Research Guides: COMM 2101: Foundations of Mass Communication: Find Articles, Journals and Scholarly Materials

Final Project Resources

Business Insights: Essentials (Gale)
Provides business and industry information via articles, investment reports, chronologies and company histories, brand and product information, rankings and more.
Hoover's Company Profiles
Hoover's, accessible through Westlaw, provides information on companies and industries.
ReferenceUSA
The U.S. Business database within Reference USA contains over 49 million businesses including 15 million verified and 34 million unverified that are updated monthly. The U.S. Jobs/Internships database within Reference USA hosts 2.5 million job and internship postings.

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Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Full-text, indexing and abstracts for many top communication journals covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse.
Google Scholar -- UMD Students, Faculty & Staff
Locate and access peer-reviewed journal articles and other scholarly sources. For access to FindIt off campus or on wireless devices add the University of Minnesota Duluth to your Library Links in the Google Scholar settings.

Google Scholar is accessible by the public.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Our subscribed content includes the Sustainability, Life Sciences, Arts & Sciences I-VII, and Ireland collections and more than 70,000 DRM-free ebooks from academic publishers.

Expiration Note: This access contains some newly available content due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Access to the additional content will end on 12/31/2020 for e-journals and 06/30/2021 for e-books.

Library Catalog
Limit your search to books, videos, and journal titles
Potter's Box
"The Potter Box is a model for making ethical decisions, developed by Ralph B. Potter, Jr., professor of social ethics emeritus at Harvard Divinity School.[1] It is commonly used by communication ethics scholars. According to this model, moral thinking should be a systematic process and how we come to decisions must be based in some reasoning."