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The Online Oxford English Dictionary
(note, you may be asked to login with your last name and OSU ID number if you access this title from off-campus)
New Tool !
Newsclipper - like a Google News for videos. Videos from all the major media outlets aggregated into one site.
(Remember, if you find something you like, you can search for a transcript on Lexis-Nexis to make it easy to quote and cite the broadcast in your paper)
Subscription Databases
From the "databases" link on the library's webpage , you can use several powerful databases to search thousands of magazines and newspapers at once.
Here are a few we recommend:
Lexis-Nexis is an extremely powerful tool that searches local, national, international and specialized news sources (both print and broadcast). All of the articles are available online, and this database is updated daily.
If you've ever tried to use the Oregonian's website to search for articles, you've probably been frustrated by how difficult it is to use. This database lets you easily search for articles relevant to Oregon -- and all of the content back to 1988 is available online
Searches 25 national and international newspapers, 260 regional papers as well as broadcast news sources. Many of the articles are available online, and this database is updated daily.
If you've tried to get content from the WSJ website, you may have been asked to pay for it. The Library maintains an electronic subscription to the WSJ here - with full-text access going back to 1986.
Publications
TIP: If you find something on one of these websites that is not available for free, check your access at the OSU Libraries before paying for access elsewhere!
Newspapers
Magazines
Broadcast News
Writing Resources at OSU
Center for Writing and Learning
Online Writing Lab
Style Guides
MLA Formatting and Style Guide (The OWL at Purdue University)
Citing Images (Dartmouth) - opens in PDF
Citation Tools
Online Citation Builder (University of North Carolina Library)
Publications
American Journalism Review
(Audio) On the Media (National Public Radio)
Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) Understanding News in the Information Age
Watchdog sites
Some of these are non-partisan, and others have a clear point of view. Sometimes that POV is easy to see in the site's masthead ("we watch Fox News so you don't have to"). Other times, it's more subtle.
Look at the "about us" pages for more information.
MyEbsco - create an account and login from any EBSCO database.
Zotero - a free, open source citation manager that does more than manage your citations:
Zotero handout (opens in PDF)
Firefox 2 browser: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Here are two search engines that will let you search the dynamic web. Use advanced features like:
Check Technorati's "Authority" feature to see how influential a particular blog or post has been.
ORblogs - Oregon's Weblog Community
Blogs
Information Aesthetics
Visual Complexity
Archives & Collections of Visual Rhetoric Resources
World War II Poster Collection (Northwestern University Libraries)
Visual Rhetoric Portal
Visual Examples: Communication Studies Resources (The University of Iowa)
Articles
Stark Reality of the American Dream
Humphrey Hawksley, BBC News (18 August 2005)
Don't Believe What You See in the Papers: The Untrustworthiness of News Photography
Jim Lewis, Slate (10 August 2006)
Search Engines
Scroll down and look at the content "By License" to find images in the public domain, or licensed for free use.
Flickr - Advanced Search Screen
Here you can limit to images that have been licensed by their creators with a Creative Commons license - telling you what you can legally & ethically do with these photos.
Search for audio and image files licensed with Creative Commons licenses.
Working with your images online
Picnik, edit photos the easy way, online
Picnik integrates with Flickr to allow you to search for photos with Creative Commons licenses -- then you can use Picnik to edit those images -- all online.