Solano Community College Library: Communication: Communication Research Tools

Communications Databases

Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides full-text, indexing and abstracts for many top communication journals covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse.
ProQuest
Includes access to the following seven databases: Coronavirus Research, Criminal Justice Database, e-book Central, Ethnic Newswatch, Gender Newswatch, Los Angeles Times (1881-current)
EBSCOhost - All databases
EBSCOhost offers multiple sub-databases (specific formats, subjects, etc); this link searches all of them at once but allows you to de-select specific databases to create a custom search scenario.

Newsbank: Access World News
Find current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text news sources. Includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from more than 10,000 sources.
ProQuest news
Journals, magazines, and (mostly) newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites
from these three databases: Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, and Los Angeles Times (1985-current)
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch™ (ENW) is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The complete collection also includes the module Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.
Newspaper Source Plus
Full-text digital collection of the world's major news content: includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines plus it offers television and radio transcripts.

Issues & Controversies
Articles, overviews, pro-con sources and more, covering today’s crucial hot-button topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture. Updated weekly.
Points of View Reference Center (POV)
Points of View is a full text database providing access to information & opinions on controversial and current topics. It includes topic overviews, viewpoint and counterpoint articles, and critical analysis guides.

Credo
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text general and subject-specific reference titles, as well as 500,000 images and nearly 1,000 videos.
Britannica
A great starting point for research with balanced, global perspectives and insights on thousands of topics. Access includes full access to Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, a selection of magazine and journal articles from trusted academic publishers, as well as many other research tools.

Library Catalog
Use the library catalog to find printed books, including course reserves aka textbooks, at Solano College and our partner libraries (Napa Public libraries and Napa Valley College).
Link+
gives you access to materials throughout California and Nevada libraries (academic, public, and special libraries).

See the Link+ FAQ info at: https://libguides.solano.edu/faq-policies
You may request items from any of these libraries, provided it is listed as "available" in the Link+ catalog, and it will be delivered to you at SCC for checkout.

Library Card Application
Apply for a library card online! You need this to check out books, chromebooks, and use Hoopla. Make sure you fill out the form completely. A temporary card number will be emailed to you. A permanent card is required for access to Hoopla. Please email scclibrary@solano.edu with questions.

When you're ready to dig deeper into your topic, or just need something good to read:

e-book central
A digital collection of ebooks in a super-wide range of subject areas. This one is a librarian go-to for fast access to a great collection.
EBSCOhost ebooks
A full-text ebook collection with over 150,000 titles from leading university presses and general interest publishers, in a broad array of subject coverage.
Audiobook & eBook Collection (Boundless)
Our newest ebook and audiobook collection! Check books in and out, and download them using the app: https://www.boundless-app.com/ You can also access these books directly via a web browser.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) / Gale e-books
A great place to begin your research process: to narrow your topic, get background information and to gather keywords. Encyclopedias and reference books are not generally used as cited sources in college-level research papers (usually you'll need to take what you find in an encyclopedia and head out to the databases for more advanced sources).

Subject coverage includes: art, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.

Britannica
A great starting point for research with balanced, global perspectives and insights on thousands of topics. Access includes full access to Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, a selection of magazine and journal articles from trusted academic publishers, as well as many other research tools.
Credo
Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text general and subject-specific reference titles, as well as 500,000 images and nearly 1,000 videos.

Search almost all of your library's databases at once!

Google your library's databases: Limit Your Results Full Text Peer Reviewed Lost on how to navigate the EBSCOHost databases or OneSearch? Watch this quick video from Seminole State Library on how to use Academic Search Complete, one of the large/general sub-databases within OneSearch.