|
|
| Communications Resources: Databases |
| Databases |
The Snowden Library sponsors the college's membership in the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS), which provides access to several services:
- CIOS Resource Library
Full text searching in Comserve's resource library.
- ComAbstracts
Citation index to abstracts of articles in 40+ communication journals. Includes table of contents listing.
- Indexes to Communication Serials
Search index data by author or title for more than 80 scholarly journals in communication, rhetoric, and journalism.
|
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Index incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields. |
Sociological Abstracts
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. |
ScienceDirect
Index to journals published by Elsevier Science, Academic Press, W.B.Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Baillière Tindall and Mosby. Includes access to the full-content of Academic Press journals. |
PsycINFO
Rich resource for research in psychology and related disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Over 55,000 references are added yearly. Descriptors from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms are assigned to records from 1967 to allow precise searching using the language of the discipline. Includes indexed materials from journals published in 50 countries and in 30 languages. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1887 to the present. |
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. |
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts & Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language & Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes. |
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K’s, 10-Q’s, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research. |
New York Times Historical Backfile
Comprehensive digital coverage is available for this internationally renowned U.S. newspaper through the ProQuest online system. The complete text of recent articles is provided in the ASCII format. Through ProQuest Historical Newspapers, digital reproductions of every page of every issue--cover to cover--are available all the way back to the first issue in September 1851. That means researchers can find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, drawings, maps, charts, and advertisements. |
Readers’ Guide
An indispensable reference tool for all types of libraries. Indexes a key list of abstracts of popular magazines for any college, public library, or school collection. Covers business, consumer affairs, current events, education, fine arts, health, news, and more. |
ERIC
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. |
Biography Resource Center
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 250 magazines including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, and U.S. News & World Report. |
|
|
|
