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Article Databases- Communications & Media

Databases for finding journal articles on media and communications.
  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Learn how to use this resource

    Coverage: Some Full Text
    Multidisciplinary database providing access to peer-reviewed and general interest journals and magazines; book and film reviews; newspapers; and much more.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Communication & Mass Media Complete (Ebsco) Learn how to use this resource

    Coverage: Some Full Text
    CMMC offer indexing and abstracts for more 770 titles, including full text for over 480 journals dating as far back as 1915. CMMC also contains a Communication Thesaurus and comprehensive reference browsing.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Communication Abstracts

    Coverage: 1998
    Citations and abstracts for articles in 80+ journals in Communication.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Humanities International Complete (Ebsco) Learn how to use this resource

    Coverage: Some Full Text
    Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. The database includes more than 2,300 journals and more than 2.9 million records with full text for more than 1,200 journals.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff CQ Researcher Online

    Coverage: 1923-
    CQ Researcher (formerly Editorial Research Reports).In-depth coverage of health, social trends, national and international topics. Includes maps, charts, statistics. Published weekly.


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Article Databases- Literature & Criticism

Databases for finding literary criticism, reviews, and biographical material including articles on film, television and radio contributors.
  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Literature Resource Center

    Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Dictionary of Literary Biography(DLB) and full-text of 34 literary journals.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff LION (Literature Online Complete)

    Coverage: varies
    Includes more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920-present.


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Article Databases- Music & Performing Arts

Databases for finding articles on music and the performing arts, including film, television and radio.
  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Music & Performing Arts Online

    Coverage: Full Text
    Indexes, abstracts and provides full text from the International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) and the International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA), covering music, theatre, dance, television, film, and other performing arts.

  • Free online resource CAIRSS Music Index

    Coverage: Index Only
    Indexes the research literature on music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music in medicine containing citations to every article published in 18 primary journals, additional citations to selected articles from more than one thousand journals. Produced by the faculty and staff of the University of Texas at San Antonio.


Article Databases- Business

The primary database for articles on all aspects of business.
  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Business Source Premier (Ebsco) Learn how to use this resource

    Coverage: Some Full Text
    Business Source Premier indexes over 3300 journals and magazines on all aspects of business going back to 1896, providing full text on over 2200, including almost 1100 peer reviewed titles.


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