EBSCO’s Communication & Mass Media Complete: An Appreciable Improvement Over Previous Communication Studies Indexing?

Authors

David C. Tyler, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Signe Boudreau, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Katharine C. Potter, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Misty Redinbaugh, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

ORCID IDs

David C. Tyler

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2008

Comments

Published in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, Vol. 26(4), 2008 Available online at http://bssl.haworthpress.com Copyright (c) 2008 by The Haworth Press. Used by permission. doi: 10.1080/01639260802031564

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.