Research Guides: Communication Studies: Databases & Journals

Best Bets for Communication Studies

Start here to search scholarly journals and trade magazines to find articles on your topic.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Search core journals and handbooks in communication and related fields.
SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Search core journals across the social sciences back to 1908.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Search 46 top journals in communication studies.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Search here for film, radio, and television topics.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Start here for public relations and business communication topics.

Search a Database

Start here to search journals and magazines from other fields, such as business, psychology, or political science. Good for alternate views on communication topics.

ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Business journals and magazines; company, industry, and market research; business news; and dissertations.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Find journals, magazines, and news in most subject areas.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Search for articles in literature, rhetoric, composition, film, literary theory, drama, and linguistics.
Political Science Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Offers extensive coverage of political topics with a worldwide focus. In addition to indexing and full text content from hundreds of academic journals, it includes 340 full-text reference books and monographs and more than 44,000 full-text conference papers, which includes those from the International Political Science Association.
APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Journals and books in psychology and the behavioral sciences.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
1900 to current. Find articles in sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Educational Videos

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Watch films and video in the humanities, sciences, business, health and social sciences.

Speech & Debate Websites

American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank
C-SPAN Video Library Commencement Speeches
Commencement speeches from recent and past years. Some include text transcripts.
Historical Voices
The goal of this digital collection is to present digital voice files for subjects across the curriculum. The site is an interesting browse, even if you are not looking for a particular event or speaker. From the University of Michigan.
Say It Plain: A Century of Great African-American Speeches
American Radioworks collection of historic speeches by African-American women and men. Full-text and audio.
FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.
Media Cloud
Media Cloud (from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University) is an open source, open data platform that allows researchers to answer quantitative questions about the content of online media. Using Media Cloud, researchers, journalism critics and interested citizens can examine what media sources cover which stories, what language different media outlets use in conjunction with different stories, and how stories spread from one media outlet to another.

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Subjects: Anthropology, Communication, French, Legal Studies, Professional Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, Technical Communication