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Recommended Resources from the A-Z

Use these databases to identify journal articles for Media Management. For guidance about searching see our Information and Research Skills guide.

Communication Source
Provides full text access to articles related to communication, linguistics, film & media
Business Source Complete
A business, management and economics database with full text for more than 2,300 journals with more than 1,100 from academic titles. This database provides some full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
Web of Science Core Collection
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Provides access to the Citation Indexes for: Science; Social Sciences; Arts & Humanities; Conference Proceedings and Books. Use for finding journal articles and conference papers. Databases can be searched simultaneously or select specific databases using the More Settings option.
Nexis
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A collection of databases containing the content of over 23,000 news and business resources from all over the world.
OOIR (Observatory of International Research)
Tracks “social science” journals to continually list their latest papers. Covers Anthropology, Area Studies, Communication, Geography, History, Law, Political Science and Sociology.

Recommended Websites

Ad*Access
Based at Duke University, USA, Ad*Access presents images and information for over 7000 advertisements printed in US and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Newsworks
Website of the marketing body for national newspapers, this site provides useful facts and figures about the media (print and online) in the UK.
PAMCo
Readership figures for newspapers and magazines in the UK.

Channel 4 Press Packs
Digitised versions of 'press packs' - information supplied to the press about forthcoming broadcasts on Channel 4. Covers the period 1982 - 2002.