Databases/Article Indexes for Culture and Communication


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Ad*Access
1911-1955

Open Access
Presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines.
 
Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
 
History of the United States and Canada, comprised of over 490,000 citations in over 2,000 journals dating back to 1964. Also available from ABC-Clio
 
American Memory
1450-current

Open Access
Library of Congress historical collections online, comprised of written and audio-visual materials, with roughly 120 collections in all subject areas.
 
Blackwell Synergy
1997-current
The Blackwell Publishing Full Collection comprises 803 journals from across Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences collections.
 
Full text access to Health Sciences and Social Sciences titles from Cambridge University press.
 
CIA World Factbook
Current

Open Access
Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, the World Factbook provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.
 
Resource for theory and research in international affairs. It includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
 
Index of over 2,600 scholarly Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Articles are published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
Recommended resource
ComAbstracts
1980-current
Research from the communications field.
Recommended resource
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.
Recommended resource
Includes the full text of 16 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, encompassing over 5,000 articles in the field of communications.
 
Indexes books, journals, reports, etc. about women's health and human rights issues.
 
Features reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations.
 
Weekly publication providing original in-depth analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, pros and cons, two bibliographies and more.
 
CQ Weekly
Current
CQ Weekly Online offers full coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. Produced by the largest news team on Capitol Hill.
 
Global Road Warrior is a comprehensive business travel, telecommunications and business culture reference.. The Global Road Warrior covers 175 countries. Each country listing includes: Key facts, Communications, Service support and Technical support contacts, Business culture insights, Language tips, top 150 travel web sites, regional maps, international dialing guide, mobile connectivity problems and solutions, currencies of the world and more.
 
The 4th edition of HSUS, published by the U.S. Census bureau. Contains data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History.
 
HLAS Online
1936-current

Open Access
The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America.
 
Provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of major scholarly sources in the humanities and social sciences, as well as numerous lesser-known specialized magazines.
 
Humanities Full Text : Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

Upon entering Wilson Omnifile, choose the Humanities subject area to limit results
Provides full text and abstracts of journals in the humanities.
 
In The First Person
Dates vary

Open Access
In the First Person is an index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.
 
iPoll
1935-current

Users must fill out a one-time registration and agree to Terms of Use before using this resource.
iPOLL is and up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion polls. It is full-text retrieval system organized at the question-level, and includes nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935. The data is updated daily.
 
Left Index
1982-current

2 concurrent users maximum
Guide to literature of leftist and radical media, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
 
Large database covering federal and state court opinions, statutes, and regulations. Also has extensive coverage of news publications, news transcripts, and company information.
 
Literary Market Place Online
Current

one user maximum
literarymarketplace.com contains 2 important reference works, Literary Market Place and International Literary Market Place: Literary Market Place (LMP) is the directory of America and Canadian book publishing, and The International Literary Market Place (ILMP), provides a similar scope of publishing data for more than 180 countries around the world.
 
Original Sources
Prehistory-current
Searchable full-text of Primary works by the most important figures in all aspects of World History.
 
PAIS International
1972-current
Covers articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, hearings and statistical directories about public affairs, including public policy and social issues.
 
Project Muse
Dates vary
Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
 
ScienceDirect
1995-current
ScienceDirect is a search platform which provides access to more than 1000 full-text journals in a wide range of subject areas.
Recommended resource
Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI)
1980-current

41 concurrent users maximum
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.
 
Social Sciences Full Text : Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

Choose Social Sciences subject area
Full Text access to artcles indexed in the Social Sciences Index. Indexing begins at 1982, Abstracting begins at 1984, and fulltext coverage begins in 1994.
 
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
 
Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts the literature in socology (and related disciplines) from an international selection of journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations.
 
Includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 2,500 articles.
 
ISI Web of Knowledge is a Web portal the ISI Citation databases through Web of Science: Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, as well as Current Contents and Journal Citation Reports.

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