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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
Communication & Mass Media CompleteIncorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. Full text for 326 journals. EBSCOhost
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
Humanities Full TextCitations, abstracts, and full text for articles, interviews; original works of fiction, drama, and poetry; reviews of books, ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs; biographies, and more. H. W. Wilson
Humanities International CompleteMore than 2,000 journals and 2 million records, plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Full text for more than 730 journals. EBSCOhost
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OED OnlineElectronic version of the 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Project MuseBasic Undergraduate Collection. Full text access to 125 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles are available in full text. Check "Only content I have full access to" for full text access only.
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

P - Philology and Linguistics P87-96 - Communication. Mass media
PN1993-1999 - Motion pictures

Reference books

BookCall number
Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America (5 volumes)REF E169.1 .B7825 2002
Cultural Theory: The Key ConceptsREF HM621 .K49 2002
Encyclopedia of Communication and InformationREF P87.5 .E53 2001

Web resources

Center for Communication
COMFILE!
Federal Communications Commission
Internet Movie Database
Metacritic.com
The Encyclopedia of Television