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Lexis-Nexis - Contains over
one billion documents from governmental, legal and news sources.
LUIS - This is
the web-based interface to FSU's libraries. When the web is slow, the better option is to
Telnet to LUIS and use the Lynx-based interface.
IRIS Funding Opportunities
Database - Is a comprehensive database of grants and scholarships.
Search Engines
Metacrawler - Sends your query to several
search engines and returns you the collated and ranked list of relevant web pages.
AltaVista's
Advanced Query - Let's you use boolean logic along with other advanced syntax.
Advanced Lycos - Let's you customize
the search and the presentation of your search results.
Yahoo! - Has a smaller data base than most other search
engines but does a great job of categorizing the relevant web sites.
Select Searching:
Library of Congress - A good starting point for
governmental information.
THOMAS - the United States Congress's
official document release clearinghouse.
American
Directory Assistance's People Search - Helps find individuals, including a map to
their house.
ANYWHO - gets the address, phone, and e-mail of
anyone in the world
MapQuest - lets you generate an online map of
anywhere in the United States
Casey's Florida Map Page - over
100 maps of Florida
WHOIS1 - Shows the owners of a domain
name.
WHOIS2 - another WHOIS
search site for persons' e-mail addresses.
Liszt - Searches through a data base of e-mail list
serves and use nets.
Census Bureau - Let's you dig through US Census
statistics.
NUA Internet Surveys - Collates
and annotates the latest Internet surveys.
Newslink - Homepage for the American Journalism
review and a comprehensive listing of online newspapers.
New York Times on the Web - You must register for
this free site and then can search for the latest NY Times story.
Hoover's Online - Contains updated company profiles
of most major businesses.
Florida State University Online Phone Book - Find
your favorite Seminole!
University
of Florida's Online Phone Book - Harass your favorite gator.
Academic Starting Points:
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
- Members only allowed to search a multitude of journals and other communication
resources.
Project 2000 - Vanderbilt University's
marketing on the Internet site features the many works of Donna Hoffman and Thomas Novak.
MouseTracks - Marketing Activities and
Resources
Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies
Page - Is a comprehensive collection of mass media resources.
Computer-Mediated Communication
Studies Center - Contains a wealth of resoursce and links to the evolving field of
computer-mediated communication.
Media and Communication Studies
Journals - Links to a multitude of journals.
Select Research Reports and Academic Papers:
The Internet Report
-A comprehensive review by Morgan Stanley. (warning, you will need Adobe's PDF to read
this).
Media and Technology - Dr. Robert
LaRose of Michigan State University's Telecommunication Department put his course and
graduate students' papers on the web. U & G, Critical theory and others;
check it out!
Fortune 100 Website
Content Analysis - FSU students used Diffusion of Innovation to research what Fortune
100 companies are doing on the web.
A Global Study of
Commercial Websites -This JCMC article takes a snapshot of commercial website
activities.
Why Communication
Researchers Should Study the Internet -This JCMC article lays the groundwork and a
possible theoretical base (U & G) for further Internet
research.http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/vol1/issue4/rafaeli.html
Assessing the
Structure of Communication on the World Wide Web - FSU's Dr. Michelle Jackson's recent
JCMC article.
Associations and Organizations:
Newspaper Association of America
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