Communications Resources

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Covers a wide range of subject areas from humanities to sciences for the last five years. Includes Communication Abstracts and Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts. CSA publishes abstracts and indexes to scientific and technical research literature.

LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides full-text information from a variety of sources within these five categories: news, business, legal research, medical and general reference.

Expanded Academic ASAP (DISCUS)
Database for research in all academic disciplines including astronomy, communications, current events, history, humanities, law, psychology, religion, social sciences, sociology, and the general sciences and technology. Publications: National news magazines, general interest magazines and the New York Times. Coverage combines indexing, abstracts, full text, and images. At present 750 of 1580 indexed titles are full text.

Academic Search Premier (Collegiate DISCUS)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Custom Newspapers (DISCUS)
Full-text articles from various US & International newspapers.

SC Newspapers: Columbia and Greenville - A DISCUS Database
Covers The State Newspaper (Columbia) 1987 - present and The Greenville News 1989 - present.

Business and Company Resource Center (DISCUS)
Provides full-text articles from academic and general business, industry and management periodicals, newsletters, newspapers and newswires (4000+ indexed titles; 2900+ full-text). Also includes investment and broker research reports; company profiles, company and association directory listings from a number of sources. Additional content from reference sources covering industries, company histories, associations, brands, market share, rankings, and more. Predicasts’ PROMT and Newsletter databases are fully integrated in this database.

Last modified on: March 23, 2008, at 10:38 AM