Library Guides: COM 320: Rhetorical Theory and Criticism: Justify Your Artifact

Movies

Box Office Mojo
Worldwide statistics and rankings of box office revenues for films going back to 1980.

The Numbers

Box Office Calendar from May 1977 forward; Movie Index for movies from 1902 forward.

Measure the Impact of a Word or Phrase

In addition to full-text searches of article databases (see the All Media box on this page), you might use this resource that searches the Google Books corpus.

Google Ngram Viewer
Frequency analysis over time across the corpus of Google Books

Podcasts

iTunes Charts
See performance of iTunes downloads over time, from December 2009.

Television

Variety TV Ratings
Ratings for recent TV shows.

All Media

EBSCO Databases
Link to search across multiple EBSCO databases. Enter search terms related to your artifact. Change search to "TX All Text" to search full text of articles.

Google Scholar (with Get it @ UP) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles across many disciplines. This Google Scholar includes Get it @ UP links in results so you can easily connect to full text available through the Clark Library. Activate this feature in your version of Google Scholar (see: how to connect Google Scholar to UP's full text).
Nexis Uni - no longer available
Try these alternative resources:
Newspapers: America's News or Press Reader
Congressional: ProQuest Congressional
Legal: Oyez (Supreme Court) or PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records)

ProQuest Databases
Select databases from this menu to search across many publications at once.

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on 150 countries and over 600 industries.