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This guide gives you an overview of recommended resources for Media and Communication Studies: databases to find literature and primary sources; reference works to orientate on a particular topic and to find background information, and research skills literature.

Bear in mind that Media and Communication is by nature a multidisciplinary field. You should therefore also consult resources from the fields of Sociology, Economics, Management, Arts and Culture or Psychology if your research topic relates to any of these fields.

Listed are both resources to which the Library has subscribed, as well as resources that are available via the National Library of the Netherlands (you can recognize those by the KB symbol), or are freely available online.

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Full-text access to e-books, reference works and business case studies published by SAGE. The EUR provides access to a large set of e-books and reference works in Media and Communication Studies, complemented by a smaller number of titles in other fields.
PLEASE NOTE: To find all accessible e-books and reference works, in the menu on the left
- select 'Content available to me',
- under 'Cases', deselect 'SAGE Business Cases',
- under 'Works and Sections', select 'Entire works'
and then click 'Apply filter'.

You can also filter on:
- Other content types (dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, SAGE business cases)
- Region (please note: this filter only works you search for chapters/entries, not for entire works)
- Discipline
- Entire work or Chapter/Entry (under 'Works and Sections')
- Publication date.

The advanced search screen enables you to look for a specific title or topic. In case you look for a specific topic, note that also this search result will initially also show titles EUR has no access to, so use the 'Content available to me' option on the left to find what is actually available at EUR.

Related database: Sage Business Cases.

Handbooks

Routledge handbooks and companions in Media and Film Studies
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More than 100 handbooks and companions in Media and Film Studies published between 2006 and 2022, including 40 titles in Communication Studies. Use the Subject and other filters to narrow down you search result.
SAGE Handbooks
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EUR Library has access to a large set of SAGE e-handbooks, including several recent ones relevant to Media, Communication & Cultural Studies.

Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Handbooks Online offers access to a selection of handbooks, published by Oxford University Press, in the subject categories Business and Management, Economics and Finance, History, Media Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology. Each handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship.
The EUR has access to the following collections:
- Business & Management - collections 2016 to 2020
- Economics & Finance - collections 2016 to 2020
- History - Foundation Collection, and the collections from 2013 and 2017-2019
- Philosophy - Foundation Collection, and the collections from 2012 to 2022
- Political Science - Foundation Collection and collection 2014
- Psychology - Foundation Collection, and the collections from 2012 to 2023 (subscription until December 2023)
- Sociology - collection 2017
Besides these collections, the Library also has access to a small number of individual titles titles from other years or in other subjects.

AVAILABLE TILL 31/12/2023: Springer/Palgrave eBooks in Media & Communication Studies 2020-2023

Challenging Online Propaganda and Disinformation in the 21st Century (2021)

Media and the Dissemination of Fear. Pandemics, wars and political intimidation (2022)

Re-Imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean (2021)

Digital Inequalities in the Global South (2020)

Total Journalism. Models, techniques and challenges (2022)

Young Children and Mobile Media (2020)

Music Cities. Evaluating a Global Cultural Policy Concept (2020)

Dismantling Cultural Borders Through Social Media and Digital Communications (2022)

The Decline of Public Access and Neo-Liberal Media Regimes (2020)

Media and Conflict in the Social Media Era in China (2020)

Mobile Media and Asian Social Intimacies in Asia (2020)

Enhancing Digital Equity. Connecting the Digital Underclass (2020)

Social Media and Elections in Africa, Volume 1 (2020)

Rules of the Father in the Last of Us. Masculinity Among the Ruins of Neoliberalism (2022)

Food Culture Studies in India. Consumption, Representation and Mediation (2021)

Social News. How Born-Digital Outlets Transformed Journalism (2022)

Information Skills

Learn how to search, find and manage scholarly information and data in an efficient way. Visit the library's Information Skills portfolio for more online modules!

Build your search profile
After finding the search terms for your research topic, you have to combine these search terms in a search profile, establishing specific relationships between the search terms. In library databases and catalogs, this is done using Boolean or logical operators such as AND, OR and NOT.
Search techniques
Successful searching is largely about being precise. Search techniques can help you search with precision and find what you need.