A Guide to Library Resources for Communication Studies

A comprehensive database including citation and abstract indexing, full text access to many journals, and author profiles.

Academic Search Complete is multi-disciplinary database that includes peer-reviewed journal articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and more.

Database of articles from scholarly journals spanning the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Database of articles on environmental science topics. Also includes citations to other types of publications such as reports and government documents.

Database of full-text articles covering business, including management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.

Search the web for articles, books, theses, and other sources spanning many disciplines. Many results will be from scholarly sources. Access full-text articles from your search by selecting the FullText@NAU link. To see the FullText@NAU links in Google Scholar from any computer anywhere, link your Google Scholar account to NAU.

Citation database of scholarly articles spanning the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Indexing goes back to 1900. This database can also search for articles that cite a particular work or author. Formerly called Web of Knowledge.

Citation database of scholarly articles, books, and conference proceedings spanning the sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. For an alternative, try Web of Science.

Search across most journals, books, ebooks and more.

A collection of eBooks covering a wide range of disciplines accessible on computers, smartphones, tablets and e-readers.

Search for books, movies, and other materials in library catalogs from around the world.

A database of dissertations and theses from around the world, including links to full text for dissertations written since 1997 and some fulltext coverage for older works.

An index to many dissertations and theses by NAU graduates.

ICPSR is the world's largest collection of digital social science data covering topics from sociology,
political science, economics, demography, education, childcare, health care, crime, minority populations,
aging, terrorism, substance abuse, mental health, public policy, and international relations.

Note: First-time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account; thereafter, you will need
your email address and password to download data. Assistance in locating, accessing and analyzing ICPSR
data is available; contact personnel are listed on the ICPSR Help pages.