Database Subject
Journalism Databases
| Database Names and Descriptions | Full Text |
| Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers From the Library of Congress, Chronicling America is a database of over 500 historic American newspapers from 1836-1922. |  |
ComAbstracts  ComAbstracts is an index of articles and books related to human communication studies (mass communication, human interaction, rhetoric, health communication, communication and new media, journalism, communication history, etc.). | |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete This database provides over 450 full-text journals encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline, and indexing for many more. | |
| Newspaper Source Newspaper Source provides selected full-text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full-text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full-text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily. | |
| Nexis Uni - formerly LexisNexis Academic Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790, national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, U.S. federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information. Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789. Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news. | |
| Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionary is the major authority on the development of the English language over the last millennium. It provides definitions, traces etymologies, offers pronunciation guides, and provides numerous quotations for over half a million words in the English language, past and present. | |
| U.S. Major Dailies U.S. Major Dailies contains the last several decades of the most read newspapers in the U.S.: the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. Content is updated daily with today's news. | |
Or try these general resources:
| Academic Search Premier A great first stop when looking for scholarly journal articles, Academic Search Premier contains full text content across all academic disciplines from over 4,600 periodicals. Also contains some popular magazines. Most content is from the last twenty years. | |
| Academic Writer (formerly APA Style Central) Academic Writer helps you develop your writing and research skills, combining sophisticated learning and teaching tools, advanced authoring technology, and full integration of the APA manual. | |
| Christian Periodical Index Published by the Association of Christian Librarians, CPI is an interdisciplinary index of Christian periodicals. Search here if you're looking for articles or reviews written from an evangelical perspective. | |
| Credo Reference Credo Reference is a powerful source of introductory and reference information across all academic disciplines. Combining cross-searchable content from over 500 encyclopedias and other reference sources, Credo will also connect you to related materials in other library databases and collections. | |
| Dissertations and Theses The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses includes 3 million citations, over 1.5 million of which are available in full-text. | |
| Ebook Central Ebook Central is a database of over 130,000 e-books in all academic areas. This collection is also searchable via OneSearch and the OneSearch Catalog. | |
| Films on Demand This database includes over 20,000 online streaming educational videos from providers like PBS and Films for the Humanities & Sciences. Includes coverage of nearly all academic disciplines. Instructors can embed films in Blackboard for easy course integration. These videos are also discoverable through OneSearch and the library catalog (Webcat). |  |
| Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) A cross-searchable collection of more than 2,500 reference volumes, including encyclopedias across all academic disciplines. | |
| Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (formerly Opposing Viewpoints in Context) Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is a great starting point for all of today's most common research topics. Featured "viewpoints" provide accessible overviews, which are supplemented by many articles from popular magazines and academic journals, as well as books, newspapers, statistics, videos and even audio recordings. A good way to get started is to click "Browse Issues". | |
| Google Scholar Google Scholar is a broad index of scholarly content across many different fields and content types. | |
| JSTOR JSTOR is an interdisciplinary database of back issues from the most important scholarly journals in many fields. Coverage of most journals begins with volume one and ends four or more years ago. The library currently provides access to twelve JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I-X, XII, and the Life Sciences collection. | |
| OneSearch OneSearch is a discovery service that lets you search across just about all of the library's collections at once. It includes everything in the library catalog, most databases, and much more. For finding books in our collections, use OneSearch Catalog or the "CBU Catalog Only" limiter. Databases that are not included in OneSearch include Dissertations and Theses and U.S. Major Dailies. | |
| Scopus A comprehensive general index of scholarly publications. Includes bibliographic records for academic journal articles primarily, but also for peer-reviewed books and conference proceedings. Scopus also provides advanced tools for analyzing the significance of individual journals, articles, scholars and institutions. Some journals are indexed as far back as 1823, but comprehensive coverage begins in 1996. |