LibGuides: CMDS 3500 Research Help: Finding Articles

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Finding Articles

Use one or more of the Library's databases linked from the boxes to the right to find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles on your topic. You may also want to try additional databases that are not listed here.

Communications & Communication Disorders Databases

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
The definitive database for nursing and allied health, covering over 3000 leading journals, including Evidence-Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons for specific disorders and diseases.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Research in areas related to communication and mass media.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
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About 540 scholarly full text journals and abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window
Authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
A product of the U.S. National Library of Medicine for medical researchers, practitioners, medical school faculty and students, indexing over 3500 journals (most having abstracts available) in all areas of medicine.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
An information service for the interdisciplinary research needs of academic, corporate and educational institutions, offering comprehensive coverage of literature across all fields of science.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Over 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,000 term sociology-specific thesaurus including full text for 235 "core" journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals as well as full text for 545 books and monographs, and full text for 6,601 conference papers.

General/Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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4,700+ full text scholarly journals covering a wide range of topics.

CQResearcher
Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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Full text of articles, editorials and reviews from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
InfoTrac General OneFile This link opens in a new window
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News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Backfiles of scholarly publications including the full runs of each journal which allows viewing of the articles exactly as they appear in print.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
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Full text for 139 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, nine newspaper columns, and citations for four national newspapers.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
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Information on social issues, including articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary sources, and websites.