The librarian is: BLOGGING | Journalism Library, Columbia University

Q: What library services will I have access to after I graduate? Will I have access to Lexis Nexis and Factiva?

A: For 3 months after graduation, all graduates will continue to have access to the same resources that were available to them when they were students. Columbia University alums are welcome to use the libraries on campus after obtaining the Alumni Library Card upon graduation at the Library Information Office. Lexis Nexis and Factiva are currently not included in the list of electronic resources available to alumni, but there are many benefits and services available at Columbia University Libraries, including access to ProQuest newspapers. For a full listing of electronic services available to alums, click here.

Q: May I use photographs downloaded from AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive on my personal blog? May I copy a journal or newspaper article in its entirety to my personal blog?

A: All materials obtained from Columbia University Libraries databases are for research, instructional, and educational uses only. Please see the Copyright and Fair Use category on this blog for further information.

Photos from the AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive may be downloaded for class-specific projects only, and you must credit the AP in your project.

With journal articles, you may incorporate bibliographic citations into your personal blog, but copying the entire article would be in direct violation of our database license.

Q: Will my Columbia ID give me access to the Medical Library?

A: Yes! With you Columbia ID, you may access the Medical Library and all libraries on campus.

More Questions and Answers from Orientation Library Sessions coming soon!

Library catalogs:

“Hybrid” databases (bibliographic information, plus full text):

Full text journal collections:

National libraries:

Today, we’ll be looking at the AP Multimedia Archive, which is a source for content (images, audio, and text) from the Associated Press, back to as early as 1844.

If you’re looking for maps, here is a link to databases licensed by Columbia University Libraries that have maps in them. The CIA World Factbook is a very good source of simple reference maps. Another good online source for maps is the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection from the University of Texas. They’ve scanned hundreds of maps and made them available online.

You may want to see some of the religion reporting resources I have mentioned previously on this blog. Also, remember that in addition to the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary (whose holdings are listed in CLIO, you have access to the Jewish Theological Seminary Library, which has a separate catalog, ALEPH.

Yes, you read that right. FREE. To anyone with a valid .edu email address. More details here: http://www.nytimes.com/gst/ts_university_email_verify.html

Graduating students, sign up now, before your email address expires (though it’s possible that this may still work with your alumni email forwarding).

Haven’t tried the AP Multimedia Archive yet? (Access restricted to current Columbia affiliates.) Here’s some of what you’re missing…

But wait, there’s more! If you click the “Help” link from the left menu, you can find out how to do special searches of photos, by concept, color, and more…

Don’t forget, this material is copyrighted to the Associated Press. If you use it in a school project, credit the AP Multimedia Archive. And if you want to sell a piece, you must seek clearance from the AP if you are incorporating their work into yours.

The Alliance for Health Reform, a nonpartisan, non-profit group that focuses on the American health care system, has just released, Covering Health Issues 2006, a sourcebook prepared especially for journalists.

The chapters include information on the uninsured, children’s health coverage, Medicare, and much more. You will find statistics, contact information for experts, and links to useful websites. And best of all, this publication is available entirely free, online, via the link above.

Welcome, Class of 2007! Here are the links that I visited during my talk today.

Columbia University Libraries

CLIO, Columbia’s library catalog

ProQuest Historical Newspapers (NYT and other newspapers, scanned as PDF, back to 19th century) (Access restricted to current Columbia affiliates)

Ethnic Newswatch (full text of ethnic newspapers from US & Canada, English and Spanish language) (Access restricted to current Columbia affiliates)

LexisNexis (Access restricted to current Columbia affiliates)

Infoshare Online (all kinds of data about NYC by neighborhood, community district, and more!) (Access restricted to current Columbia affiliates)

Welcome to the Journalism School, Class of ‘07 broadcast students!

This post duplicates the handout provided to students during the broadcast RWI research training sessions.

Master’s projects:

To locate broadcast Master’s projects from prior years, visit the index, available online at: www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/jour/masters/

TV projects are available to borrow from the Journalism Library (ask at the Circulation Desk for project title and year it was completed). Radio projects are also available at the Journalism Library, and online at: www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/radio/masters/index.asp

Stock footage sources (tips from Prof. June Cross)

National Archives website: www.archives.gov/research/formats/film-sound-video.html

Library of Congress (make sure to check copyright status before using!):
www.loc.gov/film/arch.html

Local museums and historical societies
Museums: www.ny.com/museums/all.museums.html
Historical societies: www.nyhistory.com/links/historical_societies.htm

Other resources of interest

AccuNet/AP multimedia archive : photos, text, audio, graphics. (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates) This resource has AP photographs back to the mid-19th century, as well as audio content.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers. (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates) This database contains full historical archives of the Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post. It is an entire run of newspapers on microfilm, retrievable on your computer!

Television News Archive.(access restricted to current Columbia affiliates) The TVNA has been taping the nightly network news since 1968. While very limited broadcast content (from CNN) is available streaming on the TVNA site, the searchable archive enables you to see how each network covered events on a given day, how long the segments were, and even what advertisements were shown.

Graduated already? Great news. Columbia University Libraries has just added a new title to the list of online research databases we make available to alumni: EBSCO’s Business Source Premier. This database is a collection of nearly 1100 business magazines and journals in full text.

If you are an alum and have not already registered to gain access to the alumni databases, please see this page for more information.

I have some great news for those looking to use the online archives of the New York Review of Books (which, as you may know, is not included in any of the databases to which Columbia Libraries subscribes): The Libraries now have an online subscription to the site itself, which includes full access to the archives, back to 1963!

To access, just bookmark this link in your web browser:
http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5577883 (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates).

Click on the “Archives” link at the top to access older contents, or browse the current issue from the main screen.