LibGuides: Communication Resources: Databases and Web Resources

Subject Databases for Communication and Journalism

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of the communication discipline.
Humanities Full Text with Retrospective (1907 to Present) This link opens in a new window
Covers scholarly humanities journals and important magazines as well as a range of interdisciplinary fields.

Newspaper Databases

These Databases focus on News Papers and offer a great resource for primary information. Remember that News Papers are NOT Scholarly sources.

Greenville News This link opens in a new window
Full text to The Greenville (SC) News from 1999 to present.
New York Times Historical Newspaper This link opens in a new window
Provides historical, searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of politics, society, and events;
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspaper articles and television and radio news transcripts.
Newswires (AP, UPI, etc.) This link opens in a new window
Near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire.
U.S. Southeast Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Also includes limited runs of Spartanburg Herald-Journal (2007-2016), Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Asheville Citizen-Times. For title list, please click "more."
Title list: https://search.proquest.com/southeastnews/publicationbrowse?accountid=28698

SEE ALSO the Historic Newspapers LibGuide for more information.

Multidisciplinary Databases

These multidisciplinary databases include some of the core journals in communication and journalism. They are also a good place for interdisciplinary research.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive general multidisciplinary database.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
News, legal, business, medical news and reference information.

Useful Websites

Alliance for Women in Media
Website of the non-profit organization whose aim is to advance the impact of women in the media and allied fields by educating, advocating and acting as a resource to their members, the industry and the public.
Library Resources for Communication Studies
A librarian-produced site that serves as a "springboard that librarians, students, and researchers can use to find information in the area of communication studies."
American Communications Association
The ACA is a not-for-profit virtual professional association with actual presence in the world of communication scholars and practitioners. ACA is committed to enabling the effective use of new and evolving technologies to facilitate communication instruction, research and criticism, and to offering a technologically supportive venue for all who study the ways in which humans communicate.
International Communication Association (ICA)
ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication.
Communication Studies
The #1 resource for the communication field. Offering Communication Theories, blog posts, skills, lectures and more.
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of open access journals
a search for journals in the communication field
Compilation of Communication Theories
The list was created at the University of Twente

Communication Theories University of Twente
PDF book of theories