- Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African film (2001) REF PN1993.5 .A65 C66. Covers: Central Asia, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebenon-Syria-Iraq-Kuwait, Libya, The Maghreb, Palestine, and Turkey
- Contemporary youth culture: an international encyclopedia REF HQ796 .C8454 2006
Greenwood Press, 2006. Covers popular culture, subculture and youth culture worldwide. - Encyclopedia of children, adolescents and the media REF HQ784 .M3 E53 2007
Sage Publications, 2007. Entries on children and the internet, video games, television, etc. - Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications
Scholarly overview of international media topics. Covers all media types (advertising, books, Internet, etc.) & media outlets (radio, television, etc.). Provides history, theory, and topical issues such as ethics, reporting of disasters, and copyright. Look at the Geopolitical Studies section. - European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions REF KJC3946 .E97 2007
Intellect Books, 2007. Ed. by Georgios Terzis. Country guide to European media ownership structures and policies. - European media governance : the Brussels dimension REF KJE6946 .E96 2008
Intellect, 2008. Examines how European media relates to national organizations such as the EU. - Greenwood encyclopedia of world popular culture REF HM621 .G74 2007
Greenwood Press, 2007. - International Film Guide REFPN1993.3 .I545 2009 "The definitive annual review of world cinima"
- International Motion Picture Almanac REF DESK PN 1993.3 I55
- International Television & Video Almanac REF DESK 1992.1 .U55
This annual reference covers: the year in television &video, biographies, television series, stations & ownership, networks-cable- satellite & wireless, production services, DVD &video distributors, professional organizations, and coverage of the world market. Latest ed. is at the Reference desk. 1957+ (with some gaps) are in General stacks. - Political handbook of the world: 2008 REFERENCE DESK D860 .P65 2006 Authoritative country guide
- World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH) REF TK6540 .W67
A directory of global broadcasting (radio and television) now in its 60th year of publication. Arranged alphabetically by country.
Use these databases to find scholarly journal articles, trade publication articles, and news:
- Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC)
Journal articles from all fields of communication (Journalism, Marketing, Radio, Television, etc.)
- Communication Studies: a Sage Full-Text Collection Full-text journals from the publisher SAGE. This is a full-text colection of titles in the field of communications by the publisher SAGE
- Academic Search Premier Multidisciplinary database
- Ethnic Newswatch Ethnic press and scholarship. Good for Indigenous peoples and the mass media
- General OneFile Multidisciplinary database
- JSTOR Limit to articles. Includes fulltext of legal, political, anthropological, and sociological articles.
- SocINDEX with Full Text Scholarship in sociology
- LexisNexis Academic Find international news, newswires and transcripts here. Click on the "News" tab and choose Non-US Newspapers and Wires from the Sources drop-down menu.
- ProQuest newspapers Includes BBC Monitoring a translation service. To search by title, click on "more search options" and type "BBC" after publication title.
- CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online International policy working papers, articles and reports
Ebrary
E-books from the Web:
- Ebrary: database of over 44,000 full-text books. In order to view, copy, or print from an ebook, you must download and install the ebrary Reader plugin. Viewer download works best with IE for PCs and Safari for Mac; don't use pop-up blockers; remote users may encounter a warning about a certificate during login - just accept it.
- Media in Europe: the Euromedia Research Group
A-Z country guide to European media. - Disneyization of Society (2004) by Bryman
- Media and Ethnic Minorities (2005) by Alia and Bull
E-books from the Web:
- Children, Young People and Media Globalisation. Yearbook 2002
Nordicom, 2002, 262 p. Editors: Cecilia von Feilitzen, Ulla Carlsoon. From the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth & Media. This yearbook is available in PDF format. - Finding the Right Place on the Map: Central and Eastern European Media Change in a Global Perspective
Intellect Books, 2008. Edited by Karol Jakubowicz and Miklos Sukosd. Online book compares media systems in post-Communist Countries. Search Intellect Books by the title to find it. Chapters can be accessed in pdf format. - OECD Communications Outlook 2009
OECD, Sept. 2009. Communications Outlook reports on the communications industry of member countries. Available free in PDF format. - Television across Europe: Regulation, Policy and Independence
Eumap.org, 2005. There are updates to this survey by the EU Monitoring and Advocacy program at mediapolicy.org. Available in PDF format. EUMAP is a programme of the Open Society Institute, a Soros Foundations network. - Towards a New Model: Media and Communication in Post-conflict and Fragile States
World Bank, Sept. 2008. Shanthi Kalathil with John Langlois and Adam Kaplan. To download the pdf, you must put in your name, organization, and field of work.
WorldCat (via FirstSearch)
WorldCat (via FirstSearch) provides bibliographic information for over 41 million books and multimedia owned by libraries worldwide.
WorldCat (via FirstSearch) provides bibliographic information for over 41 million books and multimedia owned by libraries worldwide.
Country Guides:
Legal / Policy
- BBC Country Profiles
- Compendium: Cultural policies and trends in Europe
From the website: The Compendium is a joint venture between the Council of Europe and the ERICarts Institute, realised with a community of practice of independent cultural policy researchers, NGOs, national governments and information partners. - CountryReports.org - Country Information
- Countries of Europe
- The Economist: Country briefings: news and analysis by country
- Freedom in the World
This survey by Freedom House rates countries on the level of their press freedom.
- Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository (select footage)
- Al Jazeera English
- Alhurra TV Arabic language satellite tv station for the Middle East financed by the US BBG
- BBC Monitoring scattered by region. Mainly in ProQuest select newspapers.
- BBC News
- GlobalPost
- I WANT MEDIA - MEDIA Resources
- Inter Press Service (IPS)
- LexisNexis Academic Use the Sources tab in the upper left of the screen to create a file for a particular region or nation.
- Maori Television
- MediaChannel.org for Democratic Media
- Nigeria: Radio Nigeria (Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria) Largest radio network in Africa
- Nigerian Television Authority TV network for the people of Nigeria
- NHK Japan
- One World, global news
- Online Newspapers news portal
- Radio Sawa Arab language network financed by the US BBG
- Truveo video news search engine
- World News Connection (walk-in use at Cornell University) Translates foreign news into English. Cornell also has the Foreign Broadcast Information Service reports. Search their catalog for detailed information.
- Business and company resource center Look up a media companies here.
- Business Source Premier (Original Interface) Business trade pubs and scholarship.
- ABI/INFORM databases Business trade pubs and scholarship.
- INPUT Annual weeklong showcase of public television content.
- MIP World
MIP connects the global entertainment content industry through conferences, exhibits, and online communities. - Columbia Journalism Review (CJR): Who Owns What Big media family trees.
Legal / Policy
- Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
- Broadcasting Board of Governors (U.S. civilian international broadcasting including: Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Radio and TV Marti, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks - Radio Sawa and Alhurra Television)
- Canadian Radio and Television Communications Commission
- European Union Legal Materials: An Infrequent User\'s Guide
- Europa : European Union On-Line Documentation Centre>Legislation> EUR-Lex (also searchable under the Law tab in LexisNexis): Directory of Community Legislation> Chapter 16
- European Audiovisual Observatory "The Information portal for the audiovisual sector"
- Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) Portal to international law resources for telecom, broadcasting, & networks.
- Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority
- Ireland: Commissions for Communications Regulation
- Japan: Ministry of Public Management Affairs, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunications
- Nigeria: National Film and Video Censors Board (nfvcb)
- Nigeria: National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Broadcast regulator of Nigeria
- Singapore: Media Development Authority
- Thailand: Government Information Office
- Taiwan: Government Information Office
- Ofcom : Office of Communications
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
U.S. government agency that regulates radio, television, wire, satellite and cable communications. The site includes: headline news, links to bureaus and offices (such as the Office of General Counsel / Court Filings), Public Comments page, an online Complaint form, a Consumer Center, Rules and Regulations (CFR title 47), etc. Most recently, the FCC links to Broadband.gov, a separate page addressing the National Broadband Plan and FFC.gov/data (an online clearinghouse for data sets).
- Cineuropa
This European cinema portal contains news, trailers, interviews, and reports about the European film industry. - Europeana
European collection of cultural materials from museums, archives, libraries, and audio-visual collections such as the Rijksmuseum, the British Library, and the Louvre. Includes images, texts, sounds and videos. - Eurovision Song Contest
European television show founded in in May,1956. The History tab includes an overview year-by-year or by country. - UCLA: Center for European and Eurasian Studies
- European Media Monitor includes breaking news (NewsBrief), news analysis and summaries NewsExplorer, etc. for European news
- NationMaster
A central data source and handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Use the search form to generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics. Click the "Countries A-Z" tab, pick a country, then choose "media" - UNdata
UNdata pools major UN databases and those of several international organizations - browse, search and download data from a large number of statistical databases. Data categories include: agriculture, education, employment, energy, environment, health, human development, industry, information and communication technology, national accounts, population, refugees, trade, and tourism. - Media Cloud
Data tool from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard that visulizes the flow of the media.
- Print Reference works that include statistics:
- International Motion Picture Almanac REF DESK PN 1993.3 I55
- International Television & Video Almanac REF DESK 1992.1 .U55
- Statistical Yearbook (European Audiovisual Observatory) REF HE8700.9 .E8 S72
European Audiovisual Observatory, Council of Europe, 2008. 3 volumes. The library acquires new editions every few years. - TV Dimensions REF HE 8700.8 .T917
