Introduction
This guide highlights resources that may be useful in your studies in Media, Culture and Creative Industries. Follow the links to search within each database. The best databases to use will depend on your topic. Contact your Subject Librarian for help.
Resources for all subjects
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Academic Search Ultimate
Multidisciplinary database providing access to full text articles, reports, conference proceedings and books.
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Business Source Ultimate
Journal articles, case studies, company profiles, industry reports, SWOT analyses. Covers business and economics, with full text access to the Harvard Business Review.
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Communication Source
Communication Source covers communications theory, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language, phonetics, media studies and related fields.
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Includes references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. IBSS focuses mainly on anthropology, economics, politics and sociology.
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JSTOR
Digital archive of academic journals, books and primary sources.
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Project MUSE Premium
Hosts journals from a variety of publishers. Subjects covered are the humanities and social science.
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ProQuest One Business
Peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, conference proceedings, working papers, trade publications, industry reports, and key periodicals including the Wall Street Journal.
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Sociology Source Ultimate
Covers all areas of sociology including criminology and criminal justice, demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, political sociology, social development, and social psychology.
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Web of Science
Multidisciplinary resource which enables simultaneous cross-searching of a range of citation indexes and databases. It provides access to research tools like cited reference searching and the Journal Citation Reports.
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