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Bonza – Film and Television

Published: Tue, 2012-05-01 13:17 by Jane Smeathers

Bonza small.JPG Bonza is a film and television database with a difference. It provides around 2,400 records, including hard to find research material on French, Australian and New Zealand cinema and television.

Material in the databases includes:

Journalism and Communication

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias:

Encyclopedia of journalism, online 2009

Encyclopedia of communication theory

The Blackwell international encyclopedia of communication

Encyclopedia of new media : an essential reference to communication and technology

Handbooks:

21st century communication: a reference handbook, online 2009.

Handbook of global media and communication policy

The Routledge companion to news and journalism, 2010

Margaret Mee's Australian Media Guide

Dictionaries:

Keywords in news and journalism studies, 2010.

A dictionary of media and communication, 2011, online.

Dictionary of media and communication studies 2012

Browsing the shelves

You can also browse the catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:-

PN4699-5650 - Journalism

P87-96 - Mass Media

PN4735-4748 Government and the press. Liberty of the press.

PN4775-4784 Technique. Practical journalism.

PN4825-4830 Amateur journalism

PN4832-4836 Magazines and other periodicals

TR624-835 - Photojournalism

How-to Guides:

News and newspapers

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles:

Communications Abstracts -The database covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources. Coverage has been expanded to include literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions

Australian Public Affairs (APA) - provides access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities.

Humanities Index - index material in the journalism & communication from 1907 to the present.

Multimedia

Multimedia:

Informit Media Databases - index Australian television broadcasts and provide access to video downloads of programs to the desktop and/or via DVD. Includes TV News.

News

News:

TV News - indexes the majority of TV news stories, current affairs and documentary series broadcast on Australian television. Individual stories may be downloaded to the desktop in a compressed video format.

Newspapers

Newspapers:

Factiva - A global news and business information service that combines the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.

PressDisplay Newspaper Database - Accessf full text newspapers & magazines in original format, layout and pagination.(Sixty day archive)

Related Guides

Related Guides:

Australian Government

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources:

Media and communication research methods : an introduction to qualitative and quantitative approaches by Arthur Asa Berger. 2011

Ad News Online - journal of mass media, marketing & advertising for Australia.

Web Sites

Web Sites:

Crikey - a website that examines what's really going on in politics, government, media, business, the arts, sport and other aspects of public life in Australia.

The Conversation - independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the university and research sector

Journalism Education Australia - is a collection of people from Australian and the South Pacific region who are either involved with journalism education /or training, or are committed to the objectives of the association.

Mediawatch - forum for media analysis and comment within Australia.

Pew's Research Centre Project for Excellence in Journalism

Walkley Foundation - their broad aims are to support and encourage professional and ethical journalism and promote and reward excellence in the Australian media.

NewTube

Published: Wed, 2011-07-06 09:04 by Belinda Weaver

The British Universities Film & Video Council host and curate nine online databases of film, television and radio content dating from 1896 onwards. The Council have now provided a federated search to the more than 13 million records in these databases. It is also possible to search within one collection rather than across them all. Not all collections make material openly available.

Collections include: