Research Guides: Comm 422: Find Journal Articles

Search Tips

Once you have identified your Research Question generate a list of words, or Keywords that are related to your topic.

Keywords and phrases for first amendment:free speech or first amendment

Keywords and phrases for new media: social media, cloud computing, blogs, second life, online social networks

Keywords and phrases for legal:laws, regulations, policy, legislation, legal

Sample keyword searches for a database:

free speech and "social media" and blogs

facebook and privacy

Other search tips--Truncation *

truncation finds all varations of a word

blog* will find blog, blogs,blogpages,blogosphere,

bloggers,blogging,etc...

Communication related Research Databases

Here are a few databases to begin your research:

Communication & Mass Media Complete
provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. It incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.
Communication Abstracts
A comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale. Communication Abstracts covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources.
ProQuest Research -Multiple Database
ProQuest Multiple Databases is a multi-disciplinary index suitable for both undergraduates and graduate students. It simultaneously searches dozens of subject areas, indexes thousands of general and scholarly titles, and provides full-text for a significant number of the articles included from a variety of contemporary research databases. It is an excellent starting place for research for a paper, particularly if one isn't sure where to begin their research.
LexisNexis Academic (Nexis Uni)
Database of full text online news, business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.
ABI/INFORM Complete
Articles from leading business journals, magazines, trade publications and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal. Available through ProQuest Articles from leading business journals, magazines, trade publications and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal. Available through ProQuest
CQ Library
The definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. A wealth of CQ Press resources and years of journalistic and editorial expertise are combined in this indispensable reference collection.
JSTOR Archive Collection A-Z Listing
A growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals. Some backfiles date back to the early 1800s. Fields covered include: anthropology, ecology, economics, education, finance, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology, literature, biology.
Project MUSE
MUSE provides access to the complete content (including all images) of nearly 500 current scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
SAGE Premier
Access to more than 600 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
IEEE Xplore
A comprehensive database deliving full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
Business Abstracts with Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Business Abstracts with Full Text™ offers a multitude of business magazines and scholarly journals: this comprehensive database contains the full text of articles from more than 510 key publications dating back to 1995, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences and more.

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