Databases (Electronic)

• EbscoHost Research Databases(Access restricted to UWI students and staff)
• Emerald- Full text: Electronic Management Research Library Database (Access restricted to UWI Students and Staff). contains over 25,000 management articles from its archive back to 1989 and provides access to over 130 journals. such as the European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Personnel Review, The TQM Magazine and Library Management.
• First Search from OCLC (Access restricted to UWI Students and Staff). Provides access to more than 15 databases
• Popline from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Program provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues.
• ProQuest (Access restricted to UWI Students and Staff.) providing access to:
  ABI/INFORM Global includes 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal
  Academic Research Library Covers a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

Dictionaries (printed)

• Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies - 6th edition (2003)
  P87.5 W38 2003 (Main Library-MERIC)
• Dictionnaire des journalistes, 1600-1789/ sous la direction de Jean Sgard, avec collaboration de Michel Gilot et Francoise Weil.
  MN - REFERENCE (MERIC) PN4820.D5 1976.
• Longman Dictionary of Mass Media & Communication/ [edited by ] Tracey Daniel Connors.
  MN - REFERENCE (MERIC) P87.5 L66 1988
• A Mass Communications Dictionary: a Reference Work of Common Terminologies for Press, Print, Broadcast, Film, advertising and Communications Research/ Howard Boone Jacobson.
  MN - REFERENCE (MERIC) P87.5.J3 1969.
• McMillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising/ Michael John Baker. 3rd ed.
  MN - REFERENCE (MERIC) HF5415.B273 1998.
• Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications/ Richard Weiner.
  MN - REFERENCE (MERIC) P87.5W45 1990.
  

Dictionaries (Electronic)

• Cambridge Dictionaries Online

Encyclopedias (printed)

• The Advertising age encyclopedia of advertising
  MN -REF - GENERAL HF5803 A38 2003
• Encyclopedia of Advertising.../ Irvin graham.
  MN - Open Shelf. HF5803.G68 1969.
• Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (2003) P87.5
  MN- MERIC P87.E535 2003 (Main Library-MERIC)
• Encyclopedia of New Media: an Essential reference to Communication and Technology/ Steve Jones, editor.
  SC-REF-Books - QA76.575 E5368 2003
• Encyclopedia of Television
  MN - MERIC PN1992.18 E53 1997
• International Encyclopedia of Communications/ Erik Barnouw, editor.
  SC - REFERENCE RS141.3.B752.
• The Museum of Broadcast Communications encyclopedia of radio
  SC - REF - TK6544 M84 2004
• Women and American television: an encyclopedia
  MN - MERIC PN1992.8 W65 L69 1999
• World Press Encyclopedia/ edited by George Thomas Kurian.
  MN - REFERENCE (MERIC) PN4735.K87.

Electronic Journals

• American Communication Journal
• American Journalism Review (Free: Published by The Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland)
• Canadian Journal of Communication (Published by the University of Calgary, Canada)
• Columbia Journalism Review (Published by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University)
• Communication Theory
• Global Media Journal
• Human Communication Research
• Journal of Communication
• Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
• Media Development
• Newsweek Magazine
• On-line Journal of Film Studies
• Online Journalism Review (Free: Published by the USC Annenberg School of Communication, U.S.A.)
• People Magazine
• Time Magazine

Internet resources

• ADAM Browse Tree: Media
• Advertising Age ( Site is designed to be a news delivery service and a business information research system. Register as a MyAdAge Registration Page to get daily news flows and data reports from businesses. Registration is free.
• Caribbean newspapers (Links from Caribbean City)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• The Communication Initiative
• Essential Resources for the Working Journalist: Journalists' Toolkit
• HealthCommKey - Health Communication database from the Centers for
  Disease Control and Prevention
• Healthy People: Health Communication
• Kaiser Family Foundation (Full-Text) Reports on Entertainment Media and
  Health
• National Institutes of Health (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
• NBC News Archives
• One World Network
• A Primer on Health Risk Communication Principles and Practices (from the US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Social-Marketing.com
• The State of the News Media 2004: An Annual Report on American Journalism
• Today's Front Page (scanned front pages of over 300 world newspapers)
• Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies Page
• Your Personal Guide to Digital Technology

Audio-Visuals

• BBC Audio Interviews
  -Archives BBC interviews with prominent cultural and political icons
  (includes interview with Bob Marley).
  

Jamaican /Caribbean Media Sites

• CANA On-Line
• Caribbean Week
• Creatiive Production and Training Centre Ltd. (CPTC)
• CVM TV
• Jamaica Information Service (JIS)
• Jamaica - Gleaner
• The Jamaica Observer
• Jampress
• RJR
• The Sunday Herald
• Trinidad Express
• Trinidad Guardian
• TVJ

International Media Sites

• British Broadcasting Corporation
• Cable News Network (CNN)
• Reuters (Global information company providing information tailored for professionals in the financial serices, media and corporate markets.)
• White House News
• White House Press Briefings

Academic Departments/Associations/Institutions etc

• CARIMAC (Caribbean Institute of Media and Communications): A unit of the Faculty of Arts and Education, University of the West Indies, Mona
• International Association for Mass Communication Research
• International Communication Association
• International Federation of Journalists
• Public Relations Society of America
• World Association of Newspapers

Liaison Librarian: Tameca Thelwell
Email:tameca.thelwell02@uwimona.edu.jm