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The Search Process
Follow these steps every time you search for resources.
- Create a list of words that describe your topic.
- Choose a database that most aligns with your topic.
- Search for a combination of words from your word list.
- Use the asterisk to expand your search (teach*)
- Use quotations to look for multiple words as a phrase ("music education")
- Use the filters to limit your results
- Full Text
- Source Type
- Date Range
- Peer Reviewed
- Pay attention to the subject headings and consider adding those terms to your search.
- Remember, research is a process so if at first you don't succeed, try again!
- If you get stuck, contact the library for help.
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Research Help
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EBSCO Discovery Service brings together the most comprehensive collection of content—including superior indexing from top subject indexes, high-end full text and the entire library collection—all within an unparalleled full-featured, customizable discovery layer experience. -- Ebsco - Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) offers full text and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, rhetoric, language, logic, and other closely related fields. -- Ebsco - Communications and Mass Media Collection This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and more. -- Gale Cengage
- America's Newspapers This link opens in a new window
With unmatched U.S. news content from local, regional, and national sources, this resource is the largest of its kind. Its diverse source types include printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos. Explore a specific issue or event through the detailed coverage provided by local reporting or compare a wide variety of viewpoints from across the country on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. -- NewsBank - Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories. -- Library of Congress
Mass Communication Theories.
This is not an exhaustive list but rather is intended as a place to get you started in your research. When you click on the theory of your choice, you should be taken to a subject search for the theory in the Communication & Mass Media Complete database. You can search for these theories in any of the library's databases to find more information.
Mass Communication Academic Journals.
This is not an exhaustive list but rather is intended as a place to get you started in your research. When you click on the journal of your choice, you should be taken to the library's databases where you can search within the journal you have chosen. Type your search term into the "Search this publication" box.
- Search for Resources
Learn how to search for resources. - Choose Reliable Resources
Learn how to choose the best resources to support your research. - Avoiding Plagiarism
Learn how to avoid plagiarizing.
Don't pay to access a journal article! Search our databases to access academic journals; this is a service provided to students through the library's database subscriptions. If the full text isn't available directly through one of our database providers, we can request the item through our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service which allows us to borrow the item from a different library for you. Listed on this page are some of the many databases that are available to you for research
You may be able to find some useful titles from the Cleveland Bradley County Public Library; particularly works written by or about actors, actresses, directors, and/or writers of the television programs you are studying. Lee students may obtain a Cleveland Public Library card by using their Lee University ID. You may then have access to the Public Library's print and electronic collections.
