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Choosing Databases in EBSCO. Start with Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC)! After that ... Consider: * Academic Search Premier (broad coverage of many topics) * PsycINFO (scholarly articles in psychology) Use EBSCO's Choose Database » link to search these and related databases * Last stop: Web of Science. Good place to search last. Find more articles; slightly tricky to use. See this PowerPoint in YouTube with voiceover at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfsoIc1xEpo
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JOMC Research“Search Engines”
Library term: databases
Communication & Mass Media Complete• aka CMMC• Topics covered:• journalism• mass communication• advertising• public relations
• Content types:• Scholarly articles• Trade articles• Newspaper & magazine articles
Start w/CMMC!
Next up: Academic Search Premier• Broader than CMMC• Topics covered:• History• Politics• Biology• Literature• World & national news
• Content types• Scholarly articles• Trade articles• Newspaper & magazine articles
Good for non-JOMC topics
Discipline-specific: PsycINFO• Topic covered:• Psychology• Perception• Neuroscience• Behavior• … and other typical psychology / psychiatry
topics• Content types:• Scholarly articles only
• Wicked awesome search options!
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Other Discipline-specific Databases• Business Source Premier = business (articles and
data)• CINAHL = nursing & allied health (good for health
communication)• ERIC = Education• And more …• Criminal Justice Abstracts• EconLit• Women’s Studies International
• All in EBSCO: “choose databases”
EBSCO: Choose Databases »
Click the one(s) you want
Last Search Engine• Web of Science / ISI / Social Science Citation
Index• Millions of articles, all topics• Will identify articles you haven’t yet seen• Tougher to search
• … more later …
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