Recommended Multi-Subject Databases
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- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window(EBSCO) - Includes both scholarly and popular sources, updated daily.
Recommended Discipline-Specific Databases
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- Communication Source This link opens in a new window(EBSCO) - Covers scholarly journals in communications, mass media, and other closely related fields.
- Film & Television Literature Index This link opens in a new window(EBSCO) - Includes hundreds of resources with articles on all aspects of the TV and film, both scholarly and popular.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new window(ProQuest) - Contains articles about gender issues from a wide variety of subject areas.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window(ProQuest) - Identifies articles, conference papers, books, and dissertations in sociology and related fields.
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new window(EBSCO) - Articles, books, and chapters on women's studies and feminism.
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