CST - (Bachner - Alexandria)

Libraries buy magazines, journals, and newspapers in online collections called databases.

Communication & Mass Media Complete is a database collection of journal articles.

Here's how to find it from the library home page (www.nvcc.edu/library):

Library home page 

>  Research Databases 

>  By Subject 

>  Communication Studies, Film, & Theatre (CST) 

>  Communication & Mass Media Complete

To search for scholarly articles in databases:

• Use only the most essential words related to your topic.
• Put the word AND between each new idea.  For example:

  family communication AND adolescents

• Put phrases in quotation marks.   "social media"
• Use an asterisk *  for truncation:  religio*  will find articles with the words religion, religious, and religions
• In your list of results, use the "Scholarly" or "Peer Reviewed" filter to limit to articles from scholarly journals.

To search specifically for an article that presents the results of an original study:

1. Type your topic in the first box.
2.  In the second box, type  results AND discussion  
3.  In the second row dropdown, select  All Text - TX
4.  In the "Limit Your Results" section, put a check mark next to Full Text and next to Peer Reviewed.