Communications & Media Studies

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- Full-text scholarly journals & periodicals related to communications and mass media
- Worldwide issues, publishers, information sources

Multi-disciplinary database with full text periodicals, trade publications, peer-reviewed journals, books, reports, conference proceedings, many in PDF format

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Indexes articles from thousands of journals in almost every discipline and also indexes the citations used in those articles, thus allowing the user to see which papers have cited a core paper, and how many times a paper was cited in a given time period.

Database of periodicals, trade publications and scholarly journals covering all business disciplines

Abstracts and indexes international literature in sociology and related disciplines

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