Penn State University Libraries - COMM 419: World Media Systems

• Access World News (Newsbank)

  • Search by global region, country, publication title
  • Full-text articles from U.S. national and regional newspapers
  • Some video and web only content

• LexisNexis Academic

  • News coverage from U.S. and international publications
  • Useful tool to compare how news events are covered by different media outlets

• Factiva

  • Global, full-text information resource with daily update
  • Within industry, search media and/or telecommunications
  • Restrict by region or country
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• PressDisplay Electronic Image Database

  • Over 1000 newspapers in 39 languages
  • Most recent 60 days only
  • Printing instructions

• ProQuest (Multiple Databases)

  • Database of scholarly journals, trade magazines and other periodicals and business news sources; U.S. and international sources
  • Good source of current business news and analysis of media companies and industry trends from trade publications
  • Search for entities (MTV Asia) or topics (media ethics)
  • Full-text articles

• CMMC (Communications and Mass Media Complete)

  • Comprehensive resource of scholarly journals and other periodicals related to communications and mass media, most containing full-text articles
  • Communication Abstracts
  • Good source of information on communication issues on a worldwide scale, from a variety of publishers, research institutions and information sources
  • Directs users to location of full-text articles, or prompts for articles that can be obtained through Interlibrary loan

• Academic Search Complete

  • Multi-disciplinary database with full-text periodicals, trade publications and peer-reviewed journals
  • Includes monographs (books), reports, and conference proceedings
  • Many articles in PDF format

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

  • Articles on news media, press freedom, media controls, etc., in political and scholarly journals

Penn State Libraries' Databases

• Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage

  • Includes surveys of Asian broadcasting and cable industry and publishing industry; survey of European publishing industry
  • Good source of media statistics; information on key regional players in media industry; advertising spending by country; projections and analysis
  • Up-to-date information
  • Valuable source of company news and data

• Mintel Reports

  • Reports available for U.S. and European markets
  • Search for industry and company data
    

• SourceOECD

  • Full-text book and serial publications from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  • Includes many of the data sets available from the organization

• UNdata (United Nations Data)

  • Social and economic data from 30 specialized international intergovernmental agencies
  • Data can be displayed in HTML or downloaded in excel or csv format

• MBS (Monthly Bulletin of Statistics) Online

Websites

• U.S. Commercial Service Export Portal (Market Research Library)

  • Government source of market research
  • Search articles by industry
  • Wide range of communications-related articles on global markets
  • Create a username and password to gain access to articles

• Freedom of the Press (Freedom House)

  • Annual short reports on the state of press freedom in 196 countries
  • Legal, political and economic environment analyzed for each country; numerical scores assigned to each of these indicators, with high scores indicating limited or no press freedom

• International Press Institute

  • Global organization with members in 120 countries; promotes and defends press freedom
  • Media law watchdog
  • Good source of articles on issues concerning journalism from many regions around the world