Visual Communication

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Journals/Magazines

Art Full Text Restricted Resource openURL Resource contains audio Some full text available
Indexes and offers full text for journals in the fields of art history, architecture, craft, design, landscape architecture, museology, photography and video. Covers both western and non-western art. Three hundred seventy-seven publications are indexed back to 1984, with full text provided to one hundred eleven journals back to 1997. Its companion database, Art Index Retrospective, indexes back to 1929.
Art Index Retrospective Restricted Resource openURL
Citations for articles, reviews and art reproductions in key international arts periodicals covering all aspects of art and art history including related disciplines of architecture, archaeology, design, film, museology and photography. Covers 1929- 1984. For 1984 to the present, search the Bibliography of the History of Art and Art Full Text.
Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC) Restricted Resource openURL Some full text available
Communication and media indexes, abstracts and full-text.
Communications & Mass Media Collection Some full text available
From GALE, this is a subject collection derived from the database Academic OneFile. A custom collection of more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field: key subjects covered include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.
ERIC (Ebsco interface) Restricted Resource openURL Some full text available
Bibliographic citations, abstracts, and some full-text for journal articles, research and technical reports, conference papers and proceedings, program descriptions, teaching guides, and lesson plans covering  all areas and levels of education.
Pop Culture Collection Restricted Resource Some full text availableopenURL
Collection of approximately 100 InfoTrac titles that are are useful for searching popular culture.

Popular Magazines Restricted Resource Some full text available
From GALE, this custom collection contains about 1,000 of the most popular magazines such as: Consumer Reports, Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, etc.

Pulp Magazines Project Some full text available
An archive of all-fiction pulpwood magazines from 1896-1946.

Readers' Guide Retrospective Restricted Resource openURL
Media literacy researchers often need to access popular periodicals. Use this database to search popular periodicals from 1890-1982. Click the green arrow to find if we have full text. Some databases have HTML only.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. It indexes and abstracts books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals.  1973 - present
*Please note that BHA has moved from the CSA platform to the Getty Research Institute.

Communication Studies: a SAGE Full-Text Collection Restricted Resource openURL Some full text available
Communications journals from Sage Publishing covering Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies / Intercultural Communication, Television / Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational / Management Communication, Written Communication, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies.
Google Books Some full text available
Search the full-text of millions of books and magazines -click the "Full view only" button to find full-text books or magazines.   Newer titles still under copyright can be searched, but the full-text is not viewable.  Use the "Find this book in a library" link to see if the IC Library has the title. Enter 14850 to see a list of local libraries that own the book.   If IC is listed, clicking on the link will take you to the record in the IC Library catalog, displaying its call number and availability.
Life Magazine Photo Archives (powered by Google) Resource contains images
Search LIFE Magazine images by keyword, browse by decade, or explore featured events, people, or places, from the 1860s - 1900s.  Names of photographers and the dates that photos were taken are identified.
Time Magazine Cover Archive Resource contains images
Images of Time Magazine covers from 1923-current.

Newspapers

New York Times (1851-2009) Restricted Resource openURL Resource contains images Some full text available
The full-text of the NY Times. Includes all images and advertising.  Search for names, events and concepts and view a summary of an article, a PDF image of the article or the entire page of the newspaper.
Wall Street Journal (1889-1995) Restricted Resource openURL Resource contains images Some full text available
Includes the full text, full image, and advertising. Search for names, events and concepts. See a summary of the article as well as an image of the article or the entire page of the newspaper. Use the Date option at the bottom of the screen to limit your search to particular dates. 
Newseum Resource contains images Some full text available
Front pages from US newspapers and international newspapers are posted daily. Geographic and alphabetical by title searching is available. 

Web Sites

Cigarette Ads

Online color magazine ads from the 1920s through the 1950s glamorizing cigarette smoking.


Comic Book Resources
Online comics magazine and community.

ComicMix
Site for fans of "fantastic media fantastic media, from comic books television and movies to video games and more."

communicationspace: the media + communication studies network
Academic community social network sponsored by the publisher SAGE.
Graphic Novel Reporter
Graphic novel news by bookreporter.com.

Identity Archives
A keyword-searchable database of logos and brand identity designs from around the world.

Jerry Beck's Cartoon Research Library
Animation historian Beck's site containing his blog Cartoon Brew and Animated Movie Guide (also a book available through ebrary to I.C. users).

Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of the Moving Image advances the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media. It does so by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts; screening significant films and other moving-image works; presenting exhibitions of artifacts, artworks, and interactive experiences; and offering educational and interpretive programs to students, teachers, and the general public.The site includes a Research Guide.

On the Media Resource contains audio Some full text available
On the Media is a National Public Radio Program that reflects on how the media covered events in the weekly news. It also discusses issues in the media such as freedom of information .
Researcher's Toolbox (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division) Resource contains images Some full text available
Website provides information and methods for exploring image history, processes, content, and meaning.  Includes a VIsual Literacy exercise and information on dating photographs based on clothing and portraiture styles.

Cineuropa
This European cinema portal contains news, trailers, interviews, and reports about the European film industry.
Clio Awards
Site of the advertising award Festival. The Archive Search page indexes the best in global advertising back to 1960. Search the library's catalog for "Clio Awards" as a subject to access fulltext of award winners.
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
Peer reviewed online materials for teaching and learning. Indexes, defines, and links to online materials on the web.

Almanacs & Yearbooks

Editorials on File
Print Location: REF AP2 .E2
Loose-leaf volumes that compile editorials of the day. Also a source to find political cartoons. Library has from 1995-2004. Continued by Facts.com

Atlases

Worldmapper Resource contains images
"A collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. The maps presented on this website are equal area cartograms, which re-size each territory according to the variable being mapped."

Audio Files

Internet Archive Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form - includes links to video, images, animation, live music, audio, text, and software.  Use the TV News Search and Borrow to find clips from news shows from 21 networks back to 2009.  There is a fee to borrow the entire program.  The Prelinger Archives includes over 5,000 videos, over 90 old time radio audio clips, 2,000 game videos, 250 independent news clips and much more (including educational films, advertisements and industry films)
Tellytunes.com
British site that contains TV tile videos, lyrics, radio jingles, and advertisements. Content is not limited to Great Britain; many of the programs are from the U.S.

Bibliographies

AATA Online (Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts)
Abstracts of international literature for those involved in conservation of material cultural heritage, including works of art, cultural objects, architectural heritage, archaeological sites and landscape architecture/gardens.  Produced by the Getty Conservation Institute.

Biographical Information

Oxford Art Online Restricted Resource Resource contains images Some full text available
Visual arts and images from prehistoric times to the present. Search by styles and cultures, time period, and geographic region. Some links to color images and supplemented by searchable color images from the Bridgeman Art Library. Includes Grove Art Online.

Blogs

ArturoSinclair.com
Prof. Sinclair's site includes three blogs: 1) iMachina (research and practice in virtual worlds), 2) Interactive Storytelling (games and digital media) and 3) Experimental Hybrids (documents Sinclair's first multinational collaborative project and now his autonomous robotic marionette).

Great Design
"A blog about design and how it can improve the world" created by Prof. Ari Kissiloff (Ithaca College) and Xanthe Matychak (R.I.T.).
Posters and Election Propaganda
A blog by Dr. Prof. Steven Seidman dedicated to the examination of communications in election campaigns.

All Graphic Design (AG Design)
Contains posts related to graphic design, including hints about graphic design software, typography, and more.
Bag News Notes
Progressive blog by Michael Shaw, clinical psychologist, that analyzes news images.
In Media Res
A MediaCommons Project. This academic blog by the Institute for the Future of the Book (Annenberg Center for Communication at USC) and the MacArthur Foundation promotes discourse by posting 30 second clips by media scholars.
No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy
Blog by Hariman, Northwestern University and Lucaites, Indiana University.
Teaching Online Journalism
Mindy McAdams, professor of online journalism, discusses issues of online journalism practice from an educator's perspective.
TV By the Numbers
Blog by Bill Gorman and Robert Seidman that collects and explores TV ratings data.

Colleges & Universities

Media Education Lab
Temple University program that focuses on media education through curriculum materials, publications, workshops, seminars, etc.

Dictionaries

A Dictionary of Media and Communication Restricted Resource
By Daniel Chandler and Rod Munday, Oxford University Press, 2011. From the publisher, "The Dictionary of Media and Communication is an authoritative and wide-ranging A-Z providing over 2,200 entries on terms used in media and communication."
List of online newspaper archives (Wikipedia)
Lists online newspaper archive projects by nation and by state. Distinguishes free collections from fee-based ones.
Oxford Art Online Restricted Resource Resource contains images Some full text available
Visual arts and images from prehistoric times to the present. Search by styles and cultures, time period, and geographic region. Some links to color images and supplemented by searchable color images from the Bridgeman Art Library. Includes Grove Art Online.

Visual Dictionary Online from Merriam Webster Resource contains images
Over 6,000 images which visually illustrate objects. Individual parts of the objects are labeled. Topics include animals, architecture, astronomy, art, clothing, communications, food, Earth, energy, games, gardening, household items, humans, kitchen items, machinery, plants, science, society, sports, and transportation

E-books

ebrary Resource contains images Some full text available
Over 70,000 full-text ebooks on business & economics, education, technology, humanities, life & physical sciences, law & politics, medicine, social & behavioral sciences, language & literature, and career guidance. Approximately 300 ebooks are single-user access titles; all other ebooks support multiple-user simultaneous use.
Google Books Some full text available
Search the full-text of millions of books and magazines -click the "Full view only" button to find full-text books or magazines.   Newer titles still under copyright can be searched, but the full-text is not viewable.  Use the "Find this book in a library" link to see if the IC Library has the title. Enter 14850 to see a list of local libraries that own the book.   If IC is listed, clicking on the link will take you to the record in the IC Library catalog, displaying its call number and availability.
HathiTrust Digital Library Resource contains images Some full text available
A collaborative project of several research-level academic libraries across the United States, HathiTrust is a digital repository for scanned books and other digital materials similar to Google Books.  In some cases, books that are only available in snippet view through Google Books are available in full text at HathiTrust.

Developing Media Literacy in Cyberspace Restricted Resource
by Julie Frechette. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2002.
Handbook on research on teaching literacy through the communicative and visual arts Restricted Resource
by James Flood. LEA, Inc. 2004. Notice: only one user may access this document at a time.
Regulation, Awareness, Empowerment. Young People and Harmful Media Content in the Digital Age Some full text available
Nordicom, 2006, 286 p. E-book from the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth & Media. PDF format.
What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy Restricted Resource Some full text available
by James Paul Gee. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of gender in media
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2012.  Ebook, single user only. 
Encyclopedia of Semiotics
Print Location: REF P99 .E64 1998
Bouissa (ed.).  New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. Articles on the theory of signs, signification, representation, communication, and meaning.
Grove Art Online Restricted Resource Resource contains images Some full text available
Covers every aspect of the visual arts from prehistoric times to the present. Search by styles and cultures, time period, and geographic region. Includes access to the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Also provides access to 5,000 images through partnerships with organizations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Art Resource, and international galleries and individual artists. Search for images and biographies - images are also accessible through links embedded within articles, or by clicking a tab at the top of articles entitled Images.
note: LIMITED TO 3 SIMULTANEOUS USERS
Lambiek Comiclopedia Resource contains images Some full text available
Illustrated compendium of over 10,000 comic artists from around the world. Search for artists, books, strips or comic characters.

Television cartoon shows: an illustrated encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003
Print Location: http://phoebe.ithaca.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=335678
2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2005.
Television variety shows : histories and episode guides to 57 programs
Print Location: REF PN1992.8 .V3 I56 2006
McFarland, 2006.

Handbooks & Guides

Open Thinking Wiki
Dr. Alec Couros's list of videos that can be used in teaching technological and media literacy including: copyright, media influence, the history of technology and media, social networks and identity, mashups, stop motion, animation and short films, public service announcements, cyberbullying and internet safety, and documentaries.

Reel diversity : a teacher's sourcebook
New York : P. Lang, c2008.

Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A web-linked guide to resources and activities
by Richard Beach. Companion to the book by the same title.
The teacher's guide to media literacy : critical thinking in a multimedia world
Print Location: P96.M4 S34 2012
By Scheibe & Rogow. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2012.  Dr. Scheibe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ithaca College.
Visual Literacy Toolbox: Learning to Read Images Some full text available
College of Arts &Humanities, University of Maryland College Park.  Resource for faculty who plan to incorporate visual literacy skills into their curricula. Includes: online activities, activity plans, questions to explore, and learning objectives.

Images

Art Museum Image Gallery Restricted Resource Resource contains images

Art Museum Image Gallery draws on the collections of museums around the world. The images cover a broad range of time and place, with entries from 3000 B.C. to the present day, and art from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, including Native American and Meso-American peoples.


ARTstor Restricted Resource Resource contains images Some full text available
Database of more than 1,000,000 digital images representing visual and material culture across cultures and time periods. Documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. ARTstor tools enable the ability to save groups of images online for personal and classroom use. IC's Visual Resources Collection (VRC) of over 20,000 images is now available. Look for the Ithaca College-Visual Resouces Collection link in the lower middle section of the page.

Digital Comic Museum
Contains downloadable public domain golden age comics
Harvey Richards Media Archive
"The Archive contains a  treasure of images of the political and social upheavals of the 1960s on the west coast and of the devastating impact of capitalist resource exploitation in western forests, among other subjects."  The archive is created by Paul Richards, son of the artist.
Life Photo Archive (hosted by Google)
Searchable archive of photos from the magazine Life. Also arranged by decade for browsability.

Media History Digital Library Some full text available Resource contains images
A non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals about cinema, broadcasting, and recorded sound; Collections feature extensive runs of several important trade papers and fan magazines.
New York Heritage Digital Collections Resource contains images
A research portal to hundreds of digital collections about New York State's people, places, and institutions. Search the digital collections from libraries, museum, and archives.
Pulp Fiction Cover Art ( University of Buffalo Digital Collections)
Covers of over 30,000 pulp fiction books and magazines, representing more than 500 crime fiction and science fiction volumes found in the Kelley Collection. Colorful and dynamic, the cover art highlights a variety of artistic themes and imagery, reflecting the social and cultural trends of the period in which these covers were created.
Richard Balzer Collection
Contains online versions of early opitcal illusions such as zoetropes, dissolve slides, and thaumatropes.

Shots of War: Photojournalism during the Spanish Civil War Resource contains images
Contains photos of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) from the Mandeville Special Collections Library at UC San Diego.
World Images
The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images can be located using many search techniques, and for convenience they are organized into over 800 portfolios which are then organized into subject groupings.
Ad*Access Some full text available
From Duke University Library's J.W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History, this database contains 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. & Canadian newspapers and magazines from 1911-1955. Main subject areas include: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II. Ads can be searched or browsed.
Advertising Icon Museum Some full text available
Search the toy icons of the online version of the museum to find out some of the history of the images including: Mr. Peanut, Tony the Tiger, and the Energizer Bunny.
All-American Ads
Print Location: NC988.5 .A1
Book series that compiles ads across decades.
American Memory: Advertising
From the Library of Congress's American Memory project, this site includes 6 collections: Duke University's Emergence of Advertising in America (E.A.A.) (1850-1920); Broadsides and Printed Ephemera (1600-2000); Coca-Cola Advertising (1951-1999); Coolidge Era (1924-1929); Edison Companies; and Posters, WPA (1936-1943). Collections contain images and streaming video.
American Memory: Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals
Twenty three 19th century periodicals have been scanned in fulltext. Includes the Atlantic Monthly, The Century, Scientific American, and Harper's. The collection can be browsed or searched.
American Memory: Photos and Prints
An historical collection of images reflecting the life in the United States
AP Image Collection Restricted Resource Resource contains images Resource contains audio
A database of over 160 years of history as witnessed by The Associated Press. Photos: more than 3.6 million photographs from 1825 to today, with about 3,000 new photos added every day.  Graphics: more than one hundred thousand graphics, including maps, timelines, logos and graphs.  Audio: over 4,500 hours of audio clips from the 1920s forward.  Links to hourly newscasts on the home page under the audio tab.

Note: This database may be used for educational purposes only. Images may not be posted on the Web or otherwise made available electronically to anyone outside the Ithaca College community. These images may not be republished or distributed in newspapers, newsletters, magazines, brochures, catalogs, yearbooks, calendars, posters, or similar materials.
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) Resource contains images
Search or browse editorial cartoons from 1997 to current by searching the Cartoon Research Library Database.
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum Resource contains images
Research collection of American printed cartoons at Ohio State University.  Includes a Cartoon Image Database and Digital Exhibits.
Collect Britain Resource contains images Resource contains audio Some full text available

Links to over 100,000 images and sounds selected from the British Library collections. Resources included: maps, books, topographical drawings, stamps, photographs,newspapers, music and sound clips which illustrate regional accents and dialects, as well as wildlife recordings. Includes the Penny Illustrated Paper (1861-1913).


Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index
Find numerous political cartoons by current topics or major events. Cartoons can be sent as e-mails or licensed for use through this site.
Digital Collections: a Gateway to Materials held by the NY State Archives, Musuem, and Library Resource contains images
Primary source material collections include: Native American Collection, Environmental History Collection, Harlem Hellfighters Collection, Factory Investigating Commission, NY Chamber of Commerce Portraits, NY Lantern Slides Collection, Fairchild Aerial Surveys, NY State Conservation Department Photographic Prints and Negatives, Erie Canal.
Early Visual Media Resource contains images
by Thomas Weynants, independent scholar. A Pictorial Media Archeology covering pre-cinema, photography, early film, and television.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
Duke University archival collection of over 9,000 advertisements from 1850-1920
Facts.com: Editorial Cartoons Restricted Resource Resource contains images
Browse editorial cartoons by subject: Arts, Entertainment &the Media; Business, Labor &the Economy; Crime & Terrorism; Education; Environment; Families and Family Life; Human & Civil Rights; International Affairs; Judiciary; Medicine & Health Care; Minorities & Race Relations; Politics & Political Reform; Religion; Science and Technology; Sports; Wars, Weaponry & Military Forces; & Women
Harvard University - Social Museum Image Collection Some full text available
Images from Harvard's Social Museum that pertain to the voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
Hermitage Museum: Digital Collection
The outstanding collection at the Russian Hermitage Museum can be browsed or even searched by color.
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Works of Art
The NYC Met Museum posts over 6,500 works of art in its permanent collection that can be browsed or searched. Includes learning activities, timelines and special exhibits.
Reanimation Library Image Collection
Images (photos, drawings, illustrations, etc.) collected from outdated instructional books and manuals. Useful for historic look at graphics, or pop culture kitsch.
Shorpy Photo Archive Resource contains images
High quality archive of old photos particularly from the 1850s to the 1950s.
Visual Dictionary Online from Merriam Webster Resource contains images
Over 6,000 images which visually illustrate objects. Individual parts of the objects are labeled. Topics include animals, architecture, astronomy, art, clothing, communications, food, Earth, energy, games, gardening, household items, humans, kitchen items, machinery, plants, science, society, sports, and transportation
Wellcome Collection Resource contains images
Over 40,000 high quality images in both color & black and white covering "2000 years of human culture". Images on this site are freely available for download for personal, academic teaching or study use, under one of two Creative Commons licences.

Local

Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL)
The local public library is located at 101 East Green Street not far from the Ithaca Commons.   All residents, including students, living in Tompkins County can be issued a library card.  The library is especially useful for researchers needing popular magazines for media literacy research. They keep 3 years of most titles. They provide local history information, too.  The Finger Lakes Library System catalog (PowerPAC) has holdings for all public libraries in Tompkins County (DVDs, CDs, audobooks).

C. Hadley Smith Photograph Collection Resource contains images
Digitized photographs of Ithaca College people, events, and buildings, from 1950 into the 1980s.  Part of the New York Heritage online database.

Project Look Sharp Some full text available
Project Look Sharp provides materials, training and support to help teachers prepare students for life in today's media saturated world. Project Look Sharp promotes the effective integration of media literacy and critical thinking into classroom curricula at all educational levels and instructional areas. Project Look Sharp also evaluates the effectiveness of school-based media literacy education.
Visual Resources Collection / Ithaca College Art History Department
General description of the Art History digital image collection and other audiovisual materials available, hours of operation, & administrative information.

Newspapers--International

Newspaper Map
The "world's largest newspaper site" allows users to browse a world map of news.  Use a search box to focus on a location.  There is a language feature for translations.

Organizations

American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
The professional association of design.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
AEJMC sets standards for excellence in journalism and mass communication education and research.
Center for Cartoon Studies
The CSC, "is dedicated to providing the highest quality of education to students interested in creating visual stories."  It operates under the charter of the The National Association of Comics Art Educators.

Comic-Con
Premiere convention for the comic arts.

Experimental Television Center (ETC)
A Center founed in 1971 that supports the media arts community.  The website includes the Video History Project that provides information about people, tools, collection, preservation, etc. on video history.

International Graphic Arts Education Association (IGAEA)
From the website: "The International Graphic Arts Education Association (IGAEA) is an association of educators in partnership with industry, dedicated to sharing theories, principles, techniques and processes relating to graphic communications and imaging technology."  They publish the Visual Communications Journal.

Journalism that Matters
Community of media innovators that gather to discuss the changing ecology of news production and dissemination.
Media Ecology Association (MEA)
Association that studies media ecology which is, "the relationships between media, consciousness, and culture in interdisciplinary, philosophical and historical contexts to examine our technological society."

Media Education Foundation
Organization that produces educational documentaries that examines American mass media's impact on society.

National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE)
Organization focused on media literacy in the United States.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Professional organization of college and university educators who study the history and creation of film, television and media. Publisher of the Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use in Teaching for Film & Media Educators.
Adbusters
From the Adbusters Media Foundation, this is the online companion to the activist magazine that mocks commercial advertising and offers media criticism through edgy articles and images.
Advertising Educational Foundation (AEF)
Educational arm of the advertising industry. the On campus page includes case histories, educational materials, speaker presentations, etc.  Here is the Ad Council Retrospective page.
Center for Media Design (CMD)
Funded by the Lilly Endowment, the CMD of Ball State University conducts research on digital media.
Center for Media Literacy (CML)
Educational organization that helps put research into practice.
International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS)
Founded in 1998 to drive creativity on the Internet. The organization is diverse including industry leaders in online advertising, film, television, games, and mobile. The Webby Awards honor top websites in numerous industry and media categories every year.
International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA)
Non-profit association of visual literacy educators and artists. Publishes the Journal of Visual Literacy.
National Communication Association (NCA) Some full text available
Information on conferences, communication programs, publications, and current research.

Primary Sources

Europeana Resource contains images Resource contains audio
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.
NARC Online Archives
Case reports of the National Advertising Division (NAD), Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU), National Advertising Review Board (NARB), and the Electronic Retailing Self-Regulation Program (ERSP).  NOTE: See the reference desk; A reference librarian will sign you in to access the fulltext of the cases.

Statistics/Data

Fast Food FACTS
Yale University health researchers (Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity)  developed this site of facts on advertising food to youth for consumers and researchers.
Gapminder Resource contains images
Gapminder World provides both interactive charts and graphs of United Nation statistics, including life expectancy and income per capita.  Many are interactive. It contains data on the local, national and global levels about social, economic and environmental conditions. This is product of the United Nations in conjunction with Google using Trenalyzer software.
Information Aesthetics Resource contains images
Blog of the intersection between creative design and information visualization. One especially good example is "5 years of Infosthetics": http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/5yrs-infosthetics/

Many Eyes Resource contains images
Data analysis using visualizations to seek patterns.
TVEyes: UK television and radio transcripts Restricted Resource Resource contains video Resource contains audio
October 26, 2012- present. "TVEyes' provides real-time coverage of all terrestial & sattelite TV and radio broadcasters in all regions of United Kingdom. It provides a time-efficient and economical way to find out what is being said about any issue, any subject or any person through video and audio files including transcripts." -LexisNexis source information
Media Research Hub
This project of the Social Science Research Council contains links to data, grants, events, people and news in the field of media research (media ownership, radio, television, localism, FCC, etc.). Data sets are free of charge. Users can create an account and receive alerts.
CPANDA (Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive) Some full text available
Archives data on arts, media, and cultural policy.

TV Stations

BBC Motion Gallery Some full text available
BBC programming (over 70 years) and CBS News footage.
ABC News Some full text available
Network site
C-SPAN
Non-profit corporation funded by cable and satellite affiliates that provides public access to daily political events such as congressional debates.  See also: C-SPAN's Video Library (programs from 1987+)
CBS News Some full text available
Network site
NBC Some full text available
Network site
Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University)
Index to television news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN as well as special events coverage. Users must register prior to searching. Tapes can be borrowed for a fee paid by the requestor. 1989+

Video

AdViews Resource contains images Some full text available
Over 1,500 historic TV commercials from the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in the Duke University Special Collections Library.  As of fall 2009, the majority of advertisements are from the 50s and 80s.    Requires iTunes software.
Critical Commons : For Fair & Critical Participation in Media Culture
This non-profit site supports teaching and research by hosting media clips that can be used for classroom instruction.  Faculty can add clips with commentary for class instruction by registering on the site as an advanced user.  Students who register as basic users can create links and post comments to videos.
Hulu Resource contains video
Video distribution site of NBCUniversal, News Corporation, The Walt Disney Company, Providence Equity Partners and the Hulu team. From: More about Hulu.

iTunes (Apple) Some full text available
Movies, music, television, lectures, games, etc. from Apple. Users must download the iTunes software.  Digital Media can be streamed through a personal computer or downloaded to an iPod.

Jaroo
Free children's television cartoons from Cookie Jar Entertainment.

Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC): Archives Resource contains video
Located in Chicago, the MBC provides publications, events, a searchable archive, and a Radio Hall of Fame to preserve and protect the history of radio and television. MBC's archives includes television and radio programming, commercials and images.  Users must register for a free account.  Check the Digital File Available box to retrieve fulltext.
NFB Images
Archival footage from the National Film Board (NFB) of Canada.

PBS Video Some full text available
Streaming video from PBS including American Experience, Masterpiece, FRONTLINE, NOVA, and many others.

Popcornflix
Free (ad-supported) streaming movies.  Includes popular genres as well as Spanish, Bollywood, Documentary/Shorts, and Film School Originals. Much of the content is B-movie and low-budget content.

SearchVideo
Searches for video in YouTube, Yahoo!, Google,and MSN Videos, Veoh, Grouper, ifilm, Metacafe, movie clips, and tv news clips.  Also allows ranking by criteria such as most recent or relevant.

Thanhouser Films Online
A collection of streaming silent films from Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc.  The company seeks donations to help support future releases.

Tubesurf Video Search Engine
Searches for video on Youtube, Google, Yahoo, Live and MySpace all at once

TV News Search & Borrow Resource contains video
A part of the Internet Archive, the TV News Search & Borrow lets users identify television news clips (3 years including 20 networks).  If the full episode is needed, users can borrow it for a $50 processing fee. 
tv.com
CBS Interactive online content portal for streaming tv shows.

AdSlogans
AdSlogan.com, a UK company, posted materials for students and educators such as SloganMaker, Sloganalysis, Brand Categories, & the Advertising Slogan Hall of Fame (the best ads of the past 100 years). TV ads can be viewed in full. Note: this page is no longer updated as of 2006 but is still useful
Advertisement Avenue
Access commercials from the Super Bowl, by company, product, category, or celebrity with this portal. Not comprehensive, but a serviceable sampling.
Advertising Age
A.k.a. "Ad Age", this online portal to the magazine contains a DataCenter, blogs, links to TV Spots, video, etc. Current year in paper is available in Pop Periodicals HF5801 .A276; microfiche available from 1966-2003 at the same call number. For fulltext online access to the magazine search "Find Journals by Title" from the library's homepage.
American Memory: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
150 digitized films from the Library of Congress. Includes agricultural, industrial and recreational activities of Americans from 1894-1915.
Annenberg Learner - Teacher Resources Some full text available
Educational, online videos in many subjects. Select from the list and then look for the VoD (Video On Demand) icon for the free content. Free registration required.
Blinkx Some full text available
Video search engine.
Burnstudio Audio Tool Resource contains audio
This site includes audio software for filmmakers.  It is what remains of the German film website, Hobnox, which was removed in 2010 due to financial reasons.

CBS Video
An ad-supported video channel from CBS.
Creative Commons
Artistic creators can assign works a CC license that explicitly grants degrees of permission for usage of personal works. The site includes images, audio, video, text and even lesson plans.
Creativity: Adcritic
Online site for Creativity magazine contains Adcritic picks for TV, print & interactive advertising.
Google Video
Video search engine.
Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008

From the Museum of the Moving Image, visitors can stream political ads through history. Site includes lesson plans for high school teachers and links to online resources.


MIT World
Massachusetts Institute of Technology site that freely distributes lectures offered by the MIT School of Engineering.
Open Vault (WGBH)
Free online streaming video of historically significant videos produced by WGBH. Includes transcripts. On a separate site is the WGBH American Experience television series; many of the the episodes can be viewed online.

OVGuide : Online Video Guide

Video search engine that features movie and television sites for browsing. Users can also browse categories.


SnagFilms
Full length commercially supported documentary films that can be streamed anywhere on the web. Currently includes 2,100 films.
Tellytunes.com
British site that contains TV tile videos, lyrics, radio jingles, and advertisements. Content is not limited to Great Britain; many of the programs are from the U.S.
Theatre in Video Restricted Resource Resource contains images Some full text available
Database uses streaming video to provide films of original productions of plays, along with film documentaries on the subject of theater.  Contains more than 250 plays and 100 documentaries. Search by production, theater, director, actor, and dates.  Requires Flash version 8 or higher.  Create playlists and save clips to share with others.  To obtain your free upgrade visit the Flash Player download page.

note: LIMITED TO 5 SIMULTANEOUS USERS
TV Guide: Online Video Guide Resource contains audio
Video portal that contains current tv clips, search engine, browse by genre, commercials, etc. Search by date, genre, and/or network.
Ubu Web
Contains avant garde films, sound recordings, and papers of modern cinema, music, dance, theater and poetry.
Veoh
TV site that is unique for its inclusion of Disney's ABC TV shows such as Lost, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Ugly Betty. Additionally: ESPN programs, Anime, and some gaming videos are included. Some videos are from sourced from Hulu.

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