E-Journals: New Issues This Week

New issues of the following journals are available online this week:

• Communication Booknotes Quarterly
• International Journal of Strategic Communication
  
• Management Communication Quarterly
• Philosophy & Rhetoric
• Popular Communication
  
• Science Communication
  
• Space and Culture

Click on a title to access the issue. (Login with your BC username and password is required for off-campus access.)

EveryZing: Audio & Video Text Search

EveryZing, a Boston-based search engine formerly known as PodZinger, offers the ability to search online audio and video files for specific words or phrases that appear. Unlike most video search engines that search tags or other information about the videos, EveryZing uses speech-to-text technology to make it possible to search the actual words spoken.

Content varies widely, but include such mainstream news media sources as NBC's Meet the Press, ABC and CBS News podcasts, as well as several local newscasts, sports radio, selected YouTube videos, and more.

Search results not only present the matching audio and video files, they let you go to the point or points in a program where your search terms appear. You can also click on "More from this source" to search a particular program.

Last Minute Help with Citation Styles

Are you having trouble with APA or MLA citation style for that end-of-semester paper? Help is available in a number of ways.

First check out the excellent online guides to APA and MLA from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. You'll find instructions and examples there for the most common types of references and in-text citations -- and for some less common types, as well.

You can also find the full APA and MLA manuals in O'Neill Library. Just ask for them at the reference desk. If you're still stuck, send me a message. I'm not an expert, but I'll check my sources and try to find the answer you need.

E-Journals: New Issues This Week

New issues of the following journals are available online this week:

• Atlantic Journal of Communication
• European Journal of Communication
  
• International Journal of Cultural Studies
• Journal of Communication Inquiry
  
• Journal of Public Relations Research
• Journal of Visual Culture
  
• Journalism History
• Personal Relationships
• Small Group Research
  
• Television & New Media
• Theory, Culture & Society
  

Click on a title to access the issue. (Login with your BC username and password is required for off-campus access.)

Journals in the Library: Where Are They?

Finding the hard copy of a journal or other periodical in the library is not always as straightforward as it would seem. Hard copies of journals, including many that are not available online, can be in one of several places depending on the title, the date, and a variety of other factors.

Here are a few things to keep in mind to simplify the task of finding the journal you need.

1. “Current” periodicals are generally shelved on Level 3 (the main level) in O’Neill Library. Turn right just past the Reference Desk and cross the atrium to the first set of shelves. These periodicals are arranged by call number, not by title, so you’ll need to get the call number of the journal you’re looking for. (More on that in a minute.) Keep in mind that “current” means the most recent issues of a publication, but that can vary from a few weeks for daily newspapers to two or three years or more for less frequently published journals.

2. Older editions of many journals are bound into books and then mixed in with regular books on shelves throughout the library. You’ll find them under the same call number – but in a different location – as those in the Current Periodicals section. Past issues of some periodicals are only available on microfilm or microfiche on Level 1 of the library. These, too, are arranged by call number.

3. To find out exactly where a particular issue of a journal or periodical is located, look up the title in Quest, the BC Libraries Catalog. (You can restrict your search to journals by choosing “Journal Titles Catalog” from the drop-down menu in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.) Once you find the title you are looking for, click on the link that says “Availability.” You'll be taken to a page telling you what we have, by date, and where to find it. If you’re having trouble finding something, ask for help at the Reference Desk.

Copyright and Media Clips in the Classroom

What's "fair use" when it comes to showing films, television shows and assorted media clips in the classroom?

Inside Higher Ed has a nice write-up on the "patchwork of laws and rulings on the use of media for educational purposes" and the efforts of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies to "clarify the boundaries with a new set of best-practices guidelines..."

The creators of the Society's Statement of Best Practices, writes IHE, "hope that it will give professors a tool for interpreting existing law as well as provide a unified set of standards to eliminate confusion between instructors and college administrations."

One issue still to be addressed: the rights of students who need to use film or media clips for class presentations. For now, allowances for fair use -- vague and confusing as they are -- only apply to instructors.

E-Journals: New Issues This Week

New issues of the following journals are available online this week:

• Argumentation
• International Journal on Media Management
• Journal of Media & Religion
  
• New Media & Society
• Women's Studies in Communication
  

Click on a title to access the issue. (Login with your BC username and password is required for off-campus access.)