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This guide offers resources to help you with your research in communication studies. Use the navigation menu to access in-depth information, and if you need more help with your research, you can contact us individually using the contact links below the menu, or Ask a Librarian for additional chat, in-person, and email help options.
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Key Resources
Encyclopedias and Handbooks
Use the following for background research. You can also use books in Scholar OneSearch for background!
- International Encyclopedia of Media StudiesAccess through online link provided. Registration with O'Reilly required; use your Northeastern email to set up your account.
Articles on communication studies
including mass media studies, business, sociology and cultural studies
For additional current news sources, see this page.
- Access World News Research Collection (Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowOur 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.
- Business Source Ultimate (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowBusiness 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 windowProvides quality research in areas related to communication and mass media. This database includes full text for 326 journals.
- PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowAmerican 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 for Northeastern-subscribed materials.
- Social Sciences Premium Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowThis collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.
- Sociology (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowFull 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.