If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants.

                                                                                         – Sir Isaac Newton, 1675

“The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.”

– British jurist and historian Frederic William Maitland

• Historical papers generally follow the style outlined in A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations by Kate Turabian (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
• An excellent resource for the tyro or veteran researchers is The Modern Researcher, 5th Ed. by Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff
• Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in  History.
• An excellent guide for those doing history is Historical Methods in Mass Communications by Jim Startt and William David Sloan.
• Advice on writing research articles: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/07/advice_on_writi.html
  

• UF Research Guide: Patrick Reakes has created a research guide focused specifically on journalism that should be helpful as a "portal" page for doing research. Suggestions for changes, additions, etc. are welcome. The plan is for it to be a dynamic resource that he will update, so additional suggestionsare welcome.  http://libguides.uflib.ufl.edu/journalism
  
• How to Write a Research Paper: http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/kingch/How_to_Write_a_Research_Paper.htm
  
• What is a Literature Review: http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature_review.html
• Because in research we stand "upon the shoulders of Giants"  -- or those who have done similar work in the past -- the first tip I can offer is USE the citations in papers on similar topics to drill back into the literature. Once you go back a couple three generations you will probably have a complete bibliography of relevant literature on your subject.
  
• The Building Blocks of Research - A Self-Assessment Checklist http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/9evaluate/competence.html
  
• Doing Literature Reviews http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature_review.html
  
• For some good examples of conference papers to use as examples and to ensure you are not repeating previous research, go to the conference papers archives of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication at http://list.msu.edu/archives/aejmc.html
  
• See the UF library's Project Starter Database
  
• See Communication and Mass Media Complete See UF Library
• See Digital Dissertations/Dissertations Abstracts See UF Library
• See ProQuests Dissertations and Theses See UF Library
• ComAbstracts: http://www.cios.org/www/opnab.htm See UF Library
• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. You have free access through library: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ See UF Library
• Online Communication Studies Resources: http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecommstud/resources/
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text: Access to more than 750,000 dissertations. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=302&COPT=REJTPTNiMGYmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=20179&cfc=1 See UF Library
• Center for History and New Media: http://chnm.gmu.edu/about.php
• American Social History Project: http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/
  

• 250+ Killer Digital Libraries and Archives: http://oedb.org/library/features/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives
  
• The Essentials of Google Search:  http://tinyurl.com/3augdn
  
• Google Search Tips: http://search.ccci.org/user_help.html
• Internet Search Techniques: Meet the Googles: Sources Providing Tips and Guidance for Searching Google: http://groups.google.com.mx/group/net-gold/browse_thread/thread/e1fd83697bf063db
• Meet the Googles: These are bibliographies and webliographies regarding various aspects of specialized Google search tools. These are bibliographies and webliographies regarding various aspects of specialized Google search tools:  http://tinyurl.com/4yvmfc
  
• Does Google's Web Search Go Deep Enough Into Scholarly Archives? http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3205&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
  
• The Fair Use Repository at fair-use.org is an effort to allow for easy citation of documents online. We compile, and (where necessary) transcribe electronic copies of (1) documents in the public domain, and (2) the portions of documents cited in fair use by participating researchers: http://fair-use.org/
• THATCamp: Short for “The Humanities and Technology Camp”, THATCamp is a BarCamp-style, user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities. THATCamp is organized and hosted by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University,  http://thatcamp.org/
• Digital Campus: A biweekly discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums: http://digitalcampus.tv/
• Digital Scholarship in the Humanities:http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/
  
• The Library in the New Age: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514
• Text Mining: http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/what-can-you-do-with-texts-that-are-in-a-digital-format/
• The Promise of Digital History: http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/952/interchange/index.html
• The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program: http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/10-06-08Doing-Media-History
•  Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC): http://liwc.net/index.php
  
• And see article re this text analysis software: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/science/14prof.html?em

• Search for books in Google Book Search, which searches the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them. But, in addition, a nifty sidelight of this is you can search for certain key words within many of these books. Google Books: http://books.google.com/bkshp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wp&q=
  
• About Google Book Search: http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/about.html
• A blog about Google Books: Google Books: What’s Not to Like? (http://blog.historians.org/articles/204/google-books-whats-not-to-like)
  
• Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/texts & http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php The Internet Archive  was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
• Live Search Books: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books & http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&mkt=en-us&scope=books&FORM=LIVSOP
• Search Inside books from A9.com, Google.com and MSN Live Search - at the same time: http://www.kokogiak.com/booksearch/
  
• History E-Book Project: http://www.historyebook.org/titlelist.html#anchor488084
• Bartleby.com: http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
  
• Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/
  
• Project Gutentberg Sister Projects: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Partners%2C_Affiliates_and_Resources#Sister_Projects
  
• Project Gutenberg Partners
  
• The Online Books Page: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
  
• National Academies Press: http://www.nap.edu/
• Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/
• The Nineteenth Century in Print: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/mnchome.html
• FullBooks.com: Thousand of full-text free books: http://www.fullbooks.com/
• Amazon.com's Search Inside allows you to search millions of pages of books: http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Book-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=10197021
• Digital Book Index: http://www.digitalbookindex.com/search001a.htm
  
• Making of America: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
  
• Modern English Collection: Contains fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
  
• The Oxford Text Archive: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
  
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries - Digital Collections: http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/browse.htm
  
• The Universal Digital Library: http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/
• Electronic Open Stacks Home Page: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/ets/eos/
• Other Digital Library Projects: http://runeberg.org/admin/foreign.html
  
• WWW Virtual Library: http://vlib.org/
• Banned Books Online: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
• Digital Books About Books: http://www.oakknoll.com/digitalbooks.php
• Documenting the American South: http://docsouth.unc.edu/
• Eighteenth Century E-Texts: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/etext.html
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online: http://gale.cengage.com/EighteenthCentury/quick.htm
  
• Modern History Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbookfull.html
• U.S. Army Center of Military History - Online Books: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/online/bookshelves/books3.htm
• UT Library Online: Extensive list of online books and resources: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/etext.html
  
• The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/
• Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Early English Books Online: http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home
• World Digital Library: http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/index.html
• Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 1,700 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/intro.html
  
• Electronic Text Archives: http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives/
• IDEAS: University of Connecticut Dept. of  Economics bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Over 600,000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 500,000 can be downloaded in full text: http://ideas.repec.org/
• EconLit: The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes more than thirty years of economics literature from around the world: http://www.econlit.org/index.html
• Forgotten Books: http://forgottenbooks.org/
  

• Stars and Stripes Historic Newspaper Archive:  http://starsandstripes.newspaperarchive.com/ The fully-searchable online digital archive includes Stars and Stripes European editions and Pacific editions from 1948 to 1999. More content will be added on an ongoing basis, including the World War II era, the full Middle East edition and an expanded date range for the European and Pacific editions.
• UF now has access to Access Newspaperarchive.com, including full keyword searching capability. The database includes an extensive collection of full page images of newspapers dating back as far as the mid-1700's, including some non-U.S papers. This has to be accessed through the library.  http://access.newspaperarchive.com
• Google News Search Archives: News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods. http://news.google.com/archivesearch See also: Google Books: What’s Not to Like?
• Chronicling America: An online presentation containing more than 226,000 pages
  of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910.: www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
• U.S. Newspaper Program: http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html
• National Digital Newspaper Program: http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html and http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/index.html
• See  Access NewspaperARCHIVE. which contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. http://access.newspaperarchive.com
• Also, an important research resource is New York Times Historic, a  searchable  database of  Times articles as they appeared in the paper going back to the 19th century. Also accessible through library at http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/databases.html
• British Library Newspapers: http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html
• Google's News Archive Research: http://news.google.com/archivesearch/about.html
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800: (UF Library)
• The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities announce the release of "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers," an online presentation containing approximately 310,000 digitized newspaper pages, dating from 1900 to
  1910. The fully-searchable site is available at www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/.
• Library of Congress Newspaper and Periodical Reading Room: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/
  
• Research Guide -- Newspapers: This guide describes sources of current, contemporary (recent past), and historical newspapers available in print or electronically via the BC Libraries and/or on the Web. These sources are summarized in the table Sources of Newspaper Content at the end of the guide. The guide also includes sources of information useful for identifying, finding, and searching newspapers, such as: availability of newspapers at other institutions; newspaper directories; and newspaper indexes.: http://www.bc.edu/libraries/research/guides/s-newspapers/
• HistoryBuff.com Newspaper Archives: Extensive Web site focusing primarily on how newspapers and the press covered major, and not so major, events in American history. http://www.historybuff.com/archives/tree.cgi
• Library of Congress Newspaper Archives / Indexes / Morgues: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/oltitles.html
• For histories of newspapers in a particular state, check out tate-level histories of journalism, often put out to mark an anniversary of the state press association. Most states have  them.
• The Newspaper Society: The voice of the regional and local press, representing and promoting the interests of Britain's regional and local press: http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk/
• The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project (PJNP), <http://pjn.library.cmu.edu/>http://pjn.library.cmu.edu/, has completed the digitization of The Jewish Criterion (1895-1962). And it recently announced that Chronicle issues from 1962 to 1969 have been added to the database. The search engine (pjn.library.cmu.edu), now has the Chronicle entries
• View Freedom's Journal:All 103 issues of  Freedom's Journal -- the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States.-- have been digitized and placed into Adobe Acrobat format. http://wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/
• UF will soon be purchasing both the 19th Century U.S. Newspapers database (http://gale.cengage.com/usnewspapers/) and the Sage Communication Journal backfiles (http://www.sagefulltext.com/home.aspx?id=1). Both will provide us with a large number of newspapers and journal volumes we currently don't have access to electronically (or at all).
• Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of WWI: 1918-1919: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/sashome.html
• La Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica es un proyecto en marcha, resultado de un proceso de digitalización cooperativa del Ministerio de Cultura, las Comunidades Autónomas y otras instituciones de la memoria, con el que se pretende, simultáneamente, preservar y hacer accesibles unos materiales bibliográficos que se caracterizan por ser ejemplares únicos y, por lo tanto, de difícil acceso. http://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/estaticos/contenido.cmd?pagina=estaticos/presentacion
  

• Mott's A history of American magazines, 1741-1930 (online edition accessible through UF): http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;idno=heb00678
  
• Research Society for American Periodicals: http://home.earthlink.net/~ellengarvey/index1.html
  
• Alltop Online Magazine Rack: http://alltop.com/
  
• Sports Illustrated Vault: a 53-year trove of articles and photos, most of it from an era when the magazine dominated the field of long-form sports writing and color sports photography:http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/
  
• Research Society for American Periodicals: http://home.earthlink.net/~ellengarvey/index1.html
• See 18th Century Collections Online
• A History of American Magazines, 1741-1930, 5 volumes, by Frank Luther Mott. Searchable electronic version as part of  the History E-Book Project.
• List of American magazines and reviews from 1860 to 1920: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/Progs/USMags.1860-1920.html
• Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800: (UF Library)
• Some wonderful magazine covers from the early 20th century can be found here,Modern Mechanix <http://blog.modernmechanix.com/>  Yesterday's tomorrow, today  http://blog.modernmechanix.com/covers
  A good bit of fun material for history of communications (and history of technology) courses.
• The Nineteenth Century in Print: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/mnchome.html
• Cornell University's Making of America Series: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html
• Connect to Periodicals Index Online (1665 - 1995)   http://pio.chadwyck.com/home.do -- Search PIO for citations from 4,750+ periodicals (including those with full text in Periodicals Archive Online.)
• Connect to Periodicals Archive Online (1802-1995)   http://pao.chadwyck.com/home.do -- If you want to search only within the full text of articles, or you are only interested in articles where full text is available (only from 250+ periodicals), you should use this separate PAO interface.
• Time Corpus:This website allows you to quickly and easily search more than 100 million words of text of American English from 1923 to the present, as found in TIME magazine. You can see how words and phrases have increased and decreased in usage and see how words have changed meaning over time.  http://corpus.byu.edu/time/
  
• Time magazine has opened its archives – you can freely access covers and articles going back to 1923.
  http://www.time.com/time/archive
• Newsweek archives: Filling approximately 3,250 archival boxes, the Newsweek archive is a rich collection of news-related materials collected by the magazine’s reporters and staff over a 63-year span. These materials include newspaper and magazine clips, unpublished news and background reports by freelance writers, and reporters’ files previously unavailable to historians and researchers. Once processed, the collections will be available for research by historians and the general public. For more about these archives, see: http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/03newsreleases/nr_200303/nr_cah030327.html
• Harper's Archive, 1850 – : http://www.harpers.org/archive
  
• The Atlantic Archive Excerpts: http://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/
• Internet Library of Early Journals: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
  

• See JSTOR, a comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature: You have free access to this through library.
• The Cornell Library American Memory project has scanned searchable, full-text of several  19th-century magazines: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html
• See Readers Guide
• Cornell University's Making of America Journal Collection: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html
• Journal Seek: http://journalseek.net/
• 34 UF Library Journalism & Communication Journals List: http://uh7qf6fd4h.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=UH7QF6FD4H&N=100&S=SC&C=070078
• 48 UF Library Journalism & Communication Journals List: http://uh7qf6fd4h.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=UH7QF6FD4H&N=100&S=SC&C=070076
• Electronic Journals: http://www.library.louisville.edu/ERTMX_public/ebooks/index.php
  

• Do a search in Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html
• EServer.org: http://eserver.org/ The EServer is an e-publishing co-op based at Iowa State University where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish over 35,000 works free of charge.

• Sources for the History of the Press: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=378&j=1
  
• GovernmentDocs.org http://www.governmentdocs.org/ : This online database houses Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses, and other government documents, from a number of organizations, that can be browsed, searched and reviewed.
  
• See ArchivesUSA
• The National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/index.html
• Yale University Manuscripts and Archives Tutorial at http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/tutorial/tutorial.htm
• Archive Grid: ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. http://www.archivegrid.org/web/index.jsp
• Charles Darwin's Letters Online: Darwin exchanged letters with nearly 2000 people during his lifetime. These range from well known naturalists, thinkers, and public figures, to men and women who would be unknown today were it not for the letters they exchanged with Darwin. http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/s
• Documenting the American South is an exceptional archive with 1,400 primary sources on Southern history, literature, and culture from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. The archive is divided into seven thematic collections. http://docsouth.unc.edu/
• African American Women Writers of the 19th Century: http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
• OYEZ: An archive related to the U.S. Supreme Court, its justices, and its decisions. Requires RealPlayer and QuickTime.  http://www.oyez.org/
• The Wayback Machine: Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
• The US Historical Census Browser available via the University of Virginia Library at: http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
• Historical US Statistical Abstracts at:
  http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html
• The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) was established by Congress to ensure that the American public has access to its Government's information. http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/index.html
  
• Federal Depository Library Centennial The best of current and historical resources provided by the Federal Depository Library Program. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/govref/fdlp100/
• The Online Archive of California: The OAC brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections are available. http://oac.cdlib.org/
• Digital Archive Captures African-American Civil-Rights Stories: Marygrove College, in Detroit, has recorded migration stories of people age 65 to 90 and archived them in its John Novak Digital Interview Collection as MP3 audio files. Each interview also has a transcript or index.
• The Paley Center for Media: http://mtr.org/
• Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles. Thousands of historical newspaper articles on Wisconsin people and communities: http://wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/
• Read pioneers' memoirs and other primary sources at Wisconsin Historical Collections : http://wisconsinhistory.org/whc/
• Roots Web: http://www.rootsweb.com/
• Archives of the Indies: http://www.lukor.com/literatura/05012603.htm
• El Portal de Archivos Españoles: http://pares.mcu.es/
• Soldier Studies: This site is dedicated to the preservation of American Civil War information, particularly the correspondence and diary entries of soldiers who served in the field and elsewhere. We hope that by providing a comprehensive and searchable archive of this information a more complete picture of one of the bloodiest chapters in American history can be better understood by researchers, historians, and students alike. http://www.soldierstudies.org/
• Civil Rights Digital Library, based at the University of Georgia. Covering the 1950s and 1960s era of the civil rights movement: http://publish.crdl.usg.edu/voci/go/crdl/home/
• Mass Communications History Collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society: The Collections were established in 1955 to document the importance of the mass media in 20th-century American life. The collections include the papers of hundreds of important individuals, corporations and professional organizations in the fields of journalism, broadcasting, advertising and public relations. These collections document mass communications on both the national level and in the state of Wisconsin. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/readroom/masscol.asp
• Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars: This online exhibition of letters and audio, created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Legacy Project, features correspondence from over 200 years of American conflicts: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/index_good.html
• Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 4 million digital items: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
  

• Center for the Study of History and Memory: http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm/index.html

• The Open Library: http://www.openlibrary.org/
  
• University of Florida Trial Subscriptions: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/trial.html
  
• Here is an assortment of proprietary resources that the UF library subscribes to and can be located via the Database Locater: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/databases.html: Periodicals Archives Online; Eighteenth Century Collections Online; America: History and Life; Historical Abstracts; HarpWeek; In The First Person; Early English Books Online; ProQuest Historic Newspapers; History E-Book Project; Lexis Primary Sources in U.S. History.
• Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/ref/
• Lexis-Nexis (Keep in mind you can access this for free through library) http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
• New York Public Library: http://www.nypl.org/
• Library of Congress:  http://catalog.loc.gov
• WorldCat, a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions: http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/
• Librarian's Internet Index: http://lii.org/search?basic_search=1
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries:  http://www.sil.si.edu/
  
• Online Electronic Journals from Smithsonian Libraries: http://www.sil.si.edu/eresources/tfr_ej_vendorresults.cfm?vendor=Free%20E-Journal
  
• WWW Virtual Library: http://vlib.org/
• Collection of Collections:Here you will find records representing a sampling of collections created by the hundreds of libraries and cultural heritage organizations using CONTENTdm today. Some records represent individual collections; some connect you to entire digital libraries. http://collections.contentdmdemo.com/index.php
  
• Wisconsin Electronic Reader: A cooperative digital imaging project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin:  http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/
• The World Digital Library: Makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials: http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/index.html
  

• iSearch: New addition to the people search engine scene iSearch is a powerful tool for hunting down anyone online that offers better results than plain old Google in some cases. http://isearch.com/
  
• Freedom of the Press: An Annotated Bibliography  of some 8,000 books, pamphlets, journal articles, films, and other material relating to freedom of the press in English-speaking countries, from the beginning of printing to the present. http://twister.lib.siu.edu/cni/homepage.shtml
  
• American Association for Public Opinion Research: http://www.aapor.org/
  
• A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices: http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
  
• Barteleby.com: The most comprehensive reference publisher on the web, meeting the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious: http://www.bartleby.com/
• An online bibliography of books, articles, dissertations, and other academic resources in the field of mass communication history put together by Rob Rabe at the U of Wisconsin:
  https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rarabe/web/resources.htm
• Journalism History Bibliography compiled by David Shedden at the Poynter Institute:
  http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=1199
• Country Music Lyrics: http://www.cowboylyrics.com/index.html
• Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style http://www.bartleby.com/141/  is one of the classic books and references put on the Internet by the Project Bartleby Archive. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/index.html
•  Hypertext Webster Gateway at UCSD http://smac.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/http_webster gives you search capabilities for word definitions as found in the 1912 edition of Webster's dictionary.
•  Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/   is another classic text with search capability put on the net by Project Bartleby.
•  Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com/  "Dictionary.com is a multi-source dictionary search service produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, a leading provider of language reference products and services on the Internet."
•  yourDictionary.com http://www.yourdictionary.com/    " .. provides the most comprehensive and authoritative portal for language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages. More than 1,500,000 people a month visit YDC.
• Thesaurus.com http://thesaurus.reference.com/ 
  
• RhymeZone http://www.rhymezone.com/
• Information Please http://www.infoplease.com/  "Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, Information Please places the resources of an entire reference information center at your fingertips. Our staff of editors and researchers continuously update and refine this enormous body of information -- as well as adding new discoveries and identifying trends -- to bring you the most reliable and authoritative information. We will keep you up-to-date."
• Encyclopedia.com http://www.encyclopedia.com/ "Welcome to Encyclopedia.com - the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia! This site conveniently places an extraordinary amount of information at your fingertips. More than 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition have been assembled to provide free, quick and useful information on almost any topic."
• Martindale's 'The Reference Desk http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html   A highly awarded site with links to an incredible variety of resources.
• Yahoo! Reference http://www.yahoo.com/reference/  This page contains links to reference sites, dictionaries, libraries, and much more.
• Ask an Expert http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Ask_an_Expert/
  
• Britannica.com http://www.britannica.com/ The complete Encyclopedia Britannica is now free online.
• Poynter Tracking Journalism Transformation Stories: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=155972
  

• The 2008 Statistical Abstract: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/ : The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
  
• U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/
  
• Links to Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/index.htm
  
• Census Bureau Search: http://www.census.gov/main/www/srchtool.html
  
• Census Bureau by Subject: http://www.census.gov/acsd/www/subjects.html
  
• State and County Quick Facts: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/
  
• American Fact Finder: http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
• Statistical Abstract: The National Data Book: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
  
• Statistical Abstract: Historical Statistics: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/hist_stats.html
• Historical Census Browser: http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/index.html
• The Decennial Censuses From 1790 to 2000: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/ma.html

• Sources in the History of Mass Communication: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rarabe/web/resources.htm
• History Matters:A gateway to Web resources.  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
• World History Matters: A portal to to world history on the Web. http://worldhistorymatters.org/
  
• WWW.History: Annotated guide to the most useful websites for teaching U.S. history and social studies. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/wwwhistory
  
• J-History: Discussion List for the History of Journalism & Mass Communication: http://www.h-net.org/~jhistory/
  
• Historical Text Archive: http://historicaltextarchive.com
• The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet. This site is dynamic with regular additions to its contents and its link collection
• Historians and the Web: A Beginner's Guide: http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/1996/9601/9601COM3.CFM
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library: http://www.ccel.org/
  
• The Historian's Sources: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/psources/pshome.html
• History Journals Guide: http://www.history-journals.de/
• Ten Commandments of Good Historical Writing: http://personal2.stthomas.edu/gwschlabach/courses/10commnd.htm
• Florida Journalism History Project: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/jour/fljhist/index.html
• Media History Project: http://mediahistory.unm.edu
• Virtual Library History Index http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL
• History Net: http://www.thehistorynet.com
• History Buff: http://www.historybuff.com
• American Memory: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
• Harry Amana's Home Page: http://www.unc.edu/~haman  Web site of this University of North Carolina journalism professor has more than 150 links to various minority sites, many dealing with historical topics.
• Guide to History Resources:http://library.csusm.edu/subject_guides/history/#books
• History Cooperative: http://www.historycooperative.org/
• Books & Articles on Journalism History: http://www.questia.com/library/communication/journalism/journalism-history/journalism-history.jsp
• Historical Text Archive: http://historicaltextarchive.com/
• Ohio University Journalism History Tutorial: http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/faculty/stewartr/tutorial/readings.htm
• Center for History and New Media: Tools: http://chnm.gmu.edu/
• Center for History and New Media: Tools: http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/
• The Carnival of Bad History: http://badhistory.blogspot.com/
• Ten Commandments of Good Historical Writing: http://personal2.stthomas.edu/gwschlabach/courses/10commnd.htm
• The Smithsonian: http://www.si.edu/
• ABC-CLIO (Historical Abstracts): http://sb1.abc-clio.com
• Ellis Island Records: http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/
• BBC Archive: http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/index.aspx
• Historical Text Archive: http://historicaltextarchive.com
  
• The Smithsonian: http://www.si.edu/start.htm
• World History Sources: http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/index.html
• PolicyArchive: A library of public policy research containing over 12,000 documents: https://www.policyarchive.org/
  
• "The History of American Journalism." Work on the seven-volume series began in the late 1980s. Greenwood/Praeger published the series. Here are the titles in the series:
• Wm. David Sloan and Julie Hedgepeth Williams, The Early American Press,1690-1783
  
• Carol Sue Humphrey, The Press of the Young Republic, 1783-1833
• William E. Huntzicker, The Popular Press, 1833-1865
• Ted Curtis Smythe, The Gilded Age Press, 1865-1900
• Leonard Ray Teel, The Public Press, 1900-1945
• David R. Davies, Journalism: The Postwar Decline of American Newspapers, 1945-1965
• James Brian McPherson, Journalism at the End of the American Century,
  1965-Present

• Public Opinion and the Study of History: Students of American history have long been aware of the impor- tance of propaganda as a factor in causation.

• The Living Room Candidate: This website archives more than 180 television commercials used in presidential campaigns since 1952, as well as an annotated guide to 21 websites created for the 1996 and 2000 elections. http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/
• AdAccess: Presents images and database information for more than 7,000 advertisements printed primarily in the United States from 1911 to 1957.  http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
• Chinese Propaganda Posters: http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/
• The Emergence of Advertising in America: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/advertising/

• The Biographer's Craft: A free, monthly newsletter about biographies, biographers, and the craft of writing biographies. http://www.thebiographerscraft.com/
  
• American National Biography Online: An exploration of American history through the lives of the men and women who shaped the nation. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html
  
• Women in Mass Communications: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rarabe/web/women.htm
• Women in Journalism: The spring 1997 issue of Journalism History has an article about how women journalists dealt (or didn't) with sexism in the newsroom, and is followed by a bibliography of autobiographies by women reporters;
• Biographies and Memoirs: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rarabe/web/bio2.htm
• For older works on journalism of all sorts, including biography, Warren Price's The Literature of Journalism is by far the best choice.
• Dick Schwarzlose's  Newspapers: A Reference Guide has many titles.
• Also check the sources listed at the end of biographies in Joe McKerns' Biographic Dictionary of American Journalism and those at the end of bios in the journalism volumes of Dictionary of Literary Biography.
• For most recent, go to annual indices to JMCQuarterly.
  
• For more, Google "journalist biographies" and "journalism biographies."
• Lippmann vs. Dewey: http://journalism.ukings.ca/journalism_3721.html
• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936–1940: The site features approximately 2,900 life histories from 1936-1940 written by the staff of the WPA Folklore Project. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/index.html
• The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 138,150 politicians, living and dead: http://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html
  

• Introduction to Content Analysis: http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/research/content/printformat.cfm?printformat=yes
• Microhistory.org : http://www.microhistory.org/
• The Qualitative Report, an on-line journal devoted to writing and discussion of and about qualitative, critical, action, and collaborative inquiry and research: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/Editorial/editstm.html
• Tracking Discourse: http://sociology.rutgers.edu/cultcog/abstract.htm
• Tracking Discourse: Altheide, David L.,  Qualitative media analysis,Thousand Oaks, Ca. :Sage Publications,  c1996.
• Institute for Analytic Journalism: www.analyticjournalism.com
• Survey Monkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/home.asp
• Text Analyzer: http://textalyser.net/
• Frameworks Institute (Framing): http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/
• Framing Science: http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/
  
• Why Study History Through Primary Sources: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/robinson-sources.html
  
• Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History Historical Methods reaches an international audience of historians and other social scientists concerned with historical problems. It explores interdisciplinary approaches to new data sources, new approaches to older questions and material, and practical discussions of computer and statistical methodology, data collection, and sampling procedures. http://www.heldref.org/hm.php
• An online bibliography of articles and books about qualitative research methods: http://qual-reading.wikispaces.com/Articles

• Grounded Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grounded_theory
  
• Grounded Theory: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR2-4/pandit.html

• Journal of Memetics: http://jom-emit.cfpm.org/
  
• Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission:http://www.jom-emit.org/
  
• The Selfish Gene: The book coins the term meme for a unit of human cultural evolution analogous to the gene, suggesting that such "selfish" replication may also model human culture, in a different sense. Memetics has become the subject of many studies since the publication of the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
• Memetic Meanings: http://cfpm.org/jom-emit/1999/vol3/beer_fa.html
• Readings on the Meme
  
• Imitation and the Definition of the Meme:
  
• Tracing Cultural Evolution Through Memetics: http://129.3.20.41/eps/comp/papers/0405/0405007.pdf
• The origins of socially constructed coding: http://www.springerlink.com/content/q6h54472408547vk/
  

• Resources for Writers: George Mason University:  http://writingcenter.gmu.edu/
  
• Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself: http://www.zotero.org/
• Mark of Zotero: Zotero is a tool for storing, retrieving, organizing, and annotating digital documents: http://insidehighered.com/views/2007/09/26/mclemee
  
• Some Useful Management Tools: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dhrxdnf3_49dvb5pc&hl=en
  

• Citation aids:
  
• Son of citation machine: http://citationmachine.net/
• Noodle Tools for both MLA & APA: http://www.noodletools.com/login.php
• Blog discussing citation sites:  http://digg.com/software/Completely_Free%2C_Easy_to_Use%2C_Works_Cited_Generator
• Guide to Citation Style Guides: http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html
  
• Chicago Manual of Style: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
  
• APA Style: http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
  
• Columbia Guide to Online Style: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos2006/basic.html
  
• Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides: http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html
• Indispensable Writing Resources: http://www.quintcareers.com/writing/writeref.html
• EasyBib: Free automatic bibliography composer: http://www.easybib.com/
  

• Humanities Magazine: Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities: http://neh.gov/news/humanities/2008-07/contents.html
• How to Get a Grant from NEH: http://neh.gov/news/humanities/2008-07/GrantWriting.html
  
• Community of Science: The leading global resource for hard-to-find information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines. http://www.cos.com/
  
• American Historical Association: http://www.historians.org/index.cfm
  
• History Cooperative: http://www.historycooperative.org/
  
• AEJMC History Division Online: http://www.utc.edu/Outreach/AEJMC-HistoryDivision/
  
• History News Network: http://hnn.us/
  
• National Endowment for the Humanities: http://www.neh.gov/
• Major associations/conferences in journalism and communications: http://www.jou.ufl.edu/research/resources/associations/

• The Iowa Guide: Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields: This 16-year-old publication helps scholars find appropriate journals in which to publish their work and offers advice on how to prepare manuscripts for publication.: http://iowaguide.uiowa.edu/
• Directory of History Journals: http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/journals/
  
• American Journalism: Quarterly journal sponsored by AJHA, American Journalism publishes articles, research notes, book reviews, and correspondence dealing with the history of journalism. http://ajhaonline.org/journal.html
  
• Journalism &  Communication Monographs: Presents in-depth research on specific topics within journalism and mass communication. Each issue contains an extended article on subjects ranging from journalism history and personalities to international mass communication. http://www.aejmc.org/pubs/#jmcm
  
• Journalism and Mass Communication Educator: Focuses on learning and teaching, curriculum, educational leadership, and related exploration of higher education within a context of journalism and mass communication. http://www.aejmc.org/pubs/#jmce
  
• Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly: Focuses on research in journalism and mass communication. Each issue features reports of original investigation, presenting the latest developments in theory and methodology of communication, international communication, journalism history, and social and legal problems. http://www.aejmc.org/pubs/#jmcq
• Journalism History: Published four times a year by the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, with the support of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/jh/jh.htm
  
• Journalism Studies: An international peer-reviewed journal, published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis, which provides a forum for the critical discussion and study of journalism as both a subject of academic inquiry and an arena of professional practice. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1461670X.asp
• Journal of Mass Media Ethics: Publishes scientific articles and essays that will both stimulate and contribute to reasoned discussions of mass media ethics and morality among academic and professional groups in the various branches and subdisciplines of communication and ethics. http://www.jmme.org/
  
• Media History: An interdisciplinary journal which welcomes contributions addressing media and society from the fifteenth century to the present. Its perspective is both historical and international. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713437611
  
• Media History Monographs: An online journal  devoted to publishing scholarly journalism and mass communication history works -- affiliated with the American Journalism Historians Association. http://facstaff.elon.edu/dcopeland/mhm/mhm.htm
• Newspaper Research Journal: NRJ comprehensively answers questions about U.S. newspaper performance and related topics of interest. Significant themes of research include balance and fairness, the use of computer analysis in newspaper reporting, sourcing, the agenda-setting function of the media, and much more. http://www.newspaperresearchjournal.org/
• Media History Monographs: An online journal devoted to publishing scholarly journalism and mass communication history works.
  The journal is affiliated with the American Journalism Historians Association. http://facstaff.elon.edu/dcopeland/mhm/mhm.htm
• Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. the official journal of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: http://www.jgape.org/