Best Bet Databases in
Communication Sciences
- PsycINFO
Scholarly articles in psychology. Includes medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior. From the American Psychological Association.
1872-present.
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Covers the academic, research and practice literature from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. PsycINFO includes relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior.
Indexes journals, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports, and other documents.
Subjects:
- Business (advertising & marketing)
- Communication Sciences
- Education
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Sociology
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- Communication & Mass Media Complete
Articles in communication, mass media, linguistics, and film studies.
Coverage varies, but some back to early 1900s.
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Incorporates 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.
CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of over 230 more, for a combined coverage of over 600 titles. Many journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915).
Contains a Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals covered as "core").
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- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Indexes scholarly articles in linguistics; language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and speech, language, and hearing.
1973-current.
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Covers three fundamental areas: research in linguistics (the nature and structure of human speech); research in language (speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language forms, spelling, phonetics); and research in speech, language, and hearing pathology.
Summarizes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and reviews of books and other media
Updated quarterly.
Subjects:
- Anthropology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Communications
- Education
- Language
- Linguistics
- Neurology
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- Medline via EBSCO
Scholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology. Search Medline with ERIC, PsycINFO, and Academic Search Premier through EBSCO.
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Medline covers nearly 4,500 journals published in the U.S. and more than 70 other countries. New citations are added weekly.
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- Scopus
Scholarly journal articles with a heavy emphasis on science topics. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. International scope. Excellent for citation searching.
1966-present.
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Because UConn holds a license to
Beilstein CrossFire, users can see summaries of compounds and reaction information in Scopus for any article that is also indexed in Beilstein Crossfire.
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