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*Academic Search Premier
A comprehensive index to scholarly journals and general periodicals in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including full text.

Communication-Specific Databases
Includes advertising, marketing, organizational, and general communication databases

*Business Source Complete
Full-text from scholarly journals and trade publications covering all areas of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
CQ Researcher
Includes original, comprehensive, and unbiased reporting and analysis on issues in the news from 1991-present.
*Film & Television Literature Index
Full-text and bibliographic coverage from scholarly and popular sources, spanning the entire spectrum of film and television studies.
Hoover's
Delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth.
JSTOR
Full text of hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines dating back to the 1700s. For Communication Studies, select the following disciplines: Business and Economics & Social Sciences
Nexis Uni
Provides full-text to articles from major US newspapers, international newspapers and other journals and magazines.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing viewpoints on controversial social issues. Includes newspaper, magazine, and academic journal articles, as well as audio and video.

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Communication Studies Journal Titles

Communication & Society
International in scope and open to scholars and researchers from around the world, Communication & Society is an online quarterly journal with a goal to make outstanding research contributions to the field of communication from a variety of perspectives, both theoretical and empirical. It includes journalism studies, advertising, public relations, broadcast and film studies, political communication, ethics, media history, communication policy, political economy and new media, among others.
Communication Research Trends
Published by the Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture (CSCC), each issue is devoted to a review essay on a particular topic.
Critical Discourse Studies
Critical Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary journal for the social sciences. Its primary aim is to publish critical research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change.
Health Communication
Journal of theoretical, empirical and methodological issues of user psychology and of system design.
Human Communication Research
Articles reporting original research, methodologies relevant to the study of human communication and human symbolic activities.
Journal of Communication
Articles and book reviews examining a broad range of issues in communication theory, research, practice and policy.
Media and Communication
An international open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of basic and applied research in communication and its related fields.
Public Relations Strategist
Presents fresh perspectives & new ideas related to the strategic importance of effective public relations at the management level. Examines changing concepts & occasionally challenges current wisdom about the practice of public relations.

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Communication Studies: Articles

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