communication and mass media complete tutorial

COMMUNICATION AND MASS MEDIA COMPLETEDevon Stokes

About• CMMC contains abstracts and full-text items from

hundreds of publications from communications and media disciplines.

• Full-text access to 240 journals• Also contains newspapers, magazines, reviews,

conference proceedings, and other source types• Articles in multiple languages• Items are current and earliest go back to 1915• Connects to Journal Finder to find articles not in CMMC,

but available in other parts of the UNCG collection

Off-Campus Access• If you are accessing CMMC from an off-campus location,

you will be required to sign-in• Use the same username and password that you use for

Blackboard and your UNCG email

SearchingYou can search several ways like Subject, Author, and Title.

Searching• But, the simplest way to start is by using subject keywords

to find items about a certain topic.• Choose 1-3 key words or phrases from your topic choice• The more words you use, the more specific your results

will be

• Let’s use an example topic of “women and advertising”

Searching• Here’s what your search would look like…

• You can just type these in without selecting a field.

Searching• That gives us about 3575 results. That going to be a lot to

sift through, so let’s narrow it down to the most relevant articles. Continuing with our example of “women and advertising,” to focus on print ads, you can do 2 things.

women AND advertising AND print OR women AND advertising NOT television

Searching• We get 329 and 2810 results, respectively. Both are

smaller than our original 3575, but we can keep narrowing our results by using the left sidebar.

Searching

• Ways to filter:• Full-text• Source type• Date• Language• Subject• Publication title• And others

• Once you select your parameters, click update

When you click on a title…• All of the item’s information is displayed here

You can print, email, save (pdf), cite, share, make notes on, bookmark, and pull links for each article with these options.

Find a link to the full-text here. If CMMC doesn’t have full-text, a link will be here that says “check for full-text”. That will take you to a page that shows where you can find the item in another place in the library’s collection.

Ebsco Account• Create an account to use more database features!• Click “Sign in” at the top left• You can use your account with any other Ebsco

databases your institution has access to, like PsychInfo and Academic Search Complete.

Folders• To save an item to your folder, just click “Add to Folder”

under a title on the results list or on the item’s page.

Sorting Folders• The database will automatically sort your items by source

type.• You can sort items by creating folders with different

names. This is good if you’re working on more than one project, so you don’t mix up all your sources.

• It also makes for easy retrieval when it’s time to make a bibliography or works cited page.

Sorting Items• Just select an article and which folder you’d like to move it

to.

Questions?• Contact me!

• Devon Stokesdystokes@uncg.edu(904) 483-0453