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Recommended databases for Journalism, Media and Communication

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
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Communication & Mass Media Complete provides access to information and resources in areas related to communication and mass media. It indexes over 700 journals and provides full text access to over 450 journals. Useful for: English and Creative Writing, Journalism, Languages, Speech and Language Therapy.
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Humanities Index This link opens in a new window
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An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, Humanities Index indexes over 400 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. There are regular monthly updates.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Business Source Complete includes full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Includes indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included.
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Web of Science - Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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The Web of Science Core Collection comprises a set of databases covering scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examines proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.
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Related databases for Journalism, Media and Communication

ABC data This link opens in a new window
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Access to historical circulation statistics for UK newspapers and magazines. Data is available from 2000 to present.

Current ABC data and reports are openly available without any login. To access historical data and reports back to 2000, you must register an account using your University of Strathclyde email address. See 'more info' for further details.
Current ABC data and reports are openly available without any login. Registration is required to access historical data and reports back to 2000. First-time users must go to https://www.abc.org.uk/signup and register an account using your University of Strathclyde email address. ABC's terms and conditions are visible on the registration page, and Legal and Privacy statements are available via links at the bottom of the website.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
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Factiva is a current international news database produced by Dow Jones, a global provider of economic and financial information. Users have access to a wide range of information from newspapers, newswires, industry publications, websites, company reports, and more. Content provides local insight and global perspective on business issues and current events, containing current information on companies, industries, and financial markets.
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Gale Literature This link opens in a new window
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Gale Literature provides access to a wide range of literary resources including:

Contemporary Authors Online
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
Literature Criticism Online
Literature Resource Centre
LitFinder
Scribner Writer Series
Something About the Author Online
Twayne's Authors Series

For more information about each source click on What's Inside from the main search screen.
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Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
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Humanities International Complete (previously Humanities Abstracts) provides access to the full text of over 1,200 journals across the humanities disciplines.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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MLA International Bibliography provides access to references to journal articles, books, and dissertations in disciplines including: language, literature, folklore, film studies, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts from the early 20th century to the present. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.

Useful for: English and Creative Writing and Languages.
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Nexis This link opens in a new window
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Nexis provides full-text coverage of newspapers worldwide, plus press releases, transcripts of TV broadcasts, newswires, magazines and trade journals.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture from Roman times to the twenty-first century. Entries are for those who died in or before the year 2012. It contains over 60,300 biographies and over 11,400 portraits.
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Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
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SAGE Research Methods contains more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences. It supports research at all levels and across all subjects by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process. Also includes cases, datasets, data analysis and materials on data visualization, qualitative and quantitative research methods, statistical methods and statistical packages such as Python, R and SPSS among others.
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Useful shelf numbers - Journalism

Library books are arranged by the Dewey Decimal classification scheme whereby each subject is represented by a number. You will find books on the same subject will have the same number. The shelfmark is preceded by the letter D and will be followed by 3 letters, which are usually the first 3 letters of the author's name.

Useful Journalism and related subjects shelfmarks:

D 070.19 Television news

D 070.4 News journalism

D 072 The press

D 079 Newspapers - history

D 302.23 Mass media

D 820-4(09) Writing

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