Comm470: Communication Studies Senior Seminar 2023: Articles
Article Databases
- SAGE Journals (primarily Communication Studies titles) This link opens in a new windowIncludes a few dozen full-text journals in the Communication Studies field.
Article Databases: General Interest
- Google ScholarGoogle's answer to scholarly searching. Wide-ranging, including links to articles, books, theses, student papers, and whatever else it deems scholarly.
- Arts & Sciences (JSTOR) This link opens in a new windowAn archive of scholarly journals, often dating to the first issue of the journal (to the 1800s in some cases). Newest issues of journals (last 3 to 5 years) are usually not included.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)EBSCO's largest and general-interest database. Most communication-related material here will also be in the Communication & Mass Media database.
Article Databases: Around the Disciplines
Thinking about a topic related to:
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowScholarly business journals and newspaper/magazine articles dealing with business and commerce. Also provides detailed statistics and company profiles.
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new windowCovers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 871,000 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to the present. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented. Focused on scholarly journals, with the inclusion of some activist publications.
- PsycNET (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowFind scholarly articles, dissertations, and psychological scales (tests, measures).
PsycNET has precise indexing allowing a user to drill down to age group, population group, methodology, and by tests and measures.
What if an article isn't full-text?
First, make sure you're looking at an article. Then click on Find at Hollins. The video below shows you what the Journal Finder will do for you.
Find Journal by Title
From a database (such as EBSCO)
- Click on the Hollins Journal Finder link
Look at the results: do we have the journal?
- Do we have it in print or online (or both?)
- Do we have it for the year you need?
If we do not have the journal at all, or just don't have the year you need...
- Use Interlibrary Loan to get the article (articles are frequently delivered within 2-4 business days) in PDF format
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