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Early American Newspapers Digital has been renamed America’s Historical Newspapers. The new database title is now reflected in InfoTree.
America’s Historical Newspapers is a full text, searchable database of scanned images of early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
This historical database is part of the Archive of Americana series [...]

There are many ways for students to become oriented to the library and its resources.  Here’s an overview of the self-guided online, audio, and in-person tutorials and tours that you can direct students to as part of a class orientation:
Tours of the library building:

iPod Tour New for Fall 2006!
Virtual Tour

Orientation to beginning research:

Research Starter Kit

Tutorials [...]

Alden Library is offering several seminars and workshops for Fall 2006. These seminars are open to all faculty, staff and students. The only requirement is to complete the online registration process, which just takes a few moments. I would recommend the following for journalism and communications:
Introduction to RefWorks (various dates) – good [...]

Last month’s new Journalism and Telecommunications titles in Alden Library:
PN4749 .E44 2006.
Emerging issues in contemporary journalism : infotainment, Internet, libel, censorship, et cetera.
Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2006.

PN4751 .N47 2005.
News and politics in early modrn Europe (1500-1800).
Leuven ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2005.

DA685.F5 G75 2006x.
Griffiths, Dennis.
Fleet Street : five hundred years of the press.
London [...]

I’d like to highlight another Ohio University Libraries blog, written by my colleague Chad Boeninger, Business & Economics Bibliographer.  Many of the topics discussed in the business blog would be helpful to journalism research, particularly anyone who uses business databases or wants to research a company or industry.  For instance, a recent post, Guide to [...]