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J396 International Communication:
Library Resources

The following resources are useful for J396 assignments and projects:

Reference Sources

• Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (REF KNIGHT P 87.5 .E532 2003; 4 vol.) A useful starting point which summarizes a country's or region's media structure.
  
• Europa World Plus provides background on a country's recent history, political structure, and economy, as well as a listing of a country's main newspapers, periodicals, and radio and TV stations. Choose a country; then, click "Directory: Society and Media."
  
• World Press Encyclopedia, second edition (REF KNIGHT PN 4728 .Q53 2003). Good for press history of a country; also provides figures for advertising expenditures.
  
• Country Reports on Human rights Practices (U.S. State Department) (DOC-US Y4 .In 8/16-15; and online.) Each country report has a section (usually Section 2) on freedom of the press and internet freedom.
• Attacks on the Press in 2006: A WorldWide Survey (Committee to Protect Journalists) (KNIGHT PN 4751 .A88 2007)

Web Sites

• World Factbook (CIA). A good introduction to important country facts and statistics. It includes literacy figures, and statistics on telephone usage, radio/TV stations and internet usage. Choose a country; then, click on "Communications."
  
• Arab Media and Society
• Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
• Africa South of the Sahara: Media and Mass Communications (Stanford University)
• Media and Communication in Latin America (University of Texas)
• International Press Institute publications, including the "IPI World Press Freedom Review."
• Press Freedom Survey (Freedom House). Click on the "Freedom of the Press" link; then choose a country.

Books

Books on international communication can be found under many subject headings in the UO Library Catalog, including the following:

• Mass media (e.g. Mass media Japan)
  
• Telecommunication (e.g. Telecommunication China)
  
• Freedom of the Press (e.g. Freedom of the Press Russia)
  

Articles in Periodicals or Newspapers

• Communication and Mass Media Complete
• ComAbstracts
• Sociological Abstracts
• Lexis-Nexis Academic. This database is also good for finding articles from English-language newspapers of the foreign press. Here's a suggested procedure for doing that: from the Lexis/Nexis search page, click on "Sources"; for Publication Type, click on News & Business Topics; for Filter by Country, pull down to the desired area or country; for Select a category to view sources, choose General News Sources. Choose the source you want to monitor, and then click OK Continue. You're now ready to enter a topic keyword.
• World News Connection provides full text transcripts of non-U.S. media sources. To select articles from a particular media, choose Sources, in the top right corner. Scan the list and choose your source. Then go to Advanced Search and enter the name of the media source in the Publication field. Then enter a topic keyword in the Headline and Lead Paragraph field.