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Journalism Research Guide
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NetLibrary

NetLibrary is an online, full-text book service with selected titles. Access to NetLibrary from off campus is available to UMass Amherst students, faculty, staff, and affiliates through their OIT account. Enter your OIT username and password when prompted. First-time users must set up an account. In NetLibrary, select "Create an account," and then provide a username and password. Thereafter, connect from anywhere.

Type your subject in the "Subject" line, then click "Search." You can also search by the title or author of the book. Some samples of E-Books on journalism from NetLibrary follow:

Beyond spin: The power of strategic corporate journalism / Markos Kounalakis. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey Bass, 1999.

The big chill: Investigative reporting in the current media environment / Marilyn Greenwald. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.

Careers in journalism / Jan Goldberg. Chicago, Ill.: NTC Contemporary, 2000

Green ink: An introduction to environmental journalism / Michael Frome. Salt Lake City, UtahL University of Utah Press, 1998.

Groping for ethics in journalism / Ron F. Smith. Ames: Iowa State Univeristy Press, 1999.

The Mulligan guide to sports journalism careers /  Joseph F. Mulligan. Lincolnwood, Ill.: NTC Contemporary, 1999.

The poll with a human face: The national issues convention experiment in political communication / Maxwell McCombs. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.

When giants ruled: The story of Park Row, New York's great newspaper street /  Hy B. Turner. New York: Fordham University Press, 1999.

Finding E-books Through the Library Catalog

In addition to searching NetLibrary, you may find e-books through the Library Catalog by selecting Advanced Search and limiting the Format to "E-books." 

 

 
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