Research Guides: DIGI210 Media & Society: Finding articles on your topic

Finding articles on your topic--popular

Finding "general interest" or "popular" articles.

MasterFile Premier This link opens in a new window
MasterFILE Premier contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
Our Academic Site License provides full access to the New York Times, 1851-present. Access to the International New York Times and the New York Times in Chinese is also available. Users must register individually using a bvu.edu email address, which provides access for 364 days.
North Central Newsstream This link opens in a new window
North Central Newsstream covers news sources from Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Notable newspaper titles include USA Today, the Denver Post, the Star Tribune, and the Des Moines Register.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 English language full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. Radio and network news transcripts are also included in the database. Eight Iowa newspapers are included in this database.

Finding articles on your topic--scholarly

Finding scholarly articles on your topic

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals with a multidisciplinary focus. Over 3,000 journals are available with full-text. Abstracts without full-text are offered for articles published in over 8,000 journals.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) provides a robust collection of high-quality research in areas related to communication and mass media. More than 600 journals are scanned for content and full text is provided for more than 240 journals.
Project MUSE Standard Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.
JSTOR Essential Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text online backfiles of core scholarly journals on many subjects. JSTOR's full-text coverage begins at the first issue of each journal and usually ends within five years of the present.
Communication Studies (Sage) This link opens in a new window
This database covers a small number of academic journals in the field of communication, but all are available with full-text.

Searching tips for Ebsco databases

Try some of these advanced searching techniques when you are using EBSCO databases.

If you are searching for a television program or a movie, try a SUBJECT search or a REVIEWS & PRODUCTS search to get to the articles that will be most useful to you.

If you happen to be searching for an individual, then try the PEOPLE or SUBJECT search, as illustrated below.