Media & Communication Studies

Gale Virtual Reference Library offers online access to reference sources including encyclopedias, almanacs, series and more. UMBC titles cover biography, business, law, public health, economic history, and multicultural studies.

Tens of thousands of downloadable ebooks on a variety of topics. For help downloading ebooks, read our ebook tutorial.

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Electronic archive of selected core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of all titles indexed from Volume 1 to most current available (embargo periods apply). UMBC subscribes to the following collections: Arts & Sciences I - XV; Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Public Health Journals, Lives of Literature, Security Studies, Sustainability, 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and Global Plants.

Searchable full-text of select journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. UMBC subscribes to its Basic Undergraduate Collection.