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Mass Media 306 : Media Distribution

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Getting Started
Books
Articles
Websites
Citing Your Sources
Library Teaching Evaluation

Getting Started

The best way to get started on any research is to fine 1 or 2 good books that will provide background and context for a broad literature search. For additional help see the Marketing Subject Guide.

Book

Find books by searching the Library Catalog. Can't think of terms to describe your topic?  Catalogs use specific subject headings to group related books together.  A good strategy is to:

  • enter a keyword or two
  • scan the list for one good item of interest
  • click on the subject headings for that item
  • scan the list of subject headings for ones that are of interest
  • click on another subject heading to search for more items

    OR browse the shelves. A good place is call number: PN1993.

Possible subjects might be:

Books at other libraries

  Circuit 1-2 day delivery *
  Melvyl 5-10 day delivery **
  WorldCat 5-10 day delivery **

 
* Books will be delivered to Library for pickup.

** Find a book in this databases, and fill-out an Interlibrary Loan delivery request. Book will be delivered to Library for pickup.

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Journal Articles

Journals include some of the latest research in the field.  To find scholarly or popular articles, you need to start with a research database.They allow you to search hundreds or even thousands of journals at once.

What is a scholarly article?

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Provides abstracts and full text for more than 200 communication journals.

Academic Search Premier
Full-text. A large, multi-disciplinary database offering full text for nearly 1,850 scholarly journals, including more than 1,250 peer-reviewed titles.

ScienceDirect
Provides full text access to over 1,000 journals covering all fields of science.

MLA
(AKA Bibliography of the Modern Language Association.) Includes abstracts of articles from critical literary and language journals.

Lexis Nexis Academic
Lexis-Nexis Universe provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Includes full-text articles from non-U.S. publications.

ProQuest Newspapers
Includes coverage of over 300 major U.S. and international newspapers, such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune

Possible journals to browse include:

After you have found the articles you can search for these online Communications journals. A good shortcut is to use the Catalog to search by Genre. Use the term <Electronic Journals Communication >, for a listing of all journals available online.

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Websites

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Citing Sources

As you write your paper, you'll need to cite passages and ideas from the sources you've found. Check with your professor which style is preferred for this assignment.

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APA: Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th ed. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2001.

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Chicago manual of style. 15th ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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MLA handbook for writers of research papers. 6th ed. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2003.

 
 
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