Research Guides: Communication: Databases

Library-Provided Databases

Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Cross-curricular research database including pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more with periodical content covering current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more.
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to hundreds of humanities, social science, and science scholarly books and journals.
ProQuest Central
Brings together complete databases across major subject areas, including business, health and medical, language and literature, social sciences, education, science and technology, as well as core titles in the performing and visual arts, history, religion, philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
SAGE Journals
Includes more than 1000 journals spanning the Humanities, Social Science, and Science, Technology, and Medicine.
SAGE Research Methods
A tool created to help researchers explore methods concepts, help design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings.
Wiley Online Library
Provides full-text access to over 500 scholarly journals covering science, the humanities, medicine, and the social sciences.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.
Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile)
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media brings together information found in hundreds of journals. Articles cover all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature, meet the needs of researchers.
Telecommunications Database
A resource for anyone researching the industry or its technology.

International Newsstream
Provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.
NewsBank
Includes Current Events Hot Topics, and Special Reports on subjects such as natural disasters, world health, etc. Also has a link to Texas Historical Newspapers.
Newspaper Source Plus
Provides full-text digital collection of the world's major news content, including millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines; as well as television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Nexis Uni
Provides full-text access to over 15,000 news, business, and legal sources; including US Supreme Court decisions since 1970.
Regional Business News
Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
US Newsstream
Search the most recent premium US news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.

APA PsycARTICLES
Contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals, including 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
APA PsycINFO
Contains nearly 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles and covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Social Science Database
Provides coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts, and its companion file Social Services Abstracts, cover the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracting and indexing of articles and book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, plus books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.
TOPICsearch
A current events database that covers social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms with full text for over 139,800 articles.


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