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If an article is not available at UWF, request it on Interlibrary Loan. Articles are delivered electronically free of charge, usually within a few days, from libraries owning the journal. You will be emailed when they articles are available.
Request the article from Interlibrary Loan if it is not available at UWF
Articles are delivered electronically from libraries owning the journal
You will be emailed when they articles are available
Interlibrary Loan is free and takes around 5 days for articles to arrive
Watch the following video tutorial for help with finding scholarly articles:
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Databases contain journal articles and other materials that can be specific to a certain field. For the field of Communication, the main database is Communication Source, which provides access to a wide range of communication and communication-related journals. However, there are other databases that might be useful to your needs depending on what area of communication you are studying. For example, if you are studying film, there are better databases for that. Below, I've grouped databases by the communication areas I think they are most useful.
Journal articles on advertising and public relations topics are identified in the following specialized databases:
Covers nearly every aspect of business, including company histories and new product development
Indexing and abstracts for tens of thousands of business publications; cover to cover full-text content from thousands of journals & magazines, including: Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Administrative Science Quarterly, MIS Quarterly and many other important titles. Extensive full-text archives (e.g., Harvard Business Review is available from 1922 to present — it is not in JSTOR). Cited references for more than 1,300 journals
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that 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.
The multidisciplinary databases are a good place to start. For business and industry information, check out the following databases:
Covers nearly every aspect of business, including company histories and new product development
Indexing and abstracts for tens of thousands of business publications; cover to cover full-text content from thousands of journals & magazines, including: Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Administrative Science Quarterly, MIS Quarterly and many other important titles. Extensive full-text archives (e.g., Harvard Business Review is available from 1922 to present — it is not in JSTOR). Cited references for more than 1,300 journals
Covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including relevant titles from related fields such as social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology and population studies.
You may identify articles in Google Scholar and see if we own access to them via One Search!