Use databases to find articles, essays, book reviews and more in scholarly journals and magazines. Some databases include ebooks, reports, and references to dissertations and conference presentations.
Core Communication Databases
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
- SAGE Premier This link opens in a new windowPeer-reviewed, full-text journals related to mass communication, media studies, and written communication. In Advanced Search at the top and select your Access Type: "All content," "Open access only", or "Only content I have full access to."
Other Suggested Databases
- EagleSearch This link opens in a new windowSearch multiple databases across formats and media. Use the advanced search to mark selected disciplines, such as "Communication & Mass Media."
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
- APA PsycArticles® This link opens in a new window
- APA PsycInfo® This link opens in a new window
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
- Computer Source This link opens in a new window
- Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
- ERIC - Education Database (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
- Family Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new window
- Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowTo adjust settings to allow Google Scholar search results to include links to ORU eresources, follow these steps: https://oru.libguides.com/techieHelps/googleScholarSettings
- International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text This link opens in a new window
- ScienceDirect Databases (All) This link opens in a new window
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
- Sociological Collection This link opens in a new window
- SPORTDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Reference Books and Ebooks
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Select Appropriate Databases
Some topics may be covered in databases oriented to other disciplines, such as political science or psychology.
For example, topics on propaganda and mass media may be in historical and political science databases, in addition to communication databases.
- opens new windowmedia and propaganda and war and Europe (~140 results in Communication & Mass Media Complete, Academic Search Complete, Humanities Source, and Political Science Complete)
- opens new window (ZU "propaganda") AND Europe (ZU= subject; ~60 results in Political Science Complete
- opens new window"public speaking" AND (anxiety or stress) AND (predictors or risk factors) AND TX "college students" (TX=text, "college students" appears in the article text; in Communication & Mass Media Complete, Academic Search Complete, Education Source and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection)
- opens new windowSU propaganda AND Europe AND SU "mass media" (SU= subject term; ~47 results in Political Science Complete, Academic Search Complete, Historical Abstracts with Full Text, and Humanities Source)
Dissertations
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window