This guide provides an introduction to research on radio, including finding radio broadcasts and archives as well as publications and research about radio such as articles, books, statistics, ratings, and legislation.
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Media and Communication databases
Below are a few good starting places for finding articles related to radio. Depending on your topic, you may need to search databases not listed on this page. See our full list of databases by subject.
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Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database indexes 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. The database indexes more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
Abstracting and indexing for articles from trade and scholarly journals covering wide-range of science topics including communication and information technologies.
Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of applied science journals, including the complete content of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) and Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1983).
Includes citations and brief abstracts to journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields.
Provides full-text access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Contains documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, and standards