Communication and Mass Media Complete

The Library just subscribed to EBSCO’s Communication and Mass Media Complete, an extensive database with a large amount of scholarly fulltext journal content covering all aspects of Communications and related areas.

From the database description: CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (core) indexing and abstracts for more than 420 journals, and selected (priority) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles.

This is a very important resource and greatly expands the Drexel community’s access to scholarly information in this field.

Silobreaker

Silobreaker provides a new way to read, search, and use information from thousands of international news sources, blogs, and even academic, company, and government websites.

Provides customizable mapping for local or global news stories, graphs trends in news coverage for topics or people, and shows relationship networks for topics or people. Here (below) is a Network search for Barack Obama:

This resource can be especially useful for tracking media coverage of topics of interest over time, looking at connections between topics, or examining how news stories are discussed in other countries.