Research Subject Guides: Communication Studies : Welcome

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Key Resources

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Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Multidiscplinary database. Provides some full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
Access World News Research Collection (Newsbank) This link opens in a new window
Our largest general news source, with current and complete newspapers, magazines, wire services from around the world. Backfiles sometimes go back to the 1980s. Text only.
View a list of all sources.
Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Business research database, providing indexing for more than 2,300 journals and full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.
Communications & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Provides quality research in areas related to communication and mass media. This database includes full text for 326 journals.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A trusted digital archive of academic journals and other scholarly content.
Most journals include extended historic backfiles and not current issues. Arts and Sciences collections 1 thru XV are available, plus the Life Sciences collection, and Business III.

The Northeastern Library also purchases individual e-book titles from JSTOR. The books are available chapter-by-chapter as PDFs.

Arts and Sciences IV content is available courtesy of the Northeastern School of Law Library.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals in the humanities, including religion, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, women's studies, film and the arts.
PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
American Psychological Associations flagship PsycINFO database includes citations and abstracts of peer reviewed articles, books, and dissertations. Coverage from 1888 to the present. Full text links where available.
Documents indexed include journals, articles, books, dissertations and more. 90% of the 3,000+ titles indexed in PsycINFO are peer-reviewed.
SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
Includes the full text of 555 journals, 1999 to current, many of them related to communication and media studies.
Social Sciences Premium Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
This collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.
Journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, Social Sciences Premium includes

Sociology Database
Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
PAIS Index
Political Science Database
PolicyFile
Criminal Justice Database
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Library Science Database
Library & Information Science Abstracts
Education Database
ERIC
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts
Linguistics Database
Social Science Database
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Abstracts in the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Sociology (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Full text articles about sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more.