Research Guides: Communication: Getting Started

Finding scholarly articles

Need to find scholarly or peer-reviewed articles? Try searching in one of these "best bet" databases:

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 500 journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni includes resources formerly found in LexisNexis. Search for a topic or current event across a variety of sources, including news articles, legal documents, and business sources. Browse by subjects, such as criminal justice or political science. Nexis Uni includes international news and newspapers and you can filter by country of publication.

All Communication and Media Databases

Books and e-books

Need an overview of a topic, or a lot of information about something specific? Need to use sources other than scholarly articles? Here's a link to our Communications and Media books and e-books:

Communication and Media books and e-books
This link will take you to a Seeker search of the library's books and e-books on communication and mass media topics.