Upon completion will contain all 1750 episodes of 60 Minutes from the period 1997-2014. 60 Minutes is a highly successful program, with 120 Emmy and Peabody awards, and is the longest continuously-running prime-time program in American television history.
Also includes 175 hours of CBS Sunday Morning. These programs are in high-definition streaming format.
Offers nearly 70,000 streamed videos in a wide range of subject areas. Includes documentaries, feature films, news programs, and more.
Academic Video Online delivers nearly 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. The database includes includes documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage. Distributors include CNN, PBS, A&E Television, BBC, 60 Minutes (CBS), Sony Pictures Classics, First Run Features, Documentary Educational Resources, and many others.
Tracks "mentions" on the web in various sources (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.). Browse, search, and query mentions of publications and other output by researchers at U-M and elsewhere.
Altmetric Explorer for Institutions is a dashboard that allows users to browse, search, and query Altmetric data about "mentions" on the web of publications and other research outputs associated with researchers and departments at the University of Michigan--and elsewhere. The tool can be used to find and connect with readers of your work; to understand and communicate about online engagement with the work of any given researcher or department, or to see which research is most often mentioned in the news, cited in policy, etc. The University of Michigan is conducting a one-year pilot that will allow all affiliated users at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses to access the Altmetric Explorer.
Altmetric has a large and ever-growing set of sources where they look for mentions, since October 2011. (Start date of tracking varies by source.) It includes:
• More than 2,000 different news and media outlets (e.g., The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vox, Salon, Huffington Post, etc.)
• Publicly visible posts on social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Reddit, etc.)
• Academic social platforms (Mendeley, F1000)
• Selected scholarly/academic blogs (e.g., Scholarly Kitchen)
• Collections of book reviews (e.g., Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
• Wikipedia
• Policy documents (e.g., Gov.UK, IMF, WHO, etc.)
• Syllabi in the Open Syllabus Project
Journals focused on all aspects of the communications field: key subjects covered include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.
1973-present. Practice, theory and history of design, crafts, architecture, and advertising.
Contains over 100,000 annotated references to articles from over 450 design and craft journals published worldwide; plus data on over 46,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms, etc.
2009. Covers theories and theoretical concepts and a relatively comprehensive overview of the entire field of communication theory.
Entries address topics related not only to paradigms, traditions, and schools, but also metatheory, methodology, inquiry, and applications and contexts.
150 entries on rhetoric, including classical studies, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications. Combines theory, history, and practice, with a special emphasis on public speaking, performance, & communication.
Meet the Press is broadcast-television's longest-running program, with interviews, panels and debates from across the political spectrum that were televised 1947 through 2012.
Upon completion, the collection will Include every surviving program from the show’s inception in 1947 through the end of 2013, roughly 1,600 hours of programming. (Roughly 500 hours are no longer extant.)
Notable programs include:
• Jackie Robinson's appearance in 1957 to discuss Civil Rights and his NAACP involvement
• Fidel Castro's appearance in 1959
• Several appearances by Indira Gandhi
• Colin Powell's 2008 endorsement of Barack Obama for US president
All programs can be watched in streaming format. The Meet the Press database is fully searchable. All programs are provided with running transcripts. Programs and clips can be saved to a playlist and shared with others at UM-Flint.
This project project provides independent public opinion survey research about American attitudes toward politics and policy.
Formerly known as the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press (1990-1995), the Center has been sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts since 1996. Major reports examine long-term trends in political values, U.S. views on policy issues and priorities and political knowledge and news interest.
Over 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. Search using either graphic index or word index.
