Tips from class … handout from class (pdf)

Search for Scholarly Articles

• Academic Search Complete
  Scholarly journal articles and popular magazines covering all topics. A great database for beginning searches. 1980s-present.


• Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC)
  Articles in communication, mass media, and advertising. Coverage varies, but some back to early 1900s.


• PsycINFO
  Scholarly articles in psychology, plus medicine, education, social science, & business. 1872-present.

 search all three together (Academic Search Complete, CMMC, and PsycINFO)

• Web of Science (ISI)
  Scholarly journal articles in the social sciences, including communication science (also hard science & arts & humanities). Excellent for citation searching. 1955- present.

Additional Sources for Scholarly Articles

• ERIC
  Indexes scholarly journals and magazines in all areas of education, from early intervention (birth to age three), preschool, K-12 (public and private), and higher education. 1966-present.


• Sociological Abstracts 
  Scholarly journal articles about sociology and other social and behavioral sciences. 1963-present.

Recommended Books for Research Methods

• Writing up qualitative research
• Doing your research project : a guide for first-time researchers in education, health and social science
• Interviewing and representation in qualitative research
• Encyclopedia of measurement and statistics
• Sage encyclopedia of social science research methods