Kwantlen Library subscribes to a variety of journals, both in print and online. To find articles on a particular topic use one of our article indexes. If you're not sure if a journal is scholarly (often called "academic" or "peer-reviewed"), look at our checklist.
Journals & Article Indexes
TIP for historical newspaper research: Try Google News Newspapers for access to digital copies of some newspapers
TIP for Advanced Researchers: Set up a "Journal Title Alert" for your favourite journal and you'll be notified when the latest issue is available electronically. You can also set up a "Topical Search Alert". For help with this, see our Search Alert guide.
Selected Online Reference Tools
- Encyclopedia of British Columbia - a comprehensive online reference source for BC-related information, containing articles, sound files, images, maps, charts and graphs.
- Oxford Reference Online - Provides access to 100 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works across a broad subject spectrum.
Selected Journals & Magazines
Cloverdale=C, Langley=L, Richmond=R, Surrey=S, Online=O
Journalism-Specific
Current Awareness and Trends
- Advertising Age - S,O
- BC Business Magazine - C,L,R,S
- Business in Vancouver - C,L,R,S
- Canadian Business - L,R,S,O
- Computer World - R,O
- Maclean's - C,L,R,S,O
- Newsweek - S, O
- Quill & Quire - R
- Time - C,L,R,S,O
Newspapers
- Delta Optimist - R,O
- Globe & Mail - C,L,R,S,O
- Langley Times - L,O
- National Post - C,L,R,S,O
- The Province - C,L,R,S,O
- Richmond Review - R,O
- Surrey Leader - C,S,O
- Vancouver Sun - C,L,R,S,O
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Print Resources
- Associations Canada : the Directory of Associations in Canada
REF HS 17 A76 R,S,L
- Canadian Advertising Rates and Data
REF HF 5801 C27 R,S,L
- Canadian Almanac & Directory
REF FC 2 C43 R,S,L
- The Canadian Encyclopedia
REF FC 23 C36 R,S,L and ONLINE.
- Canadian Sourcebook
REF FC 31 M3122 R,S,L
- The Canadian Who's Who
REF FC 25 C35 S
- The Canadian Writer's Market
REF PN 161 C35 R,S,L
- Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
REF PN 4728 Z9582 2009 S
- Photographer's Market
REF TR 12 P515 R
- The Photography Encyclopedia
REF TR 9 M39 S,L
- PhotoSpeak : a Guide to the Ideas, Movements, and Techniques of Photography, 1839 to the present
REF TR 15 M63 R,S
- The Canadian Parliamentary Guide
REF JL 5 A4 R,S,L
- Statesman's Year-Book : Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World
REF JA 51 S7 C,R,S,L
- World Press Encyclopedia
REF PN 4728 Q53 v.1 & v.2 S
Subject Headings
You can find more books through our Library Catalogue by searching under the following subject headings:
Call Numbers
If you don't have a particular book in mind, then try browsing our collections using the following call numbers:
PN 4700 – 5650: Journalism
PN 4781: Reporters and Reporting
PN 4784 I6: Interviewing (Journalism)
PN 4901 – 4919: Canadian Newspapers
TR 270: Lenses - Photographic
TR 820: Photojournalism
Finding call numbers confusing? Check this out!
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TIP: Don't believe everything you read! Evaluate web sources very carefully for their accuracy, authority, and currency. Here are some evaluation criteria to help you.
- Accuracy in Media - news media watchdog
- Assignment Editor.com
- BusinessJournalism.org
- Canadian Media Guild
- Center for Investigative Reporting
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Cyberjournalist.net - for online journalists, includes Tips and Tools, Great Work Gallery, and J-Blogs.
- DART Center for journalism and trauma - study of trauma resulting from coverage of violence by reporters and photographers. Links to online publications such as Covering Children and Trauma
- Ethics Cases Online - from Indiana University School of Journalism
- FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - media watch group focussing on media bias and censorship
- Free Press - a clearinghouse of online material about media reform movement. U.S. focus but does provide some global information (e.g. media policies, copyright laws, media ownership).
- Freedom Forum - dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit, including a section on Newsroom Diversity
- Freedom House - includes access to Freedom of the Press statistics
- International Center for Journalists: Advancing Quality Journalism Worldwide
- Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) - access includes news resources, The Resource Center, and Job Center.
- JLab - Institute for Interactive Journalism
- JournalismNetJournalism.org
- Journalism Resources
- The Journalist's Toolbox
- Life Magazine
- Media Awareness Network - Canadian media education and media issues including media violence, media stereotyping, online hate, information privacy, and media and Canadian cultural policies
- NewsWatch
- Newspaper Death Watch - blog - "chronicling the decline of newspapers and rebirth of journalism"
- Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
- OnlineConversion.com - "Convert just about anything to anything else"
- The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
- Poynteronline - Journalism School resources for students and teachers.
- ProPublica: Journalism in the Public Interest
- Reporters sans Frontieres (FSF) - Reporters without Borders including section about Canada
- Statistics every writer should know
- STATS - "Checking out the facts and figures behind the news." (George Mason University)
- Writers Write - includes paying markets for freelancers and a separate section for Journalism
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Annual Reports
Awards
Copyright
Entrepreneurship
Photojournalism
Writing
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- American Journalism Review - access to some current magazine content, article archives, plus resources including Reporters' Tools, Writing Aids, Magazines and Newspapers
- Columbia Journalism Review - print copies of the Columbia Journalism Review are available at Richmond Campus Library (1993 - present)
- Kwantlen Chronicle Online - contains archives of work published by students in Kwantlen's News Publication classes. The Chronicle is no longer produced on a regular basis (as per notice dated Aug 2011).
- MastHeadOnline
- News and Newspapers Online - For a comprehensive listings of news sites, organized geographically with links to hundreds of news resources around the world
- The Library's News subject guide contains a comprehensive listing of newspapers and news sources (local, national and international)
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