Research Guides: Communication: Articles & Journals

Article Databases

Communication specific:

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
An index to articles in several hundred journals in the areas related to communication and mass media from the early 1900s to the present.

General article search:

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Premier covers the expansive academic disciplines offered in colleges and universities. It provides comprehensive content, including PDF backfiles to 1975 for many journals and searchable cited references for more than 1,000 titles.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Search for your topic in the full text of over 2,000 scholarly journals covering over 30 disciplines in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences. JSTOR includes the archival runs of journals, offering cover-to-cover full text back to each journal’s first issue. JSTOR does not usually include the last few years of the journals. Books at JSTOR offers more than 35,000 ebooks from renowned scholarly publishers.

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Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Index with full-text articles from top-tier business, finance, and management journals. Includes academic journals, case studies, company profiles, conference proceedings, financial data, industry reports, investment research reports, market research reports, SWOT analyses, and trade journals.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
Education Source is the world's largest full-text research database designed for education students, professionals and policymakers. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for thousands of education journals, books and education-related conference papers. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to education literature and resources from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC. Links to available full text.
ICPSR (Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
This database "provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use." ICPSR also hosts several special topic archives, sponsored by agencies external to ICPSR, which focus on the archiving of data in specific subject areas.
PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive, international index to the literature of psychology: journals, dissertations, book chapters, and more. Includes abstracts and links to available full-text articles.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This major research database for Sociology indexes over 3,300 journal and other titles. It contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895 and 72 "priority" coverage journals. The database also includes full text for 547 books and 6,711 conference papers. In addition there is a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus and searchable cited references.

Newspapers

Here is our list of newspaper databases available to you. They include databases that cover multiple newspapers around the world to databases just for the New York Times or the Times (London).

Newspapers

Opinions/Controversies

CQ Researcher Online This link opens in a new window
Provides in-depth, non-biased reporting and analysis of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

Public Relations Journals

Advertising Journals and Trade Magazines

Historical Advertising

Looking for historic print ads like this one of the glamorous Gloria Swanson? Or an early television advertisement for your favorite gum, toy, or television show?

Try some of these recommended sources:

AdViews
"Thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s - 1980s."
Early Advertising of the West
From University of Washington's University Libraries Digital Collection.
Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920
"Over 3,300 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States."
Fashion Plate Collection
From University of Washington's University Libraries Digital Collection.
Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements
"Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress presents a variety of television advertisements, never-broadcast outtakes, and experimental footage reflecting the historical development of television advertising for a major commercial product."
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Vintage Ad Browser

News Resources

US Newsstream (formerly ProQuest Newstand) This link opens in a new window
News content from many national and international newspapers, newswires and selected news magazines.
New York Times Historical This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text and full-image articles for the newspaper dating back to the 19th century. Covers 1851 up through 5 years ago.

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Newspapers
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