Research Guides: Communication & Mass Media

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Communication and Mass Media Complete
"Offers cover-to-cover ('core') indexing and abstracts for over 420 journals, and selected ('priority') coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 301 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915)."
Academic Search Premier
Contains full text articles from nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. Indexes such titles as Communication Review, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Journalism Review, Journal of Popular Culture, Public Relations Review, Radio Journal, Television Week, Sound & Video Contractor and Vital Speeches of the Day.
LexisNexis Academic
Features more than 5,800 full-text sources, including foreign and U.S. newspapers (including The New York Times ,full text since June, 1980), magazines and trade journals, broadcast transcripts, company financial information, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, medical news and abstracts, and state and country profiles.
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Access World News
Index to full-text newspaper articles, from U.S. regional and national papers, newswires and broadcasts. Titles include The Cincinnati Post, The Courier-Journal (Louisville), Lexington Herald-Leader, and The Paducah Sun. Time period coverage varies among publications.
Newspaper Source
Provides "cover-to-cover full text for 35 national & international newspapers," including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and The Times (London). Contains "selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers," such as Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, and Lexington Herald-Leader. Full text transcripts are also included, from Face the Nation, CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, National Public Radio, and others.

The Communication & Mass Media Research Guide is maintained by Allen Ellis. Suggestions and comments are welcome.