Basic Research Using Library Databases
Use WebFeat to search several databases at the same time.
From the Library home page, click on "Do Online Research" button and then select "Search for articles in multiple databases simultaneously using WebFeat." At the search screen, enter your keywords, then pich what databases you'd like to search. You can either:
1) Check the checkbox by the subject area you wish to search (Education, Psychology, Nursing, et. cetera).
2) Pick from an alphabetical list of individual databases (be sure to read the database descriptions), then click "Go."
Databases Appropriate to Specific Subjects
Communication Studies
Finding Communication Studies Articles
- Communication & Mass Media Complete~ CMMC covers communication and mass media, as well as related areas. Over 200 titles are available in full-text
ComAbstracts ~(Communication Abstracts) ~ An index, with abstracts, of articles in the communications field. Note~ ComAbstracts is currently only available on-campus.
Professional Communication Associations on the Web
Theatre, Musical Theatre, Speech/Theatre Education
Finding Articles
- JSTOR ~ JSTOR is an online library currently containing more than 100 journals in 15 different disciplines. JSTOR does not include current issues of journals, but is an electronic archives of titles, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. All full text.
- The Gale Group collection of databases has some very useful sources on playwrights and their works: check out the following individual databases in the collection for some excellent full-text resources and citations:
- Twayne Author Series
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
- Literature Resource Center
Professional Theatre Associations on the Web
Finding Speech-Language Pathology Articles
- ProQuest Education Complete has a number of useful full-text sources, including articles from such professional journals as the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
- Cinahl Plus with Full Text contains the full text of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (1998-present) and Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools (1997-present). It also indexes a large number of similar sources, but you"ll probably have to use these citations to find the articles.
- ProQuest Psychology Journals also has a number of useful full-text sources, including articles from such professional journals as the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
- Wilson Select Plus
Professional Speech-Language Pathology Associations on the Web
So you found an article, but it's not full-text. Now what?
Don't fret. Look for this button
or this one
next to the article citation on the search screen (this button isn't available in the Lexis-Nexis database). Clicking on this button will take you to a list of full-text sources, if available. If we don't carry the full-text article in another database, you'll have the option to check the catalog to see if we carry the journal in print, or order the article via Interlibrary Loan.