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Communication Subject Guide

Primary

• Blackwell Fulltext Journals
  • A fulltext journal collection of over 800 journals from Blackwell Publishing covering a wide range of subject areas such as business, computing, economics, health sciences, humanities, law, life and physical sciences, mathematics, medicine, social and behavioral sciences, and the arts.
• ComAbstracts
  • A database that provides abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field. Miller Library subscribes to 12 journals indexed by this database.
• Expanded Academic ASAP
  • An Infotrac database filled with full text and images for a broad collection of academic disciplines.
• FirstSearch
  • Large collection of databases, some are full text. Search by journal title to see which database indexes your specific title. For full text articles choose Wilson SelectPlus.
• JSTOR
  • The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes 119 complete back runs of many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. See the journal list.
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
  • CSA's database that covers all aspects of the study of language insluding phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. (See Journal Titles list.)
• Media Review Digest
• Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources
• Sage Full-Text Communication Collection
• Thomson Gale Powersearch (formerly Infotrac)
  • These include Ancestry Plus, Computer Database, Expanded Academic ASAP, General BusinessFile ASAP, General Reference Center Gold, Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module, Health Reference Center Academic, Infotrac 150 Full Text Custom Newspapers (including the Grand Rapids Press), Infotrac OneFile, Junior Edition, Kids InfoBits, Kid's Edition - K-12, LegalTrac, Michigan Newspapers, New York Times, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Professional Collection, and Student Edition.

Interdisciplinary

• Ebooks
  • OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide
• eBooks Michigan
  • A collection of almost 18,000 eBooks available to Michigan libraries. The state "owns" 1 copy of each book and the checkout time is 6 hours. You must create a free account before accessing the titles.
• FACTS.com
  • Includes Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, and Reuters On-Line News Service (last 2 weeks).
• FirstSearch
  • Large collection of databases, some are full text. Search the following two databases.
    • ArticleFirst
    • ECO
• Infotrac OneFile
  • A broad database covering a wide range of topics with millions of full text articles.
• MEL
  • Michigan Electronic Library including access to MelCat , MelInternet , MelDatabases , and MelAdvanced Search .
• Newspapers
  • 150 custom newspapers through Infotrac (see list) , including the following:
    • Grand Rapids Press
    • Hundreds of national and international newspapers through Lexis Nexis
    • Michigan Newspapers through Newsbank
    • The New York Times from 1995 to the present
    • The Wall Street Journal through ABI Inform
• Opposing Viewpoints (Infotrac)
  • Overviews, full-text articles, statistics, and resources on social issues.
• Ulrich's Periodical Directory
  • Online guide to information about periodicals. Use this to find out if a periodical is peer reviewed (called refereed in this database).

Recommended Websites

• http://www.imdb.com/ The Internet Movie Database provides data on decades of motion pictures and television shows.  Information includes: cast lists, trivia, links to related movies, actor and crew biographies and film histories. 

• http://www.mediastudies.com/ Provides links to hundreds of publications worldwide and other resources for students, faculty, and researchers.