LibGuides: Communication: Article Databases

Journal Indexes for Communication

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Provides comprehensive indexing to the key journals for all aspects of communications studies. Other databases and indexes organized by more than 150 subjects.

COM Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field, providing comprehensive coverage of the communication discipline's scholarship.

Patrons can connect directly to the full text of articles available in the Library's electronic collections or to Interlibrary Loan if the full text is not available.

Other indexes provide access to content related to the area of Communication Studies. Key subject indexes related to Communication Studies include:

Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database which provides full-text for over 4,650 scholarly publications, more than 3,600 of them peer-reviewed. Includes topics in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and most areas of academic study.

ABI/Inform
This business databases features important full‐text journals and much sought‐after titles from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports. Communication students will find this database is most useful for organizational communication topics.

JSTOR
A multidisciplinary database which provides full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Science.

Sage Premier
An interdisciplinary database that includes nearly 50 full text journals in the area of communication and media studies.

Sociological Abstracts
Covers theoretical & applied sociology, social science, & policy science. Includes sociological aspects of anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, family studies, health, racial interactions, social psychology, social work, urban studies, etc.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Indexes literature on the nature & use of language. Covers linguistics (nature & structure of human speech); language (speech sounds, sentence & word structure, meaning, spelling, phonetics); and speech, language, & hearing pathology.

Nexis Uni

Search comprehensive, authoritative news content, including current coverage and deep archives for a wide range of academic research.

Access World News

Provides full-text information and perspectives from several thousand U.S. and international newspapers and newswire sources. Also includes broadcast transcripts, business magazines and miscellaneous other source types.

ProQuest News and Newspapers

Allows for cross-searching of the Alt-PressWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch. indexes as well as: Arizona Pepublic, Barron's, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal Editions, and historical Atlanta Constitution, Guardian, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Observer, Washington Post, Atlanta Daily World, Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, and Pittsburg Courier

Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Extensive and complete archive of television news, recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968. Also includes news coverage of significant events broadcast outside the scope of the regular evening news programs. This part of the collection focuses on the U.S. presidential politics, including political conventions, election coverage, and speeches and press conferences of the President currently in office.

Research Databases at Arizona State University Library
Since communications touches every discipline, you may find searching specific database related to another field useful (e.g., business databases for consumerism, women's studies/gender databases for sexism in language, or health databases for doctor/patient communication). You can also check the databases (article) pages in the ASU Library guides.

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.