COMM 2501 - Media History & Contemporary Issues - Journalism & Digital Media - MRU Library Website at Mount Royal University

Background Sources

Credo Academic Core
An online reference library comprised of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, etc.
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Sage Knowledge
A collection of handbooks, encyclopedias and handbooks with lots of content related to media and communications.
World History In Context
Access to primary source documents, reference sources, full-text academic journals, maps, images and statistics.
Access to this resource is funded by Alberta Advanced Education through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library.
Oxford Reference Library
Cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Includes subscription titles via Oxford Reference Online Premium subscription collection as well as access to individual reference titles purchased perpetually.
Life Magazine Archive
An extensive full-text collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000.

These tools provide images, video and sound. You can find additional resources on the Broadcast Media Studies research guide.

Image Collection - Ebsco
A collection containing images from Archive Photos, Canadian Press, Motion Picture & Television Archive, and MapQuest as well as a variety of images from the public domain.
Images may be printed for personal, non-commercial use and used in presentations for educational use consistent with the Copyright Act of 1976, subject to any additional restrictions included in the copyright statement accompanying the image.

Bridgeman Images: The Bridgeman Art Library
BBC Sound Effects Database
16,000 sound effects from the massive BBC radio archive.
LIFE Photo Archive
Creative Commons Search
Lists and searches websites providing images, music, video, and text that use Creative Commons licensing