Research Guides: Communication: Articles

Databases for Communication: Best Bets

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communications and mass media e-books and articles from scholarly journals and magazines. Full text for many articles.
Academic Search Complete
Broad database with articles on many topics from scholarly journals and magazines. Full text for many articles and books.
Nexis Uni
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Provides more than 15,000 news, business, and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Newspaper Source Plus
Provides a full text digital collection of the world's major news content, including millions of articles from newspapers, newswires, and news magazines.

New York Times with Index
Full text coverage from 1851-2016 of the largest daily metropolitan newspaper in the United States. New York Times has been published since 1851.

FIAF Index to Film Periodicals Plus
Contains over 800,000 article citations from more than 345 periodicals. It offers coverage of international academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward. Each entry consists of a full bibliographic description, an abstract, and comprehensive headings (biographical names, film titles, and general subjects). Over 70 Journals are available in full text.

NOTE: Bibliographic records access to the flagship journal for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is available at Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. Citations for these articles may also be found in our databases.

Journal Finder

Scholarly vs. Popular

SCHOLARLY	POPULAR
Credentials of the author	No author, only a name provided, no credentials
Peer reviewed
Length of article (usually 10+ pages)	Short in length (usually under 5 pages)
Specialized vocabulary	Generalized vocabulary
Written for an academic audience	Written for a broad audience
Bibliography/References/Footnotes	No citations supporting article information