Research Guides: COMM 128: Media and Society : Newspapers & magazines

Publications from around the world

Access World News Research Collection This link opens in a new window
This is a full-text news resource offering coverage of over 8,200 local, regional, national and international sources from over 200 countries. It includes everything from the China Global Times to the Hays Daily and Topeka Capital-Journal.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Full-text of U.S. & World newspapers, Federal and State legal cases including landmark and Supreme Court cases, business articles, financials, and company/industry information & profiles. A favorite resource of Senator Al Franken, who refers to it as "powerful, revolutionary... user-friendly and breathtakingly up-to-date." -Franken, A. (1996). Rush limbaugh is a big fat idiot and other observations. New York: Delacorte Press.
MasterFile Premier This link opens in a new window
Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier contains full text for a wide range of magazines, journals and newspapers, including Consumer Reports Magazine and New Republic, with content stretching back to the 1950s.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Newswires This link opens in a new window
Top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire from the past 30 days.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,500 scholarly journals. HeinOnline provides topic specific databases including all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law, and Women and the Law among others. Full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase is included.

Specialized publications and historical documents

Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
An archival research resource comprising the full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.
Includes full-text of Better Homes & Gardens, Chatelaine, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day, and more
Ethnic Newswatch This link opens in a new window
Included are journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses, from 1959-present. Ethnicities include: African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Islander; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; Native People.
CQ Magazine This link opens in a new window
The CQ Magazine, formerly known as CQ Weekly, is known as the pre-eminent resource for Congress-watchers who need non-partisan information on Capitol Hill. CQ Magazine on the Web includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983.
Formerly known as CQ Weekly.
Readers' Guide Full-Text This link opens in a new window
Full text of articles from over 250 periodicals from 1994 to present, and citations for articles back to 1982, covering a wide range of subjects.

Magazines in the Age of Specialization

Forsyth Library

Rise of General Interest Magazines:

Saturday Evening Post (AP 2 .S2)

Print: 1907-1969; 1995-

Microfilm ( 051 S254): 1959-1969; 1984-1995

Life (Basement Oversized AP 2 .L547)

Print: 1936-1972;

Microfilm (051 L722a): 1984-2000 (basement)

Look (Basement Oversized AP 2 .L79)

Print: 1947 (scattered issues - Oct. 1971

Time (AP 2 .T37)

Print: 1925-1980 (basement); now retains 5 years (Periodicals Main floor)

Microfilm: (O51 T583): 1985-present

Newsweek (AP 2 .N6772)

Print: 1936-1984

now retains current 5 years (Periodicals Main floor)

Microfilm: (051 N558): 1985-

Ladies Home Journal (AP 2 .L135)

Print: 1893-1993 (Basement Oversize)

New Republic (AP 2 .N624)

Print: 1916-1993 (basement oversize)

1994- (Periodicals Main floor)

New Yorker (AP 2 .N6763)

Print: 1940-1993 (basement oversize)

1994- (Periodicals Main floor)

Living Age (AP 2 .L65)

Print: 1887-1925 (basement compact shelving)

McClure’s magazine (AP 2 .M2)

Print: 1894-1925 (basement compact shelving)

Harper’s: (AP 2 .H3)

Print: 1852-1993 (basement compact shelving)

1994- (Periodicals Main floor)

(has changed names from Harpers, to Harpers Monthly, to Harpers)

Fall of General Interest Magazines

People (weekly) (051 .P419)

Microfilm: 1984-1994

http://www.people.com

Domination of Specialization

Redbook (AP 2 .R28)

Print: Retains 5 years

Sports Illustrated (GV 561 .S733)

Print: Retains 5 years

Microfilm (796.05 S): 1984-2008

Ebony (AP 2 .E165)

Print: 1993-present

Hays Public Library (Main St. between 12^th and 13^th)

You will need to take your FHSU ID with you so that you can obtain a Hays Public Library card

Rise of General Interest Magazines:

Reader’s Digest (Main floor)

People Weekly (Main floor)