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 Premier Full text access to over 450 journals published by Sage, access is generally from 1999 onwards.
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.
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 (online books)

Selected titles:

See the eBooks (online books) guide to access the eBook databases.

Australian Resources

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.
- Also hosted by CCI: Creative Economy Provides news and information about research on the creative industries, innovation, and society. It covers issues related to topics such as the internet, media, art and new technologies.
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Internet resources for Communication and the Media
Guide to Internet Information Sources for Australian Journalists

International Resources

Asia Pacific Network E xcellent list of resources, commentaries, and news articles
Index on Censorship
The Media History Project
Media Watchers & Activists

Australian Broadcasting Sites

New Titles

Author: Annette Steere (asteere@swin.edu.au)