Media Studies

The ProQuest search has replaced the former Scholars Portal Search, and most databases are available through ProQuest now. Trent currently subscribes to:

• BioOne
• CBCA (Canadian Business & Current Affairs)
• ERIC (Education Resources)
• GenderWatch
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Globe & Mail 1844-2011
• Philosopher's Index
• PILOTS (traumatic stres)
• Proquest Dissertations and Theses
• ProQuest Education Journals
• ProQuest Nursing Journals
• ProQuest Sociology
• PsycARTICLES
• PsycINFO
• Social Services Abstracts
• Sociological Abstracts

You can select specific databases to search and see descriptions of each, using the blue bar at the top of the screen: click "Change".

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from over 120 scholarly publishers. (from the website)  See a list of titles covered.

Use the search engine to find an article, subject, author, etc. You can search across all journals, or select specific journals.

Periodicals Archive Online is a major online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.

Currently, Periodicals Archive Online contains over 500 journals, providing access to over 12.9 million article pages - representing over 1.9 million articles. Periodicals Archive Online continues to add new titles, to give undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty and libraries access to a growing collection of the most historically respected journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Periodicals Archive Online covers the humanities and social sciences in 37 key subject areas. It is international in scope with the inclusion of more than 60 foreign-language titles, of value to both customers in English-speaking countries and internationally.

(from the website)

Trent has access to sets 1-6. See the title list. This is an archive of journals, which means that it offers historic coverage, and not current volumes.

You can search the entire set of journals for articles by keyword. You can also browse journals by language, title, or subject.

As a major international publisher of academic and research journals, Oxford Journals publishes and develops titles in partnership with the world's most prestigious learned societies.

The collection includes over 180 titles covering Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and including some of the most authoritative journals in their fields. (from the website)

Access to journals is available by searching, browsing by title, and browsing by subject.

Oxford Reference Library offers over 300,000 "Overview" pages, providing a quick definition for every unique topic;  270 "Timelines"; a new online-only Quotations title; and regularly published topical theme articles.  Reference books are also included.

Many book titles are locked (you'll see a lock icon) because our Library has not purchased access. To see only available works, click "Show full text results only".

The titles available to Trent are listed below, with a direct link. To search within a book, use the "Search within work" box instead of the main search box (to avoid links to unavailable works).

• Black Women in America
• Dictionary of American Family Names (3 volumes)
• Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
• Encyclopedia of Evolution (2 volumes)
• Encyclopedia of Global Change (2 volumes)
• Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
• Encyclopedia of Semiotics
• Encyclopedia of Social Work
• Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (4 volumes)
• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (2 volumes)
• Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture (1 volume)
• Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts (2 volumes)
• International Encyclopedia of Dance (6 volumes)
• International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (4 volumes)
• Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd ed.)
• Oxford Companion to World Exploration (2 volumes)
• Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (3 volumes)
• Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (1 volume)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (4 volumes)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (3 volumes)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (5 volumes)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (5 volumes)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (5 volumes)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 volumes)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (4 volumes)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures (3 volumes)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
• Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (4 volumes)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (3 volumes)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
• Oxford Essential Quotations

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

As the OED is a historical dictionary, its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English, in which only present-day senses are covered, and in which the most common meanings or senses are described first. For each word in the OED, the various groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to the quotation evidence, i.e. the senses with the earliest quotations appear first, and the senses which have developed more recently appear further down the entry. In a complex entry with many strands, the development over time can be seen in a structure with several 'branches'.

(from the website - see more)

The JSTOR archive is a searchable database of full-text research journals in a variety of academic disciplines. All articles are full text. Individual journals can be browsed or searched. A search of the entire database can be performed.

See the number of associated journals for each subject covered on the Search screen (click "Browse by subject").

The Trent Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, V, VI, Arts & Sciences Complement, and Life Sciences (Biological Sciences / Health and General Sciences combined) collections. This includes over 1100 journals. These journals include complete backruns, from the first volume to 3-10 years ago (no current volumes). 

Journals in JSTOR have "moving walls" that define the time lag between the most current issue published and the content available in JSTOR. The majority of journals in the archive have moving walls of between 3 and 5 years, but publishers may elect walls anywhere from zero to 10 years.

New in 2013!  JSTOR also hosts a "Current Scholarship Program", providing current collections of journals.  Trent subscribes to many individual titles, as well as the University of Chicago Press package of 41 titles.

JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization, began in 1994 as a pilot project by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help libraries meet the space and budgetary challenges posed by the growing volume of scholarly research.

CPI.Q contains a wealth of Canadian and international periodicals — including Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail; Maclean's weekly magazine; Canadian News Facts; and encyclopedic reference materials, such as the Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Canadian Newsmakers.

Designed to meet the needs of researchers at all levels, it yields a variety of relevant periodical articles, biographies, company profiles, historical documents, science and technology essays, and much more.

Turn to CPI.Q for:

• Indexing of nearly 700 Canadian periodicals (English and French) with full-text articles from 240 Canadian periodicals
• A bilingual interface (English and French)
• Current periodical articles integrated with Canadian biographies, company profiles, historical information and many other types of information
• Coverage of a broad range of subjects related to Canada
• Indexing from 1988 to present
• Full-text articles from 1995 to present

(from the website - edited)

Note that the CPI.Q database includes many popular journal and magazine titles and is not restricted to scholarly journals.

Over 200 scholarly e-journals from Cambridge University Press, covering all subjects.  They can be browsed by title or subject, or searched as a group.

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers represents the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period. This collection helps researchers chart the development of the newspaper as we now know it, beginning with irregularly published transcriptions of Parliamentary debates and proclamations to coffee house newsbooks, finally arriving at newspaper in its current form.

Gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), a notable scholar and son of a well-known music historian of the same name, this collection covers more than 200 years of accounts, explanations, and points of views. More than 700 bound volumes of newspapers relate political, educational and economic situations – including English provincial, Irish, Scottish and a handful of papers from British colonies, in the Americas and Asia – relate political, educational and economic situations chosen from more than three dozen cities.

These rare and restricted documents are now available online and students and academics can conduct full-text searches of nearly 1 million pages from approximately 1,270 titles spanning from Parliamentary papers and the London daily news to the latest English humour of the 1600s.

(Source: http://gale.cengage.co.uk/britishlibrarynewspapers/)