Finding research material

Where do I find research material? Digital sources for journalism research and mass communication

There are many different sources you can use to find materials.

The state library’s (Staatsbibliothek) website is a good place to start: https://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/startseite.html

You can search the library database at https://dbis.ur.de/SUBHH/browse/subjects/

The leading German language scholarly journals are:

• Publizistik: https://link.springer.com/journal/11616 (access on the campus network; University members can also access externally)
• Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (M & K): http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/index.php?genre=issue&issn=1615-634x&hl_s=date (access on the campus network; University members can also access externally)
• Studies in Communication | Media (SCM): http://www.scm.nomos.de/ (freely accessible, articles in German and English)
• Media Perspektiven: http://www.ard-werbung.de/media-perspektiven/ (freely accessible)

The leading English language journals for journalism studies: (access on the campus network; University members can also access externally)

• Journalism: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/journalism
• Journalism Studies: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjos20
• Journalism Practice: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjop20
• Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly: http://jmq.sagepub.com/
• Digital Journalism: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rdij20

The leading journals in mass communication studies (access on the campus network; University members can also access externally):

• Journal of Communication: https://academic.oup.com/joc/issue
• International Journal of Communication: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc
• Communication Research: http://crx.sagepub.com/
• International Journal of Press and Politics: http://hij.sagepub.com/
• Political Communication: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/upcp20
• European Journal of Communication: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/ejc

Other relevant journals and sources (access on the campus network or open access):

• Feminist Media Studies: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfms20/current
• Games and Culture: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/gac/
• Game Studies: http://www.gamestudies.org/

The leading journals in science and climate communication: (access on the campus network; University members can also access externally)

• Science Communication: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/scx
• Public Understanding of Science: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pus
• Journal of Science Communication (JCOM): https://jcom.sissa.it/

The leading interdisciplinary journals for sociological climate research: (access on the campus network; University members can also access externally)

• Global Environmental Change (limited free access): https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/global-environmental-change
• Nature Climate Change: https://www.nature.com/nclimate/
• Climatic Change: https://link.springer.com/journal/10584

To access these periodicals externally, you must go through the library website and log in with your library ID (title search at http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche/elektronische-zeitschriftenbibliothek.html).

Important databases:

• Communication and Mass Media Complete: https://dbis.ur.de/SUBHH/resources/4083
• Web of Science: http://isiknowledge.com/wos
• Wiso-Net: https://www.wiso-net.de/dosearch (contains press articles and eBooks as well as scholarly literature)
• Lexis Nexis: https://dbis.ur.de/SUBHH/resources/1670 (print media archive, for example for searching for material on content analysis)
• Factiva: https://dbis.ur.de/SUBHH/resources/4042

Google Scholar:

• https://scholar.google.de/
• Help page: https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/bibliothek/ueber-die-bibliothek/neues-aus-der-bibliothek/nachricht16-039-recherchetipp09.html

Helpful general information about the Business, Economics and Social Sciences Library:

• “How can I find books or articles on my reading list in the library?” https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/bibliothek/recherche/tipps.html
• “How can I find eBooks?” https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/bibliothek/recherche/e-publikationen/e-books.html
• “How can I find textbooks?” https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/bibliothek/recherche/tipps.html
• “How can I find dissertations?” https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/bibliothek/recherche/e-publikationen/e-dissertationen.html
• “How can I find the most current information?” (including media content) https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/bibliothek/recherche/tipps/recherchetipps/nachricht16-043-recherchetipp10.html

Extensive, up-to-date online encyclopedia of communication: http://www.communicationencyclopedia.com/subscriber/uid=1218/?&authstatuscode=202—will soon be moved to https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/