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Media Literacy in a Disruptive Media Environment

Exploring Communication Through Qualitative Research

Audience Research Methodologies : Between Innovation and Consolidation

The Handbook of Media and Mass Communication Theory

Politics within Parentheses : Qualitative Research Methods in Communication Studies

Qualitative Research Methods in Public Relations and Marketing Communications

Qualitative Research in Practice : Examples for Discussion and Analysis

The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research

Selected Journals

Article Databases

Ebsco search for Communication/Media Studies
Search across the following databases: Communication & Mass Media Complete; Academic Search Premier; MLA International Bibliography; Humanities International Complete; and SocINDEX with Full Text.
- Click on Choose Databases (above the search boxes) to change the databases being searched.
- Limit to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals under Limit your results.

Science Direct
Access to full text of over 2,500 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in the areas of: Biochemistry; Business and Management; Genetics and Molecular Biology; Chemistry; Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine; Psychology; and Social Science. Includes recently-accepted articles in press.
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APA PsycNet
APA PsycNet searches across both APA PsycInfo and APA PsycArticles.
- APA PsycInfo contains indexing and abstracts for over 3 million articles. Most covered materials are from peer-reviewed publications.
- APA PsycArticles covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research from 1894 to the present. The database contains more than 153,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. It includes all articles, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal.
ProQuest Central
Limit to: Peer Reviewed
JSTOR
A total of more than 900 full-text scholarly journal titles in an online archive beginning with the first issue of each title. The archive includes nine JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collections.
- In JSTOR, there is usually a time lag in full-text content. Use JSTOR in conjunction with our current online databases and print holdings.
- Since results may contain articles that are not peer reviewed, search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journal's peer-reviewed status.
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Project MUSE
All journal titles in Project MUSE are peer reviewed, scholarly titles. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
Google Scholar
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- Search for the journal title using the A-Z Journals by Title list to verify the journals peer-reviewed status.

Scholarly books are written by authors who have advanced degrees (e.g., PhD) in the field of study and the books are published by scholarly/academic presses.

ProQuest Ebook Central
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Books at JSTOR
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Credo Reference
Use the resources in Credo Reference for background Information prior to finding scholarly resources for your literature review.

Key Terms

Peer-Reviewed Articles: Reviewed and evaluated by experts in the field prior to publication.
Empirical Research (Powers & Knapp, 2010)
- Qualitative Research
- Quantitative Research
Systematic Review: "a comprehensive review of literature which differs from a traditional literature review in that it is conducted in a methodical (or systematic) and unbiased manner, according to a pre-specified protocol, with the aim of synthesising the retrieved information through meta-analysis, often using statistical tests" (Miller & Brewer, 2003, para. 1).
- Meta-Analysis: "a set of statistical procedures for establishing empirical generalizations by cumulating the quantitative findings of multiple primary empirical studies" (Cunha, 2008, para. 1).
- See also Synthesis without meta-analysis (SWiM) in systematic reviews: reporting guideline by Cambell et al. (2020)
Literature Review: "an account of what has been published on a topic by accredited scholars and researchers" (Taylor, n.d.).
See also the guide, Organizing Your Social Sciences Research Paper: Literature Review by University of Southern California Libraries, for a discussion of purposes.
Annotated Bibliography See - How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography (Cornell University Library)

References

Campbell, M., McKenzie, J. E., Sowden, A., Katikireddi, S. V., Brennan, S. E., Ellis, S., Hartmann-Boyce, J., Ryan, R., Shepperd, S., Thomas, J., Welch, V., & Thomson, H. (2020). Synthesis without meta-analysis (SWiM) in systematic reviews: Reporting guideline. BMJ. 368, l6890. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6890

Cunha, P. V. (2008). Meta Analysis. In S. Clegg, & J. R. Bailey, (Eds.). International encyclopedia of organization studies. Sage.

Clegg, S., & Bailey, J. R. (2011). International encyclopedia of organization studies. Sage.

Jakubec, S., & Astle, B. (2017). Research literacy for health and community practice. Canadian Scholars.

Miller, R. L., & Brewer, J. D. (2003). The A-Z of social research. Sage.

Powers, B. A., & Knapp, T. R. (2010). Dictionary of nursing theory and research (4th ed.). Springer.

Taylor, D. (n.d.). The literature review: A few tips on conducting it. https://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/types-of-writing/literature-review/

University of Southern California Libraries. (2022, January 14). Organizing your social sciences research paper: Literature review. https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/literaturereview

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
Call Number: Ref. Desk BF 76.7 .P83 2020

ISBN: 9781433832154

Publication Date: 2019-10-01