Welcome!
This site is
designed to provide fast and effective access to database resources in
support of the study and research in journalism and mass communication. START by accessing the primary
databases to the right. You can also search
the Mansfield Library catalog
for books and videos, locate journals by title or
browse all databases A-Z. Please contact me
with questions about your research and/or assignments.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Credo Reference (Xreferplus)Dictionary, language reference, quotation, and subject reference works from all areas.
- Oxford English DictionaryGuide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
- Oxford Reference Online: PremiumDictionary, language reference, quotation, and subject reference works from all areas.
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These databases are key resources for locating journal articles and books on literary criticism, interpretation, and theory.
- ComAbstractsPrimary professional literature of the communication(s) field covering human communication studies, speech communication, rhetoric, journalism, mass communication, etc.
- Communication and Mass Media CompleteCMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 500 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 690 titles in areas related to communication and mass media. This database includes full text for over 380 journals.
- Lexis-Nexis AcademicThis site is excellent for finding world news and spans several years (varying by publication). However, it is weak on Pacific Northwest news resources.
- Access World News: Research CollectionThis is a great resource for world and national news, especially for the Western U.S., and it goes back to 1992.
- Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index ArchiveIndexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Covers international and interdisciplinary issues of cultural, economic, political & social change.
- Ethnic NewsWatchAn interdisciplinary database which offers non-mainstream viewpoints from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
- Search EverythingThis powerful search reaches nearly everything owned by the Mansfield Library--books, ebooks, articles, newspapers, digital collections...and more. Refine your search to find exactly what you need.
Related Resources
These databases provide additional sources of information for literary research. Use them to locate supportive historical and related information. Review a list of all Mansfield Library databases here.
- Academic Search CompleteMultidisciplinary, full-text database
- Essay and General Literature IndexIndex to essays in anthologies and collections in many subject areas.
- Google ScholarScholarly literature across many disciplines and sources.
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
- Readers' Guide RetrospectiveA record of U.S. cultural history from 1890-1982 from periodical literature
- New York Times Historical (1851-2006)
- Washington Post Historical (1877-1993)
Humanities Librarian |
 Sue Samson Contact Info Mansfield Library 326 406.243.4335 Office hours at the Information Center Reference Desk: Mondays 1-3:00pm; Tuesdays 10:00am-noon; or by appointment Send Email |
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