Guides: Communication Studies: Databases &amp; Journals

Communication Databases

While some databases focus narrowly on communication studies, the interdisciplinary nature of media and communication studies requires a broader approach. I've personally vetted the databases listed below using a range of related search terms, ensuring they capture the various facets of this field.

Business and Professional Communications Quarterly
Publishes scholarship that advances knowledge about business and professional communication pedagogy and practices in both academic and workplace settings.
Communication Source
Formerly known as Communication and Mass Media Complete. Combines CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous journals in the communication and mass media fields.
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media
Search millions of articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more.
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
The study, development, improvement, and promotion of techniques for preparing, organizing for use, processing, editing, collecting, conserving, and disseminating any form of information in the electrical and electronics fields.
Journal of Business & Technical Communication
Covers written, oral and electronic communication in all areas of business, science and government.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Communication
Oxford Bibliographies in Communication will provide much-needed guidance for students and scholars at every level.
Technical Communication
Includes both quantitative and qualitative research while showcasing the work of some of the field's most noteworthy writers.
Technical Communication Quarterly
Publication of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.

Databases

Anthropology Plus
Core Anthropology periodicals from late 19th century to present day.
Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest)
Features hundreds of fulltext titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. Designed to complement the following indexes: ABM, Avery, BHA, BHI, DAAI, Index Islamicus, MLA, Philosopher's Index and RILM.
Book Citation Index Social Sciences and Humanities
Indexes over 30,000 editorially selected books with 10,000 new books added each year 2005 to present.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Reference Center
Offers cover-to-cover indexing for journals, monographs, magazines and trade publications, all with a strong focus on BC/DR and closely aligned issues. It features hundreds of thousands of additional BC/DR-focused articles, benchmarks and best practices selected from hundreds of leading trade and industry publications.
Communication Source
Formerly known as Communication and Mass Media Complete. Combines CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous journals in the communication and mass media fields.
EconLit with Full Text
Indexes over 30 years of economics literature from around the world.
Education Source
Education Source is the most authoritative resource for the study of education, covering over 1,700 journals, books, and over 4 million articles.
Family Studies Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
ICPSR
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Communication
Oxford Bibliographies in Communication will provide much-needed guidance for students and scholars at every level.
PAIS Index
Full-text business periodicals and news sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Comprehensive database on psychiatry, psychology, and related behavioral sciences.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is designed to serve the information needs of students and researchers studying political science and international relations with coverage of complementary fields, such as international law and public administration/policy. The database offers abstracting and indexing of the literature in the field with scholarly journal titles from over 50 countries.

Academic Search Complete
Designed for academic institutions, this database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals.
ArticleFirst
Articles from over 16 thousand journals from 1990 to present covering the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
Britannica Online Academic Edition
Thousands of encyclopedia articles on general topics.
Credo Reference
Offers a growing list of over 1,100 titles to help users answer their immediate research need and engage their curiosity. Also included are nearly 2,000 short reference videos, more than 550,000 high-resolution art images, photographs and maps across all subject areas.
CRL Catalog
Collection focused on primary source materials for humanities, sciences, and social sciences researchers.
Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Features over 25,000 informative segments of the encyclopedia.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to the highest-quality academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Project Muse
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
SAGE Reference
Collection of over 60 scholarly encyclopedias in the social sciences.
ScienceDirect
A leading full-text science database covering over 2,500 journals and nearly 20 thousand books.
SpringerLink Journals
Millions of scientific documents from scholarly and academic journals.

Alt HealthWatch
Alt Healthwatch is a full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers the latest information about the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies.
CINAHL Complete
Comprehensive full-text resource covering nursing and allied health.
Coronavirus Research Database
Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to corona viruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the worlds leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Bibliographic coverage of a wide variety of evaluation and measurement tools for health and psychosocial studies.
Health and Safety Science Abstracts
Provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene.
Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
Coverage of nursing and allied health with more than 580 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Humanities Full Text
Provides full text of the most important scholarly sources in the humanities. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, and more.
Humanities Index
Formerly BHI: British Humanities Index. Indexes over 400 humanities journals and magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries.
MEDLINE Complete
Research authoritative medical information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more.

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
Manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-20th century. Formerly American Indian Histories and Cultures.
ATLA Religion Database
Over 3 million bibliographic records covering Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and related topics.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Bibliographic database covering native North American culture, history, and life from the 16th century to the present.
Black Studies Center
Combines essential resources for research and teaching in Black Studies, including The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975.
Gender Studies Database
Combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Includes professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, working papers, dissertations and more.
Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980
Hispanic views on nearly every major theme in American life from hundreds of searchable newspapers published in the United States by Hispanics.
Korean Journal Database (KCI)
Provides access to articles from multidisciplinary journals covered in KCI. KCI is managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea and contains bibliographic information for scholarly literature published in Korea.
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Anthropology
Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology is an entirely new and unique type of reference tool that has been specially created to meet a great need among todays students, scholars, and professionals. It offers more than other bibliography initiatives on- and offline by providing expert commentary to help students and scholars find, negotiate, and assess the large amount of information readily available to them.
Race Relations Abstracts (EBSCO)
Abstracts Only. Covers essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Covering more than 300 full-text religion and philosophy journals.
Urban Studies Abstracts
Covers urban affairs, community development, history, and other areas related to urban studies.

EBSCOhost Espanol
EbscoHost with a Spanish language interface.
Fuente Academica Premier
A unique collection of scholarly journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers.
Latin American Newspapers
Digital full-text of over 280 newspapers published 18051922; titles from more than 20 Latin American countries.
Medic Latina
Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers.
Referencia Latina
This full-text Spanish-language database covers a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia. It offers content from a variety of sources, including reference books, general interest magazines and health reports.
Salud en Espanol
Consumer Health Complete in Spanish. Salud en Espaol provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar.