomatoes (reviews and news)
• Other Film Information
  • Academic Info: Film Studies (annotated directory of resources)
  • Cinemedia (film and media directory)
  • Cleveland Film Society
  • FilmFestivals.com
  • Film Studies on the Internet
  • MovieFlix (free online movies)
  • MovieWEB (new releases)
  • Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers (National Film Preservation Board)
  • Stock Footage Online

Imaging Africa

• General Reources
  • African Governments on the Internet
  • CIA World Factbook - provides a condensed overview and quick facts on a given country.
  • BBC Country Profiles - lists the major media outlets of each country in addition to general country information.
  • Library of Congress Country Studies / Area Handbook Program – contains ebooks on countries (history and other information), put together by the Library of Congress Federal Research Division.
  • Oxford Reference Online
  • World Health Organization – Countries – provides general health information on countries worldwide.
• Research Databases
  • Academic Search Complete Video Help
  • International Index to Black Periodicals - includes citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean.
  • JSTOR - to just search African Studies journals, go to browse by discipline, select African Studies.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic - full-text database containing news transcripts, newspaper articles, conference proceeding, and reports in the fields of law, business, and medicine. Especially useful for researching current events.
  • PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service – contains records describing articles from over 1,400 periodicals, government documents, statistical directories, reports, pamphlets, conference proceedings, and books. Coverage includes the entire spectrum of public and social policy issues.
  • SocINDEX with Full Text
• African News Sources
  • LexisNexis Academic – find newspaper articles from newspapers worldwide.
  • African Newspapers on the Internet - provides a list of countries and their respective newspapers.
  • allAfrica.com - a news aggregator that has publications from 130 African news organizations.
  • BBC News - Africa
• African Images
  • USAID in Africa: Photo Gallery
  • Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
  • Google Image Search

Jobs

• Career Builder (Detroit Free Press)
• Career Websites: Arts & Communication (CSU Career Services Center)
• CommJobs (Communication Institute for Online Scholarship)
• Editor and Publisher Classifieds
• JournalismJobs.com
• National Association of Broadcasters Career Center
• PRSA Job Center (Public Relations Society of America)

Journalism

Also see News Sources and Journalism Associations

• CyberJournalist.net (news & commentary on online journalism)
• Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma (resources for journalists who cover violence)
• FACSNET (educational support resources for journalists)
• FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
• Finding Data on the Internet: A Journalist's Guide
• International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
• Journalism Resources (all aspects of journalism; University of Iowa)
• National Press Club
• NewsWatch: A Consumer's Guide to the News
• Power Reporting for Journalists (free research tools, by Bill Dedman)
• Poynter.org (resources for students and journalists)

Marketing (includes Advertising and Market Research)

• KnowThis.com Marketing Virtual Library
• Advertising
  • 100 Leading National Advertisers (AdAge.com)
  • Ad*Access (database of selected North American print ads from 1911 to 1955)
  • AdAge.com
  • Advertising World (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Adweek
  • Best of the Web: Advertising (directory of quality websites related to advertising including such topics as Internet marketing, website promotion, graphic design, outdoor advertising and more)
  • Cable TV Advertising Bureau (research data on cable markets)
  • Magazine Publishers of America (industry organization for consumer magazines)
  • Newspaper Association of America (newspaper industry data & news)
  • Radio Advertising Bureau
  • Television Bureau of Advertising
• Marketing -- Associations
  • See Marketing Associations
• Marketing -- Census Data
  • Michael Schwartz Library Census Resources
• Marketing --Research Databases
  • Academic Search Complete Video Help
  • Business Source Complete
  • Electronic Journal Center: Business, Economics, and Management
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • Regional Business News (latest 30 days)
• Market Research
  • Advertising Research (University of Texas at Austin)
  • The Gallup Organization (includes complete poll results)
• Market Research Companies
  • A.C. Nielsen
  • Arbitron
  • Harris Interactive
  • J.D. Power and Associates
  • ORC Guideline
  • Scarborough Research
  • SRI International

News Sources

• Electronic Newspapers
• Radio, TV, and WWW News Sources
  • Michael Schwartz Library Virtual Reference Desk: News
  • CNN
  • Independent Media Center (grassroots, non-corporate news)
  • Independent Media Center: Cleveland
  • Kidon Media-Link (directory of news outlets worldwide)
  • MSNBC
  • News & Journalism Sources (from Research Resources for the Social Sciences)
  • Political Science Resources/News Media (directory of news resources)
  • SuperSearch (search engine from CyberJournalist.net)
  • Television News Archive (recorded, abstracted, and indexed national television newscasts since 1968)

Non-Verbal Communication

• Center for Nonverbal Studies
• The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues

Publishing

• The Iowa Guide: Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields

Radio

• BRS Radio Directory
• Darnell's Black Radio Guide
• Internet Radio Index
• Live Radio on the Internet
• Radio-Locator (formerly the MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet)

Research Databases

• Core Research Databases:
  • ComAbstracts
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete
  • Expanded Academic ASAP
  • Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
  • PsycINFO (1967-)
  • PsycINFO Historic (1887-1966)
    
• Additional Databases:
  • Academic Search Complete Video Help
  • Electronic Journal Center: Arts and Humanities
  • Electronic Journal Center: Social Sciences
  • Institute for Scientific Information Citation Databases
  • International Abstracts of Human Resources
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • Social Sciences Full Text
  • Sociological Collection

Speech

• American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank (full-text and audio database and directory of American speeches, sermons, lectures, and interviews)
• IDEA: International Debate Education Association (includes Debatabase, the online debate topic database)

Telecommunications

Television

• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
• TVlink