Pfeiffer Library: Communication: Search Options

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Are you looking for a specific database? Try our A to Z list.

These library provided databases are your best bets! Again, make sure you know your university credentials to utilize these resources off-campus.

Communications & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text for journals in communication and mass media.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related fields going back to 1887.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage plus indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, including Harvard Business Review.
Film & Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text of articles related to film and television.

These free web resources may also prove useful.

Pew Research: Journalism
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.
American Presidency Project
Contain 110,902 documents related to the study of the Presidency.
Famous Speeches & Audio
Browse by the most popular or by categories of some of the most famous moment in history provided by HISTORY.
American Rhetoric (Speeches)
Provides a gateway to useful resources, including the full transcribed text and, in many cases, streaming audio of numerous famous and important speeches. Also provides links to professional resources for scholars of rhetoric. Also includes a collection of audio clips illustrating more than 40 figures of speech.
Living Room Candidate
Contains more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952 to 2012.
NPR's Best Commencement Speeches
Search over 350 commencement speeches by name, school, date or theme.
Newseum
Serves as a forum for First Amendment study, exploration and education promoted through diverse initiatives such as the First Amendment Center, The Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference, and the Religious Freedom Center.

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