TV News Archive: Search 1,300,000+ US TV News Broadcasts!

The TV News Archive, originally released in 2012, is an amazing resource for journalists, scholars, teachers and students.
 

In the Archive you can view over a million video clips from United States news broadcasts aired since 2009.

You can navigate the archive in a number of ways:

• Search closed captions and transcripts
• Use advanced search to search by network/broadcaster
• View clips from 1,333,000 shows since 2009
• Share custom show clips and track popularity
• Browse by special topics, such as 9/11, Trump Archive, and more!

The TV News Archive is run by the Internet Archive:  "The Internet Archive works to preserve the published works of human kind. Standing on the shoulders of Vanderbilt University’s Television News Archive project, the Internet Archive collects and preserves television news. Like library collections of books and newspapers, this accessible archive of TV news enables anyone to compare, contrast and quote statements from this influential medium."

More tips

Scan and view show segments:

• Shows are presented in 60 second segments, each with a video and corresponding transcript text.
• Scroll left and right to scan through segments of a show; search terms are highlighted in transcript text.
• To search within a show transcript text try Ctrl + F to search inside the page.

Share and embed short clips/quotes from a show:

• Shareable quotes are limited to 60 seconds. Refine your quote selection by clicking the “Edit” button and dragging the handles.
• Click a social media button to finalize and share your quote.
• Your quote will be assigned a permalink. You can always come back to see it!

If you have questions about using this resource, contact Ilka at idatig5@naz.edu. 

Free access databases: including monographs, images, data and more

The librarians at the City Colleges of Chicago maintain an excellent list of free, public databases.  This list is regularly updated and is organized alphabetically (but can be searched by keyword by using Control-F on a standard computer).  Here are some of the highlights:

Gutenberg-e:  A digital book collection.

"Columbia University Press is pleased to announce that Gutenberg-e is now an open access site. These award winning monographs, coordinated with the American Historical Association, afford emerging scholars new possibilities for online publications, weaving traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories."

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930: A primary sources collection.

"Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the US includes over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200 books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800 photographs. By incorporating diaries, biographies, and other writings capturing diverse experiences, the collected material provides a window into the lives of ordinary immigrants.

In addition to thousands of items that are now accessible to any Internet user, the collection includes contextual information on voluntary immigration and quantitative data. The site offers additional links to related digital resources on immigration to the US, including vital materials on the African diaspora."

OECD iLibrary:  A collection of economic reports.

"The online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data."

    

If you have questions about using any of these databases, please send your question to the Reference Department at answers.naz.edu.

New Open Access ebooks on JSTOR

JSTOR, one of the most popular databases for scholarly articles, books, and primary sources, has recently announced that it is releasing an initial set of 63 book titles in it's new Open Access monographs program.

What is Open Access?

Open Access is a huge trend in scholarly publishing right now.  As you may know, the bulk of scholarly publishing is subscription-only.  Institutions, such as libraries, pay a fee for their communities to be able to access high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly information.

Many people are beginning to push back against the high prices of scholarly information.  These people are urging scholars to publish their work in Open Access formats so that anyone can access them without paying a fee.  They are also pushing publishers to allow for more Open Access options.

SPARC defines Open Access as "the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open Access ensures that anyone can access and use these results—to turn ideas into industries and breakthroughs into better lives" (2016).

In an article on Open Access publishing trends, Poltronieri et al argue that "Over the last decade, the open access option for strengthening the spread of scholarly literature is becoming progressively attractive for both publishers and authors in almost every field of science" (2016).  Organizations like JSTOR are therefore becoming interested in making at least some of their information Open Access.

What books are they releasing?

Some great titles from highly influential publishers, including Cornell University Press, University of Michigan Press, and University of California Press.

Here are just a few:

Equity, Growth, and Community:  What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas by Chris Benner and Manual Pastor.

Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion:  Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction by J.D.Y. Peel

Discrimination at Work:  Comparing European, French, and American Law by Marie Mercat-Bruns

Find more information and a press release here on the JSTOR website.

References & Further Reading:

Bonn, Maria. "Maximizing the benefits of open access: Strategies for enhancing the discovery of open access content." College & Research Libraries News 76.9 (2015): 491-494. LINK.

Nature. "Open Access at NatureResearch."  Retrieved November 11, 2016 from http://www.nature.com/openresearch/about-open-access/benefits-for-authors/

Poltronieri, Elisabetta, et al. "Open access publishing trend analysis: statistics beyond the perception." Information research 21.2 (2016).  LINK.

Right to Research Coalition.  "Why Open Access?"  Retrieved November 11, 2016 from http://www.righttoresearch.org/learn/whyoa/index.shtml

SPARC. "Open Access." Retrieved November 11, 2016 from http://sparcopen.org/open-access/