Journalism and Mass Communications Research Guide

• Ad*Access Project 

  Images and database information for more than 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

• Advertising Archives 

  A large and comprehensive European advertising archive, with more than 50,000 images searchable online. Click on "Gallery" to browse by decade.

• The Advertising Century 

  AdAge Top 100 Campaigns -- A list of the top campaigns including the product, slogan, image, agency and date for each, with many other advertising links.

• AdViews 

  A digital archive of thousands of television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s.

• Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 

  Presents over 9,000 images, with database information, that "illustrate the rise of consumer culture, especially after the American Civil War, and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States."

• Vanderbilt Television News Archive 

  This index database of national network television news programs includes streaming video of CNN news broadcasts as well as commercials from the mid-1990s to the present.

Institute for Public Relations
Established in 1956, IPR carries out valuable PR research, education programs, and makes data widely available to improve the profession. The IPR has supported more than 200 separate research projects covering everything from what PR students should study to an analysis of how new technologies are affecting the profession.

O'Dwyer's PR Market Place 
Online access to the inside news of public relations, including firms, insider analyses, jobs, publications, and more. Among my favorite features: a homepage search button to find a company's representative PR firm, and an often irreverent interactive define-PR-in-75-words-or-less page.

PR NewsWire
Provides comprehensive communications services for public relations and investor relations professionals ranging from information distribution and market intelligence to the creation of online multimedia content and investor relations web sites. PRN's 33,000 members consist of communications firms, government agencies, and companies including 70 percent of the Fortune 500.