EBSCO's <i>Communication & Mass Media Complete</i> : An Appreciable Improvement Over Previous Communication Studies Indexing?
Behavioral & Social Sciences LibrarianPublished 1 October 2008
David C. Tyler, Signe Boudreau, Katharine C. Potter, Misty Redinbaugh
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This iteration of the study addresses EBSCO's new product for communication studies, Communication & Mass Media Complete, and addresses whether that avenue of access might be equal or superior to that provided by large, multisubject online indexes.
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ABSTRACT In a prior edition of this study, we examined whether the established online communication studies indexes—Communication Abstracts, ComIndex, and ComAbstracts—provided a good avenue of access to the journal literature that researchers in the field cite and whether, where the current journal literature was concerned, that avenue of access might be equal or superior to that provided by large, multisubject online indexes. In this iteration of the study, we similarly address EBSCO's new product for communication studies, Communication & Mass Media Complete.
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