Media and Journalism

Print Magazines

Click on the image above to see what print magazines are available for Media and Journalism on Floor 3, The Library.

These links provide statistics specific to your subject area.

• Neighbourhood Statistics

• Audit Bureau of Circulations

• Joint Industry Committee for Regional Media Research

• National Readership Survey

• RAJAR - Radio Joint Audience Research Limited

  RAJAR operate a single audience measurement system for the UK radio industry

There are a number of places where you can find business case studies. Within Business Source Complete or Emerald Insight, do a search by keyword and also type in the words case study.

The following are a number of websites where you will also find free case studies:

• IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research

• MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) - Case Studies

• Business Case Studies - Teaching Business Studies by real life examples

Newspapers can be really useful primary sources for both up-to-date and historical research. They reflect the time period, the society and the culture in which they were published.

PressReader has over 7000 newspapers and magazines.

The Library provides access to current print newspapers and a large collection of newspaper online archives.

See the Newspapers helpsheet for information about the Library's holdings.

If you have a journal title use Journal Finder to check if the Library has access to full text.

Journal Finder

What are journals?

They are:

• like magazines but of a scholarly nature
• published at regular intervals with no predetermined end
• contain articles on a variety of topics
• the articles are written by different authors
• sometimes they also contain reviews and other information
• in printed and electronic formats

Why Should I use them?

• journal time is much quicker than for a book
• using information from journals will keep you up to date and informed of new developments in your subject
• journals articles are more specific than books.  They give you more detailed information in a more scholarly and concise format
• subject may not yet (or may never) be covered in books
• quality research - academic reputation - peer reviewed.

What is scholarly/peer reviewed?

• Written by an academic, who is a specialist in the subject
• Submitted to an editor, who then passes the work to other professionals or 'peers' for a critiques, the work is then passed back to the original writer for changes to be made before being published
• Longer articles, heavily text based
• Charts, tables, statistics and images
• Properly referenced with a list of references at the end of the article.

Click on the link below to access a list of e-journal titles. Then click on the titles to view the Library's holdings.  To access the e-journals off campus use your IT username and password.