CST 151: Film Appreciation I (Cesa-Loudoun)

Here are a few places you can find articles from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. From off campus you will have to login with your myNOVA username and password.

Here are some additional databases for research on communication studies, film or theatre:

Articles are published in periodicals, which is any type of publication published at a regular interval (weekly, monthly, quarterly). Periodical types include magazines, newspapers, trade publications, and scholarly journals which:

• Provide detailed information about a specific aspect of a topic.
• Report on events, issues, or scholarly research.
• Are good sources for current or recent information.

Magazines, journals and newspapers typically do NOT provide a summary or overview of a topic.

More information on finding scholarly, peer-reviewed articles.

Select the most important 2-3 terms related to your topic.  Put the word AND between each new term; this tells the database to look for resources with ALL your terms.

influence AND nonverbal communication

Use quotation marks ( "  " ) around phrases (two or more words); this tells the database to look for the words in that specific order.

"nonverbal communication" AND influence

Use an asterisk ( * ) to find multiple endings of one word.  Using pollut* as a search term will include results that refer to globe, global, globalized and globalization.

glob*

This video by Yavapai College Library in Prescott, Arizona demonstrates the different types of information found in Google versus library databases. 

Click the  icon located in the bottom right corner to watch the video in fullscreen mode.