Media & Communications journals held by the University of Sydney Library

Subject Headings

The Library catalogue provides subject access to journals via broad subject headings. Click on the following headings to locate journals held by the University of Sydney Library. The follwing are subject headings which deal directly with news media and writing. Relevant material will also be found in related areas such as Sociology, Language and Literature, Cultural Studies and Visual Communications.

• Advertising periodicals
• Broadcasting periodicals
• Communication Australia periodicals
• Communication research periodicals
• Communication periodicals
• Digital media social aspects periodicals
• Journalism periodicals
• Mass media australia periodicals
• Mass media periodicals
• Mass media Law and legislation Australia Periodicals
• Mass media Law and legislation Periodicals
• Newspapers periodical
• Motion pictures periodicals
• Press periodicals
• Public Relations Periodicals
• Television broadcasting periodicals
• Telecommunications periodicals - Includes many technical and engineering titles.

Searching for articles on a topic

Where only a topic or research area is known you will need to consult an indexing or abstracting service. Most indexes to journal articles held in the Library, are available in electronic form. They are refered to as Electronic databases. Databases:

• index and in many cases abstract (summarise) the content of journals within specific or broad subject areas. Some databases also reference theses, book reviews, conference proceedings & collections of essays.
• are either specific to a subject area or cover a range of academic disciplines. For example Expanded Academic Index broadly covers the world's literature on Social Sciences and Humanities.
• allow researchers to identify and locate key journals in their subject areas.
• are compiled by commercial or professional organisations and index world, regional or national literature on a particular subject.
• cover the world or Australia's literature on a subject. References retrieved when searching a bibliographic database are not necessarily held in the Library.
• will frequently allow you to link to the library catalogue to check holdings
• in some cases the full-text of articles may be available (Expanded Academic Index) in others a citation and abstract (Sociofile). This means they provide bibliographic information for an article not the full article. These databases are referred to as bibliographic databases.

Databases for Media & Communications Research
http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/databases/mediaandcommunications.html

If a database does not provide links to catalogue holdings you will need to check the library catalogue for holdings.

Ejournal Collections

The Library subscribes to an increasing number of Electronic Journals collections. Browse or search these collections for information on a topic. Remember check the catalogue or the Electronic databases for other titles that may only be available in print or by individual subscription. Note unfortunately at this stage there is no alphabetical listing for media and communication

Useful collections include

JSTOR

For back copies of journals in Sociology and Literature & Language

Project Muse

Excellent source for articles on new media and cultural theory

Proquest

Many key social Science titles held within this collection