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Media & Communication Studies: Journals & Databases

Relevant Databases

A database is a searchable collection of academic literature. It generally contains journal articles but also holds reports, case studies, e-books, book chapters and images which you can use in your studies.

The following databases are just a small number of available databases.

Articles

  • JSTOR 
    (a not-for-profit organization with a trusted archive of important scholarly journals)
  • Communication Source 
    (provides full texts of nearly 700 journals in the areas of mass media, communications theory, linguistics and more)

Newspapers

(European Newsstream provides researchers with same day access to newspapers like The Guardian and The Times (London). The resource enables users to search current United Kingdom, Irish, and European news content from over 430 of the most influential news sources with archives dating back to the 1990s, substantial backfiles available for most newspapers and is updated daily)

(Nexis Advance UK provides full text access to articles from regional, national and international newspapers, business trade journals, company profiles and country reports)

(Irish Times from 1995 to the present.)

(This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.)

Films

Research Methods

  • Sage Research Methods 
    (supports researchers in every step of a research project, from writing a research question, choosing a method, analyzing data, to writing up and publishing the findings)

A full list of relevant databases for your subject area is available by clicking here.

What is?

An evaluation of professional or academic work by other experts working in the same field.

Open access is a publishing model for scholarly communication that makes research information available to readers at no cost, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which readers have access to scholarly information by paying a subscription (usually via libraries).

Example:

MIRR is the college's Institutional Repository and is an example of what is available on open access. The repository contains research conducted by MIC lecturers and researchers.

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