Databases
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Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowThis multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 8,500 journals, including active full text for over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowCommunication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. 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 of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 770 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 450 journals.
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Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window"provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered in the database include advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and more."
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Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowFilm & Television Literature Index™ with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more than 120 journals, and 100 books. In addition, Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to the present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.
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New York Times, Historical (ProQuest) (1851-2021) This link opens in a new windowComplete text and images of the New York Times.
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Nexis Uni - All Content This link opens in a new window
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Full text of news and legal sources, as well as company and industry data.
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Access World News Historical & Current This link opens in a new windowAccess World News Research Collection contains:
- Current Orlando Sentinel
-12,000+ full text news sources from over 200 countries
-300+ Florida news sources
-Full color PDF versions of many national and international newspapers, same day delivery
-Plus video, audio, web only, trade journals, broadcast transcripts and other media types
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Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowFilm & Television Literature Index™ with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more than 120 journals, and 100 books. In addition, Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to the present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.
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Florida Collection (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) (1884+) This link opens in a new windowAccess image-based newspaper titles from Orlando and 12 other Florida communities plus the USA Today, browsing each edition as it was printed – including articles, photos, advertisements, obituaries, editorial cartoons and so much more.
Cocoa (1917- ); Ft. Lauderdale (1925- ); Ft. Myers (1884- ); Ft. Pierce (2021- ); Miami (1904-1988); Naples (1970- ); Orlando (1913- ); Pensacola (1889- ); St. Petersburg (1901- ); Stuart (1913- ); Tallahassee (1913- ); Tampa (1887- ); Vero Beach (1919- ); United States (2009-) -
Florida Collection (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) (1884+) This link opens in a new windowAccess image-based newspaper titles from Orlando and 12 other Florida communities plus the USA Today, browsing each edition as it was printed – including articles, photos, advertisements, obituaries, editorial cartoons and so much more.
Cocoa (1917- ); Ft. Lauderdale (1925- ); Ft. Myers (1884- ); Ft. Pierce (2021- ); Miami (1904-1988); Naples (1970- ); Orlando (1913- ); Pensacola (1889- ); St. Petersburg (1901- ); Stuart (1913- ); Tallahassee (1913- ); Tampa (1887- ); Vero Beach (1919- ); United States (2009-) -
Florida News Sources (Access World News) (1883+) This link opens in a new windowOver 300 English & Spanish news sources, including newspapers, college newspapers, blogs, magazines, newswires, TV transcripts, & web-only sources
Coverage for most newspapers begins in 1982 or later, but ten titles have archival coverage: Bradenton Herald (1922+), Daytona Beach News-Journal (1915+), El Nuevo Herald (1976+), Florida Times-Union (1883+), Gainesville Sun (1911+), Miami Herald (1911+), Naples Daily News (1962-1995), Ocala Star-Banner (1922+), Palm Beach Post (1916+) and Sarasota Herald-Tribune (1925+) -
Indigenous Newspapers in North America (Adam Matthew) (1828-2016) This link opens in a new windowNewspapers and journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016. Incorporates 45 unique titles, including bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages.
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News & Newspapers This link opens in a new windowidentifies online and microfilm news resources for the UCF Libraries
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Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowU.S. content includes:
- Census, 1790-2020+
- Crime, 2010+
- Elections, 1912+
- Environmental Summaries, 2001, 2006, 2011
- Health, 2010+
- Religion, 1980-2020
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U.S. News & World Report Magazine Archive (1926-1984) This link opens in a new window"The U. S. News & World Report Magazine Archive (1926-1984) database consists of the influential news magazine U. S. News & World Report (1948-1984) -- plus the predecessor titles: United States Daily (1926-1933), United States News (1933-1948), and World Report (1946-1948). Each title features cover to cover processing, which renders all of the content from the front cover to the back cover fully searchable, including the advertisements."
