Communication and Media Studies

  • Open Book Publishers (OBP)   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).

  • 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.

  • 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. 

  • Kanopy   Online database

    Academic streaming video collection containing over 5,000 educational titles as well as U.S. and international feature films. Some titles include transcripts and closed captioning. The platform video player is WCAG-compliant.

    Resource URL: Kanopy

  • 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

  • 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

  • ERIC   Online database

    Journal articles, books, and other resources relating to education--from early childhood to higher education. Views 'education' very broadly and covers areas such as outdoor education, corporate training, speech language therapy, etc. 1966 to present.

    Resource URL: ERIC

  • Digital Theatre +   Online database

    Over 150 world-class performances of theatre from some of the top producers across the globe since 2009. In addition to recordings of full performances, the database contains essays on theater, teaching resources, and other tools for teaching and learning about theater. 

    Resource URL: Digital Theatre +

  • DemographicsNow leverages Census data, consumer expenditures, retail spending, and Mosaic Lifestyle market segmentation groupings to helps users "crunch" data in easy-to-use report formats. It contains highly detailed demographic data on more than 24 million U.S. businesses and 206 million consumers, making it ideal for gaining consumer and market insight.

  • Google Scholar   Online database

    Journal articles, books, and other resources across many subjects. Provides a "cited by" feature to indicate other papers containing a source paper as a reference.

    Google Scholar - "Invalid Domain for Site Key" ErrorGoogle reCaptcha Error

    In an effort to optimize user experience during peak activity, Google Scholar may prompt Northern Michigan University patrons to complete a reCAPTCHA widget to verify their non-robot status. Unfortunately, a security glitch in Google's widget may result in an "Invalid domain for site key" error for patrons accessing the Library's off-campus proxy server.

    Workaround:

    If you possess a Google Account, you can integrate it with the Library using the following steps:

    1. Visit the un-proxied version of Google Scholar at https://scholar.google.com.
    2. Click the "Sign In" button and log in with your NMU account (xxxx@nmu.edu).
    3. From the menu icon (three bars at the top left), select "Settings," then choose "Library Links."
    4. In the Library Links section of the Settings menu, confirm that "Northern Michigan University - Get it@NMU," is selected.
    5. If it is not already selected, search for Northern Michigan University in the search bar. Then, select the checkbox next to "Northern Michigan University - Get it@NMU," click the "Save" button in the lower right.

    Once saved, you can return to the Google Scholar homepage. You should now be able to explore Google Scholar without utilizing NMU's off-campus proxy, while still having access to the "Get it@NMU" links directing you to our full-text databases.

    If the provided workaround does not resolve your Google Scholar access issues, we recommend patience, as Google typically resets the faulty reCAPTCHA requirement after approximately 24 hours.

    Resource URL: Google Scholar

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