Databases

• Academic Search Premier on Ebscohost Provides full text for over 1,200 journals covering the social sciences and humanities
• American Humanities Index A collection of bibliographic references to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada.
• Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre on EBSCOhost Contains full text articles from selected Australian newspapers, journals, and reference books.
• AustLit - Australian Literature Index Australian literature including poems, plays, novels and short stories.
• APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text) on Informit Index to thousands of social sciences and humanities articles, includes full text articles from 320 journal titles.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete on EBSCOhost Available for a 1 year trial during 2004
• Contemporary Authors on Thomson Gale Complete biographical information and references on more than 120,000 authors.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select on Thomson Gale
  Extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors
• Elibrary Australia Contains full text articles from selected Australian newspapers including The Australian and the Herald-Sun.
• Expanded Academic ASAP on Thomson Gale A multidisciplinary database covering a range of subjects.
• Factiva Contains full text articles from hundreds of major newspapers.
• Film & Television Literature Index on Ebscohost
• Film Literature Index Online
• MediaScan on Informit
  Media Scan is a bibliographic database featuring articles indexed from daily newspapers including: Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, Herald Sun, Bulletin.
• Web of Knowledge: includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Electronic Journals

• Australian Humanities Review
• Australian Journal of Communications
• Continuum : an Australian Journal of Media
• Discourse
• Emedia Magazine
• Geekgirl
• HotWired Wired Magazine's Web Site
• Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
• M/C Online - a journal of media and culture (Uni. of Qld)
• Media Asia
• Media, Culture and Society
• Mediaweek
• metromagazine - Australian Teachers of Media (AToM)
• Television and Cable -fulltext electronic journals available through Swinburne Library
• Z Magazine
• Media & Communications fulltext electronic journals available through Swinburne Library

Australian Media & Communications Resources

• Australian Centre for the Moving Image
• Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
• Australian Music Website
• Government Policy and the Information Superhighway
• Internet resources for Communication and the Media
• Film Victoria
• Guide to Internet Information Sources for Australian Journalists
• The RML Movie Page Richard Lowensteins directory of links to Film, TV and production resources
• Swinburne Media and Communication

International Media & Communications Resources

• Asia Pacific Network: excellent list of resources, commentaries, and news articles
• Communication Studies Resources: extensive internet resources
• Gender, Race & Ethnicity in Media
• Index on Censorship
• The Information Economy : The Economics of the Internet, Information Goods,
  Intellectual Property and Related Issues
• MCS: The Media and Communications Studies Site
• Media & Communications: Discussion lists and Newsgroups
• The Media History Project
• mediastudies.com provides links to international news & media studies sites
• Media Watchers & Activists: internet links
• NewMediaStudies.com
  includes book reviews, cyberculture,web design etc

Cyberculture

• Center for Digital Discourse and Culture provides one of the world's first university based digital points-of-publication for new forms of scholarly communication, academic research, and cultural analysis.
• The CyberAnthropology Page
• Cyberculture Links
• Cyberculture & Theory: internet resources
• Cyber Culture / Hypermedia Resources
• Cyberculture, Identity and Gender Resources
• Popcultures.com
• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

Australian TV and Radio Ratings

• ACNielsen - "Nielsen TV Trends" - available in print form at Hawthorn campus. Current issues on Reserve 659 BAN-3.
  Issues since 1994 bound with
  B&T Weekly  PR 659 BAN
• Roy Morgan - Morgan Polls
• Nielsen//NetRatings
• ACNielsen McNair - Radio Ratings

Australian Broadcasting Sites

• Australian Broadcasting Authority
• Australian Children's Television Foundation
• Australian Communications and Media Authority
• Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
• Community Broadcasting Foundation
• National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters' Council

Australian Television Channels

• ABC - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• Australian TV Guide - includes official sites for Australian and international channels and networks.
• Channel 7
• Channel 10
• Channel 31
• ninemsn.com.au (Channel 9)
• SBS - Special Broadcasting Service

Author: Annette Steere (asteere@swin.edu.au)