Communications Databases

Multidisciplinary database that indexes journals from a wide range of subject areas, including literature, history, ethnic studies, computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, and medical sciences. Includes many fulltext articles. 

Index to over 8500 business-related journals, country reports, industry reports and company profiles. Coverage includes marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. 

Index of journals in areas related to communication and mass media. Includes many fulltext journals.

Google Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives. When you enter via Search It, a Find It link will display with full text and other services listed. If you are using it directly, be sure to add the Washington State University Libraries to your Settings (use the lefthand hamburger menu) to be able to access articles available at the WSU Libraries.

Now called Nexis Uni, this database includes more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.  Includes court decisions (including historical cases dating back to the 1880s), full text law reviews, thousands of full text news sources in English and foreign languages, and current data on 13 million companies.

This database includes information about advertising and rates in all types of media sources. Includes Consumer Magazine Media, Local Media by DMA, Newspaper Media, TV and Cable Media, and Claritas Segmentation and Market Solutions (formerly known as LMAA and Nielsen SMS).

Multidisciplinary database that includes Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index.