Library Research Guides: Speech Communication: Databases

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General Databases - Selected List

See A to Z Databases for a complete list or use OneSearch to search all of the databases.

Academic Search Complete
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Why search here?
Academic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database.

What is included?
Peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Access to online reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations, and more.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Gale In Context: Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
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Contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues, featuring continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Issues and Controversies This link opens in a new window
Explores hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.
Proquest Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central is a full-text database with thousands of periodical titles and millions of full-text articles available. It also provides access to information such as: Hundreds of important, full text U.S., Canadian and international newspapers including full text of The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times; more than 50,000 full text dissertations in the areas of business, psychology, physical sciences, health, education and more; concise business information from thousands of market reports across 43 industries in 40 countries; and over 160 subjects are covered by ProQuest Central.

Selected Newspapers

Selected newspapers are shown below. You may also search the newspaper databases individually or use OneSearch and refine your results to Newspapers using the limiter in the left-hand column of your results.

AP Newsroom This link opens in a new window
Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Chicago Tribune This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index This link opens in a new window
Times Herald This link opens in a new window
U.S. Newsstream (formerly Newsstand) This link opens in a new window

Videos

Search individual video databases or use OneSearch and refine your search results to Streaming Videos using the limiters in the left-hand column of your results.

Alexander Street is a multidisciplinary collection of videos that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department. With thousands of thousands of titles available now and 400 new titles per month, this collection is unmatched in its breadth. Academic Video Online: Premium allows students and researchers alike to analyze unique and valuable content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world.

Films on Demand is a streaming video service containing outstanding educational programs. Many programs from the History Channel, Biography Channel, BBC, PBS and other news channels are included in this collection. Films On Demand combines the newest videos with many best-selling programs to provide you with more than 6,000 available titles with approximately 600 new programs digitized, segmented and made available via Films On Demand every year.

Kanopy streams thoughtful entertainment to your preferred device with no fees and no commercials by partnering with public libraries and universities. Everyone from film scholars to casual viewers will discover remarkable and enriching films on Kanopy. Log in with your SC4 user name and password to enjoy these streaming films.

At Kanopy we believe in the power of film to bridge cultural boundaries and bring people together. Start watching today and expand your worldview with us.

Nursing Education in Video: Third Edition is an up-to-date collection of demonstration and training videos designed to help students improve their clinical skills. This resource provides access to Medcom's complete collection of 300+ full-length training videos allowing your patrons anytime, anywhere access to the latest resources available for nurse training so they can provide the best possible patient care.

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