communications

Communications

Siobhan Dunne

Welcome to the Communications portal - a pathfinder to the wide range of high quality library resources available for Communication, Journalism and Multimedia Studies. Use the tabs below to locate resources specific to your subject.

Students, Staff and Researchers in the School of Communications - feel free to contact me for individual assistance to find information for your study and research.

Contact me on 700 8327 Email: siobhan.dunne@dcu.ie
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Print

The Library shelves print books firstly according to their:
Subject Matter: Click here for Communication Studies, Journalism and Multimedia Shelf Mark Numbers.
Then according to the appropriate collection (this is determined by whether the title is essential or supplementary reading).
Short Loan (borrowable for 3 hours or 48 hours) or
Main Lending (borrowable for 1 week or 3 weeks)
The majority of books you require will be located on the first floor which houses material relating to the Humanities and Social Sciences. Some material dealing with photography, video production, marketing and advertising are located on the second floor.

Electronic

We now have access to over 5,000 e-books, all of which are searchable via the Catalogue. When you search the library catalogue you can refine your search by choosing "E-Books" on the left hand side of the screen.
The Library also purchases E-Books Collections, either in response to a direct request from a school or through the IReL consortium. Click here for a list of all our E-Books Collections.

Accessing Journals

When you know the title of the journal you are looking for and have the Author, Article Title, Volume, Issue and Date details, use the A-Z of Journals. Click here to see an example

A selection of journals in your area:-

Access a list of all Journals - print and online – via these library links:

Developing Your Search Strategy | Quick Demo

A database is an organised collection of information stored in electronic format that can be fully searched. Library databases index hundreds of journals and will either provide the full article (full-text) or a summary (abstract) of the article. Like the Library catalogue, our databases can be searched by author, title or keyword. They also offer lots of other search options. The Library subscribes to over 130 databases supporting all programmes across the university.

Use

to search across most of DCU Library's databases from a single search

My Best Bet databases, most relevant to Communications, Journalism and Multimedia Studies are listed here:

Academic Search Complete

The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, provides full text access to over 4,600 full text and 3,600 peer-reviewed journals across a broad range of subjects areas.

ARTstor

A collection of over 550,000 digital images offering a broad view of art, architecture and all aspects of visual and material culture. Use ARTStor to browse, search and view images; create, save and share groups of images and add personal notes to images. Export images to use in Power Point presentations or download the ‘Offline Image Viewer’ to develop more sophisticated presentations. Now includes access to over 80,000 photographs from the Magnum Collection.

Communications and Mass Media Complete (CMMC)

Provides full text access to over 380 journals, with cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 500 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). CMMC contains a sophisticated Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing.

Irish Newspaper Archive

Access to over 260 years of Irish history, the INA is a database of digitised Irish newspapers, from 1763 issues of the Freeman's Journal to modern titles such as the Irish Independent and the Galway City Tribune.

Irish Times Digital Archive

The Irish Times Digital archive is a searchable reproduction of all editions published by the Irish Times from 1859 to 2009. Select ‘News – The Historical Irish Times’ from the drop-down menu. Search the most recent 12 months' content on www.irishtimes.com

JSTOR

Short for Journal Storage, JSTOR provides access to an archive of 1,300 core scholarly journals in subject areas as diverse as Linguistics, African American Studies, Film Studies, Language and Literature.

Nexis UK (formerly Lexis Nexis: News and Business)

Full-text coverage of newspapers worldwide, plus press releases, transcripts of TV broadcasts, newswires, magazines and trade journals. Click on the drop-down menu for Sources to limit news titles to a specific country – includes over 40 provincial and national titles for Ireland.

Other Suggestions

Film Index International

Produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute and based on the Summary of Film and Television (SIFT) database collated by the BFI over the past 70 years, FiIm Index International provides in-depth indexing of over 121,600 films - from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters - and biographical information for more than 737,000 personalities.

Palgrave Social and Cultural Studies Collection

Provides access to 100 E books and spans a range of subject areas including Media Studies, Social Policy, Criminology and Cultural Studies.

Wiley Interscience

Full-text access to over 400 Wiley journals including 61 Communication and Cultural Studies titles. Register to take advantage of alerting services and stay on top of the latest developments in your field. Also includes access to Electronic Reference Works.

Web of Science: Arts & Humanities Citation Index

A multidisciplinary index which fully covers 1,160 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals including subjects such as Language Studies, Linguistics and Film Studies.

Gateways

Arts & Humanities Data Service: Visual Arts

Academic Info: Communication + Journalism

BUBL: Arts/Humanities | Communications | Journalism | Multimedia

Digital Research and Projects in Ireland: Media and Film Studies

Irish Resources in the Humanities

Intute: Communication and Media Studies | Visual Arts

Media & Communications Studies: All

Moving Image Gateway: Film | Media | Photography | Radio

British Universities Film and Video Council:
Television and Radio | News On Screen | Find DVD’s | Moving Image Gateway

Librarian’s Internet Index

http://dho.ie/drapier/

http://irith.org/

http://www.ipl.org/

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

http://www.wdl.org/en/

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/index.html

Film

http://www.archive.org/details/movies

http://www.digital-librarian.com/movies.html

http://www.screensite.org/

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2720

Journalism

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism: working papers
Journalism.org

E Books

Corpus of Electronic Text (CELT)
The online resource for Irish History, Literature and Politics

Google Book Search
Google has joined forces with a number of Libraries and publishers to provide free access to books, if you don’t get the entire book, you might get to see a sample chapter or the table of contents.

The Online Books Page
Features links to over 30,000 free books on the web

Project Gutenberg
The Internet's oldest producer of free e-books

Universal Digital Library
Free digitized collection of over 1 million books and other material