LibGuides: Media, Communication and Journalism: Find Books and Articles

Finding Books and Articles @ the Library

Use OneSearch on the library homepage to search for books and articles, and to search and request items from other libraries through CSU+. For more information and tips, please visit the library's guide to using OneSearch.

Communication & Mass Media Complete [EBSCO]
Communication & Mass Media Complete like Communication & Mass Media Index, provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media
Academic Search Complete
Contains indexing for more than 8,100 journals, with full text for nearly 4,500 of those titles.
JSTOR
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 (through Proxy)
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.

Didn't find an item you were looking for? Chances are we can still get it from another library for free!

The Fresno State Library offers two options for requesting materials:

Find and request books and media from all 23 CSU libraries.
Materials arrive in 2-4 business days
Most books have 60 day lending periods, no renewals. Media items (DVD's, audio CD's, etc.) usually 30 days, no renewals
Select the CSU+ Books and Media collection in Onesearch to find and request materials

Request articles and books not in CSU+ (not textbooks) through interlibrary loan
Books typically arrive in 7-10 business days, articles in 2-3 business days
Loan period for books varies, as is set by lending library. Articles arrive in PDF format and are accessible for 30 days
To request an item, log into your interlibrary loan account, and fill out a new request form