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Media 211/Fall 2021

Recommended Databases

1. Academic Search Complete: Multidisciplinary source offering both magazines and peer reviewed journals; strongly recommended.

2. Nexis-Uni: Comprehensive source for newspapers and broadcast transcripts in several major language
3. Oneseach: For peer reviewed articles; leading newpapers
4. U.S. Major Dailies: Has full text of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune back to the 1980s

Search Tips

and narrows: stimulus and response: retrieves only those records in which both terms occur.

or broadens: language or speech: retrieves articles containing either term

not: bears not football: excludes sources containing the second term; use with extreme caution

* truncates: evol* retrieves evolution or evolutionary; note: Lexis-Nexis uses ! for truncation.