Communication and Media Studies

Course Prefix

  • Legal Source   Online Database

    Includes over 1,200 full-text journals and over 2.5 million records, including book reviews and case citations. Offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, organized crime, ethics, the environment. Brought to you by the Library of Michigan via the Michigan eLibrary (https://mel.org).

    Resource URL: Legal Source

  • LGBTQ+ Source   Online Database

    LGBT Life contains full text for more than 120 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 150 full-text monographs/books. The database also includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus.

    Resource URL: LGBTQ + Source

  • New York Times   Online Database

    Access to nytimes.com. Provides current paper and an archive (e.g. TimeMachine) of articles back to 1851. Does not include the cooking section or crossword.  Need to use this link for the first time to create an account with your NMU email address and a unique password.  Then in the future, you can go directly to nytimes.com and log in.

    Resource URL: The New York Times

  • Open Book Publishers   Online Database

    Open Book Publishers (OBP) is a leading independent open access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed, award-winning monographs, edited collections, textbooks, critical translations and more. All Open Book Publishers books are freely available in open access formats (PDF, HTML and XML).

  • Project Muse eBooks 2013   Online Database

    Launched on Project MUSE in January 2012, provides access to thousands of high-quality ebooks in the humanities and social sciences from major university presses and scholarly publishers.

  • ProQuest Central   Online Database

    ProQuest Central brings together databases across major subject areas including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, and Philosophy. Also includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

    Resource URL: ProQuest Central

  • The largest database of graduate dissertations and theses. Almost 5 million citations and over 2.6 million full-text works. Useful for literature reviews, in-depth scholarship and extensive bibliographies with citation links. Indexing 1637 to present; full-text 1743 to present.

  • PsycINFO   Online Database

    Journals, books, and other resources covering psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including: anthropology, business, education, law, linguistics, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, physiology, and sociology. 1805 to present.

    Resource URL: PsycINFO

  • Rebecca Daly   Faculty and Staff

  • Wall Street Journal   Online Database

    Provides unlimited access to WSJ.com on desktop, tablet and mobile devices, including the WSJ mobile app.  To access the content, you will need to use this link for the first time to create an account with your NMU email address and a unique password. Select your user type. Students will be asked to enter their expected graduate date. Faculty and staff will need to reconfirm their affiliation once a year.

    If a student or faculty/staff subscriber has a personal WSJ subscription and would like to convert it to their School-Sponsored WSJ subscription, they will need to call 1-800-JOURNAL to cancel.

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