Latin American Media
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Course Instructor: Joy Hayes Librarian: Ericka Raber (ericka-raber@uiowa.edu) Date of presentation: May 21, 2009 |
REFERENCE SOURCES
Encyclopedia of Television
Contains essays examining specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes. Includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world.
Editorial areas include communication theory and philosophy, interpersonal communication, journalism, intercultural and intergroup communication, media effects, strategic communication/PR, communication and media law and policy, media systems in the world, and communication and technology.
SEARCHING FOR BOOKS
Smart Search
Searches InfoHawk (the Libraries online catalog), e-journals collection, e-books collection, Iowa Digital Library, and other local databases.
InfoHawk Library Catalog
Use to locate books, videos, and journal titles owned by the UI Libraries. Use Advanced Search, and limit to Main Reference to locate reference books.
Title beginning with… Telenovelas: Love, TV, and Power
Keyword anywhere… soap operas Latin America
Latin America television politics
Subject beginning with… Soap operas – Brazil
Television broadcasting – Latin AmericaUse Advanced Search to combine terms and to limit your search (language, format, etc.). Search several times. Gather ideas for keywords, subject terms, and authors.
A bibliographic database of over 62,000,000 records from over 2,000 libraries around the world. Worldcat is much bigger than our InfoHawk catalog. Records within Worldcat indicate UI Libraries' holdings. If the UI Libraries doesn't have an item you want, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan.
Author… Sinclair, John (keyword: television)
Keyword… soap operas Latin America
ARTICLES AND NEWS DATABASESARTICLE AND NEWS DATABASES
►BBC News Country Profiles for Latin America Includes a section on media for each Latin American country with links to press, television and radio coverage.
►Communication & Mass Media Complete 
Incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource.
►Ethnic NewsWatch 
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
►Francis 
A multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering the humanities and social sciences.
►HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index 
HAPI contains citations to articles published since 1970 in more than 500 scholarly journals treating Latin American or U.S. Hispanic topics. Coverage includes Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German and Italian language articles.
►Historical Abstracts 
Historical Abstracts offers coverage of world history, from 1450 onward, outside the US and Canada.
►Latin America Data Base 
Internet-based news service in English about Latin America, publishing in-depth coverage of Latin American affairs since 1986.
►Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) A comprehensive site on Latin America and the Caribbean maintained by the University of Texas at Austin. Broken down by countries, economy, education, government, humanities, internet & computing, libraries & reference, and media. LANIC Newsroom.
►LexisNexis Academic 
The news section provides access to full text of newspapers from the U.S., Europe, Africa, North and South America and Australia in English.
►PAIS 
The PAIS International database from CSA contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more.
►Google Scholar 
When you are on campus (and after setting you scholar preference for off-campus), Google Scholar can provide links to articles in subscription databases provided by UI Libraries.
SAMPLE PRINT REFERENCE SOURCES
Balderston, D., Gonzalez, M., & Lopez, A. M. (2000). Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures. New York : Routledge.
Main Reference Collection F1406 .E515 2000
Europa Publications Limited. (2008). South America, Central America and the Caribbean. [London] : Europa Publications Ltd.
Main Reference Desk, FOLIO F1408.29 .S68 15th 2007
Johnston, D. H. (2003). Encyclopedia of international media and communications. San Diego, Calif.: Academic.
Main Reference Collection, FOLIO P87.5 .E534 2003
Kinsbruner, J. & Langer, E. (eds.). (2008). Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture (2nd ed., Vols. 1-6). Detroit : Gale.
Main Reference Collection, F1406 .E53 2008
Schement, J. R. (2002). Encyclopedia of communication and information. New York : Macmillan Reference USA.
Main Reference Collection, FOLIO P87.5 .E53 2002
There are many encyclopedias and dictionaries of Latin America and various Latin American countries in Reference. Use Advanced Search in the InfoHawk catalog, and limit location to reference. Check books for information on television, radio and other media in your country of interest.
MANAGING YOUR INFORMATION AND CREATING A BIBLIOGRAPHY
RefWorks 
A web-based citation management and bibliography tool. It can help you to efficiently store, organize, and share citations and easily format them for papers and bibliographies. Brief overview of RefWorks
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"►" indicates resources referenced in your assignments.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/instruction/LatAmMedia.html
revised May 21, 2009 L.R.C.
