Communication
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Communication Databases
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Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC)Provides comprehensive indexing to the key journals for all aspects of communications studies. Other databases and indexes organized by more than 150 subjects.
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ComAbstractsDeveloped by the Communication Institute of Online Scholarship (CIOS), this database provides indexing to core journal literature and books in the fields of communication and journalism.
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COMINDEXProvides access to the contents of 21 core communication journals. It is a subset of the COMINDEX database.
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ComAnalyticsComAnalytics provides data about the relative publication performance of individual scholars and of departments of communication (journalism, mass communication, speech, communication studies, media studies, rhetoric, etc.).
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Academic Search Ultimate
Access to popular press magazines and peer-reviewed scholarly journals across various academic disciplines, including open-access journals and historic Associated Press videos.
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ABI/INFORM CollectionComprehensive access to full-text business and economics journals, dissertations, working papers, and key periodicals like The Economist and The Wall Street Journal, along with detailed company and industry reports
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Access World News
Full-text content from thousands of U.S. and international newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, and business magazines, providing diverse viewpoints on local and global issues.
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JSTORAccess millions of articles, books, and primary sources, focusing on back issues of scholarly journals; an essential resource for research in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes AI assistant:
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Linguistics and Language Behavior AbstractsIndexes books, conferences, dissertations, theses, and scholarly journals on the nature and use of language. Covers linguistics (nature and structure of human speech); language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning, spelling, phonetics); and pathology of speech, language, and hearing.
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ProQuest News & NewspapersProQuest news databases, including historical and current newspapers, alternative press, and historical Black newspapers.
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SAGE Journals
Includes journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
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Sociological AbstractsCovers journal articles, conference papers, books, dissertations, and conference papers, book reviews related theoretical & applied sociology, social science, & policy science. Topics include sociological aspects of anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, family studies, health, racial interactions, social psychology, social work, urban studies, etc.
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Vanderbilt Television News ArchiveThe Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news, recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968. The Archive's collection includes news coverage of significant events broadcast outside the scope of the regular evening news programs.
Advanced Research Databases
ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
Dissertations and Theses Arizona State University
A searchable database for full text, citations, and abstracts of ASU dissertations.
Dissertations and Theses
Indexes and abstracts doctoral dissertations and selected masters' theses accepted for degrees by accredited North American educational institutions and over 200 other institutions.
SAGE Research Methods Online
A web-based research methods tool to help researchers, faculty, and students with research projects. Researchers can explore methods to help them construct research projects, and understand various methods. This database focuses on methodology and is useful for all disciplines.
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