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Communication and Mass Media Complete
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Find articles on communication and mass media topics.
Communication Abstracts
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Search for articles on a wide range of communication topics.
Topics include applied communication, interpersonal communication, mass communication, organizational communication, group communication, journalism, and public relations.
ComAbstracts
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Search over 120,000 article and book abstracts in communications studies from 1915 to present.
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Academic Search Complete
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Access the full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering many academic areas of study.
Areas of study include social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Business Source Complete
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Search articles from popular, scholarly, and trade publications. Subjects covered include management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Coverage: 1886 to present.
Education Research Complete
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Find articles on a wide range of educational topics, including research articles and practical articles.
Factiva
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Search content from more than 20,000 news sources, including newspapers, TV transcripts, newswires, and business magazines.
Google Scholar
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Use to search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Includes articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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Explore controversial issues from multiple perspectives. Includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Supports browsing by topic and keyword search.
APA PsycINFO (EBSCO Interface)
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Search for academic articles, books, and dissertations in all areas of psychology and behavioral sciences. Contains full-text for some items. Coverage: 1800s to present.
SocINDEX
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Search for articles on sociology topics.
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(children OR adolescents OR teenagers) and violen* and (tv OR television)
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