LibGuides: Mass Communication: Databases

Journal Databases

Why use these: To find scholarly articles from journals, to find magazine articles, and to find newspaper articles in one search.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This database covers many subjects found at colleges and universities. Contains articles from thousands of journals, magazines, news sources, and videos from the Associated Press.
Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media brings together information found in hundreds of journals. Articles cover all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature, meet the needs of researchers.
ESPN Press Room: Media Kits This link opens in a new window
The latest press releases, galleries, personality updates, and more -- college football, NBA, baseball, and more from ESPN.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR offers journals, ebooks, and primary source collections, allowing researchers to retrieve high-resolution scanned images as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The resources archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
Sage Journals This link opens in a new window
Provides access to journals for the Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology, and Medicine.
SD College Edition Journals Collection This link opens in a new window
Science Direct College Edition Journals Collection - Social and Behavioural Sciences contains over 350 full-text journals. The collection offers peer-reviewed content back to 1995.

CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Provides researchers with access to reports that cover different controversial topics going back to 1991.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photo Collection
News photographs, negatives, clippings, and printed materials created by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, chronicling the history of Fort Worth and West Texas. The collection consists of approximately 179,500 photographs, ca. 1849-1986, and nearly three million film negatives, 1915-1990.
LIFE photo archive
Search ten million historical images ranging from the 1750s to the 2000s. Hosted jointly by LIFE and Google.

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.