Media
Finding Journal Articles
Databases enable you to search for articles on a particular topic:
- Academic Search Complete on Ebscohost Provides full text for over 5,300 journals covering the social sciences and humanities
- Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre on Ebscohost Contains full text articles from selected Australian newspapers, journals, and reference books.
- APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text) on Informit Index to thousands of social sciences and humanities articles, includes full text articles from more than 200 Australian journal titles.
- Communication & Mass Media Complete on Ebscohost Indexes articles in communication and mass media. Articles from selected journals are available in fulltext.
- Communications & Mass Media Collection on Gale Collection of journal articles covering communication and mass media.
- Elibrary Australia Contains full text articles from selected Australian newspapers including The Australian and the Herald-Sun.
- Ejournals Database on Ebscohost Electronic Journal Service indexes thousands of electronic journal titles. Full text available online for selected titles.
- Expanded Academic ASAP on Gale A multidisciplinary database covering a range of subjects.
- Factiva Contains full text articles from hundreds of major newspapers.
- Film & Television Literature Index with Fulltext on Ebscohost Subjects covered include film and television theory, writing, production, technical aspects, and reviews. Full text available for selected journals and books.
- Film Literature Index Online Index to 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively. Covers the period 1976-2001and scholarly as well as popular titles.
- MediaScan on Informit A bibliographic database featuring articles indexed from daily newspapers including: Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, Herald Sun, Bulletin.
- Sage Journals Full text access to over 450 peer reviewed journals published by Sage, access is generally from 1999 onwards.
- Scopus The world’s largest abstract and indexing database. It also includes the journals indexed by ScienceDirect and has 100% Medline coverage. ScienceDirect Full text science database, with a strong coverage of psychology.
- TV News on Informit Provides online access to news, current affairs and selected documentary programs that have been broadcast on Australian television such as Four Corners, Media Watch and Cutting Edge.
Here's a Media Watch special about online journalism, The future of journalism: wired for the future, 13 min.
- Taylor & Francis Online Full text access to over 1000 scholarly research journals including media and film studies titles.
- Web of Science includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Tip: If full text is not provided use the Full Text? button 
to link to the full text in other databases (if available).
Electronic Journals
- Wired Wired Magazine's Web Site
- M/C Media/Culture (QUT)
- Z Magazine
Ebooks
Selected titles:
- Basic radio journalism (Focal Press)
- Beyond powerful radio: a communicator's guide to the internet age: news, talk, information and personality (Elsevier Science)
- A companion to media studies (Blackwell Publishing)
- Critical dictionary of film and television theory (Routledge)
- A dictionary of media and communication (Oxford University Press)
- Dictionary of media and communications (M.E. Sharpe Inc)
- Electronic media then now and later (Elsevier Science)
- Encyclopedia of international media and communications (Elsevier Science & Technology)
- Handbook of journalism studies (Routledge)
- Social media reader (Wiley)
- See the ebooks guide to access the ebook databases.
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New Material
Find out about new books, ebooks, DVDs and streamed video added to the library collection in the last 12 months.
- Australian media
- Journalism
- Media and communication
- New media
- Find out about more new items, covering a range of topics, added to the library collection in the last month.
Australian Resources
- Australian Newspapers (National Library of Australia) Historic newspapers, 1803 to 1954, including The Argus and Sydney Morning Herald.
- CCI Website of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation which includes publications with topics covering broadcasting, copyright, creative commons, innovation, internet, multimedia, policy, youth, etc.
- Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- The Global Mail A not-for-profit news website aiming to provide independent journalism.
- Guide to Internet Information Sources for Australian Journalists
International Resources
- Asia Pacific Network: an excellent list of resources, commentaries, and news articles
- Index on Censorship
- The Media History Project
- Media Watchers & Activists
Australian Broadcasting Sites
- Australian Communications and Media Authority
- Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
- Community Broadcasting Foundation
Online Tutorials
Learn how to improve your research skills and use library services effectively - watch our short online tutorials!
- Searching for an article in an Ebscohost database: basic searching (2min 38)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 1: the reading list (1min 21)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 2: finding an article (1min 36)
- How do I place a hold? (1min 52)
- How do I renew a loan? (1min 34)
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