JRN 3101: Journalism Law and Ethics

Books written by scholars and published by university presses are a good source of information for many topics.

When and Why You Should Use Books:

• You need good historical overviews of topic
• You need broad coverage of one or more topics
• You need a summary of existing research on a topic

Remember: Books may contain less recent information, often due to a lengthy publication process. Also, you may only need to read one chapter of a scholarly book!

Need to find a book? Use the following source to find books at Temple.

One useful way to find books in Library Search is to use subject headings: tags or categories that identify the main topics or themes of a book. Here are a few that you may find helpful:

• Censorship
• Freedom of expression
• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of the press 
• Freedom of information 
• Intellectual property
• Journalism — Objectivity
• Journalistic ethics
• Mass media — Moral and ethical aspects
• Privacy, Right of.