Suggested Resources for Communication

Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	ComAbstracts		ComAbstracts contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field.

Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Alternative Press Index		Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
	America: History and Life (EBSCO)		Index to articles on United States and Canadian history.
	Arts and Humanities Citation Index		Index to articles in arts and humanities fields. Please use the Arts and Humanities Citation Index located in Web of Science.
	Business Source Premier		Provides full text for scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting and international business. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	CIOS (Communication Institute for Online Scholarship)		Index to citations (no abstracts) to 30 titles.
	CQ Researcher		CQ Research report offers in-depth non-biased coverage of political and social issues.
	CQ Weekly Archive (1983-2009)		CQ weekly reports nonpartisan news and analysis from Congress for the years 1983-2009.
	Elsevier Science Direct		Full text of selected journals and selected reference books published by Elsevier. Full text indexing available for all Elsevier journals from v. 1, issue 1.
	Emerald Online		Full-text access to 130 management, applied science, and library and information science titles.
	Ethnic News Watch		Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses.
	Gallup Brain		Public opinion results to more than 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.
	Historical New York Times Digital Archive		Full page images of the New York Times, from its first issue in 1851 to 2000. Includes digital images of every page from every issue, cover to cover, including the New York Times Book Review.
	LLBA (Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts)		Index to citations and abstracts about the nature and use of language.
	NewsStand		Online access to over 250 national and international newspapers. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	PAIS International		Indexes articles on public affairs.
	Points of View Reference Center		Points of View is designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Psychology Journals (Proquest CSA)		Full-text of nearly 300 academic journals in psychology and related fields.
	PsycINFO		Indexes more than 1,400 journals on psychology, psychiatry, sociology, education, linguistics and physiology.
	Sage Knowledge (eBooks)		Electronic reference books published by Sage.
	SAGE Premier		Provides access to 485+ SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences, with backfile to 1999.
	Social Sciences Citation Index		1997-2003 available electronically on the EDD computers located on the second floor of library. 1970-1998 available in print in the Index area (also on the second floor)--call number H1.A3 S67x.
	Sociological Abstracts		Indexes articles in sociology and social policy.

 

 

Web Sites

 

American Communication Association

International Speech Communication Association

National Communication Association

 

Research Help

 

  

For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:

Jodi Carlson Grebinoski, Reference Librarian

Email:jlcarlso@d.umn.edu

Phone:218-726-7880

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University of Minnesota

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Duluth MN 55812-2495