• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
  • Reference:
    
    
    • Online:
      
      
      • Encyclopaedia Britannica
      • The Oxford Companion to United States History
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • The Advertising Age: Encyclopedia of Advertising
      • Encyclopedia Americana
      
      
• Books in the main collection:
  
  
  • Subject search; uses Library of Congress subject headings, e.g.:
    
    
    • Mass Media
    • Newspapers
    • Press
    • Press and Politics
    • Motion Pictures
    • Radio Broadcasting
    • Television Broadcasting
    • Censorship
    • Advertising
      
      
  • keyWord search; searches the title, contents, series, etc.
    
    
    • e.g., Mass Media (314 entries)
      
      
  • Author search
    
    
    • e.g., Soley, Lawrence
      
      
• Books outside Miller Library:
  
  
  • Other libraries:
    
    
    • U of MD libraries
    • U of DE library
    • Library of Congress
      
      
  • WorldCat
    • most distinguished database of catalogued books in the world
    • searches over 52 million records held by academic libraries worldwide
      
      
  • For books not available in the library, please order through Interlibrary Loan
    • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks
  
  

• Multi-disciplinary:
  
  
  • Academic Search Premier
    • 4,500+ general and academic journals (3,600+ peer-reviewed)
    • scholarly, multidisciplinary database
    • coverage 1975+
    • mostly full-text
      
      
  • Business Source Premier
    • all subject areas related to business
    • 7,400+ scholarly business journals and other sources
    • full-text
    • coverage from 1965+
      
      
  • WilsonWeb
    • 3,500+ general and academic journals
    • two components: OmniFile Full Text Mega; Humanities & Social Sci Retro
    • OmniFile Full Text Mega: indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text in 1994
    • Humanities & Social Sci Retro: index only, 1907-1984
    • 1,750 journals are full-text
      
      

• Check journal titles in Journal Finder, the library's electronic full-text holdings
  
  
• For articles not available in the library, please order through Interlibrary Loan
  • free, online order form, budget 1-2 weeks

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• Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • 5,900+ news, business, legal, medical and reference publications
  • national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
  • full-text
    
    
• New York Times (1851-2001)
  • the complete newspaper (text, graphs, photos, etc.) in digital form

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• WCTR Radio: Voice of Kent & Queen Anne's
• Radio-Locater
  
  
• Evaluating the Web
  
  • Teaching Undergrads WEB Evalution
  • Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools (Available from Cornell University)

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• Hacker Online
  • citation examples