LibGuides: JOUR 411: Digital Newsroom (Easter): Library Guides

Journalism Toolkits & Resource Guides

Diversity Toolbox-Society of Professional Journalists
"The Diversity Toolbox offers essays and links to resources that will help you broaden the perspectives and voices in your work. Journalists who want to improve their reporting will find valuable help throughout these areas of the site." - SPJ Diversity Toolbox and Sourcebook Online

Newspaper Databases/Google Trends

Google News
Google Trends
Explore how Google data can be used to tell stories
UNLV Libraries Newspaper Databases

Entertainment Sources

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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1880-2015
Music, film, broadcasting and theater industry trade publications published before 2015 including Variety, Billboard, Spin, The Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, American Film, Picturegoer and more.

Writing about People

Biography (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
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Images, brief biographies, and links to magazine articles and websites about notable people.
Biography Resource Center provides biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Contains approximately 250,000 biographies and complete articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or gender, or combine criteria.
Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
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1981-

Biographical information on approximately half a million people from antiquity to present, with some images.Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Update frequency: annual
Contains biographical information on more than 400,000 people from antiquity to the present including more than 110,000 biographies. Biography Reference Bank brings together Biography Index, Current Biography Illustrated, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, and more into one database.

Biography.com

Infoplease Biography
Features over 30,000 notable people
s9 Biographical Dictionary
S9.com is a Wikipedia type system and everyone can edit biographies or even create their own. S9.com was established in 1997 and since then has grown into one of the largest biography sites. Whether you have a passion for history or simply know an interesting fact about someone you are invited to contribute to this project,
PBS Biographies and Profiles
While not a searchable database, this PBS page includes information and some multimedia bios on well-known figures. Most featured biographies are connectred to current or recent PBS programming.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present

US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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Searchable current and recent articles from newspapers, including Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. **Go to advanced search to search for obituaries**
Full text of articles from major national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Sports

Sports Illustrated: Sports news and expert analysis including NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, college athletics.

ESPN: Cable TV network with sports (college, pro, etc.) news coverage, scores, highlights and commentary.

2018 Participation Report: The Physical Activity Council’s annual study tracking sports, fitness, and recreation participation in the US.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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1975-
Journal articles and more about all aspects of sports, physical education and sports medicine. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Update frequency: quarterly
An international database indexing journal articles, books, conference proceedings, research papers, and dissertations and theses in sports medicine, biomechanics, psychology, coaching, physical education and fitness, training, and other related topics. Includes access to the full text of more than 230 journals

Writing about Events

National Day Calendar
This site lists national & international days/moths events & celebrations--such as Cinco de Mayo or National Hospital Week)

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Searchable published news, legal, medical and business information.
The news section delivers the full text of international, national and regional newspapers along with wire services, broadcast transcripts, magazines, and non-English language sources. The legal section contains U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews and international legal information. This includes Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789. The medical section supplies information from news and medical journals, and provides abstracts to medical news from Medline. The business section includes business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
Las Vegas Review Journal (NewsBank) This link opens in a new window
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1996-
Full text of articles, not including images.

Writing about Music

AmericanRadioHistory.com

Click on Music Magazines tab, then click on Music Industry tab for archives of pop music magazines such as Billboard & Cashbox.
Billboard Magazine

Music Charts, Music News, Artist Photo Gallery and Free Video.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Country Music Hall of Fame

African American Music Reference This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of Black American musical expression.
Bloomsbury Music and Sound This link opens in a new window
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Scholarship about rock and roll and other popular music around the world, plus interdisciplinary studies of the theory, methodology, and practice of sound.
Includes the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, ebooks analyzing significant popular albums in the 33 1/3 series, and books about sound from disciplines like art, aesthetics, architecture, contemporary music, history, philosophy, technology, and cultural studies.
Classical Music Reference Library This link opens in a new window
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Essential music reference works.
This resource contains essential music reference works, including full text of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Within this resource one can find information on over 11,000 composers, 7,000 performers and ensembles, definitions of musical terms, photographs and images of musicians, instruments, and ensembles.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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1880-2015
Music, film, broadcasting and theater industry trade publications published before 2015 including Variety, Billboard, Spin, The Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, American Film, Picturegoer and more.

Writing about Art & Fashion

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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Art digital images and related data.
A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, social sciences and related data; the tools to actively use those images; and a restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content user.

Fashion.net: Considered the world’s first fashion site that has connected leading fashion and luxury brands with millions of fashion-savvy consumers since 1995.

Style.com: News, trends, street, beauty, culture, fashion shows.

Fashion Photography Archive: Digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress.

Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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1887-2005
North American women's magazines including Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents Magazine, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Essence.
Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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1892-
Images and text from Vogue Magazine
Fashion Photography Archive This link opens in a new window
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1980 - Images, articles and videos about contemporary fashion history and clothing designers.
Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Art publications index with selected full text from 1997. Limited to 12 simultaneous users.
Art, architecture, photography, graphic design, landscape architecture, interior design, film, museology are all covered. Possible to limit searches to full text items only or peer-reviewed items only. Works of art found reproduced in periodicals are also indexed. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage of selected articles begins in 1997.

Writing about Movies

Internet Movie Database
RottenTomatoes.com
Media History Digital Library
Film industry and fan publications, 1903-1995 (most pre-1926)
Movie Review Query Engine
Oscars.org

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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1880-2015
Music, film, broadcasting and theater industry trade publications published before 2015 including Variety, Billboard, Spin, The Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, American Film, Picturegoer and more.
Film & Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window
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Journal and magazine articles about film and television.

Variety.com: Entertainment news magazine for over 100 years focusing on film, TV, theater, music, etc.

HollywoodReporter.com: Breaking news about Hollywood and entertainment, including movies, TV, reviews and industry blogs.

U.S. Trends in Arts Attendance and Literary Reading 2002-2017, Natl. Endowment for the Arts: These statistics come from the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the nation’s premier instrument for tracking adult patterns of arts engagement

Writing about Television

TV By the Numbers
How Much TV Do People Watch (2018 article, The Atlantic)
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Contains 220,000 films and TV programs, including the Hearst Metrotone Newsreels.

Archive of American Television
Hosted by the TV Academy Foundation, this archive provides access to hundreds of in-depth video interviews with TV's greatest legends and pioneers.
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Collects, preserves, and presents historic and contemporary radio and television content. Located in Chicago.
National Cable Television Center and Museum
Promotes and explores the power of cable telecommunications. Headquarters in Denver.
Paley Center for Media: Formerly the Museum of Television & Radio. Facilities in Los Angeles and New York City.

Film & Television Literature Index
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Journal and magazine articles about film and television.

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
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1900-
Journal articles in the fields of communication and mass media studies .
Update frequency: weekly
Communication & Mass Media Complete contains journal articles in the fields of communication and mass media studies. It merges CommSearch (formerly produced by the NCA, National Communication Association) and the Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides current issues and backfiles of in the fields of communication and mass media.
Access U.S. Broadcast Transcripts This link opens in a new window
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1990-
Current and archived broadcast transcripts from many of the top television and radio news shows in the United States.
Includes CBS, CNBC, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, NBC, NPR and others, including full-text transcripts of popular news shows such as "Larry King Live" and "All Things Considered". A searchable subset of the Access World News database.

TV Tango

Provides current and historical prime time television listings dating back to 1950, with selected programming outside of prime time. Includes episode lists with synopses and original air dates, awards, and ratings, along with links to Wikipedia, IMDB, TV Guide, BFI and video streaming sites.

Urban Affairs Librarian

Susie Skarl, Urban Affairs Librarian

Email Me

Contact:

UNLV Libraries
Lied Library
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Box 457014
Las Vegas, NV 89154-7014
susie.skarl@unlv.edu

702-895-2141

Subjects: Communication Studies, Couple & Family Therapy, Criminal Justice, Crisis & Emergency Management, Government Information, Journalism & Media Studies, Public Administration, Social Work, Urban Studies

JOUR 411: Digital Newsroom (Easter): Library Guides