Spring 2000

The databases Academic Search Elite and Periodicals Abstracts II carry most of the journals on your list of journals in full text.

Academic Search Elite

*Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

*Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (abstract only)

Television Quarterly (abstract only)

Periodical Abstracts II

*Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

*Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

*Journal of Communication (NY & UK)

Television Quarterly (abstract only)

Finding Research Articles

Click Academics & Research

Click Ingram Library Main

Click Databases & GALILEO

Click GALILEO (Don’t click what is underneath the term)

Click New! GALILEO Version 7

Click Full Text Journal/Newspaper Articles

Click Academic Search Elite or ProQuest Databases (this one has more)

If you click on "ProQuest Databases:

Click on both PA Research II Periodicals and PA Research II Peer-Reviewed

Click Continue

On the basic search (which comes up first)

Change Search In to Full text of articles (this is very important)

Click the Advanced tab

In the first search box type journal title (e.g., Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly) (the "&" and the word "and" are not interchangeable, so if you use & and it doesn’t work, type out the word "and")

Change the drop down menu to Publication Title

On the next line leave the AND as is and type your first search word (e.g., ethics) in the box (leave the Basic Fields as is)

If you want to search for more terms, type a new term in the next box

Change Publication Type drop down menu to Periodicals

Click Search

Be careful that you do not select a book review as your article. This means that someone has read a textbook about ethics and commented on it. You want an actual study or critical analysis.

Searching tips:

*to access the "full page" image, you must have loaded Adobe Acrobat on your computer. Library computers have this software loaded. "Full page" means it looks exactly like it appears in the journal. "Fulltext" or "fulltext plus graphics" is a modified version of the article, which can be accessed more easily.