Databases:

          ABI/INFORM: Dateline (ProQuest)
          ABI/INFORM: Global (ProQuest)
          ABI/INFORM: Trade & Industry (ProQuest)
          Academic OneFile (Gale)
          Applied Science Full Text (WilsonWeb)
          Business and Company Resource Center (Gale)
          Chicago Tribune (Newsbank)
          CQ Researcher (CQ Electronic Library)
          Credo Reference (Formerly: Xreferplus)
          Detroit Free Press (Newsbank)
          Detroit News (Newsbank)
          Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale)
          Grand Rapids Press (Gale, Newsbank)
          Humanities Full Text (Wilson Web)
          InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (Gale)
          Issues and Controversies (FACTS.com)
          Lansing State Journal (Newsbank)
          LexisNexis Academic: News (LexisNexis)
          MLA International Bibliography (CSA)
          National Newspaper Abstracts (ProQuest)
          New York Times (Gale)
          ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest)

  Journals:

      Full Text Electronic Journals:

          American Journalism

      Print Journals @ Madonna Library:

  Web Sites:

      Internet Subject Guides:

          All About Public Relations
          INFOMINE – (Search Social Sciences & Humanities Section for "Journalism")
          Investigative Reporters and Editors
          JournalismNet – The Investigative Guide to Internet Research
          Journalism Resources – Over 40 annotated pages of resources compiled for support of            academic journalism departments and professional journalists.
          Journalist's Toolbox – Resources for journalists
          Links to Journalism – The Investigative Guide to Internet Research
          National Conference of Editorial Writers
          NewsLink
          Online Journalism Review
          Online Public Relations
          Power Reporting – Resources for journalists
          Poynter Online – Everything you need to be better journalist
          PRaxis – The Public Relations Resource Centre
          The Pulitzer Prizes – Resources for journalists

      Organization/Association Sites:

          American Press Institute
          American Society of Journalists and Authors
          Institute for Public Relations
          International Center for Journalists
          International Public Relations Association
          Journalism.org
          National Newspaper Association
          PRwatch.org
          Public Relations Society of America
          Society of Professional Journalists -- SPJ
          The Council of National Journalism Organizations

        Style Manual:

          A Guide to MLA Document      REF LB2369 .G53 2003         
          MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing      REF LB236 .G444 1998         
          MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers      REF LB236 .G444 1998         
          New York Times Manual of Style and Usage      REF LB2369 .S57 1999         
          Citing Sources: Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper

        APA, MLA, AMA, Turabian, and Chicago Citation Styles (Long Island University)

  Selected Reference Books:

          REF PN4871 .B56 1989
          Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism
          REF PN4871 .T34 1986
          Encyclopedia of Twentieth-century Journalists
          REF HD59 .D28 1996
          Dartnell's Public Relations Handbook
          REF HD59 .H267 2001
          Handbook of Public Relations
          REF HM263 .L472 1991
          Lesly's Handbook of Public Relations and Communications
          REF HF5718.3 .P53 2001
          Skills of Workplace Communication: A Handbook for T&D Specialists and Their                        Organizations
          REF HD59 .D28 1996
          A Dictionary of Communication and Media Studies
          REF PN172 .E53 1996
          Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times
          to the Information Age
          REF P87.5 .D36 2000
          Encyclopedia of Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communications
          REF HF5415 .H18665 2002
          Handbook of Marketing

  Selected Circulating Books:

          PN4756 .W37 2006
          The Invention of Journalism Ethics
          BV652.95 .Q86 2005
          Quoting God: How Media Shape Ideas about Religion and Culture
          PN4855 .H24 2005
          The Troubles of Journalism: a Critical Look at What's Right and Wrong
          PN4867.2 .M48 2004
          The Vanishing Newspaper : Saving Journalism in the Information Age
          PN4775 .F56 2003
          Writing to Inform and Engage : the Essential Guide to Beginning News and Magazine           Writing
          PN4771 .W55 2003
          The Human Journalist: Reporters, Perspectives, and Emotions
          PN4833 .G86 2003
          News and the Net
          PN4888.T4 B29 2003
          American Television News: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest
          PN4783 .F43 2001
          Writing the News: A Guide for Print Journalists
          PS366.R44 H37 2000
          A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form
          PN4783 .C283 2000
          The Associated Press Guide to News Writing
          HM1221 .E89 2006
          Ethics in Public Relations: Responsible Advocacy
          HD59 .W325 2005
          Evaluating Public Relations: A Best Practice Guide to Public Relations Planning,
          Research & Evaluation
          HM1221 .P83 2004
          Public Relations: Theory and Practice
          HD59 .H596 1999
          Public Relations on the Net

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Updated 7/27/2009