Communication

Article Databases - Most Useful

• Communication Source [EBSCO]
  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.*
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• Academic Search Ultimate [EBSCO]
  An excellent starting point for any topic, Academic Search Ultimate contains nearly 13,000 full-text academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. Content covers all subject areas with material from 1887 to the present.
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• PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo) [EBSCO]
  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.
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• Sociological Abstracts [Proquest]
  Sociological Abstracts is an index to the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law, penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies. The database draws informat . . .
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Article Databases - Also Useful

• Anthropology Plus [EBSCO]
  A compilation of the Anthropological Index Online and Anthropological Literature databases, this resource is an extensive index of bibliographic materials covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology and related interdisciplinary research
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• GenderWatch [ProQuest]
  Over 250 full text academic journals, magazines, and newspapers covering gender, women's, and LGBT studies. Content from 1970-present.
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• 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.
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• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) [ProQuest]
  Covers disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
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• Google Scholar (with Fresno State library access links)
  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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Books

• Google Book Search
  Search the full text of scanned books from collections all over the world, with links to borrow or buy.
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Statistics, Reports & Data Sets

Images

• ARTstor
  Provides access to over 2.4 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. Registration is required to download images, save and organize customized image groups, and use any of the instructor-le . . .
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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference

• Oxford English Dictionary Online
  Contains the complete text of the OED's 20-volume Second Edition and 3-volume Additions Series. Also includes draft material from the current OED project, representing the latest progress towards a completely revised and updated Third Edition. The OED online can be used to perform simple searches fo . . .
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• Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library)
  A great resource for background information, Gale eBooks is a collection of full-text encyclopedias and other reference sources. Subjects covered include history, education, literature, world cultures, and many more.
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• Oxford Reference **5 simultaneous users**
  Reference library that includes subject dictionaries, the World Encyclopedia, English dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries of French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and entries from Oxford Companions and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. This is a collection more than 134 language and subject dict . . .
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