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Library Catalogs

Framingham State College Library Catalog
Owned by FSC and 40+ area libraries, FSC online library catalog provides access to information about books and other materials.

World Cat                                                                  Off-campus
World Catalog indexes books and electronic resources owned by over 10,000 libraries worldwide, including Internet sites, by name & subject via FirstSearch.  FirstSearch provides online access to more than 30 databases.
 

Find Journals    [top of page]

Full-Text Electronic Journal Finder
The Full Text Electronic Journal Finder helps you locate full text journals by title that are in the online periodical databases held by FSC's Whittemore Library. Use this if you know the name of a particular journal and want to see if the library has full-text access online. 

Find Journal Articles   [top of page]

Academic Search Premier  (1965 - present)                Off-campus
Full text reference database. Includes about 3600 journals of which 2700 are peer reviewed journals. Full text communications journals include Communications News and Advertising Age.  

Expanded Academic ASAP  (1980 - present)               Off-campus
Full-text and citation reference database. Full text communications journals include Communication Reports and Ad Age Global.
 
Project MUSE                                                                  Off-campus
Full text access to over 300 high quality journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences from 60 scholarly publishers.

Lexis Nexis                                                                      Off-campus
Full text national, regional, and trade papers.  Coverage can include up to the past twenty years depending on the publication.
 

Indexes & Abstracts    [top of page]

Art Abstracts (1984 - present)                                            Off-campus
Through FirstSearch. Some abstracts and citations of articles in international publications on topics including art history, architecture, photography, the decorative arts, film, and video. 

Dissertation Abstracts (1861 - present)                          Off-campus
Through FirstSearch.  Abstracts from 1980.  US, Canadian, British, and other European theses and dissertations. 

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1980 - present)  Off-campus
Through FirstSearch.   Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals. 
 

Grammar & Style Guides      [top of page]

Cite a Source

Provides examples for bibliography lists for the APA, Chicago, and MLA style formats.  

Bibliographies & Works Cited Pages

A list of websites that contain rules and examples for bibliography lists in the APA, CBE, Chicago, MLA, Turabian, and other styles.  

Other Recommended Websites  [top of page]

Communication Arts websites on Del.icio.us

Websites recommend by the Framingham State College community.

Analysys Telecommunications
Provides information on strategy and management, consultancy, information services and start-up support throughout the telecommunications, information technology and media sectors.

National Communication Association
A scholarly society working to enhance the research, teaching and service produced by its members on topics of both intellectual and social significance.  Site has links to journals, publications, papers and student organizations.

WWW Virtual Library: Communications and Media
Site with extensive links to the communications and media industry.

Columbia Journalism Review
Current and previous articles from the journal.

Newslink
Links to United States and international newspapers.  Also includes TV and radio station links and specialty and business newspapers.  Some links go to registration or subscription sites.

The Media History Project
Hosted by the University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts School of Journalism and Mass Communication, this site promotes the study of all aspects of media history.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Contains information regarding shows, grants, programs and project.

Encyclopedia of Television
The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal.

Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, directly responsible to Congress.  Links to policy, employment, resources and standards as well as a history of communications and a strategic plan are found on their site.

Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies
Provides general resources in media studies, communications, communications studies, pop culture, and many more areas.

American Advertising Federation
As the "Unifying Voice for Advertising," the American Advertising Federation (AAF), headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the trade association that represents 50,000 professionals in the advertising industry.

Photomuse

One of the richest photography resources on the Web.  An excellent source for the history of photography with online exhibitions and a chronology of the evolution of photography.

Duke Digital Collections

A number of excellent image collection of from American and Canadian advertisements between 1850-1955. 

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