Waggoner Library: Communication: Articles

Start your search for articles in Discovery.

A great place to begin your search for journal articles is in Discovery, the library catalog. Discovery can be accessed using the search box on the library homepage.

Watch the brief video below to learn more about how to locate articles in Discovery. (4:24)

Articles can also be found in these specialized and multidisciplinary databases.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary database of over 10,000 academic journals, newspapers, magazines, reports, and books.
APA PsycArticles® This link opens in a new window
PsycArticles covers journals published by APA, the Canadian Psychological Association, Hogrefe Publishing Group, and APA's Educational Publishing Foundation.
Communications and Mass Media This link opens in a new window
Provides current information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field including technology applications.
Gale In Context: Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Helps users understand today’s world issues from a global perspective.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
The premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues.
Nexis Uni™ This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and trade/news magazines.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

Find news articles using the resources in our newspaper guide.

Newspaper Sources research guide
Newspapers and newswires resources. Local, national and international papers represented.

How to locate peer-reviewed journal articles:

Most of our databases have the option to limit search results to peer-reviewed journals.
On the search results page look for the words filter, refine, or content type, then select peer-reviewed.
See the example below from Discovery:

Screenshot of Discovery search results showing Peer-reviewed selected under Content Type.

► For more information about peer-reviewed articles and why they are important for research, see the Research Help page on this guide.

For articles not owned by Waggoner Library:

Use our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service to obtain articles not owned by Waggoner Library.
There is no fee to use this service. Allow 2 business days to receive your requested articles, which will be sent to your Trevecca email.