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Communications Research Databases

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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window With full-text for over 480 journals, this database incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study, such as broadcasting, linguistics, marketing, and more!
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SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window An interdisciplinary database that contains over 1,000 full text, online journals in the fields of business, education, health, the humanities, law enforcement, criminology, and other social sciences. Several of these journals are the most authoritative and influential in their fields. Access from 1999-present.
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ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Search ALL ProQuest databases at once. Covering more than 160 subject areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database and contains a diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. Encompasses business, science & technology, health, social sciences, arts & humanities, and news.
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SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage of sociology, its scope includes subjects such as abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, religion, rural & urban sociology, social psychology, and social work, to name a few. Contains full text for more than 890 journals, 850 books, and over 16,800 conference papers.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
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Multidisciplinary eBook databases:

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary eBooks representing a broad range of subjects.
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Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window eBooks on a range of subjects such as business, information technology, education, engineering, health, history, humanities, life & physical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.
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Films On Demand: Master Academic Package This link opens in a new window Full-length streaming videos in the humanities, social sciences, business, health, medicine, sciences, and mathematics fields.
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Alexander Street: Academic Video Online‎ This link opens in a new window A large multidisciplinary collection of streaming videos. Includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, award-winning films, including Academy® and Emmy® winners, newly released films, and archival material previously unavailable.
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ImageQuest (Britannica) This link opens in a new window Nearly 3 million rights-cleared images from more than 50 collections including Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, and the National Geographic Society.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
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Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window The largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world, this database contains articles, maps, images, videos, and yearbooks from 1993 to present. Use it instead of Wikipedia for your research!
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Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window More than 50 reference eBooks in business, communications, history, law, literature, medicine, nation & world, science, and technology.
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Selected Resources

Managing Conflict at Work by Clive Johnson; Jackie Keddy
21st Century Communication by William F. Eadie (Editor) "Comprehensive coverage captures all the major themes and subfields within communication."

American Association of Advertising Agencies This professional organization's site will help readers keep up on the issues and ideas that advertising is currently discussing. Also includes key articles from Agency magazine, a complete roster of member agencies with market capability information for each member, and information on Association lobbying in Washington.
Federal Communications Commission The FCC site provides news on current initiatives, related legislation, the FCC Daily Digest, FCC orders, fact sheets, etc.
National Telecommunications and Information Administration From: NTIA (U.S. Department of Commerce) Federal agency provides information on its activities, resources on Internet naming, the "digital divide", information and communications infrastructure, student internships, etc.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press This non-profit organization provides extensive resources on First Amendment and FOIA issues, news of current and recent litigation, etc. An excellent resource for answers to "How can I legally" questions. The publications especially offer a wide range of important answers, such as state telephone taping laws, etc.
Society for Technical Communication The Society for Technical Communication is the world’s largest and oldest professional association dedicated to the advancement of the field of technical communication.
Society of Professional Journalists: The Electronic Journalist Professional organization site includes news of interest to journalists, FOIA information center, awards, information, etc. Student online discussion groups, related student organization, student membership.

How to use this guide

This guide is designed to help you with your research, introducing a range of Communications resources available to you. The Communications Research Databases box lists recommended databases in your subject area that you can search to find articles, eBooks, etc.

Background Information

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Greenberg, J. (n.d.). Reporters taking notes at press conference [Photograph].

Communication Topic pages contain background information in many formats. It also pulls in resources from other Excelsior Library databases, making it a one-stop place to brush up on your topic!
Conflict Management Topic pages contain background information in many formats. It also pulls in resources from other Excelsior Library databases, making it a one-stop place to brush up on your topic!

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