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Librarian for the Newhouse School of Public Communications

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315-443-3715

Subjects: Advertising, Communication, Journalism, Public Relations, Television, Radio, and Film, Video

Meet Your Librarian! - Michael Pasqualoni

U.S. Public Policy News

POLITICO Pro
Policy news covering agriculture, budget and appropriations, campaigns, cybersecurity, defense, education, energy, health, labor, employment, taxes, technology, trade, and transportation.

Resources for Online & Distance Students

For overviews of policies and resources with online students in mind, visit SU Libraries guide to Resources for Online & Distance Students.

Look to the SU Libraries "Borrowing" Website for more information about physical book delivery for distance students. That delivery makes use of the Library's Illiad Interlibrary Loan Service. Please indicate "distance student" in the notes field of the Illiad form when requesting delivery of titles. If encountering access trouble when visiting the library online, visit the site for "working off campus."

M.S. Communications (Newhouse School Online Program)

Welcome to a research starting points guide from Syracuse University Libraries intended for students enrolled in Newhouse School's online Master of Science in Communications program.

Contact the Public Communications Librarian (Michael Pasqualoni) if you have follow-up questions about the library or need advice on research strategy or database navigation.

Please note that:

Starting points gathered here complement collections and search tools available at the primary SU Libraries website.

As with any research library, these collections represent a mix of resources you will use frequently, others occasionally, and some perhaps not at all (research goals within your coursework will influence those choices).

SU Libraries "Ask Us" website is another contact point for questions about Syracuse University Libraries.

Notable Page Imaged U.S. Magazine Collections

Esquire
Searchable page image archive of Esquire Magazine from 1933 to 2014. Topics covered include popular culture, entertainment, and men's fashion.
Life Magazine Archives
Page image archive of Life Magazine, from November 1936 (issue 1) to December 2000.
Sports Illustrated
Searchable page image archive of Sports Illustrated magazine from 1954 to 2000. Covers professional and amateur sports as well as popular culture, business, and politics.
Time
Searchable page image archive of Time Magazine, from March 1923 through December 2000. Includes photographs and advertisements.
Vogue Archive
Page images of U.S. Vogue from 1892 to present.

Database BEST BETS

Communication Source
a primary collection of articles and other references to published literature in all sub-disciplines of public communications. Covers articles from scholarly peer-reviewed journals, as well as trade journals in fields such as media studies, journalism, advertising, public relations, broadcasting, social media, linguistics, rhetoric and more. This database merges together two previously named resources, formerly known as "communication & mass media complete" (ebsco) and "comabstracts" (sage).

Use of one of the two major citation databases is also highly recommended in situations where a student is specifically compiling scholarly journal articles on any topic. Those databases are:

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Web of Science This link opens in a new window

Additional BEST BET databases are:

Business Source Elite
Business and economics journals and magazine articles, many with full text, including content from the Harvard Business Review.
ProQuest
Databases covering a broad range of subject areas including business, economics, education, humanities, literature, news, social sciences, science and technology and more.
SAGE Knowledge
Books, reference works, handbooks, in the social sciences, from Sage and CQ Press.
SAGE Journals Online
Journals published by Sage in numerous disciplines, including health, management, sociology, psychology and communications. Includes the archive of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
Statista
Data from both public and private sources related to a wide range of subjects, including consumers, digital markets, and companies; also includes forecasts, analysis, reports, and more.

Summon
A search engine for most of the Syracuse University Libraries' collections and other resources beyond the SU Libraries. Includes articles, books, journals, maps, sound recordings, archival materials, government documents, and more. Use for searching for articles. Narrow or expand results using multiple search refinements.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
News, business, and legal sources covering world news and companies, and including U.S. Supreme Court decisions, state, federal and international law, regulations, and law reviews.

LEARN MORE ABOUT NEXIS UNI - WHICH IS THE LEXIS NEXIS REPLACEMENT INTERFACE FOR THE DATABASE FORMERLY KNOWN AS LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC:

Nexis Uni Support & Training (LexisNexis)

https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/support/nexis-uni/default.page

PDFs with overviews of Nexis Uni, user search tips, permalinking options, etc.

Nexis Uni 101

http://bit.ly/NexisUni101
Current webinar training schedule offered by LexisNexis, introducing Nexis Uni.

Syracuse University Libraries (Bird Library)

Accessing eBooks

Students can limit SUMMON search results to ebooks - if they apply the combination of BOTH of these refinements to search results

“full text online” AND
“book/ebook”

SUMMON search result refinement options appear at the left margin of the search results screen within that database, and also on SUMMON's Advanced Search Screen.

SUMMON: A search engine for most of the Syracuse University Libraries' collections and other resources beyond the SU Libraries. Includes articles, books, journals, maps, sound recordings, archival materials, government documents, and more. Use for searching for articles. Narrow or expand results using multiple search refinements.
Classic Catalog: A list of print and electronic materials available in the Syracuse University Libraries. Includes books, journals, maps, sound recordings, archival materials, government documents and more. Search by keyword, author, title, subject heading, or call number.

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Citation Databases

These two citation databases are powerful research tools that cover a vast scope of interdisciplinary subject matter involving all topic areas. Both also include "times cited" links that allow a researcher or author to follow-up on subsequent citation patterns for an article(s) of interest:

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and citations of journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents covering science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Abstract and citation database covering numerous fields in arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. Includes access to Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Biosis Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Current Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, Essential Science Indicators, Index Chemicus / KCI Korean Journal Database, MEDLINE, Russian Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Social Sciences Citation Index, SciELO Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Zoological Record.

Help With Citing?

Need help on formatting the sources you cite in your academic writing (e.g., APA, MLA, etc.) or want access to a full-fledged online bibliographic management system-like "Mendeley" or "Zotero?" Visit the SU Libraries Citation Support website.

For stylistic guidelines for journalists particularly -SU Libraries also offers from Associated Press the:

AP Stylebook Online

Watch for the SULinks icon

If you see this next to the record for an article in an SU Libraries database, click on it to see if the full-text is available online.