LibGuides: Arts & Media Administration: Finding articles

Searching Articles Databases

Articles are specific in scope and can also provide information on current trends and issues. Article databases listed here are available through the library and allow you to search hundreds of journals, magazines or newspapers for information on a variety of topics.

Refer to our Finding Business Articles guide for examples of how to search article databases effectively, like using single words or short phrases.

Business Articles Databases

Proquest Business
Includes five business-focused databases: ABI/Inform Global, ABI/Inform Trade and Industry, CBCA Complete, Proquest Asian Business and Reference, and Proquest European Business. Great source for scholarly articles, trade articles, and some newspaper content on business-focused topics.
Business Source Complete
Offers premium content including peer-reviewed and business-related journals, magazines and newspapers, including scholarly, trade, and popular titles. Other content includes business e-books, case studies, company profiles, country economic reports, faculty seminar videos, industry reports, executive and analyst interviews, market research reports, SWOT analyses, and working paper collections.
ABI Inform Global
Fulltext articles from 1000+ business journals. Search together with Canadian Newsstand and CBCA.
Canadian Newsstand
Canadian newspapers.
CBCA Complete
Canadian journals and magazines.
Factiva
Global business and industry news service.
Google Scholar
A simple way to search selected scholarly literature, with links for York users to fulltext.
Lexis Nexis Academic
News, government, finance, business information. Company directories.

Additional Databases

Humanities International Index
Current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found the world's leading arts & humanities journals.
International Index to Film and Television Periodicals (FIAF)
Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications. Click on "Search" in menu to search this database.
International Index to the Performing Arts
Indexes over 256 international periodicals covering dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater,and more
Communication Source
This database merges the content from Communication and Mass Media Complete with Communication Abstracts. This database searches over 800 full-text titles that include relevant content for communications, media studies, linguistics, and radio and broadcast journalism from an international perspective.