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Media/Cinema Studies
Professor Pat Keeton
November 12 , 2007
Guide for finding materials at the George T. Potter Library
Marcia Sexton
x6749
I. Library Homepage: http://library.ramapo.edu
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Provides access to the catalog (OPAC), databases, interlibrary loan forms, etc.
II. Reference Materials
| Hollywood Creative Directory | REF PN1998.A1 H65 2005 |
| Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2007 | REF HE8689.B772 2007 |
| Lexis Nexis Corporate Affiliations (“Who Owns Whom”) | REF HG4057.A217 2006 |
III. Electronic Resources
Some useful Databases for your projects:
| Lexis Nexis Academic | Covers top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research. |
Business Source Premier provides expanded indexing and abstract backfiles for the top scholarly business journals, dating back to 1965 or the first issue published (whichever is more recent). |
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| Communication and Mass Media Complete | Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. |
| General Business File | Provides business and industry content via periodical articles, news articles, and press releases; detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on corporate hierarchical structures; investment reports; corporate chronologies and company histories; brands and product information; industry and company rankings; financial overviews; industry overviews; HR Law Case Digests. |
| Hoover’s Company Records | Hoover's Company Records is one of the world's leading electronic distributors of information about companies, industries, and the people who lead them. Content in Hoover's Company Records covers more than 40,000 companies, 225,000 key executives, and more than 600 industries, delivering to users the most up-to-date business information. |
| Thomson One Banker Analytics | Thomson ONE Banker provides access to relevant real-time global market data, news, and authoritative content from industry-leading sources. Thomson ONE Banker streamlines the investment banking workflow and enables you to make well-informed decisions with confidence. |
IV. Websites
Links to media conglomerates and companies, look for
- "About"
- "corporate info" or
- "company information"
which will link to Boards of Directors, corporate governance, and other company information.
Walt Disney Company corporate.disney.go.com Time Warner timewarner.com General Electric (NBC-Universal) ge.com (nbcuni.com) News Corporation newscorp.com google.com Yahoo info.yahoo.com Microsoft microsoft.com Viacom viacom.com See also Evaluating Websites to determine if the site is authoritative enough to use in your paper.
Need more help? Visit or call the Reference Desk: 201.684.7574
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