Finding Journal Articles for Media and Communications Research
 
Communications databases
  • Communication Abstracts - UW Restricted Lock Icon 
    Coverage includes communication literature and literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers, such as international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication, and public opinions.
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete - UW Restricted Lock Icon
    Offers information from over 600 journals in communication, mass media and related fields; includes abstracts, indexing, bibliographical citations and author profiles, as well as full text from more 240 journals
 
Interdisciplinary databases
  • Expanded Academic Index - UW Restricted Lock Icon
    Provides indexing and abstracting for approximately 1,500 scholarly and general interest periodicals, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology
  • Research Library Complete - UW Restricted Lock Icon
    Indexing and full text for a basic collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers; 1986 to present. Divided into Newspapers and periodicals sections
  • Readers' guide retrospective - UW Restricted Lock Icon 
    A database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America; covers 1890-1982
 
Other subject-specific databases
  • ABI/INFORM global - UW Restricted Lock Icon 
    Extensive indexing and full text for business and management-related periodicals.  A good source to use when you are looking for information on the business of media (including advertising, marketing, ownership, etc.).
  • Factiva - UW Restricted Lock Icon 
    Provides access to over 8,000 sources (newswires, newspapers, magazines and trade publications) from 118 countries in 22 languages. The database is particularly useful for business research, since it also provides access to company and industry comparison reports, company profiles, SEC filings and stock prices for U.S. public companies.  Includes both US and International news sources.
  • MLA international bibliography - UW Restricted Lock Icon 
    Contains bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore; includes coverage from 1963 to the present
  • PAIS international - UW Restricted Lock Icon 
    Covers social and public policy literature from over 1,400 periodicals and thousands of government documents, books, and other sources.  Includes information on government regulation/policy regarding the media.  
  • PsycINFO - UW Restricted Lock Icon 
    Covers academic, research, and practice literature in psychology including relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, and social science; from 1872 to the present
  • Sociological abstracts -UW Restricted Lock Icon 
    Indexes the serial literature in sociology and related disciplines.  Provides abstracts from approximately 2,500 journals.  Includes analysis of the media from a  Social Science perspective (broadly defined).

Guide maintained by: Danielle Rowland, Reference & Instruction Librarian