Communication databases

Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialized journals and  books. International geographic scope with special incidence in the Anglo-Saxon world.  Registering as an user allows you to save records, search strategies and create alerts.

Other resources

• Communication portal. Project of the Institute of Communication of the UAB. It offers information and specialized documentation in different aspects related to communication.
• Dictionaries of communication and related sciences. Web prepared by the Communication Library, which includes dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias.

• Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialized journals and books. International geographic scope with special incidence in the Anglo-Saxon world.  Registering as an user allows you to save records, search strategies and create alerts.
• Guiademediosdigital.com. Directory of Spanish media containing information on groups, media and professionals. It offers contact data, contracting conditions, content, audience index and OJD control.
• OJD: Boletín de la Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. Database with information on circulation of Spanish newspapers and magazines.

Other resources

• Audience. A selection of resources and media assembled by the Communication Library to access audience data of radio, television and theatre,  newspaper and magazine distribution, as well as the music, video and DVD sales market.
• Dictionaries of communication and related sciences. Includes dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias.
• Pew Research Center- New habits & Media. Various publications that analyse the current state of mass media. It allows you to search by keyword and browse by topic.
• European Journalism Center. Grants, conferences and training resources for journalists. Its web Media Landscapes makes an analysis on the media industry in the different countries of Europe.
• Reuters Institute. They publish reports and research papers on trends in journalism and the media.
• Reveal. Web from Center for Investigative Reporting. You can find a large number of research reports as well as videos and podcasts from the Reveal radio program.
• International Federation of Journalists. International organisation formed by journalists and federations from more than 100 countries. It defends the freedom of the press and the organization of journalists. In its publications you can find topics as copyright, media concentration, journalism and human rights, trade unionism, etc.
• Reporters without borders. International association for press freedom. It defends persecuted journalists, cares for their safety and denounces censorship. It publishes an annual report on the state of press freedom in different countries.

Indexing services

• My news. Provides access to the complete text of printed and digital versions of diverse newspapers, mainly at a national level, from 1966. It allows you to search by keyword and refine by date, section, newspaper, etc.
• PressReader. Provides access to the current version, in original format, of thousands of newspapers and magazines from 100 countries. Only available the archives of the last 3 months. List of titles.
• Proquest News & Newspapers. Access to the full text of over 3.000 newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world. Includes newspapers such as The New York Times, The Times, Financial Times, the Guardian, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, etc. Allows search by keyword, geographically and by title.
• Factiva. Database of current affairs and business. Indexes both national and international press.
• Westlaw International for Academics. Database of USA law and legislation, subscribed by the UAB libraries. In the section "News" you can find an exhaustive data indexing service.
• Kiosco y más. Platform that offers access to El País, ABC, and Cinco días. The files can not be downloaded.

Press distribution

• OJD: Boletín de la Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. Database with information on circulation of Spanish newspapers and magazines.
• Audience guide. A selection of resources and media assembled by the Communication Library to access audience data of radio, television and theatre,  newspaper and magazine distribution, as well as the music, video and DVD sales market.

Directories

• El Quiosc. Compilation of newspapers, magazines and of the press databases subscribed by the UAB; on this same page you can also search by date. It also compiles press databases on free access, many of which include digitised old press.  It also provides information about which database service indexes every publication, a link to their digital versions and to the UAB catalogue if the publication is received physically at the library.

Other resources

• Press. Section of the Communication Guide. It includes a list of the newspapers that are received in paper in the library; and solves other doubts: where to look for today's newspaper, how to search by date, how to search news on a topic, etc.

• Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialized journals and books. International geographic scope with special incidence in the Anglo-Saxon world.  Registering as an user allows you to save records, search strategies and create alerts.
• Guiademediosdigital.com. Directory of Spanish media containing information on groups, media and professionals. It offers contact data, contracting conditions, content, audience index and OJD control.
• Academic Video Online. A video streaming platform with almost 90,000 videos. Includes sections such as Media studies  and channels from several interesting sources:  British Film Institute, Filmakers Library, BBC, CBS, PBS, CNN,  60 minutes.
• Yearbook. Published by the European Audiovisual Observatory on paper or CD-ROM with statistics on film, television, audiovisual, video and new media.
• Anuario de audiencias de televisión. Primary source for television data that provides GRP data.
• Extreme Music. Database that allows listening to music of all genres. The music can be downloaded to be edited into educational productions of the UAB courses.
• Sound library of the Universitat Jaume I. Formed by more than 76,000 digitised discs (LP, singles, CD) of all kinds of styles, coming from the Cadena Ser of Castellón. The music can not be downloaded.

Other resources

• Communication guide. Includes pages dedicated to media (with radio and television directories), communication statistics (with sections on media, audiovisuals and audiences and dissemination), companies (with a section on audiovisual companies) and audience.
• Audiovisual archives.
• Audience guide. A selection of resources and media to access audience data of radio, television and theatre,  newspaper and magazine distribution, as well as the music, video and DVD sales market.
• Kemps Film and TV Production Services Directory. International directory of audiovisual production services. It allows the search by country, product or company. From each company it gives contact information, staff, presentation and in some cases a gallery of works.
• Observatori de la Ràdio a Catalunya. The OBS is part of the  Grup de Recerca en Imatge So i Síntesi (GRISS) of the UAB and receives the support of all the Catalan radio stations. On its website you can find studies and reports, such as the annual report of the radio and diverse research and publications.
• FórmulaTV. Website about the world of television in Spain. Includes audience data.

• Extreme Music. Database that allows listening to music of all genres. The music can be downloaded to be edited into educational productions of the UAB courses.

Other resources

• Sound effects and tunes. Sections of the Communication guide showing how to search them in the UAB Search Engine, the Library and Internet.
• Audiovisual archives. Radio and television archives by geographical areas.
• Audiovisual resources for academic use. Web  that includes a section dedicated to music and sounds.

• Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialized journals and books. International geographic scope with special incidence in the Anglo-Saxon world.  Registering as an user allows you to save records, search strategies and create alerts.
• Guiademediosdigital.com. Directory of Spanish media containing information on groups, media and professionals. It offers contact data, contracting conditions, content, audience index and OJD control.
• Statista. International database that includes more than one million statistics from 22,500 sources.  It also includes industry reports and trends, marketing and consumer studies,  dossiers, surveys and infographics. One of the sectors is Media.
• Yearbook. Published by the European Audiovisual Observatory on paper or CD-ROM with statistics on film, television, audiovisual, video and new media.
• Anuario de audiencias de televisión. Primary source for television data that provides GRP data.

Other resources

General

• Communication guide. Includes pages dedicated to companies (with a section on audiovisual companies), media  (with radio and television directories) and communication statistics (with sections on media, audiovisuals and audiences and dissemination)
• Audience. A selection of resources and media assembled by the Communication Library to access audience data of radio, television and theatre,  newspaper and magazine distribution, as well as the music, video and DVD sales market.

Catalan scope

• Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC). Regulatory authority of audiovisual communication in Catalonia. It is responsible for ensuring the contents of audiovisual media, both public and private. It publishes annual reports on the audiovisual sector in Catalonia, as well as other publications and research studies. Its website includes a map of radio and TV stations.
• Catalan Films & TV.  It includes databases of productions, co-productions, professionals, audiovisual companies and festivals.
• Observatori de la Ràdio a Catalunya. The OBS is part of the  Grup de Recerca en Imatge So i Síntesi (GRISS) of the UAB and receives the support of all the Catalan radio stations. On its website you can find studies and reports, such as the annual report of the radio and diverse research and publications.

Spanish scope

• Cine. Website of the Ministry of Culture. It includes a database of films (Spanish and foreign feature and short films) with audience data (number of spectators and box-office). It also includes statistics, festivals, grants, Spanish Film Archive, etc.
• National Commission on Markets and Competition. Regulates the Spanish market of electronic and audiovisual communications, as well as other sectors. It acts with organic and functional autonomy and with full independence from administrations and market agents. It will make public all the dispositions, resolutions, agreements and reports that it dictates. It includes databases of agreements and reports where you can search by keyword and limit by sector.

European scope

• Media Landscapes. Exhaustive website of the European Journalism Centre with information on the media industry in the different countries of Europe. Includes press, audiovisual media (radio, television and cinema) and Internet. It also offers information on organizations, regulation, study centers, information sources, etc.
• European Audiovisual Observatory. Public organization that provides a comparative European overview of the audiovisual industry in different European countries as well as detailed analysis of national and even regional industries. It publishes reports, statistics, data on distribution and exhibition. It contains the Iris Merlin database (articles on legal information), Lumiere (data on admissions of films released in European cinemas), MAVISE (television channels and corporations) and AVMS (national transpositions of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2010/13/EU in the EU member states)
• Creative Europe MEDIA strand.  European Union web to support to the audiovisual industry. You can find grants for distribution, production, etc.

International scope

• Kemps Film and TV Production Services Directory.  International directory of audiovisual production services. It allows the search by country, product or company. From each company it gives contact information, staff, presentation and in some cases a gallery of works.
• Federal Communications Commission. Agency responsible for implementing communications law and regulations in the USA. It grants radio and television licenses and radio frequencies and ensures compliance with regulations. The website contains a large number of tools, documentation and databases.

• Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialized journals and books. International geographic scope with special incidence in the Anglo-Saxon world. Registering as an user allows you to save records, search strategies and create alerts.
• Yearbook. Published by the European Audiovisual Observatory on paper or CD-ROM with statistics on film, television, audiovisual, video and new media.
• Extreme Music. Database that allows listening to music of all genres. The music can be downloaded to be edited into educational productions of the UAB courses.

Other resources
 

• Audiovisual. Web of the communication guide. It includes sections dedicated to find documentaries and films
• Catalan Films & TV. It includes databases of productions, co-productions, professionals, audiovisual companies and festivals.
• Cine. Website of the Ministry of Culture. It includes a database of films (Spanish and foreign feature and short films) with audience data (number of spectators and box-office). It also includes statistics, festivals, grants, Spanish Film Archive, etc.
• Internet Movie Database. IMDb is the most complete international database on cinema. It  thoroughly catalogues all kinds of information about films, television  series and documentaries: actors, director, filming locations, titles in  other languages, etc. It offers many search possibilities (title, episode title, names, companies, characters, etc.)
• Filmaffinity. International film database with two versions, in Spanish and in English. You can search by title directors and actors. The results include paragraphs of reviews of some publications and user ratings.
• Dictionaries of communication and related sciences. Includes dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias.
• Movie Review Query Engine. Powerful database of film reviews. Focused on English spoken cinema, it also includes some films in other languages. The reviews are from the American media (and secondly from the United Kingdom) and include the general press, specialised magazines, etc.
• Kemps Film and TV Production Services Directory. International directory of audiovisual production services. It allows the search by country, product or company. From each company it gives contact information, staff, presentation and in some cases a gallery of works.

• Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialized journals and  books. International geographic scope with special incidence in the Anglo-Saxon world. Registering as an user allows you to save records, search strategies and create alerts.
• Infoadex report on advertising investment in Spain. Available on paper and CD-ROM.
• Autocontrol. Database of advertising regulation on Spain (although it includes European and international documentation), from 1945 to the present.
• OJD: Boletín de la Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión. Database with information on circulation of Spanish newspapers and magazines.
• Statista. Statistical database that includes industry trends and reports (see Advertising & marketing) 

Other resources

• Communication guide. To find ads from a specific brand or its history. There is also a section dedicated to audience.
• Virtual advertising galleries. Page of the Communication Library with historical advertising  databases  such as Ad* Access.
• Dictionaries of communication and related sciences. Includes dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias. With a section on Advertising, marketing and public relations.

• Adforum. 200,000 ads in all types of media (but especially television) from more than 110 countries since 2000. Extensive search options (geographical, date, agency, brand, etc.). It also includes a database of awards and directories of agencies, producers, marketing services, etc.
• Lürzer’s Archive. Ads from International press and television since 1984. They can be downloaded. Extensive search options.
• London International Advertising Awards (LIA). 1998-2003
• Communication and Mass Media Complete. Database of journal articles where you can find information on international brands.

Other resources

• Communication guide. To find ads from a specific brand or its history.
• Virtual advertising galleries. Page with historical advertising  databases  such as Ad* Access.
• Audiovisual resources for academic use. Images includes a section devoted to advertising.

• Communication and Mass Media Complete. Articles and references from specialized journals and  books. International geographic scope with special incidence in the Anglo-Saxon world. Registering as an user allows you to save records, search strategies and create alerts.
• Statista. International database that includes more than one million statistics from 22,500 sources.  It also includes industry reports and trends, marketing and consumer studies,  dossiers, surveys and infographics.
• ABI/INFORM Complete. Full text articles in economics, accounting, human resources, companies, finance, marketing, etc. Also thesis since 1962, working papers, annual reports of American companies and a large number of diverse reports.

Other resources

• Economics databases.
• Communication Guide. Contains sections such as Companies and Data and statistics.
• Dictionaries of communication and related sciences. Includes dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias. It includes a section dedicated to marketing.
• Nielsen. Company that conducts market research. It publishes various reports  (many of them free) about business, consumer and market trends.
• Knowthis.com. A marketing resources website with an interesting links section.

• ÍnDICEs CSIC. Bibliographic database with more than 1,340,000 references of articles from scientific journals edited in Spain specialised in social sciences and humanities. [No longer updated since January 2023]
• E-LIS (E-prints in Library and Information Science). Open access digital repository on Library and Information Science. It allows simple and advanced search and gives results in full text.
•  dLIST (Digital Library of Information Science and Technology. Open access repository on Information Science. It allows simple and advanced search and gives results in full text. It includes papers, articles, pre-prints, etc.
• @rchiveSIC. French digital archive that gives free access to articles and working papers in the area of documentation and communication. Allows navigation by different criteria and simple and advanced search.
•  CCSD MémSIC. Thesis repository of information science, library science and documentation.

Other resources

• Archivos. Page of the Ministry of Culture of Spain with all kinds of information related to the world of archives. It includes different databases, PARES (Portal of Spanish Archives) and professional resources.
• Archival science. Section of the Communication guide.
• Dictionaries of communication. Section of the Communication guide, which includes dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias. One of the sections is devoted to Information science.

• Search engine of the UAB Libraries. It allows searching in an integrated way in the databases subscribed by the UAB Libraries, offering full text access.
• Web of Science. Bibliographic and bibliometric database. Contains references and author's abstracts of journal articles, conference papers and patents.
• Scopus. Bibliographic database of scientific literature. Contains references of journals, magazines, books, web resources and patents.
• Proquest Central. Set of databases of various themes. It includes topics such as marketing, communication and also press databases.
• Academic Video Online. A video streaming platform with more than 70,000 videos. Includes sections such as Media studies  and American film and channels from several interesting sources:  British Film Institute, Filmakers Library, Film platform, BBC, CBS, PBS, CNN,  60 minutes.
• Statista. International database that includes more than one million statistics from 22,500 sources.  It also includes industry reports and trends, marketing and consumer studies,  dossiers, surveys and infographics.
• Dialnet. Either summaries or full text of Spanish journals, full text of theses from the Spanish universities and bibliographic references of books.
• Raco. Cooperative repository of Catalan scientific, cultural and erudite journals.

Other resources

• Our collections. Section of the UAB Libraries website where you will find links to thesis databases, digital repositories and other collections.