Research Guides: Communication Arts: Finding Articles

Subject Databases

Communications and Mass Media
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A specialized collection of more than 250 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field including advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature.
Diversity Studies
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More than 150 social studies, history, and liberal arts journals that explore cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community.
News
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News is a full-text newspaper database with more than 1,000 newspapers searchable by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other assigned fields.
Pop Culture Studies
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This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of more than 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

Newspaper Databases

Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, nearly 31 million full-text articles, and more than 677,000 television and radio news transcripts.
News
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News is a full-text newspaper database with more than 1,000 newspapers searchable by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other assigned fields.

Historic American Newspapers
"Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present".

General Databases

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, indexes and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications. It covers a range of disciplines such as science, engineering, psychology, religion, and many others.
Academic Onefile
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Academic OneFile includes peer-reviewed and full text articles from journals and reference sources in the subjects of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature, as well as the New York Times.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an archival database providing full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines.
Opposing Viewpoints
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Find balance and perspective on hundreds of topics with articles from multiple viewpoints, biographies, news, and interactive maps.
SAGE Journals
Online access to 550+ journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, science, technology, and medicine disciplines.

Print Journals

The Union University library subscribes to some print journals which will be of interest to students and researchers. These print journals can be found in the Periodicals Reading Room on the first floor of The Logos.

Communication Arts
L' Orbs
Paris Match

Online Journals

Union has communication arts journals available online. These can be accessed by clicking the "Journals By Title or Subject" link on the library homepage. To search for a specific journal title, simply type the title of the journal in the search bar. If we have access to this journal options for access will appear under the journal title on the results list.

You can also search for available journal titles by subject. Simply click the subject (communication and mass media) you wish to search and journals will populate the results list alphabetically.

Some of the journals available online include:

Atlantic Journal of Communication
Discourse and Communication
Editor and Publisher
Journal of Film and Video
Quarterly Journal of Speech