Newhouse School of Public Communications - Guide to Syracuse University Library Resources 

Your feedback matters:  Which one of these databases do you rely on most frequently (use the "comments" field if you'd like to indicate more than one or the name of a database not listed)?

Many researchers use free tools like Google Scholar (GS) to identify helpful books or journal articles.  Check SU Library's Classic Catalog(SUMMIT) and/or ejournals list for availability at Syracuse.  If not at SU, consider submitting an interlibrary loan request via the library's ILLIAD service.

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Here's a link to the full A to Z list of all SU Library subscription databases.

To explore the full list of SU Library's 400+ databases, visit the Library's Find Database page (or, use the "Databases" tab appearing on the DISCOVER search box at http://library.syr.edu ).

• Communication & Mass Media Complete (A leading index of scholarly journal literature in the communication studies field.  Also indexes some leading popular and trade magazines relevant to communications).
   
• ComAbstracts (CIOS) (Abstracts for books and articles in the fields of human communication studies including mass communication, human interaction, rhetoric, health communication, communication and new media, journalism, communication history). 
   
•  Film & Television Literature Index (Covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity).
  
  
• Proquest Research Library/ABI Inform (The ABI Inform segment of the larger "Proquest Research Library" database offers a superb collection of professional and scholarly literature in business, including most aspects of the advertising and public relations fields. Note: To access "ABI Inform," once inside Proquest, click on the pulldown menu entitled "database" and select "ABI Inform Global." The complete "Proquest Research Library" database also contains hundreds of scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers, inclusive of popular news sources like Time Magazine, New York Times, Wall Street Journal).
   
• MRI+ (Provides consumer magazine audience data, measuring the readership of over 230 magazines in the United States; clients also have access to Mediamark Reporter database that provides summary tables of key audience and product usage data from national probability sample of 27,000 households). For help interpreting the Mediamark reports you generate, visit this MRI+ guide hosted by the University of California, Berkeley - Thomas J. Long Business Library.    
   
• BusinessSource Elite (a large collection of scholarly, trade and news articles with a business focus.  Use the “GE Geographic Terms” field in the search engine pull down windows to limit one’s research results to a particular country context.  Covers nearly 1,100 business publications and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications.  Includes coverage of the Harvard Business Review). 
   
• Media Law Reporter (A weekly reporting service focusing exclusively on federal and state media law. Full text of new cases and also a full archive of all previously published cases going back to 1977).
   
• JSTOR (interdisciplinary academic journal articles; coverage can stretch back to the 19th century-thus, an interesting source when you want thoughtful historical discussion of communications and media studies as covered in primary journal sources from those time periods). 

• America:  History & Life / Historical Abstracts (contains scholarly articles authored by historians and communications scholars.  A:H&L covers the U.S. and Canada.  Historical Abstracts deals with the rest of the globe).
  
  
• Psychological, social and/or political aspects of communications:
  PsycInfo
  Sociological Abstracts
  Social Services Abstracts
  PAIS {Public Affairs Information Service}