New issues of the following journals are available online this week:
Click on a title to access the issue. (Login with your BC username and password is required for off-campus access.)
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Thursday, May 08, 2008
A Note of Thanks
As the academic year comes to an end, I want to offer thanks to all of the students I've had an opportunity to work with on research questions, big and small, throughout the year. The topics you've come up with and the ways in which you've approached them have kept me on my toes and reinforced my sense of how interesting and diverse a discipline this is. I hope you've learned some tools and techniques for communication research -- and information gathering in general -- that you'll carry with you whether you're moving on or coming back for more. Congratulations to all of the graduates, and I'll see the rest of you in the fall.
24-Hour Study Space
Both the O’Neill Library Reserve Reading Room and Gargan Hall in the Bapst Library are open for 24-hour study through the night of Monday, May 12.
2008 Newspaper Ratings Report
Scarborough Research has released its 2008 report on audience penetration of newspapers in 161 U.S. metropolitan areas.
The Scarbourough Newspaper Audience Ratings Report 2008 provides data on 161 newspapers in 81 markets, including:
The Scarbourough Newspaper Audience Ratings Report 2008 provides data on 161 newspapers in 81 markets, including:
- the number of adults in the market area (and percentage of the overall adult population) who have "read or looked into" the daily or Sunday edition of the newspaper within the past 5 weekdays or past Sunday;
- the number and percentage of area adults who have visited the newspaper's website(s) in the past 7 days; and
- the integrated audience -- the number and percentage of area adults who have read
the printed newspaper or visited the newspaper’s website(s), or did both,
during the past seven days.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Do citation styles have you confused?
Are you putting together a list of works cited for a communication research paper and having trouble with citation formats? There are several places you can turn for help:
* Online guides to APA and MLA from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.You'll find instructions and examples for the most common types of references and in-text citations -- and for some less common types, as well.
* The APA Style Guide to Electronic References (BC login required)
* Style manuals at the O'Neill Reference Desk. Ask for manuals on APA and MLA (as well as Chicago, Turabian, and others) at the desk. These are the official manuals and can help you figure out the right way to cite common and uncommon resources.
* APA Exposed: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About APA Format but Were Afraid to Ask. Online tutorial prepared by a graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
* RefWorks. If you're already using RefWorks, you probably know about the bibliography tool. If not, it might be a little late to learn everything about RefWorks, but get in touch with me and I can give you some tips on how to make the most of it in a short time.
Finally, don't be afraid to ask for help from me (in any of the usual ways) or from any of the librarians at the Reference Desk.
E-Journals: New Issues This Week
New issues of the following journals are available online this week:
Click on a title to access the issue. (Login with your BC username and password is required for off-campus access.)
Click on a title to access the issue. (Login with your BC username and password is required for off-campus access.)
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