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Go to http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ejournals:sfx963017844294 for access back to 2000 for Journalism: Theory, Practice, & Criticism.

From the Publisher: Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism is a major international, peer-reviewed journal that provides a dedicated forum for articles from the growing community of academic researchers and critical practitioners with an interest in journalism. The journal is interdisciplinary and publishes both theoretical and empirical work and contributes to the social, economic, political, cultural and practical understanding of journalism.

Can you answer Yes to any of the following questions?

1) Do you have a paper, faculty/fellow research project, SYP, PAE, dissertation, or other publication deadline that is fast approaching?

2) Have you spent hours Googling web sites without finding any good publications or data for your paper?

3) Are you wondering if the research you found online is accurate and reliable?

4) Do you want to learn new strategies for being an efficient and effective researcher so that you focus on the writing  portion of your paper?

5) Are you having difficulty organizing and managing your citations?

6) Would you like to learn research strategies that will be beneficial for your career?

If you answered Yes to any of the previous questions, stop Googling immediately. Contact an HKS Librarian for a research consultation today! A HKS Librarian can recommend research strategies, demonstrate citation management tools and provide advice on the best sources of information  for your specific assignment.

Email a HKS Librarian at library_research@hks.harvard.edu to schedule an appointment. Or,  stop by the Circulation desk at the HKS Library from Monday-Friday 9-6PM and ask if a Research Librarian is available to meet with you.  By appointment, HKS Research Librarians can also meet with small groups of HKS students or staff.

From January 2 to January 23, the HKS Library will be open 8 AM-5 PM Monday through Friday. The HKS Library Commons area will be open 5 PM to 1 AM, Monday through Friday and 8 AM to 11 PM on weekends. Go to HKS Hours to see our schedule for the remainder of the month.

Berkman Center for Internet & Society Luncheon Series

Citizen Video & Networked Politics in Southeast Asia

Andrew Lowenthal, EngageMedia

Tuesday, December 4, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor
RSVP required for those attending in person via this form.
This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET and archived on our site shortly after

Citizen video in Southeast Asia has exploded in recent times, and has come to play a significant role in national and regional politics. As in other contexts it has documented spectacular events, spearheaded campaigns and uncovered scandals. More broadly citizen media and networked publics are shifting the balance of power both in the media and the political landscape.

Like China and India, ASEAN nations are experiencing rapid growth and the online and citizen media space is only set to grow in media production, audience and importance.

Whilst broadband access in the region is still often constrained to urban areas, citizen video is also being taken up as a political tool from those on the economic and political fringes. Initiatives such as Citizen Journalists Malaysia and EngageMedia are working to develop strategic networks of new citizen video producers.

In this discussion, Andrew Lowenthal, co-founder and Executive Director of EngageMedia, will outline their approach to video4change and their work in the region, in particular looking at West Papua, (a remote region of Indonesia that has been waging an independence campaign for more than 40 years), the development of regional, cross-border and multilingual video networks, and the effect and possibility of the internet and online media to generate new post-national political configurations and collaborations.

Election 2012 Collaborative Web Archive Collection is a collaborative project of the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas Libraries, the Internet Archive and Harvard Library to collect and preserve web sites related to the United States 2012 election campaign. The HKS Library is focusing on adding websites that are produced by non-profit organizations, academic institutions, fact checking organizations, and individuals.

We welcome you to submit your nominations to the Election 2012 Collaborative Web Archive Collection at http://digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/election2012/add/.

Please contact Keely Wilczek at keely_wilczek@hks.harvard.edu with any questions.

The HKS Library now provides access to the Representation. Access to this peer-reviewed journal is available from 1960 to the present.

From the Publisher:

Representation – the journal of representative democracy – has the following aims:-

• To continue to publish cutting edge articles about the study of elections and voting systems throughout the world.
• To encourage debate on democrat practices around the world.
• To critically explore the interface between democratic practice and theory.
• To produce special issues devoted to questions of democracy and representation; whether they be in a single- country or region, or across a wider subject such as representation of minorities.
• To attract an audience of academics and students, journalists, election practitioners and all those interested in the nature of representative democracy including informed lay readers.

The HKS Library now provides access to the Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development. Access to this peer-reviewed journal is available from 2010 to the present.

From the Publisher: Humanity is a semiannual publication dedicated to publishing original research and reflection on human rights, humanitarianism, and development in the modern and contemporary world. An interdisciplinary enterprise, Humanity draws from a variety of fields, including anthropology, law, literature, history, philosophy, politics, and examines the intersections between and among them.

The HKS Library now provides access to the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties. Access to this peer-reviewed journal is available from 1991 to the present.

From the publisher: JEPOP aims to publish research of the highest quality on elections, public opinion, participation and political parties. Published under the auspices of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom specialist group of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties (EPOP), it welcomes submissions based on either comparative or single nation studies.

Zotero 3.0 has been released. This version includes many new features and fixes:

• Standalone version available. Run Zotero as a seperate program and connect to Firefox, Chrome or Safari.
• A new easy to use dialog for quickly adding citations
• Duplicate detection and merging
• Easier one step installation

Download Zotero 3.0

Nooks and Kindles are now available for borrowing from the HKS Library’s Circulation Desk. These E-Readers may be checked out for 28 days and come pre-loaded with fifty popular and new-release fiction and non-fiction titles.

Contact the Circulation for more information at (617) 495-1300 or at hkscirc@hks.harvard.edu.