Media, Communication and Journalism

Communication Source provides full-text, indexing and abstracts for many top communication journals covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse. *Access has been upgraded from Communication & Mass Media Complete.*

An excellent starting point for any topic, Academic Search Ultimate contains nearly 13,000 academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. Content covers all subject areas with material from 1887 to the present.

JSTOR is a full-text collection of scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Content from last 3-5 years is generally not available in JSTOR.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

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Business Source Ultimate offers full-text access to journals published in disciplines of business, marketing, management, accounting economics, and finance. Business Source Ultimate includes Business Source Premier. While these components can be searched separately, Business Source Ultimate offers a single entry to search across both databases.

ABI/INFORM Collection offers a broad array of business information with more than 40 million documents from top sources, ranging from scholarly journals to trade publications and major newspapers. It provides industry reports, market reports, company profiles, investment news, commodity reports, country briefs, academic articles, and dissertations. Articles are available from 1905 to the present. ABI/INFORM Collection consists of ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry. While these collections can be searched separately, the ABI/INFORM Collection offers a single interface to search across all three collections simultaneously.

This database contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.

IBISWorld provides access to in-depth industry reports on more than 1,200 industries in the U.S. and worldwide, including specialized industries that are otherwise difficult to locate in many other sources. Each report consists of 30–40 pages of detailed industry analysis, including industry definition, key statistics, industry segmentation, market characteristics, operating conditions, key success factors, major players, and current and forecast industry performance. The information is current and updated regularly.

First Research provides industry intelligence tools including nearly 500 industry profiles for the U.S. and Canada, regional economic overviews, country profiles, industry rankings, and real-time industry news. Each industry profile consists of a one-page executive summary, key statistics, competitive analysis, business challenges and opportunities, industry trends, and financial information. The information is current and updated regularly.

PolicyMap utilizes GIS and US data indicators to provide detailed maps, tables and charts of the nation. PolicyMap’s data indicators are accessible through the main menu and including demographics, income and spending, housing, lending, quality of life, economy, education, and health. Data can be viewed on the census tract level in many cases, as well as city, county, zip, state, US congressional district, school district, state house and state senate districts.