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Communication Studies 490 Senior Capstone

This course-specific guide highlights resources that will help you with your capstone group projects.

Find scholarly articles for your capstone group projects

GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals and magazines (along with selected books, pamphlets and government reports) relating to human impacts on the environment.
Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books, and videos in all subjects.
JSTOR - Environmental Science This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly Environmental Science journals through JSTOR which is an online library of journals, academic ebooks, and primary sources.
Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Articles from periodicals (including peer-reviewed journals) on all aspects of business. Contains books, plus reports, papers and company profiles. Selected titles go back as far as 1886, but most begin in the 1990s.
EconLit (EBSCOhost) -- 1969-present This link opens in a new window
Indexes articles on economics issues from journals and magazines, dissertations, books and working papers.
Nexis Uni Business This link opens in a new window
U.S. and international company financial information, market research, industry reports, & SEC filings. Scroll down to "Discover topics" and click Business.
JSTOR - Economics This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly economics journals through JSTOR which is an online library of journals, academic ebooks, and primary sources.
Health/Medicine Databases: CINAHL, MEDLINE & Health Sources (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Search four health/medicine databases simultaneously: the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, MEDLINE, Health Source Consumer and Health Source Academic.
PsycInfo - APA (EBSCOhost) -- 1806-present This link opens in a new window
A large and comprehensive index of peer-reviewed psychology journals, plus selected book chapters, books, and dissertations, in some cases back to the 1800's. Produced by the American Psychological Association.
JSTOR - Health Sciences This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly health sciences journals through JSTOR which is an online library of journals, academic ebooks, and primary sources.
Wiley Online This link opens in a new window
Access to journals published by John Wiley & Sons, back to 1997. The database includes citations for additional titles, as well citations for articles older than 1997.

Note that it is impossible to tell if EWU has the rights to the full text of the article until you try to access it. There is no limiter for "full text only".
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Critical reviews in the subject areas of the physical and social sciences. Offers primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions in the field. Limited titles available, other titles may be requested through the Interlibrary Loan process.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Use Google Scholar to search for scholarly articles across the Web (this can be a good complement to subscription databases). Note the citation tracking feature. This link includes Eastern Washington University indicators. You will see "Find it @ EWU" in your results, if we have the article full text in one of our databases.

Locate a particular journal article

PRIMO Search - Library Catalogue
PRIMO Search includes articles, books, journals, videos, and other resources at EWU Libraries, Summit Libraries and beyond. The full-text articles are from selected EWU Libraries databases and open access content.
When you find one article or book in PRIMO that looks useful, review the subject terms that are listed in the record. Click on the link for any subject term that looks relevant to view other articles/books on the same subject.
Find a Journal, Magazine, or Newspaper
Have a citation to an article? Looking for a particular journal, magazine, or newspaper by title? Then use the link above.

Online Reference Books

Encyclopedia of Environmental Change by John A. Matthews (Editor)
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2014
The Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change.
The Gale Encyclopedia of Environmental Health
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2013
The Gale Encyclopedia of Environmental Health covers events, environmental health statutes, diseases/conditions, environmental health policy issues, as well offering biographical sidebars on key figures in environmental health.
The Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2013
An authoritative source on public health issues.
The Global Employment Challenge by Ajit Kumar Ghose; Nomaan Majid; Christoph Ernst; Ajit K. Ghose
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2008
The Global Employment Challenge examines in depth the state of employment in the world today. It finds that there is a serious problem worldwide: lack of productive work for a large section of the labor force.