Lab Exercise 3

Lab Exercise 3 is a project in Library and research skills.

Five Library Databases related to Media Industries:

1. Academic Search Complete: All purpose article database containing both scholarly and popular material. This database is hosted by the TAMU Library system.
2. Communication & Mass Media Complete: The most comprehensive Communication and Journalism database/search engine.
3. Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications: Online Encyclopedia with 200 articles covering communication and mass media concepts. This database is maintained by Science Direct.
4. JSTOR: Archive of historically important academic journals in science, social science, and humanities. Many articles are full-text.
5. Communication Abstracts: Provides abstracts for articles, reports, and books in communication related disciplines.

Five Library Databases related to Media Policy:

1. ERIC: Government sponsored database of education oriented articles. Contains over one million abstracts.
2. ICPSR: A source of freely available datafiles covering politics and social sciences.
3. Sociological Abstracts: Contains abstracts from sociology and related disciplines.
4. Business Database Guide: Contains an index of databases pertinent to the business side of Media Policy. This database is part of the TAMU library system.
   
5. PsychInfo: Psychology database. Great for interdisciplinary research. This database can be used to view the affects of media policy on the general public.
   

Five websites dealing with Media Industry News:

1. MinOnline: The authoritative source of breaking news and developments in the Media Industry.
   
2. Media Industry Today: A comprehensive news site dealing with developments and changes in the Media Industry.
3. Jim Romenesko: News and commentary about the happenings of the journalistic and media world.
4. The State of the News Media: This is an annual report on the state of American journalism.The report aims to examine the impact of journalism on normal Americans and the way in which Americans receive and process news information.
5. Newspaper Association of America: Focuses on the issues and challenges currently facing the American Newspaper industry.

All of the database resources were easily found using the TAMU Library's Communication & Journalism Subject Guide