Research Guides: Journalism: Getting Started

AP Stylebook

AP Stylebook Online
This online version of the AP stylebook is searchable, customizable, and regularly updated, offering features including Ask the Editor, Topical Guides and Pronunciation Guide.
Access note: Access limited to 50 concurrent users.

AP stylebook 2016 and briefing on media law
Call Number: PN4783 .A83 2016
The 2016 AP Stylebook manual, located in Norlin Library's Reference on the 2nd floor.

Journalist's Resource: Research on Today's News Topics
Based at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Journalist’s Resource examines news topics through a research lens. They curate scholarship relevant to media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students and general readers. Their philosophy is that peer-reviewed research studies can, at the very least, help anchor journalists as they navigate difficult terrain and competing claims.

CQ Press Library
Non-partisan. Includes CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher, and interactive tools to retrieve data.
Statista
Statista aggregates statistics and studies from market researchers, organizations, specialist publications, and government sources.

Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Go to the "Internet & Tech" tab for data about internet and social media use among different demographic groups.

Find more resources on performing research on the Research & Statistics tab.

Access World News Research Collection
Online access to major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles. Also includes newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more.
Factiva
Worldwide local, regional, national, and international newspapers
Nexis Uni
Local, regional and national newspapers in the United States, plus some international sources.

Google Scholar
Tool to search for scholarly documents across the web, with an added feature of Find It at CU links.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Comprehensive research resource for communication and related disciplines.
Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCO)
Scholarly articles in the fields of addition studies, anthropology, criminology, economics, family studies, gerontology, minority studies, political science, psychology, social work, and urban studies. Includes the following collections: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)
Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Abstracts and citations to international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

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