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Academic Search Complete Restricted Resource Some full text available
Index and full text of magazines, newspapers, reports, conference proceedings, and scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines.
Humanities Source Ultimate Restricted Resource Some full text available
Humanities Source Ultimate presents a rich collection of 1,787 active full-text humanities journals, surpassing any other database of its kind in terms of peer-reviewed content. It encompasses all aspects of the humanities.
ATLA Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS Restricted Resource Some full text available
Index and full text of biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues.
Communication & Mass Media Complete Restricted Resource Some full text available
Index and full-text for mass media and communications journals.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals Some full text available
DOAJ is a database of open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Drama Online Restricted Resource Some full text available
Drama Online is an award-winning digital library from Bloomsbury, the world's leading drama publisher. Drama Online includes playtexts and scholarly material.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. And you can connect to the library for full text links to show up right there in Google!
JSTOR Restricted Resource Some full text available
An electronic repository of full-text journals in a variety of disciplines, JSTOR includes the full text of journals starting from the origin of their publication, but often does not have the most recent 2-5 years.

Magazines & Newspapers

Newspaper Source Plus Restricted Resource Some full text available
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers and newswires and offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Nexis Uni Restricted Resource Some full text available
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis--including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790--and offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

Reference Materials

Credo Reference Restricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio

Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text general and subject-specific reference titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.


Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
Print Location: P87.5 .E496 2009
With more than 300 entries, these two volumes provide a one-stop source for a comprehensive overview of communication theory, offering current descriptions of theories as well as the background issues and concepts that comprise these theories. This is the first resource to summarize, in one place, the diversity of theory in the communication field.
International Encyclopedia of Communication
Print Location: P87.5 .I58 2008
This twelve-volume encyclopedia includes lengthy articles on all aspects of communication.  Entries include bibliographies for further study.
Oxford English Dictionary Online Restricted Resource Some full text available
The complete Oxford English Dictionary online (OED).

Websites

ProCon.org
ProCon.org's purpose is to provide resources for critical thinking and to educate without bias. They research issues that are controversial and important, and attempt to present them in a balanced, comprehensive, straightforward, transparent, and primarily pro-con format.