ENTC 325 - Telecommunications Services Analysis
Library Resources
Legal Materials and News
Use the databases linked below to find legislation, legal
cases, law review articles, and news articles on your topic.
LexisNexis Academic
Campus Research (Westlaw)
Reports
Use the databases linked below to find background reports on
your topic.
LexisNexis Congressional
The Hearings Collection contains congressional hearings 1824-2003 in
searchable PDF format. Example topics: LATA, Network Neutrality,
E-rate. Also included are Congressional Research Service Reports and House and Senate
Reports. Improve results by using Index Terms such as Telecommunication
or Telecommunication regulation.
Example Titles:
Data Security: Federal Legislative Approaches
FCC Media Ownership Rules
Transition to Digital Television: Is America Ready
Digital Television: An Overview
Universal Service Fund: Background and Options for Reform
Spectrum Management: Auctions
Telecommunications Discounts for Schools and Libraries: the “E-rate” Program
and Controversies
FACCTS (Faulkner's
Advisory on Computer & Communications Technologies)
Click on a topic such as Telecom & Global Network Services or Wireless
Communications or chooses a special feature such as Technology Vendor Profiles
or Telecom Weekly.
Gartner Research IntraWeb
Technology industry trends and market analysis reports.
Business Databases for Articles
ABI/Inform (ProQuest)
An extensive index to business and industry articles, many with full text.
ABI/Inform Trade &
Industry (ProQuest)
Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters.
Business Source Complete
Contains the full text of many scholarly business publications.
GlobalComms Database (part of TeleGeography)
Includes company profiles organized by country and country profiles with
descriptions of the market and the regulatory environment.
Wilson Business Abstracts
Full Text
This database indexes and abstracts articles from English language periodicals,
including the leading business magazines and trade journals; includes some full
text.
Engineering Databases for Articles
ACM Digital Library
Full-text of all journals and proceedings from the Association for Computing
Machinery.
Applied Science and
Technology Full Text
Indexing, abstracting, and selected full text of journals in the applied
sciences such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, chemistry,
construction, computing, materials sciences, transportation, and all types of
engineering.
Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts
Multiple databases indexing and abstracting the research and applied literature
of agriculture, biology, medicine and biotechnology; aquatic, atmospheric, and
geoastrophysical sciences; computers, engineering, and materials science;
education; business and marketing; and social sciences. Sub-databases of
particular interest to engineering include the CSA Engineering, CSA High
Technology, and CSA Materials Research Databases.
Compendex
Indexes and abstracts the literature of all engineering fields. Combined search
of Compendex and Inspec databases available on this site. Links to full-text
articles in selected electronic journals.
IEEE Xplore
Coverage: 1988- - Through Present,Source: IEEE Electronic Library Online.
Full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference
proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards.
ScienceDirect
Source: Elsevier Science Direct Journals. Indexing and abstracting of major
journals in many fields of science and engineering; full text of
Elsevier-published journals.
Telecommunications Reference Books
Encyclopedia of Telecommunications
Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering Presents a compilation of tables, figures, nomograms, formulas, statistics,
standards, and explanatory text for systems engineers and technicians.
Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook
Newspapers - Historical
Federal Communications Commission
Electronic Document
Management System (EDOCS)
EDOCS lets you search a database of Daily Digest entries for FCC documents
posted to the FCC web site since March 1996. The query searches on words
and numbers that appeared in the Daily Digest title and in the description for
each document, not on the full text of each document. EDOCS has two
search modules: quick and advanced.
Print Collection
Located on the 5th floor of the
Library Annex
1986 forward - FCC Record : a comprehensive compilation of decisions,
reports, public notices, and other documents of the Federal Communications
Commission of the United States - call number CC 1.12/3:
1935 -1986 - Federal Communications Commission reports : decisions, reports,
public notices, and other documents of the Federal Communications Commission of
the United States, first series - call number CC1.12:, second series
- call number CC 1.12/2:
Links
Newspapers
Use the list below to link to your assigned newspaper. The links that say LexisNexis, ProQuest, EBSCO, and PressDisplay connect to versions of the paper provided by Texas A&M University Libraries. The link that says newspaper goes to the paper's own Internet site.
Atlanta Journal and Constitution | (newspaper)
Austin American-Statesman |
(PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
Boston Globe | (newspaper)
Chicago Tribune | (ProQuest) |
(PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
Christian Science Monitor | (ProQuest) | (EBSCO) |
(newspaper)
Daily Telegraph (London) | (newspaper)
Dallas Morning News | (PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
Denver Post | (newspaper)
Detroit Free Press | (newspaper)
Financial Times (London) | (ProQuest) |
(newspaper)
Guardian (London) | (PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
Houston Chronicle | (PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
International Herald-Tribune |
(newspaper)
Jerusalem Post | (PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
Journal of Commerce | (newspaper)
Los Angeles Times | (ProQuest) |
(PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
Miami Herald | (newspaper)
New York Times | (ProQuest) |
(newspaper)
Newsday (New York) | (newspaper)
Orlando Sentinel | (newspaper)
Philadelphia Inquirer | (newspaper)
San Diego Union-Tribune |
(newspaper)
San Francisco Chronicle | (PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
San Jose Mercury News | newspaper)
Seattle Times | (PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
South China Morning Post | (newspaper)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | (newspaper)
Straits Times (Singapore) | (newspaper)
The Economist | (ProQuest) |
(EBSCO) |
(newspaper)
The Observer | (PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
Times (London) | (newspaper)
Toronto Star | (PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
Village Voice | (newspaper)
Wall Street Journal | (ProQuest) |
(newspaper)
Washington Post | (ProQuest) |
(PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
Washington Times | (PressDisplay) | (newspaper)
