Research Guides: Communication and Journalism: Find Articles

E-Journals

These are a few journals on communications that are available on the open Web. Most journal articles on this topic, however, are accessible to the Rider community on the subscription databases. See the "Find Articles in Rider's Online Databases and Indexes" column on this page.

DOAJ: Media and Communication
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) covers free, full text scholarly journals in Sociology, Anthropology, Gender Studies, and Ethnology. :The directory includes 19 journals on "media and Communication."
Federal Communications Law Journal
Published by Indiana University School of Law and the Federal Communications Bar Association and contains full-text articles about media regulation and FCC policy.
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
(Back Issues) Contains critical essays about past classic films and TV shows.

Google Scholar: Articles and Books

Many researchers use free tools like Google Scholar (GS) to identify helpful books or journal articles. If you find books in Google Scholar that you want, Check Rider's Online Catalog to see if our library has them. If we don't, you can order any articles or books by filling out and submitting the appropriate Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form.

Find Articles in Rider's Online Databases and Indexes

These are the primary commercial databases and indexes available to the Rider University community for finding articles on topics related to communication, media, and journalism. See also the open-access philosophy databases available under the Web Sites tab above.

ABI/INFORM Complete
Business, Management and Trade - scholarly and trade journal articles, dissertations, market reports, industry reports, business cases and global and trade news

This database is the most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Archive, featuring over 3,000 full-text journals, 25,000 Dissertations, 14,000 SSRN working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. A list of the subjects used in the database is available at the reference desk in Moore Library.
Academic Search Premier
This is a large, interdisciplinary resource; there are many articles available full text. Access provided by the New Jersey State Library.

Interdisciplinary resource.
America: History and Life
United States and Canadian history, 1450 to the present.

Anthropological Index
Produced by the Royal Anthropological Institute, this citation database indexes the content in anthropology journals held in the British Museum. The collection is worldwide in scope, covers all branches of anthropology and contains citations from 1970 to the present.

Communication Abstracts. Call Number : REF P87 .C59733

[Available in Print only. Held in Moore Library Reference Extension.]

Comprehensive source which indexes major international articles, reports, and books. Indexed by subject and author, covering a broad range of communication topics.

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.
CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic—more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies. ... Each weekly issue provides up-to-date information on controversial subjects written by CQ's staff of experienced reporters.
ERIC
The most comprehensive education database. Access provided by the New Jersey State Library.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of encyclopedias and other reference sources which covers a variety of topics including history, literature, gender and sexuality, religion, the arts, and sciences.
GenderWatch
Gender studies - scholarly journal articles, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports

This is a database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports.
Humanities Full Text
Humanities Full Text™ includes many of the most important academic journals in the humanities with the full text of articles from over 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, and high-quality indexing for almost 700 journals—of which 470 are peer-reviewed—dating as far back as 1984. The database provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
JSTOR contains the full text of articles published in approximately 430 journals from the fields of arts and sciences, and business. Its archive spans from the first volume of the journal to within the past three to five years of the journal.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®. Premier Package customers will have instant access to full text for 1,750 journals indexed in MEDLINE (at no additional charge). Users of MEDLINE will be excited to learn that this is now a "full text database".
Project MUSE
Currently, Project MUSE offers nearly 200 quality journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. ...Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others." Project MUSE includes the full content of each journal with the exception of advertisements.
PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo)
The PsycInfo® database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.

Subject: Psychology
Social Sciences Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text™ provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
OmniFile Full Text Mega
Provides indexing, abstracting, and selected full text to the Wilson databases for Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers’ Guide, and the Social Sciences. Also includes selected full text to the Wilson databases for Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science.