Library Guides: Specialist resources: Media Culture and Creative Industries databases

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This guide highlights resources that may be useful in your studies in Media, Culture and Creative Industries. Follow the links to search within each database. The best databases to use will depend on your topic. Contact your Subject Librarian for help.

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Academic Search Ultimate
A multidisciplinary database providing access to full text articles, reports, conference proceedings and books in nearly every area of academic study.
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Business Source Ultimate
Provides access to journal articles, case studies, company profiles, industry reports, SWOT Analysis, Working Papers & interviews with executives & analysts. Coverage is international with content including business & management, accounting & finance, HR management, marketing and economics. It also covers engineering, health, social studies, some business law and includes full text access to the Harvard Business Review.
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Communication Source
Communication Source covers communications theory, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language, phonetics, media studies and related fields.
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) includes references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. IBSS focuses mainly on anthropology, economics, politics and sociology.
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JSTOR
Is an archive of important scholarly journals and e-books in the the arts, business and economics, history, the humanities, law, medicine and allied health, science and mathematics, and the social sciences.
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Project MUSE Premium
Hosts journals from a variety of publishers. Subjects covered are the humanities and social science.
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ProQuest One Business
Peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, conference proceedings, and working papers as well as trade publications, industry reports, and key periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and the Economist.
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Also covers ProQuest Accounting & Tax, Asian Business & Reference, Banking Information Source, Entrepreneurship, and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.
Sociology Source Ultimate
Sociology Source Ultimate covers all area of sociology including criminology and criminal justice, demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, political sociology, social development, and social psychology.
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Web of Science
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary resource which enables simultaneous cross-searching of a range of citation indexes and databases. It provides access to research tools like cited reference searching and the Journal Citation Reports.
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