Transcript Resources at King Library

Research Sources
and Methods for
Journalism Students
Presented by :
Marissa Jacobo, Kim Martin, Marlene Metcalf and Beth Twomey for Dr. Lili
Luo’s 210-02, Introduction to Reference Services
May 6, 2008
Accessing the King Libraryyour home base for reference and
research
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You can access the King Library remotely at:
http://sjlibrary.org/gateways/academic/
Then, click on “SJSU Research Topics” in the left
hand column.
Click on “J” for Journalism and then finally, click on
“Journalism and Mass Communications”.
Here you will find resources assembled by the King’s
librarians to help you in your journalism research.
Where you can find librarians
to help you
The main Reference Desk at the King
Library is on the second floor.
 Paul Kauppila is the journalism subject
specialist and can be reached at:
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(408) 808-2042
[email protected]
Subject searches and the library catalog
Print Resources at King
Library
Types of Print Resources
Bibliographies
Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature
Jo A. Cates ; foreword by James W. Carey. Westport,
Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2004. 3rd ed.
Call Number: PN4731.C38x 2004
Location: King
Journals/Periodicals
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Columbia, SC : Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication, c1995Call Number: PN4700.J7
Location: King Periodicals Lower Level
Manuals and Handbooks
Best Practices for Newspaper Journalists : a Handbook
for Reporters, Editors, Photographers and Other
Newspaper Professionals on How to be Fair to the
Public
Robert J. Haiman. Publication Information Arlington, VA
: Freedom Forum, [2000]
Call Number: PN4756.H35x 2000
Location: King 7th Floor
The Newspapers Handbook
Richard Keeble. London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
3rd ed.
Call Number: 070.172 Keeble
Location: King Nonfiction 3rd Floor
Dictionaries
Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism
edited by Joseph P. McKerns. New York : Greenwood
Press, 1989.
Call Number: PN4871.B56
Location: King 7th Floor
Browsing Areas
PN4800’s: For materials about American journalism,
history, profiles, analysis, news agencies and ethnic
and regional American news etc…
PN4870’s: One of the largest areas of the collection,
in this area can be found profiles, memoirs,
biographies and analysis of the work of individual
reporters and groups of reporters.
PN5000’s: For materials about journalism from other
countries in English and some in other languages.
Subject Headings
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Journalism + (location) + topic
example: Journalism United States
Periodicals
Related subject headings
Online journalism
Newspaper Publishing
Press
Reporters and reporting
Advanced Keyword Search
Use the
drop down
to choose
“subject”
KEYWORD(S):
Advanced Search Tips (Phrases, Truncation, Proximity)
Any Field:
And
Any Field:
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Advanced
Searches with
the King
catalog
Type
“journalism”
into the
search field
Choices can
be further
narrowed by
language,
type and
location
Limit to Available
Year:
After
and Before
sorted by relevance
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Publisher:
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Print material
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Videodisc (DVD/VCD)
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Federal
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State
Government
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CD-ROM
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Note: Select multiple limit values by holding down 'CTRL'.
Num Save SUBJECTS (1-50 of 418)
When subject
headings don’t
follow the usual
pattern, you will
be “pointed” to
the correct one
Entries
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Journalism -- 32 Related Subjects
Journalism
Journalism Abstracts Periodicals
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Journalism Afghanistan History 19th Century
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Journalism African American -- See African
American press
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Journalism Agricultural -- 2 Related Subjects
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Journalism Agricultural
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Journalism Agricultural United States
1974
1974
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Journalism Agricultural United States
Biography
Journalism Agriculture -- See Journalism,
Agricultural
Journalism America
12
Journalism America Periodicals
1970
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Clicking on the
hyperlinks will
lead you to the
bibliographic
and location
information
Year
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Journalism And Education -- 3 Related
Subjects
Journalism And Education
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Journalism And Education United States
1974
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Journalism And Literature
Journalism And Literature Great Britain History 2007
19th Century
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Journalism And Literature Latin America
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Example of results from a Journalism subject search in the King Library catalog.
Databases
Databases
Unlike Google, you’ll need a password to access these
resources. Set this up at the King Library.
Use the drop-down menu to limit the search term to a
specific part of the record (title, abstract, all text, subject
heading, etc.)
Business Full Text
Web of Science
ROPER Center for Public Opinion
Research (ROPER)
Associations Unlimited
POP QUIZ!
 Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
 Proquest
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 Lexis Nexis
 ROPER
 Associations Unlimited
 Academic Search Premier
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 Web of Science
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How will the moth damage my
garden?
What’s the most recent status
of aerial spraying?
How does the general public
feel about the spraying?
Is it legal to spray without a
vote?
Which organizations oppose
insecticides?
Who publishes American Fruit
Grower? Can I trust this
source?
Web Sites
Using the Internet as a Reference Tool
Using the Internet as a Reference Tool
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Advantages
 Easy
to use
 Audiovisual and Interactive
 Broad scope
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Disadvantages
 Quality
Control
 Requires critical evaluation
Using the Internet as a Reference Tool
Search Engines
 Boolean Operators and Truncation
 Basic vs. Advanced search
 Evaluating Websites
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 Content
 Authority
 Purpose
 Bias
& Point of View
 Currency
Using the Internet as a Reference Tool
Which search engine do you usually use?
 Basic or advanced search?
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Google-Basic Search
Conducting a simple search
 How do you evaluate Internet Resources?
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How do you
evaluate the 87,100
results?
Which web sites do
you trust?
Google-Advanced Search
Advanced Search: Exact wording, English Language, Past 3 months
Results Retrieved: 7,360
Journalism & Mass
Communications Web Sites
Journalism & Mass Communications – Web Sites
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A Journalist's Guide to the Internet
An online textbook with resources for reporters similar (but not as extensive as) Power Reporting
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AAF Sports Library
the AAF digital archive contains Olympic information in fully searchable PDF format, with Olympic
Official Reports, Olympic Oral Histories, 100 years of Olympic Review, the Journal of Olympic
History
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Access Newspaper Archive
Access Newspaper Archive contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as
far back as the 1700s. This database is a subset of Newspaperarchive.com, a subscription
database. Access N
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California Newspaper Project
This is the single most comprehensive source of information about California's Newspapers.
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Content analysis
Resources for content and text analysis by Matthias Romppel
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Free quotations search engine
Over 90,000 free quotations available for users such as students, journalists and writers
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Power Reporting
The only place for reporters to begin searching on the internet. We resources you can trust.
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HistoryBuff.com Online Newspaper Archives
The front pages (and a few inside pages) of ORIGINAL newspapers about major, and not so
major, events in American history can be read. See how the press covered the event.
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NationMaster
Publicly-available statistical data on the world's countries, from crime to education, economy,
demographics etc., choose a country and/or a set of statistics to graph a comparison between
designated countries.
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Online Journalism Review
From the USC's Annenberg School of Journalism ,thoughtful analyses of current issues facing
journalists. Updated daily.
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Poynter Institute
"The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalism."
They want you to enroll, however, these web pages contain a lot of free material very useful to
journalists.
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Public Records Online
While our most private information can (usually) not be found online, you can track down items
like birth certificates, marriage and divorce information, obituaries and licenses on the web.
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Reporters Without Borders
More than a third of the world’s people live in countries where there is no press freedom.
Reporters Without Borders works constantly to restore their right to be informed.
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Society of Professional Journalists
Journalism students should consider membership.
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University of Iowa Journalism Resources
"Over 40 annotated pages of resources compiled for support of academic journalism departments
and professional journalists. "
Journalism & Mass Communications –
Web Sites
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Resources Available include:
 Resources
for Reporters
 Newspaper and Archives Information
 Career Support for Journalists
Resources for Reporters
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Compiled Internet resources in one website
User is directed to corresponding site
University of Iowa Journalism
Resources
“Over 40 annotated pages of resources compiled
for support of academic journalism departments
and professional journalists.”
URL:http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/
University of Iowa Journalism
Resources Web Site
Resources for Reporters-Website
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A Journalist’s Guide to the Internet
An online textbook with resources for reporters to begin
searching on the Internet
URL: http://reporter.umd.edu/
Newspaper Websites
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Access Newspaper Archive
Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of
searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the
1700s. a subscription database
http://access.newspaperarchive.com/InvalidIP.aspx
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California Newspaper Project
This is the single most comprehensive source of
information about California's Newspapers.
http://cnp.ucr.edu/
Newspapers -Example
California Newspaper Project
Finding newspaper information according to search criteria. E.g.
place, institutions, publication year. Etc.
Career Support for Journalists
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Poynter Institute
"The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists,
future journalists, and teachers of journalism."
Society of Professional Journalists
Journalism students should consider
membership.
Poynteronline-Website
Online Resources at
Government Websites
Using the Internet and Library
catalogs
US Government Resources
The following are indispensable for SJSU Journalism students:
Power Reporting http://powerreporting.com/
Government Agencies: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html
Government Publications Office (GPO) Access: gpoaccess.gov
To reach the King Library’s Government Publications page:
http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/databases/sguide_subjectList.htm?s
ubID=30
US Government Resources
From SJSU Research pages: http://www.cdc.gov/.
The CDC website offers information about a wide range of health
and safety topics. Topics include disease and preventive care,
workplace safety, environmental health, data and statistics, and
more. CDC also offers links to many of its publications and
information about its policies towards the media.
Journalism students should note that:
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There are a lot of government sub-agencies
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Observing how the sub-agencies fit in with the other Federal
agencies can help direct ones research.
Social Security Online
US Government Resources
US Social Security Administration
www.ssa.gov.
This is an invaluable resource for 150 million Americans, their
families and all wager earners
Online access makes it possible now for anyone to look up
and calculate their Social Security benefit at the age they may
wish to start collecting it. The website also outlines the
penalty formulas for wages earned while collecting Social
Security during the years before one’s full benefit age.
U.S. Department of Defense
US Government Resources
US Department of Defense
From SJSU Research pages: http://www.defenselink.mil/.
This is a resource for millions of Americans and their families
who now are in the military, are considering the idea of joining
and want further information about career opportunities and
benefits available, or who just want to get general information
about the Defense Department.
(Note: researchers should always be aware of bias in the content of all
websites, but perhaps particularly in politically charged sites such as
this one)
Department of Water Resources
State Government Resources
California State Department of Water
Resources
http://www.water.ca.gov/
If you are writing a story about the politics of California’s water, here
you can get basic information, in gallons and acre-feet, about the way
the State manages water resources and watershed lands.
http://reporter.umd.edu/
“A Journalist’s Guide to the Internet” is a great place to find
information concerning the back story about who gets precious water
resources and what groups want or need more water.
http://www.stateline.org/live/
Stateline is a non-profit and non-partisan project of the Pew
Charitable Trusts. The website was originally created as a resource
site for reporters covering state governments which remains its primary
purpose.
Superior Court of Alameda
Local Government Resources
Alameda County Court System
http://www.alameda.courts.ca.gov/courts/
Through this website a variety of important information can be
accessed. The court system maintains a website called
“Domain Web” where information about General Civil, Probate
and Family Law cases can be accessed. Images of documents
for General Civil cases can be viewed and printed in PDF
format.
The court system also makes judicial appointments, fees, links
to alternative dispute resolution services and a self help
service which offers low cost legal services and links to further
courts and Spanish language sites.
Thank you!
This concludes our Presentation
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We welcome your questions.