Communication and Media Studies

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Academic Video Online: Premium– Academic Video Online: Premium contains over 66,000 streaming videos with coverage in all academic subject areas.

America's News – Provides full-text of almost 1200 U.S. news sources and newspapers including the Advocate (1986-current) and the Times-Picayune (1989-current).

APA PsycInfo– Indexes and abstracts scholarly journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related social science disciplines. Provides links to some full-text articles. (see also PsycInfo)

Black Life in America–  Sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications. Covers from pre-Revolution America (early 18th century) to the modern era (early 21st century). 

Books at JSTOR – Books at JSTOR contains over 32,000 ebooks published prior to 2016 from a number of academic publishers with subject strengths in the humanities and social sciences. 

Mango Languages – An online language-learning program for over 70 languages including English. Lessons range from basic to comprehensive language and grammar skills, and can include casual conversations, films, and specialty courses in culture. Users can create a profile to track their language learning progress.

Nexis Uni – Provides access to titles in news, business and legal information. Includes company financial information, industry and market news, foreign and U.S. newspapers, magazines and trade journals, federal and state case law, accounting information, medical news and abstracts, law reviews, state and country profiles.

PsycInfo – Indexes and abstracts scholarly journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related social science disciplines. Provides links to some full-text articles. (see also APA PsycInfo)

Research Library (ProQuest) – Indexes and abstracts popular and scholarly periodicals including full-text, full images, or text and graphics of articles from thousands of titles.

Social Science Database – Provides indexing, abstracts, and full text for more journals in social science disciplines.

Statistical Abstract of the United States, Online Edition – A comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the U.S. with over 1400 browseable and searchable tables.

Statistical Abstracts of the World, Online Edition – Provides summaries of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of many different countries.

Other Resources

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection – Indexes and provides images of historic American magazine and journal pages and articles. Includes nine collections (Agriculture, Applied Science & Technology, Art, Business, Education, History, Music, Religion, and Women’s Studies) encompassing fifty thematic databases.

Human Resources Abstracts – Indexes, abstracts, and links to full-text articles covering human resources management, employee assistance, and organizational behavior.

Public Administration Abstracts – Indexes, abstracts, and links to some full-text journal articles on public administration, politics, and services.

Race Relations Abstracts – Indexes, abstracts and links to full-text articles related to ethnic studies, discrimination and immigration studies.

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