LibGuides: Media and Communication: Articles

Article Databases

Using the library's subscription databases is an effective way to find high quality scholarly journal articles for your research. Remember, peer-reviewed articles offer the authoritative information you need to produce college level research papers.

Finding Background Information

When a topic is relatively new to you, you may want to use a reference source to find background information

SAGE Reference This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries; all topics.

Databases with a variety of information

These databases hold a variety of information on lots of topics and of many types (scholarly, trade, and popular publications). Be sure to know what you need and what type of information you have found.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
All disciplines; scholarly, trade and popular articles
Over 4,000 full-text journals, with more than 13,000 journals indexed and abstracted. Full-text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and other disciplines.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Business topics; journal articles, reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses
Business Source Complete (BSC) provides full text for more than 8,800 serials. BSC provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Subjects include: all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
Communication Source This link opens in a new window
Full-text scholarly journal articles, magazine articles, and trade publications in communication and media fields
Full-text scholarly journal articles, magazine articles, and trade publications; content builds on the resources available in Communication & Mass Media Complete; from EBSCO.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Scholarly, trade and news articles; all topics
All ProQuest Databases rolled into one.

Strictly Scholarly

You can be sure to find scholarly resources by using these databases.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text journals in the arts, sciences and business
A full-text database containing complete back runs of over 600 academic journals in the arts, sciences, and business. Titles in the database are 1-5 years behind the current issues, depending on publisher restrictions.
SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed journals; all topics.
"The SAGE Full-Text Collections are award-winning, discipline-specific research databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning published by SAGE Publications and participating societies.

These comprehensive databases include more than 246 journals, 240,000 articles, book reviews, and editorials, with all the original graphics, tables, and page numbers. The Collections provide researchers and students with a research environment that is easy to use and complete with the most up-to-date content and backfiles back to volume 1, issue 1."

Newspaper Articles

You can find newspaper articles by using these databases.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
U.S. Newspapers back to the 1800s
ProQuest International Newsstream
Provides the most recent news content from outside of the U.S. and Canada with archives that stretch back decades.