Library Guides: Communications: CMS/PL 331: Media in the Arab World

Subject Specific Databases

Communications and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
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This databases is a collection of journals and publications dedicated to communications and mass media studies. Over 450 journals are included in full-text, and indexing and abstracts is offered for over 500 periodicals.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
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Film & Television Literature Index™ with Full Text is one of the best tools for film and television research. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, screenwriting, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 380 publications, as well as full text for more than 120 journals, and 100 books. In addition, Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to the present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive spectrum of over 11,000 full text sources, including: national and regional newspapers, international news, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews and international legal information. In addition, it includes business news journals, company financial information, industry and market news.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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This multi-disciplinary collection contains the full text of more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals and magazines. It also includes searchable archived content in PDF for hundreds of titles.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR is one of the most prestigious collections of scholarly journals. The selection of journals in the Communication Studies sub-collection is limited, but the database can be used for cross disciplinary analysis. The latest issues of the journals might not be always available in full text.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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The small Film and Media Studies collection includes mostly journals dedicated to film studies.
ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new window
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Humanities e-books is a collection of over 5000 high quality full-text books in the humanities.
Excerpts of the books in the collection can be downloaded as PDF files.
Ebsco Databases (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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The EBSCOhost interface provides access to a range of databases, e-journals and e- books.