This guide is designed to help get you started with your research. The databases below are paid for by Rasmuson Library.
Best Bets for Finding Articles
The following databases are the most recommended for starting your article search. You can use these to locate articles in scholarly journals as well as trade publications.
Offers full text and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, discourse, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication theory, language, logic, organizational communication and other closely related fields of study.
Full text for many topics. Great place to start research.
Full text for scholarly publications covering social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Reports exploring current and controversial issues with summaries, a history of the issue, an overview of the current situation, future outlook, opposing viewpoints and bibliographies. Access starts at 1991. Request older reports/articles using our interlibrary loan service.