Communication & Rhetorical Studies Resources: Databases

Use the databases on these lists to locate full-text articles and references for articles for your research.

• • General Databases for Communication & Rhetorical Studies

• • Intercultural Communication

• • Legal Communication

• • Business/Organizational/Marketing Communication

• • Political Communication

More databases, on a wide variety of subjects are also available from the Database Search Page.

Use the databases on this list to access full text and bibliographic records for articles in some of our more general databases. Most of these resources are not limited to Communication & Rhetorical Studies materials, but all contain relevant publications for your research in this field.

• • Communication Source
    Combines Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts (formerly published by Sage), and includes many unique sources not previously available in other databases. Communication Source offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to Communication, Advertising, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Speech-Language Pathology, Media Studies and other fields relevant to the discipline.

• • Sage Journals Online
    SAGE publishes more than 500 academic journals in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
    Relevant titles include:Communication Research, Discourse & Communication, Discourse Studies, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Media, Culture & Society, and Television & New Media.
  • ProQuest Central
    ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.

• • DOAJ: Media and Communications
    The Directory of Open Access Journals is a searchable interface providing access to the huge number of online Open Access journals freely available via the internet.
    Relevant titles include: American Communication Journal, Journal of Intercultural Communication, M/C Journal, and Invisible Culture.

• • JSTOR
    Full-text archive of scholarly publications in mathematics, science, the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.
    Relevant titles include: College Composition and Communication, Rhetorica, Rhetoric Review, & Newsletter: Rhetoric Society of America.
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    Project Muse
    Full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

• • International Index to the Performing Arts
    Index and abstracts to 465 periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature.
    Relevant titles include: Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Entertainment Design - The Art and Technology of Show Business, eV: Entertainment and the Digital Economy, Global Media Journal, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Soma, & Visual Culture in Britain.
  • 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. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.

• Chicano Database
  Bibliographic materials on Mexican-American topics 1960 to the present. Scope expanded 1992 to include the broader Latino experience, including Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants. Includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database.
  
  
• GenderWatch
  Full-text publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
  
  
• Ethnic News Watch
  A collection of full text articles from 200 publications covering the ethnic, minority and native press in America with international coverage. ENW provides news, culture and history from a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints.

• International Index to Black Periodicals
  Includes content from over 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black studies, covering a wide array of humanities and social science disciplines including art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology among others.

• Race Relations Abstracts
  Current information in the area of race relations. Issues covered include discrimination, education, employment, health, politics, law and legislation.

• NexisUni
• ​Access more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790, together with extensive current and historical U.S. state and federal statutes, published court decisions and regulations. Registering for a free ID and password within the interface is recommended for those looking to take advantage of personalization features such as alerts, saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

• PAIS International
  Index with abstracts to articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs from 1972 to the present.

• • ABI Inform
    Index and abstracts to articles from leading business and management publications, including English-language titles from outside the U.S. Full abstract and indexing coverage begins with 1992. Full text available for over 600 titles.
     
  • World Advertising Research Center
    The WARC.com database contains over 25,000 articles, case studies, research reports and summaries covering all areas of marketing communications drawn from more than 30 leading content sources worldwide. These include WARC's own publications (e.g. Admap, the International Journal of Advertising) as well as those from its many partner organizations.

• • Business Full Text
    Provides indexing and abstracting of articles from over 800 English-language business magazines, trade and research journals, plus the full text of selected periodicals.

• • Business Source Elite
    Business Source Elite contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including the Harvard Business Review.

• Proquest Research Library
  Covers a wide range of topics including the arts, business, education, general interest, law, military, psychology, and women's interests.

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields from 1989 to the present, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.

• Polling the Nations
  A unique compilation of questions and responses from more than 6,500 national, state, local and special surveys in the US and over 60 other countries. The surveys contain information on over 3,000 subjects, from social and political concerns to economic issues. Data gathered by professional polling organizations, television networks, universities, newspapers, etc.
  
  
• Peace Research Abstracts
  Peace Research Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.