Finding Articles and Databases
Articles and databases will be incredibly useful to your research at the University of Iowa. Many of our articles and databases are cataloged through InfoHawk+ (see the video to the lower left) - but not all of them. To search databases, select your database title or subject area. Each database has a slightly different interface - don't feel like you need to be an expert at them all. Use the help/search tips and you can always ask a librarian!
Finding Articles in InfoHawk+
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Requesting Full-Text of Articles
Many of the articles in our databases offer access to the full text, but some will just show an abstract. You could also know the title of an article, but it's in a journal that the University of Iowa Libraries doesn't own.
To get the full text of an article, use Article Delivery.
If we have the article you want in our print collection, we'll scan if for you and deliver it electronically through the Article Delivery/Interlibrary Loan system. If they article you want is not in our collection, we will try to get it for you from another library and deliver it through the system.
Communication Studies Databases - Best Bets
- Alt-Press Watch This link opens in a new windowFull-text database indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. (Main Library Reference Area holds vol. 1- July 1969- to present in the paper edition.)
- CIOS Journal Index This link opens in a new windowThis system allows you to perform electronic searches of 58 core serials and annuals in the discipline of communication studies and related fields (e.g., journalism, rhetoric, mass communication, and social linguistics).
- ComAbstracts This link opens in a new windowThis database contains abstracts of articles published in the discipline of communication studies and related fields (e.g., journalism, rhetoric, mass communication, and social linguistics).
- Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Combines CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides article abstracts from 1,800 journals in sociology, from 1952 to the present. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
Communication Studies - Additional Databases
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia. Communication This link opens in a new window