CHASS Connect F1RST 003J - MEDIA and CHILDHOOD
Finding Books
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Research tips 1) Try different search strategies, key terms, and look at Subject Headings. 2) Let the research lead you: check the bibliographies. |
Use Scotty, the Library's online catalog to identify books by topic, title or author OR
to identify if the Library owns particular journals. Scotty does not include articles.
Search by keyword for materials on a particular topic, then refine using Subject Headings.
Example: Keyword search ~ market* AND child*
Example: Keyword search ~ movies* AND Subject Headings: child*
Example: Subject Headings: motion pictures AND child*
Example: Subject Headings: television AND child* AND censorship
Example: Subject Headings: television AND child* AND government policy
Example: Subject Headings: television AND child* AND censorship
Example: Subject Headings: motion pictures AND child* AND censorship
Sample results:
Food marketing to children and youth [electronic resource] : threat or opportunity? / Committee on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth, Food and Nutrition Board, Board on Children, Youth, and Families ; J. Michael McGinnis, Jennifer Appleton Gootman, Vivica I. Kraak, editors Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2006
Useful Online Resources
- Children Now
- Common Sense Media
- National Institute on Media and the Family - Facts
- Kaiser Family Foundation
- Annenberg Public Policy Center for Media and Children
- APA - Topics: Kids & the Media
- Brooking Institution - The Future of Children v.18 no.1 Spring 2008
- PBS Parents - Children and Media
Research tips
3)4) Evaluate before copying or printing - Read the abstracts!
Reference Works
Print encyclopedias provide an overview of a topic and include bibliographies:
- Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
Ref HQ784 .M3 E53 2007- Violence in the Media - Contemporary World Issues
Ref PN1992.8 .V55 S55 2005 (Controversial Topics Shelves)
Articles
- Multidatabase Search - Search Academic Search Complete, Communication Mass Media Complete & Newspaper Source.
- UCR Libraries Government Publication - Public Policy - Search CQ Research, Oppossing Viewpoints Research Center, and Pro & Con Online.
Research tips
5) Some databases provide only citations and/or abstracts to articles in journals. Click on
to see if the article is available online or in the library. For print, you will need to write down the journal's call number.
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Stop by at the Reference Desk, call at 827-4392, email us at: rivref@ucr.edu, or Ask a UC Librarian.
