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Searching for Communications Journals

The best way to search for articles from many communications journals at once is to limit your results using the Publication limiter in the Academic Search Complete database.

To access Academic Search Complete, go to the list of databases. Open the General Research menu, and Academic Search Complete is the first one in the list. Log in with your name and G number if you are not on campus.

Once you are in Academic Search Complete and have entered search terms in the search box, scroll down to the Limit Your Results section. You will want to make sure to do three things here:

1. Check the Full Text checkbox. This will make sure you will be able to read the full text of every article in your results list.

2. Check the Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals checkbox. This will take out magazines and newspapers from your search results, and leave you with only journal articles in your results list.

3. Type the word 'communication' on the Publication box. This will limit your results to only journals that have the word 'communication' in the journal title.

 

 

I did a search using the keyword "Speech," though your keywords will depend on the topic you're researching. All of my results are available in full text, and are from scholarly journals that have the word 'communication' somewhere in the journal title:

 

If you'd like to limit your results from here, scroll down the page to the Publications menu on the left side of the screen. Open the menu and click the 'Show More' link. You will be able to limit your results to one specific communication journal by choosing one of these options, and the clicking the green 'Update' button:

 

 

If you get too few results from one journal, take off the Publication limiter by clicking the orange X next to the journal name, and choosing a different journal name from the Publication menu.

 

 

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