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Posts from the Communications Subject Specialists at Ohio University Libraries for the Faculty, Staff & Students of the E.W. Scripps College of Communication

Archive for January, 2006

New birthdate for the Associated Press

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

A press release from the AP today announced that recently uncovered historical documents prove that the AP had its beginnings not in 1848 but at the start of the Mexican-American War in 1846:
Newly acquired papers show AP was born two years earlier than previously thought

Where’s the full-text?

Monday, January 30th, 2006

The E-Journal Gateway is a tool for finding Alden Library databases that contain magazines, journals and newspapers in electronic form by title.
For example, searching for the title New Media and Society displays the following:
from 1999 to 2005 in OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center
This tells you that full-text content for this journal is indexed in the EJC [...]

Broadcast Transcripts in Newspaper Source

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

The database Newspaper Source contains some Radio and Television program transcripts. This is a place to look for transcripts in addition to Lexis Nexis Academic or the Vanderbilt Television News Archive. Here are a couple of ways to search for transcripts in Newspaper Source:
1. After entering keywords for a topic into [...]

New database: Proquest Newspapers (Newspaper Abstracts)

Friday, January 20th, 2006

The library now subscribes to Proquest Newspapers, also known as National Newspapers 27. When this database was available some years ago on CD-ROM it was called Newspaper Abstracts.
This database indexes major U.S. newspapers plus the London Guardian and several African American papers cover-to-cover from the 1980s to the Present. Major U.S. papers include:
The Atlanta [...]

New database: Washington Post Historical

Friday, January 20th, 2006

The library now has access to the Washington Post Historical database (1877-1989). This is very exciting because the library has not had microfilm for the earliest years of this paper.
This resource is from the same vendor as the New York Times Historical (1851-2002) database, so you will see that it contains searchable [...]