Communication  Tags: communication comm_201 comm_600  

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Use these resources as first stops for finding information.  Access all databases from the Libraries' Articles & More page at http://library.unco.edu/articlefinder.htm

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) - large multi-disciplinary academic databases providing access to magazines and peer-reviewed journal articles. PDF backfiles are available for some journal titles.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost) - indexes journal articles in the fields of communication and mass media studies.
• ProQuest Research Library
 (ProQuest) - large multi-disciplinary academic databases providing access to magazines and peer-reviewed journal articles. PDF backfiles are available for some journal titles. 

Additional possibilities:

• ABI/INFORM (ProQuest) - provides access to articles from nearly 3,000 worldwide business periodicals and more than 60,000 company profiles.
• Business Source Premier (EbscoHost) - in addition to traditional articles from more than 2300 periodicals, find  industry profiles, market research reports, and country overviews.  Many company profiles include SWOT analysis.
• Education Full Text (Wilson Web) - provides coverage of international range of education periodicals.
• Family & Society Studies Worldwide (EbscoHost) - provides coverage of research, policy, and practice in the fields of family science, human ecology, human development, and social welfare.
• ProQuest Business Databases (ProQuest) - includes several business-related databases such as ABI/INFORM Global, Accounting & Tax Newspapers, Accounting & Tax Periodicals, Banking Information Source, Business Dateline, Career & Technical Education, ProQuest Asian Business & Reference, and ProQuest European Business.
• ProQuest Education Journals (ProQuest) - full text articles from leading journals in education and related fields.
• PsycINFO (CSA) - covers both journal and book literature in psychology from 1872-present.

Most library databases are not as effective as Internet search engines.

However, most databases allow searchers to combine terms using Boolean logic. For example:

• Microsoft OR Apple retrieves a large number of articles about either Microsoft or Apple.  This will provide you with a very large number of results.
• Facebook AND My Space retrieves articles that discuss both Facebook and My Space.  This will provide you with a smaller, more focused group of results.

Most databases also allow users to search with phrases.  Most commonly, phrases are enclosed in quotation marks.  For example:

• "University of Northern Colorado" retrieves articles with those words in that order.

Many databases also allow researchers to use some type of symbol for truncation.  However, this symbol varies between databases.  Check a databases HELP section for specifics.  For example:

• network* would retrieve network, networks, networking, and networked in databases where * was the truncation symbol.