University of Texas Libraries • The University of Texas at Austin

Journalism Graduate Student Orientation

August 29, 2011

Services and facilities

UT Libraries @ http://www.lib.utexas.edu/

Graduate Student info: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/gradstudents/

Great one-stop info shopping site: links to databases, indexes; style guides and EndNote® info; how to borrow via interlibrary loan, request a purchase, IM/chat with a librarian; also helpful links for grad students who are instructors themselves.

Request a Library Purchase: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/request/

Heard about a new book or journal and you’ve checked the library catalog and discovered the library doesn’t have it? Recommend that we purchase it!

Request the loan of an older item (article, book, DVD, etc) UT Austin does not own (FREE service): http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/ils/

Get articles in 3-5 working days by PDF. Book loans from another library to UT take longer.

Renew materials online: https://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/patroninfo

Get Help. Ask a Librarian: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/reference/

Borrowing, recalling, returning library materials: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/borrower/

Library Classes: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/instruction/classes/

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Information Resources

LibSearch Box: http://www.lib.utexas.edu

Books and More

Library Catalog: books (print and ebooks), DVDs, CDs. | WorldCat@UT: books, articles, media sources (billions of items). | Google Books: links from books to our library catalog. Use Advanced Book Search option to narrow by title, author, publisher, date, full-view titles only, etc.

Articles:

Google Scholar: Find scholarly articles embedded in UT Libraries-licensed databases (this info not accessible via Google.com); open access scholarly publications, recent dissertations, Google books, and much more. Important: be sure to access via a UT Libraries or other UT web site so you will have access UT-licensed materials.

Journals:

Find online electronic and print versions of journals.

List of 575+ specially licensed databases:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/

Journalism Resources: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/journalism/index.html

Good place to start.

EBSCOhost Research Databases: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.php?id=121

Do simultaneous searches across multiple subject databases.

Dissertations and Theses: Full Text:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=114

UT Journalism Department Theses and Dissertations: http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/4/browse?type=department

Lexis/Nexis: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=224

Library PressDisplay: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.php?id=512

Historical Newspapers Online:

New York Times 1851-2007: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=295

Los Angeles Times 1881-1986: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=517

Los Angeles Times: 1986 to present:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.php?id=459

Washington Post 1877-1993: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=518

Complete Research by Subject listing: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/dls/testing/subjectlists/subject/

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Government and other resources publicly accessible:

FirstGov.gov Search: http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Topics/All_Topics.shtml

OpenSecrets.org: http://www.opensecrets.org/

Texas Government info: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/government/texas.html

UT Libraries Austin Information Site: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/refsites/austin.html

UT Libraries Census Information Site:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/government/census.html

UT Libraries Declassified Government Documents site: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/government/declassified.html

UT Libraries Statistics and Demographics site: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/refsites/statistics.html

UT Libraries Telephone and e-mail Directories site:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/refsites/directories.html

UT Libraries Links to Useful Reference Sites all over the world: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/refsites/alpha.html#otherref.html

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SAMPLING OF THE MANY DATA JOURNALISM SITES:

Guardian.UK Data Blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/data

Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data (ProPublica Nerd Blog):

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/doc-dollars-guides-collecting-the-data

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Carole Cable, Communication Librarian

Research Services, University of Texas Libraries at Austin

carole.cable@mail.utexas.edu • 512.495.4382 •

PCL 3.316 (email for appointment)