Academic Search Complete
Provides references to articles from scholarly journals and magazines. Full text is available for many articles.
Google Scholar
Provides references to scholarly books and articles.
Humanities Abstracts (1984-)
Provides references to articles in the humanities, including communication studies.
Humanities Source
Provides references to articles from scholarly journals. Includes some coverage of communication studies. Full text is available for many articles.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1951-)
Includes some coverage of media and communication studies. Lists references to books and academic journal articles. A limited number of records include full text.
JSTOR
Provides full text articles from academic journals.
Nexis Uni
This database includes a large collection of transcripts from television news broadcasts. It also provides extensive coverage of articles from national and international newspapers.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Provides references to articles from scholarly journals. Includes some coverage of communication studies. Full text is available for many articles.
PsycINFO
This is a psychology database that includes significant coverage of communication-related topics. It provides references to articles from academic journals, and includes coverage of books for recent decades. Full text may be available for some articles.
Social Sciences Abstracts (1983-)
Provides references to articles in the social sciences, and includes coverage of communication studies.
WorldCat
Provides references to books, videos, cds and other items in academic and public libraries.