Guides: Communication Arts: Databases & Journals

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Academic Search Ultimate
Academic Search Ultimate is our largest multidisciplinary database of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Supports quality research in areas related to communication and mass media. This includes both CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index, along with journals in communication, mass media, and closely-related fields of study. Contains indexing and abstracting for more than 570 journals and full text access to over 450 journals.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Information and opinions on current social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana, and includes topic overviews, journal and news articles, primary source documents, statistics, infographics, multimedia, and vetted websites. Browse by topic, including the National Debate Topic, food waste, mental health, pollution, and racial profiling.
Formerly called Opposing Viewpoints in Context
OneFile: Communications and Mass Media
Search over 400 Gale Academic OneFile journals for information focused on the communications field – advertising, public relations, linguistics and literature.
Formerly called Communications and Mass Media Collection
OneFile: Fine Arts
Search a subset of Gale Academic OneFile journals covering the fine arts such as drama, music, art history and filmmaking. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Formerly called Fine Arts and Music Collection

You can use the Library Databases list from any computer on or off campus to see a complete listing of electronic resources by name, subject, type, or provider. Databases covering Communication Arts are listed below.

Academic OneFile
Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
Chicago Manual of Style
The online version of The Chicago Manual of Style, published by the University of Chicago Press, a guide that covers grammar, usage, and citation rules.
JSTOR
A collection of core scholarly journals, many going back to the first volume. Emphasis is on back issue coverage. JSTOR also has an extensive collection of primary sources.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text
Combines the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film with full text for more than 1,000 journals, including many of the leading publications in these fields. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and international in scope, the bibliography covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, series, translations, websites, and dissertations. The database also includes MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus.
Oxford Reference Online
Provides over 2 million digitized entries from Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. Find facts, figures, definitions, quotations, translations, and illustrations covering 25 subject areas such as history, linguistics, medicine and health, music, and religion.
Sage Journals Online
A searchable collection of scholarly online journals published by Sage, covering humanities, natural science, education, fine arts, music, and social science