Research Guides: MDST 2032 Visual Literacies & Design / MDST 3711 Media and Popular Culture (Ozelkan): Finding Scholarly Articles

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Think about the different themes and concepts related to your topic, then use the appropriate discipline-specific database to find related articles.

Prefer to start broad, use an interdisciplinary database:

Google Scholar
Tool to search for scholarly documents across the web, with an added feature of CU Full Text links.
Web of Science, Web of Science database
Interdisciplinary database with scholarly articles

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Comprehensive research resource for communication and related disciplines.
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media
Provides access to journals covering the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) with Full Text (EBSCO)
Database covering library and information science from the 1960s to the present.
Technology Collection (ProQuest)
Full-text articles from scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. Includes the following collections: Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database, Materials Science & Engineering Database
ACM Digital Library
Publications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Sociology Database (ProQuest)
Covers scholarly journals and dissertations of sociology and social work, including relevant titles from related fields such as social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology and population studies.
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCO)
Scholarly articles in the fields of addition studies, anthropology, criminology, economics, family studies, gerontology, ethnic studies, political science, psychology, social work, and urban studies.
Family & Society Studies Worldwide (EBSCO)
Resource for materials about marriage, family, and society.
Women's Studies International (EBSCO)
Includes latest scholarship in feminist research.

Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCO)
Scholarly articles in the fields of addition studies, anthropology, criminology, economics, family studies, gerontology, ethnic studies, political science, psychology, social work, and urban studies.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) (EBSCO)
The most comprehensive index of Asian studies in the humanities and social sciences, with coverage from 1971-present.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America (EBSCO)
Index of works about American Indians from 1500 to the present.
ProQuest Black Studies
Collection of primary and secondary sources that record and illuminate the Black experience, from ancient Africa through modern times. Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience is featured in the collection.
Chicano Database (EBSCO)
Covers Latinx in the U.S., including Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central Americans.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCO)
Comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals.
EBSCO Pop Culture & Events
Comprehensive source for materials on pop culture and events topics.
Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.

Art Full Text + Art Index Retrospective (EBSCO)
Essential art history index for finding scholarly articles dating as far back as 1923.
Arts Premium Collection (ProQuest)
Cross-searchable databases with thousands of journal titles. Subject areas include art, design, architecture, humanities, film/screen studies, music, and performing arts. Includes the following collections: Art, Design & Architecture Collection, Music & Performing Arts Collection, Screen Studies Collection

AND link words by AND to search for all words in the same resource

OR link words by OR to search for one word or another (instead of both/all words)

NOT to eliminate results with a certain term

“Quotations” – add quotations to a group of two or more words to search for the exact phrase

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