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Complete List of Communication Studies Databases
ABI/Inform searches periodicals and news sources covering different aspects of business information, including: scholarly research, businesses traditions and trends, corporate strategies, management techniques, and competitive and product information. Some full-text articles. (ProQuest)

Comprehensive database of bibliographic records for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles. Also includes publishers catalogs, lists of 400 awards from 10 countries, and selected reviews. (Bowker)
A comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale. Covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources, as well as international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions.
(CSA)
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields. Cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for more than 420 journals, with selected coverage of nearly 200 more. Includes full-text from 301 journals. (EBSCOhost)
Dissertations
Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)
Access to a wide range of full-text material in News (General, U.S., World, News wires & transcripts, Non-english language, Business, Legal, University, Medical, Arts & Sports);
Business (Business News, Industry & Market News, Accounting Literature, Company Information [financial reports, profiles, SEC & EDGAR filings & reports], Business Directories); and
Legal (Legal News & Reviews, Case Law, Codes & Regulations [U.S. federal and state], Canadian Legislative Materials, European Union Law, Commonwealth & Foreign Nations, Patent Research Tools, and Legal Career Resources)
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
A collection of abstracts which reflects the world's literature in language behavior, linguistics, and related disciplines. 1973 - present. (CSA)
Catalog of items owned by the seven University
of Louisville Libraries.
Indexes the contents of older issues (1770-1995) of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. (Chadwyck-Healey) 
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.

Includes a cross-section of general periodicals, ABI/INFORM business periodicals, and several national newspapers in full-text. (ProQuest)

Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Some full-text. Includes the database formerly known as Periodical Abstracts. (ProQuest)

PsycARTICLES
Database of full-text journals from the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. PsycARTICLES is only searchable within the OVID version of PsycINFO.
PsycINFO
Provides indexing and abstracting for the professional and
academic literature (books, book chapters, dissertations and 1300
journals) in psychology and related disciplines.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the social sciences. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. Maximum number of
simultaneous users: 13 (split between Arts & Humanities Citation Index,
Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Journal Citation
Reports). (ISI's Web of Science)

The Sociological Collection is a comprehensive database with nearly 570 full text titles. This database provides information on all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. (EBSCOhost)
