Journalism

Finding Scholarly Journal Articles

What is scholarly publication?
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Indexes over 450 publications in journalism, broadcast media, advertising, public relations, communication studies, and related fields. Provides full text articles from about 200 titles.
Academic Search Elite
Indexes core scholarly journals and popular magazines in a wide variety of subject areas, including journalism and media studies. Some full text articles available.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Indexes core scholarly journals and popular magazines in a wide variety of subject areas, including journalism and media studies. Some full text articles available.

Finding Newspaper Articles

California Newspapers (NewsBank)
Provides full text articles from over 20 California newspapers, some (like the San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News, San Luis Obispo Tribune) from the mid-1980s to present.
ProQuest Newsstand
Provides full text articles for 500 U.S. and international newspapers, including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
Ethnic Newswatch
Provides full-text of newspapers, magazines, and journals from the ethnic, minority, and native press, published from 1990 to present.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides full-text of current (and older) issues of major newspapers including the New York Times and news magazines, published since late 1980s. Provides full-text transcripts from non-print news media such as National Public Radio, CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC, published since late 1980s.

Newspaper Websites

Newspapers and News Media Guide
A directory of online news media around the world. Provides information on media type (broadcast, internet, magazine, newspaper), focus (general interest, business, etc) and language.
OnlineNewspapers.com
A directory of online newspapers, organized geographically and alphabetically.

Finding Books

PolyCat
Use PolyCat, the online catalog, to find books (and other materials) in the Kennedy Library.
Link+
Use Link+ to find and order books available at other California libraries. The books arrive at the Kennedy Library Circulation Desk within 3 days for you to check out.

If you don’t find the book you need in PolyCAT or LINK+, submit an interlibrary loan request.

For more information about locating books, read the "Finding Books" page.