The ComAbstracts database provides comprehensive coverage and access to the primary professional literature of the field of communication studies.

Published by Sage, Communication Abstracts provides thorough coverage of the literature of communication studies, including interpersonal, mass, organizational, and small group communication; journalism; and public relations. Indexes more than 100 journals, including core communication studies titles. Updated bimonthly.

Contains quality research articles in the areas related to communication studies and mass media. Provides access to bibliographic references, reviews, recent encyclopedias and handbooks and full-text of journal articles. Depending on the journal, coverage may extend back to the first issue of a title.

Covers the literature of psychology and related disciplines from an extensive collection of journals, books, book chapters, and dissertations. Updated weekly.

Provides full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated daily.
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Has full text for more than 10,300 serials. Contains scholarly publications covering all disciplines of business including marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, and MIS. Additional materials include country economic reports, case studies company profiles, SWOT analyses and industry reports. Coverage varies by title, but in general dates back to the mid 1990s. Updated daily.
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Contains bibliographic information for articles in 60 core journals in the disciplines of communication studies and journalism. This database is the smaller version of ComIndex, a resource available only in the Reference Center of the Main Library and in selected computer labs at the University.
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Includes over 500 international periodicals, yearbooks, and book series in education addressing a wide variety of topics. Updated monthly.

Education Research Complete is a database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals. Also included is full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, it consists of over 900,000 citations from journals, reports, and other sources spanning the entire field of education and related areas. Updated monthly.
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Covers the literature about television and film writing. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews

A comprehensive reference source written by established experts and researchers. Covers broad subject areas of media (media economy; media effects, media law and policy, media production, media systems); communication (educational, intercultural, international, interpersonal, organizational, political, visual); theory and philosophy; feminist and gender studies; research methods; rhetorical studies; public relations and advertising; journalism; and others.

This "Web of Science" database indexes the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals from 50 social sciences disciplines, and it indexes selectively from more than 3,300 scientific and technical journals. Updated weekly.
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SocINDEX features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus. Abstracts are included for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, there is coverage for more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 1,390 "selective" journals. Indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included, and cited references are also provided. All subdisciplines of sociology are covered.

Contains information from 2600 international journals in the areas of sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Updated bimonthly.

Available but no longer updated after June 30, 2005. See SocIndex.

Three multidisciplinary "Web of Science" databases covering the journal literature in the areas of the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Updated weekly.
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Includes citations for dissertations dating from the first U.S. dissertation issued in 1861. Contains abstracts for dissertations from 1980 to the present and for master's theses from 1988 forward. The work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities are also included. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.

Full-text coverage of selected journals in the areas of arts, humanities, math, medicine, science, engineering, computer science, and social sciences.

JSTOR is an electronic archive of complete journal backruns, current to within 2 to 5 years. The collections include: Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Business Collection, Ecology & Botany, General Science, and Language and Literature. For Kent State University, students and faculty now have access to 381 JSTOR journals representing over 2 million articles.

Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide, covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop and meeting added to the The British Library Document Supply Centre's collection. Updated monthly.

Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at one conference. ProceedingsFirst provides access to the British Library Document Supply Centre's collection of conference proceedings. Updated monthly.

Contains records to over 100 million items in most (if not all) subject areas. Materials may include books, computer data files and programs, films, journal and magazine titles, newspapers, manuscripts, musical scores, and more. Not included are individual articles, stories, or book chapters. Updated daily.

This is a print index covering journal articles and selected books. Each year has six issues bound together in two volumes. Use the "Cumulative Subject Index" in issue No. 6 of each year.

Kent State subscribes to the online version of this resource.

This print index covers core communication journals from their first volumes though 1995. It presents tables of contents for the journals and a keyword index. No abstracts.