COM 201 - Communication & Social Issues

Full text database focusing on Communication, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Speech-Language Pathology, Media Studies, and other fields / disciplines.

Milner's Combined Search Resource searches across multiple library databases at one time. Combined Search is particularly useful when you begin your research and are uncertain which database to search.

A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full text for more than 7,100 publications, including over 6,100 peer-reviewed journals. Also includes indexing and abstracts for 11,200 journals and other publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.

Full text database of business information including scholarly journals, books, author profiles, and company information. Includes full access to Harvard Business Review.

The ERIC database covers the field of education and indexes and abstracts journal articles and reports, known as ERIC Documents, from 1966 to the present. ERIC currently includes over 1.3 million citations. Citations to journal articles have an accession number starting with an “EJ”. Citations to ERIC documents have an accession number starting with an “ED”.

Most ERIC Documents issued from 1993 to the present are available full-text online. Although some ERIC documents prior to 1993 are available online, most are only available in a microfiche format and must be requested at the Reference Desk on Floor 2.

Provides access to a wide range of news, business and legal articles and includes full text for all articles.

Provides reports on a wide variety of social, political, and legal issues. For each issue covered there are viewpoints (pro and con), excerpts from reference books, full text of newspaper, magazine and scholarly journal articles, primary sources, statistics, multimedia (broadcast transcripts), and links to relevant websites.

Provides access to journal articles, book reviews and dissertations in psychology and related fields from 1806 to present. Provides citations and abstracts as well as full-text of recent articles published in American Psychological Association journals

Includes citations and abstracts for articles in more than 1,900 journals in sociology and related fields. Also includes book abstracts and reviews.

Includes Science Citation Index Expanded (1988-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1988-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1988-present) and provdies access to scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Search features include cited reference searching, an Author Finder and an Analyze Tool to identify trends and patterns.