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.

Our subject group’s homepage on the state library’s (Staatsbibliothek) website is a good place to start: http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche/ihr-fachgebiet-bei-uns/j-o/journalistik-und-medienforschung.html

You can search the library database at https://beluga.sub.uni-hamburg.de (left tab: books, right tab: electronic articles).

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: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291460-2466
• 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: http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche/datenbank-informationssystem/detail/datenbank/4083.html
• 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: http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche/datenbanken-informationssystem/detail/datenbank/1670.html (print media archive, for example for searching for material on content analysis)
• Factiva: http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche/elektronische-angebote/datenbanken/detail/datenbank/4042.html

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/