Subject Librarian
- Loretta Rielly
- Office Hours:
3rd Floor, Valley Library By appointment - Contact Info:
541-737-2642
Find Images You Have Permission to Use
Flickr - Advanced Search Screen
Images that have been licensed by their creators with a Creative Commons license - telling you how you can legally and ethically use their photos. Show me
Labeling and citing images
Even when the images you use are copyright free, you should acknowledge the creator and indicate the source.
- For examples of using MLA style to fully cite images you use in a research paper, click here: citing images
Please be aware of legal restrictions on the use of images. Boston University has a useful webpage on Image Copyright .
Printing Posters
Student Media Services (Main Floor, Valley Library): production and printing services funded by student activity fees.
Searching Magazine Contents
There are a couple of ways to get at the content of a magazine:
- Search all issues by topic
- Browse the contents of a single issue.
Library workshop materials, 5/8/09
Researching magazines
Selected books about magazines in Valley Library:
Lora and Longton, The conservative press in twentieth-century America PN4888.C598 C664 1999
Abrahamson, Magazine-made America: the cultural transformation of the postwar periodical PN4877 .A27 1996
Douglas, The smart magazine: 50 years of literary revelry and high jinks at Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Life, Esquire, and The Smart Set. PN4877 .D67 1991
Zuckerman, A history of popular women's magazines in the United States, 1792-1995. PN4879 .Z83 1998
Nourie and Nourie, American mass-market magazines PN4877 .A48 1990
Janello and Jones, The American magazine PN4877 .A46 1991
Tebbel, The magazine in America, 1741-1990 PN4832 .T43 1991
Selected articles about magazines:
Henry James, "The Founding of The Nation," The Nation 101 (July 8, 1915): 44-45.
Diana Trilling, "The Nation Years." The Nation 257 (Nov 1, 1993): 502-04.
Selected websites:
"A history of The Atlantic Monthly" http://www.theatlantic.com/about/atlhistf.htm
Mother Jones RSS Feed
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Course Instructor
- Sara Jameson
- Office:
Moreland 360 - Office Hours:
Tues 9:00, Wed 10:00 & by appointment - Contact:
Instructor's Website
Your instructor recommends
Textbook: Donald Bartholomae, Ways of Reading. 7th edition.
Jeffrey Goldberg, "Unforgiven," Atlantic Monthly , May 2008.
Nicholas Carr," Is Google Making Us Stoopid"? Atlantic Monthly . July/August 2008
News and Opinion Magazines
The Library has print and online subscriptions to the magazines you will read for this course. Use the call number (the AP number) to find the print copies of the magazine.
Some articles are available on the magazine's websites.
- Nov 1857 - present: AP2.7 (6th floor Valley Library)
- Nov 1993 - present online
- Sept 1976 - present: AP2.H2 (6th floor Valley Library)
- Jan 1992 - May 31, 2007 online
- April 1990 to present online
- 1984 - present: AP2.M79193 (6th floor Valley Library)
- Jan 1975 - 1 month ago online
- 1865 - present: AP2.N2 (6th floor Valley Library)
- Jan 1960 - present: AP2.N27 (6th floor Valley Library)
- Jan 1975 - present online
- 1914 - present AP2.N4 (6th floor Valley Library)
- May 1990 - present online
- 1836 - 1841 in American Periodicals Series
- Feb 1936 - present: AP2.N45 (6th floor Valley Library)
- Dec 1999 - present online
See Harvard College Library's "Popular Magazines and Scholarly Journals " for a list of public intellectual magazines.
Find Books: Catalogs
Summit (Orbis Cascades) Catalog
Academic libraries in Oregon and Washington. Request books not at OSU (or checked out) and have them sent here in 3-4 working days
Suggest books you'd like the library to purchase.
Borrowing from other libraries
Books:
First see if a book is available through Summit. If it's not, request it through WorldCat.
Articles in journals:
Request through InterLibrary Loan. Articles are delivered electronically, so the turnaround time is often 24 hours or less but may take up to 5 working days.
Style Guides & Writing Resources
Managing Your Research
Ingenta Register and receive notifications of new issues and their content. You can also create "search alerts" and receive notifications if articles match searches you've registered.
Bibliographic managment software : EndNote & more
Search Alerts Many databases let you save and return to searches and receive updates when new information is published on your topic(s)
Keeping Current with Research . Information about RSS feeds, social bookmarking, and more.
Last Update: September 21, 2009 10:10
