COM 523: International and Intercultural Communication
Journal Article Databases
The best advice here is to think beyond the usual databases in
Communication. Though these three resources will contain useful articles,
consider your topic from all its angles and search also in databases that
cover appropriate, alternative disciplines.
Try to identify the most precise keywords (sometimes called descriptors or
subject terms) that describe your topic, and search using those words or
phrases. There is no single set of terms used in all journal article
databases, so think of possible alternative words and phrases.
Look also to see if the database lets you review the "Academic (or
Scholarly) Journal" subset of results. You should avoid using magazine or
newspaper articles in your reserach.
While these three databases are good initial sources, don't limit yourself
to them if your topic warrants use of other tools. Use the list of Databases to
identify other appropriate bibliographies.
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ACADEMIC SEARCH
PREMIER, 1984 to present
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID).
- Academic Search Elite provides full text for over 1,530 academic, social
sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals.
In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for
nearly 2,720 journals. Over 1,700 journals are peer reviewed. Full text
backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract
backfiles go as far back as January of 1984.
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COMMUNICATION & MASS MEDIA
COMPLETE, 1915 to present
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID).
- 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. Furthermore, this database includes full text for
more than 240 journals.
- SOCIAL SCIENCES CITATION INDEX
, 1956 to present
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID)
- Social Sciences Citation Index is one of three databases in the Web of
Science. You may search all three together, two at once, or limit to
only one of the database.
- The strength of the databases lie in their ability to link from an
article to ones written more recently that cite the original reference in
their bibliographies.
Books and Documents
You can search the NCSU
Libraries catalog for both keywords and subject terms.
Working from keywords to subject terms of books can help you identify the
works that focus most precisely on a topic. You can review the list of LC (Library of Congress) Subject
Headings to find the subjects approved for use in many libraries'
catalogs.
Use WorldCat to search a union catalog
containing over 62 million records of material held in OCLC member
libraries.
Use the Catalog of U.S. Government
Publications to search for recent documents (post 1975) produced by
federal departments and agencies.
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