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Associations, Institutions, Etc.

• Journalism Associations
  • American Society for Newspaper Editors
  • Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc
  • National Association of Broadcasters
  • National Newspaper Association
  • National Press Club
  • RTDNA - Radio Television Digital News Association (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)
  • Cleveland Film Society
  • FilmFestivals.com
  • Film Studies - University of Alberta
  • 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 WWW - comprehensive and updated list of government agencies and embassies.
  • 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.
  • Nordic Africa Institute - a guide to Africa on the Internet, organized by country
  • Oxford Reference Online
  • Portal to the World from the Library of Congress - electronic resources selected by the Library of Congress on countries of the world.
  • UNdata - A good source for international statistics.
  • 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 (OSearch Interface)– 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.
  • PAIS (ProQuest Interface)– same as above
  • SocINDEX with Full Text
• African News Sources
  • LexisNexis Academic - find newspaper articles from newspapers worldwide.
  • Mail & Guardian Online - One of Africa's major newspapers
  • 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
• 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 & Mass Communication (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
  • 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
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • Regional Business News (latest 30 days)
• Market Research
  • The Gallup Organization (includes complete poll results)
• Market Research Companies
  • A.C. Nielsen
  • Arbitron
  • Harris Interactive
  • J.D. Power and Associates
  • ORC: Opinion Research Corporation
  • 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)
  • Television News Archive (recorded, abstracted, and indexed national television newscasts since 1968)

Non-Verbal Communication

• Center for Nonverbal Studies

Public & Professional Speaking

• Resources for writing Informational Speeches
  • Oxford Reference Online - search through multiple encyclopedias and dictionaries at once
  • Ohio Newspapers : Newsbank - access to the Plain Dealer (6/1991 to Current) and others
  • LexisNexis Academic - search national and international news sources
  • Expanded Academic ASAP - access popular magazines
  • Academic Search Complete - search for scholarly articles
• Resources for writing Persuasive Speeches
  • SIRS Researcher - use "Issues Researcher" for list of Leading Issues with Pros v. Cons
  • CQ Researcher - use "Pro/Con" for expert testimony, also search site for in-depth reports and statistics
  • Issues and Controversies - browse "Issues: Pro and Con"
  • Opposing Viewpoints (series of books) - books in the library exploring controversial issues
• Statistics and Reports
  See Virtual Reference Desk -> Statistics
  • FEDSTATS
  • Think Tanks Directory (Harvard Kennedy)
  • Pew Research - public opinion and social trend research
  • Gallup - public opinion polling

Radio

• BRS Radio Directory
• Darnell's Black Radio Guide
• Live Radio on the Internet
• Online Radio Stations.org - Web Radio Tuner
• Radio-Locator (formerly the MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet)

Research Databases

• Core Research Databases:
  • APA PsycNET
  • ComAbstracts
  • Communication Abstracts
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete
  • Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
  • PsycINFO (APA)
  • PsycINFO (OSearch) 1967-present
  • PsycINFO Historic (1887-1966)
    
• Additional Databases:
  • Academic Search Complete Video Help
  • CQ Researcher
  • Electronic Journal Center: Arts and Humanities
  • Electronic Journal Center: Social Sciences
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • Social Sciences Full Text
  • Sociological Collection
  • Web of Knowledge

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)

Television

• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
• TVlink