Documents in the library
You can find books, journals, dictionaries, encyclopaedies, theses, audiovisual means, etc. at the catalogue of Universitat de València Trobes. You can search by some word in the registre, by author, by subject (always in Valencian language). For example:
Simple subjects Periodisme (journalism) Opinió pública (public opinion) Premsa (press) Ràdio (radio) Fotografia periodística (journalistic photography) Comunicació (communication) Mitjans de comunicació de massa (mass media) Ciències de la informació (journalism) ... |
Compound subjects Periodisme -- Catalunya (journalism-Catalonia) Periodisme -- Amèrica Llatina -- S.XIX-XX (journalism-LatinAmerica-XIX-XX century) Opinió pública -- Comunitat Valenciana (public opinion-Valencian Region) Premsa -- Argentina -- Aspectes polítics (press-Argentina-political aspects) Ràdio -- Entrevistes (radio-interview) Ràdio -- Espanya -- Història (radio-Spain-history) Fotografia periodística -- Aspectes psicològics (journalistic photography-psychological aspects) Comunicació -- Aspectes polítics (communication-political aspects) ... |
or for further information, look up the help manual.
Journals
The electronic journals subscribed by the library also can be searched by title, subject and subtopic. Click here for consulting the list of journals on Communication and Journalism.
Journals published by the University of Valencia
Open access journals
- Área Abierta
- CIC Cuadernos de información y comunicación
- Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información
- Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico
- Ámbitos: Revista Internacional de Comunicación
- Revista Latina de Comunicación Social
- Anàlisi: quaderns de comunicació i cultura
- Área visual
- Contrapicado
- Film Historia
- Cinefagia
- Cine&tele online
For searching for more journals or articles in full text, you can use the search-engine Recolecta. You can also search in Dialnet, which offers summaries of journals and in some cases full text.
Press
You may check the website versions of the main national newspapers and databases of press from the Online Newspapers section, in the Resources of the SBD website.
- MyNews: is a tool basic of journalistic documentation, a database of press for professional communication and documentation. It stores editions of the main Spanish newspapers and it coverages more than 200 newspapers and 800 online sources and more than 120 million items since 1996 in Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician.
- Baratz: news published in general Spanish newspapers and magazines from 1981 to 2002, on topic related to the economy, national and internationa politics and social and occupational aspects.
- Factiva: it offers full-text social and business-related publications, international newspapers, news agencies, company reports and link to other online services. You can find information in the most prestigious national and international sources and services (ABC, Alimarket, El País, La Vanguardia, Expansión, Reuters, Cinco Días, etc.).
- ProQuest Newsstand: over 1,200 full-text international newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Thr Chicago Tribune, The Globe & Mail and The Daily Telegraph.
- Infolibre: Spanish digital newspaper selected notícies searchable.
- iConoce: Spanish newspapers free database.
- El País: throug kioskoYmás, there is more resources
- La Vanguardia: paper edition // archive
- ABC // ABC: Hemeroteca (digitized newspaper since 1903)
- Avui
- Cinco Días
- Diariocrítico
- El Mundo
- El Pais.com (online version)
- El Periódico de Catalunya. Spanish edition. Catalonian edition
- Expansión
- Gaceta de los Negocios
- La Estrella digital
- La Vanguardia (current newspaper and historical archive from 1881)
- Público
- Las Provincias
- Levante : El Mercantil Valenciano
- Valencia Plaza
- German
- British
- French
- Le Monde (current newspaper and archive from 1987)
- Le Monde Diplomatique (Spanish edition)
- Libération
- Italian
- Virtual Library of Historical Press: cooperative digitization project of the Ministry of Culture, the Autonomous Communities and other memory institutions. Allows you to search for any word on any page of any newspaper digitized
- Hispanic Digital Newspaper Library: part of Hispanic Digital Library project, which aims to consultation and public outreach through Internet Spanish Bibliographic Heritage preserved at the National Library
- Hemeroteca municipal of Valencia (Maguncia square)
- Archive Girona. Newspaper Library: digitized copies of 22 different titles of press to access to informational, cultural, educational and research purpose
digital
- El País. Archive.
- La Vanguardia. Newspaper library
- Agencia EFE: EFE News service (only access to UV)
- EFE Agency
- Europa Press
- Agencia de Comunicación de la Moncloa
- Kiosko.net visual directory of newspaper (free)
- Online Newspapers international directory of online press
- El Quiosc newspapers and magazines compiled with special attention to Catalonia and Spain (prepared by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- BBC Mundo
- ABYZ News Links links to means of communication and press, organized for continents and countries
Search engines and aggregators
- Frontik: news of Spain and headlines from all means
- Yahoo noticias
- Menéame news in Spanish
- Digg news in English
Internet free resources
General
Resources websites
- Ministry of Culture-Cinema and Audiovisual Area: access website to the information about the activities of the Spanish cinematographic and audiovisual sector, and to other resources and services: Spanish Film Library, Spanish Cinema Catalogue, festivals, awards, grants, etc.
- Audiovisual and Media Policies: website of the European Committee about audiovisual media with diverse informations: legislation and jurisprudence, distribution of online contents, reports, studies, news, grants, etc.
- Communication Portal: website created and maintained by the UAB Communication Institute. If offers specialised information and docummentation in the different fields of communication, guided to researchers, students and professionals of communication, mainly from Latin American, Spain and Catalonia.
- Audiovisual landscape: professional landscape created in 2009. News and trends of the broadcast, cinema and new media industry.
- Communication Agenda: website for media professionals. It gathers press notes with the world of communication, press, advertising, radio, etc., and links to resources about agencies of news, audiovisuals, communication, graphic design, photography, training, etc.
- Media researcher: Media researcher in Spain: press, news agencies, radio, TV, web and blogs.
- SINC: Information and Scientific News Service: scientific news website organised in 7 areas: Natural Sciences, Technologies, Biomedicine and Health, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Humanities and Arts, Social and Legal Sciences and Scientific Policy. There is a subsection for Information Sciences in Humanities and Arts.
- PR Noticias: news portal about communication
- Dircom: Association of communication managers
- CulturArts - IVAC - Legislation: compilation of autonomous and national legislation made by the Institut Valencià de l'Audiovisual i de la Cinematografia Ricardo Muñoz Suay (Valencian Institute for Ricard Muñoz Suay's Audiovisual and Cinematography)
- Ministry of Culture-Cinema and Audiovisuals Legislation: access to the legislation and regulations in the field of cinema and audiovisuals in the state, autonomous, community and international fields.
- IRIS Merlin: legislation database of the European audiovisual sector. It allows to search by topics, countries, organisations, etc.
- Association for the media research: it provides data of audience studies for specific media such as radio, outside advertising, local television, cinema, Internet, etc., such as the Estudio General de Medios (EGM) (General Media Study (GMS)
- Oficina de justificación de la difusión (OJD): it offers diffusion and distribution data of periodicals printed on sale in Spain. It has a division dedicated to free press, PGD, and one for the audience and diffusion of the web media, the OJDinteractiva.
- European Audiovisual Observatory: EAO aims to create transparency in the European audiovisual sector and provide information services for professionals.
- European Broadcasting Union: entity composed of 79 active members in 55 countries of Europe, North Africa and Middle East, more than 44 members associated in 25 countries of the world. Most of them are public radio and television services.
- DAMA: Derechos de Autor de Medios Audiovisuales: management entity specialised in the collection, management and distribution of the copyrights of audiovisual and cinematographic works.
- EGEDA: Audio-visual Producers' Rights Management Association: entity that represents and defends in Spain the interests of audiovisual producers.
- Culture Ministry - Grants: last information abour current grants and about last year (includes all details).
- MEDIA Europa: European Union program in order to improve the competiti de la Unión Europea que tiene el propósito de impulsar la competitiveness of European audiovisual branch. Some information about funding and public grants.
- KORDA: database with some information about public grants (audiovisual sector).
- Programa Ibermedia: some information about charity and public grants to production projects form latinamerican audience.
- Super Radio: the guide of the radio in Spain: weekly journal about hot news in the world of the radio. It has a broadcasting entities directory by provinces and links to interesting resources.
- Allmovie: online database about cinema movies, actors and actresses, DVD releases and so on.
- Filmaffinity: database on Spanish language films. Have a movie recommendation system based on the scores given by users.
- IMDB: Internet Movie Database: the largest online database of information related to movies, directors, producers, actors, television shows, video games, voice acting, and most recently, fictional characters featured in the media.
- Alohacriticón: web of film, music and literature. Information about releases, new DVD, movie reviews, biographies of actors and actresses current and classic, etc.
- Cine para leer: Film reviews and information collected since 1972.
- Noticine: cinema news portal. Sections Latin America, Hollywood, International, Festivals, Industry, etc.
- Portal del Cine y el Audiovisual Latinoamericano y Caribeño: portal created by the Foundation of New Latin American Cinema that supports the exchange of ideas and reflection of filmmakers from Latin America and the Caribbean. News sections, festivals, institutions, publications, space for reflection, etc.
- Comunicación Invisible.net: directory databases in the public domain on the Web related with film studies.
Film archives and film collections
- European Film Gateway: 2008-2011 project promoted by the European Committee, which will provide access to 790,000 digital objects related to the European cinema, including films, photographs, posters, drawings, sound materials and texts.
- Lost films: website directed to document film titles which have been considered as lost, with an archive of more tan 3,500 films.
- Federación Internacional de Archivos Fílmicos (FIAF): it is the most important cinema archives association of the world, and its main aim is to preserve and show the films.
- CulturArts - IVAC : IVAC webpage which offers information about the list of programmes of the Film Library, publications, restoration and preservation of materials, databases (series, financed films, Archives journal…), library, video library, etc.
- Filmoteca Española: Spanish Film Library website, with sections of film collections, activities of the Film library, list of programmes of the Cine Doré, offered services, library catalogue, etc.
- NO-DO: open audiovisual archive of the Noticiario Documental (Documentary Newsreel) (1943-1981) posted on the Internet by RTVE and the Spanish Film Library.
- Asociación de Filmotecas Europeas (Association des Cinémathèques Européennes): with 39 member countries, it offers almost a million of film titles of all nationalities. It can be linked to the websites of the integral film libraries and other film archives.
- EuroVoD: is a network of independent European Video on Demand platforms specialising in art-house films and independent cinema.
Institutions and associations
- Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España: the Academy aims to drive the national promotion of Spanish cinema, defend their profesional and analyse the situation of the industry and the Spanish cinema itself.
- EFP: European Film Promotion: association for the promotion of European cinema in international markets and festivals.
- European Film Academy: institution that brings together more than 2,000 film professionals, with the aim of promoting European film culture.
- Other institutions and associations