UCF Research Guides: Communication Databases: Communication

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Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost)
Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
Includes:
-Over 160 full-text journals
-Over 160 full-text books
-Indexing and abstracts for more than 560 journals
-Cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 270 journals
-Variety movie reviews dating back to 1914
-More than 65,000 images from the MPTV Image Archive
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) (ProQuest) (1973+)
The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.

Communication Databases

General Databases

ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) (1971+)
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AP Images (EBSCOhost)
Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile)
JSTOR
Nexis Uni
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Sources include newspapers, wire services, magazines, SEC filings, law cases, state and federal codes, law review journals, and reference works. Limited coverage of health administration news.
LexisNexis Academic (previous platform) is no longer accessible, as of December 2018.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) (1926+)
Project MUSE (Johns Hopkins University)
Research Areas:
- Area & Ethnic Studies
- Art & Architecture
- Creative Writing
- Education
- Film, Theater, & Performing Arts
- History
- Language & Linguistics
- Library Science & Publishing
- Literature
- Medicine & Health
- Music
- Philosophy
- Religion
- Science, Technology, & Mathematics
- Social Sciences
- Studies by Time Period
- Women's Studies, Gender, & Sexuality
APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)
"contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages."
Psychological Abstracts:
* 1927-1947 Microfilm BF1.P65
* 1948-2004 print in remote storage
SAGE Journals
Sage Knowledge
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SimplyAnalytics (Geographic Research)
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Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest) (1952+)
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Newspapers & Periodicals

Alternative Press Index (EBSCOhost) (1991+)
Print version - Reference AI 3.A27 (1969+)
American Periodicals (ProQuest) (1741-1940)
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Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
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- African American/Caribbean/African
- Arab/Middle Eastern
- Asian/Pacific Islander
- European/Eastern European
- Hispanic
- Jewish
- Multi-ethnic
- Native People
Index to The Times (FCLA) (1906-1980)
New York Times (1980+)
See also:
- New York Times, Historical (1851+)
- New York Times (ProQuest) (1980+)
New York Times, Historical (ProQuest) (1851-2017)
See also:
- New York Times (ProQuest) (1980+)
Orlando Sentinel (ProQuest) (1985+)
Readers' Guide Retrospective (H.W. Wilson - EBSCOhost) (1890-1982)
"Subject coverage includes, arts, business, computers, crafts, dance, drama, education, entertainment, fashion, film & television, food, gardening, health and medicine, home improvement, literature, news and current events, photography, popular and classical music, politics, popular culture, religion, sports and fitness, technology, transportation, travel and more."
See more recent coverage for 1983+ in Readers' Guide
U.S. Major Dailies (ProQuest) (1980+)
Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory
formerly "Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory"