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This post arises from an enquiry I received. Unfortunately, the Library does not yet have a copy of this AV resource. So, like any ordinary Internet user, I went to youtube.com and, what do you know, found all 4 episodes (in 24 parts). It is very relevant for public relations so I posted it here.

More details of this title at http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self.shtml

The 2008 Journal Citation Reports from Thomson Reuters is out.

You can now get the latest impact factors of key journals as well as any new journal titles that made it into the list. To access Journal Citation Reports (JCR):

1. Go to Library Homepage
2. Click on Databases under Finding Information
3. Select J from the alphabetical list
4. Click on Journal Citation Reports
5. Login with your NTU network account and password

New users of JCR, click here for instructions.

Also, Sage has released results for all SAGE’s ranked Communication & Media Studies journals:

• Communication Research – ranked 6/45 (IF1.47)3
• Discourse Studies – ranked 13/45 (IF: 1.116)
• Discourse & Society – ranked 20/45 (IF: 0.946)
• European Journal of Communication – ranked 32/45 (IF: 0.682)
• The International Journal of Press/Politics – ranked 15/45 (IF: 1.047)
• Journal of Business and Technical Communication – ranked 44/45 (IF: 0.379)
• Journal of Social and Personal Relationships – ranked 14/45 (IF: 1.097)
• Media, Culture & Society – ranked 21/45 (IF: 0.938)
• New Media & Society – ranked 24/45 (IF:0.821)
• Public Understanding of Science – ranked 10/45 (IF: 1.286)
• Science Communication – ranked 22/45 (IF:0.886)
• Written Communication – ranked 33/45 (IF: 0.621)

The NTU Library has subscription to all the above journals via Sage Journals Online.

Volume 10, Issue No. 1 is out.

A collection of thoughts surrounding the topic: My Media Studies.

57 contributors were asked to write a 1000-word article about what they think media studies is.

An apt ending for the year 2008 or a dazzling start for 2009?

So, what do you think media studies is?

Full-text of Television & New Media is available here. Full-text coverage from Feb 2000 onwards.

Do you know that the NTU Library subscribes to Film & History?

Film & History studies how history is being shaped by media & how media are being shaped by history.

It also examines the evolution of genre over time & how the changes in genre formulas are affected by contemporary pressures.

Published by the Center for the Study of Film and History, this journal is now in its 38th year.

The Library has full-text coverage from 1971 onwards.

Access Film & History via the Ebscohost platform in the Database: International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with full-text.

New Review of Film and Television Studies: Volume 6 Issue 3 is now available online at informaworldTM.

This new issue contains the following articles:

Methodological questions in ‘interactive film studies’
Pages 233 – 252
Authors: Bernard Perron; Dominic Arsenault; Martin Picard; Carl Therrien
DOI: 10.1080/17400300802418552

Into the light: re-considering off-frame and off-screen space in gallery films
Pages 253 – 267
Author: Catherine Fowler
DOI: 10.1080/17400300802418578

Portrait of the artist as a pun man: humor and its structures in the films of Jean-Luc Godard
Pages 269 – 284
Author: Sydney Duncan
DOI: 10.1080/17400300802418586

From screen to stage: Almodóvar’s All About My Mother
Pages 285 – 301
Author: Gwynne Edwards
DOI: 10.1080/17400300802418602

What ever happened to West Side Story? Gene Kelly, jazz dance, and not so real men in Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort
Pages 303 – 321
Authors: Svea Becker; Bruce Williams
DOI: 10.1080/17400300802418610

Cosmetic surgery and mediated body theatre: the designable body in the makeover programme The Swan
Pages 323 – 341
Author: Anne Jerslev
DOI: 10.1080/17400300802424873

Do not go gentle into that twilight: Rod Serling’s challenge to 1960s’ television production
Pages 343 – 364
Author: Jon Kraszewski
DOI: 10.1080/17400300802424899

Notes on filmosophy: a reply to reviews
Pages 365 – 374
Author: Daniel Frampton
DOI: 10.1080/17400300802435416

To access New Review of Film and Television Studies Vol 6 Issue 3:

1. Go to http://atoz.ebsco.com/titles.asp?id=2616&sid=44379044&TabID=2
2. Enter title of journal in search box
3. Click search
4. Select Taylor & Francis (please note that we only have online subscription to this journal from 2003 onwards)

Keep abreast of global consumer trends with Global Market Information Database (GMID). This database by Euromonitor International tracks trends in consumer attitudes, opinions, consumer activities and spending habits in a wide range of industries.

Content ranges from:

1. Articles examining global consumer trends, highlighting similarities and differences across countries
2. Rankings
3. Strategy briefing providing in-depth analysis of trends affecting global consumer markets
4. Insights reporting issues that influence consumer opinion and behaviour

GMID is subscribed by NTU Library and made available within campus and remotely via the Ezproxy service.

Check GMID out now at http://www.ntu.edu.sg/lib/collections/db/aaz-8270.htm

For further information, drop me an email at phoebelim@ntu.edu.sg