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A database for research in the area of communication studies and mass media, CMMC offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. Includes articles from research journals, encyclopedias, handbooks, and journalism reviews.

Ebook Central is MMC's preferred ebook provider. We currently have 188,803 titles covering all of the major disciplines. Users are able to search, read, highlight, and annotate full-text books and download and print titles as needed.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is your place to begin research on education. ERIC contains journal articles and published material. Started in 1966, ERIC was pioneered by the U.S. Department of Education and its clearinghouses. Skip the word "education" in your search string because it is already the subject of this database.

Database that provides researchers with a dedicated resource covering the culture, traditions, social treatment, and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in the United States of America. Additionally, the database provides in-depth coverage of many social justice issues both past and present.

Gale's largest general interest periodical resource, General OneFile, provides periodical and news information through an intuitive, user-friendly search interface for researchers at all levels.

JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.

A product of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), this database provides abstracts on all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Abstracts range from 1973 - the present.

Software for constructing citations for bibliographies and "Works Cited" pages in the formats most commonly used at the college level.

Powerful note-taking software that promotes critical thinking and creativity combined with the most comprehensive and accurate bibliography composer on the Web. MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian styles.

Powerful note-taking software that promotes critical thinking and creativity combined with the most comprehensive and accurate bibliography composer on the Web. MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian styles.

Open source citation tool that specializes in the MLA, APA, and Harvard systems, it analyzes citations to make sure that they are accurate and complete.