Media & Communication Studies

The Gale Literature Resource Center includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), and full-text articles from 34 literary journals.

Coverage: varies
Includes more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920-present.

This database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 395 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 160 of the indexed journals, the majority from the most recent ten years of each journal. It covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry.

This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. The database currently includes over 1.3 million records, the majority from the most recent ten years of publication.

Coverage: Full Text
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 Arts & Science I - XV; Health & General Science; Ecology & Botany; and Life Sciences.

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

Provides access to social science books, videos, handbooks, encyclopedias, and dictionaries.

Coverage: Some Full Text
Indexes and abstracts dissertations and theses primarily from the U.S and Canada, some international; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. Full text available for dissertations published since 1997 (1991 from UMBC) are available as PDFs. (Online version of Dissertation Abstracts from UMI)

The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Also includes links to other useful ETD search tools.

Coverage: current
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).