Subject guides: Communications and Media: Databases

Key Communication Databases
Other Relevant Databases

Communication & mass media complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of journal articles and citations related to communication and mass media.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
A key interdisciplinary portal providing access to high quality resources about communications, telecommunications and media.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage including technology, social sciences, the arts and literature.
Oxford bibliographies. Cinema and media studies This link opens in a new window
Provides peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on film history, television studies, media studies, critical theory, visual arts, cultural studies, digital culture, game studies, popular culture, and the study of the moving image.
Oxford bibliographies. Communication This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies relating to communication as a multidisciplinary approach to accessing information, knowledge and ideas.
SAGE journals online This link opens in a new window
Search across full text journals in the Communications & Media Discipline Hub.
SAGE reference online This link opens in a new window
Contains high quality reference materials on media, communication and cultural studies.
Taylor & Francis online This link opens in a new window
Search under the listed Communication subject area to access quality, peer-reviewed journal articles specific to communication
and media studies.

Informit search This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Australian content. An interdisciplinary database containing information across the Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia.

Business source complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Business Source Complete has the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886. It provides access to full text journals in all disciplines of business & economics.
CNKI: China National Knowledge Infrastructure (Zhongguo qi kan quan wen shu ju ku) This link opens in a new window
China academic journals is one of the most comprehensive full-text databases of Chinese academic journals in the world. It contains more than 9,000 journals starting from 1915.
International encyclopedia of communication online (Wiley online library) This link opens in a new window
A 12-volume online reference covering all aspects of communication studies, including: theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas.
Telecommunications database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This database is a practical resource for researching the telecommunications industry or its technology. It indexes over 140 titles, with most available in full text. Subject coverage spans computer applications, data communications and data transmission systems, and electronic data processing to information science and information theory and radio and television.