Business Communication: Electronic Resources

Research consultations

Professional reference service is available at both the O'Shaughnessy-Frey and the Charles J. Keffer Library.  While walk-in service is often available, appointments should be made for lengthy reference consultations or tutorials.

Minneapolis:  John Heintz (651-962-4646) jpheintz@stthomas.edu
Minneapolis:  Andrea Koeppe (651-962-4647) arhudson@stthomas.edu
Minneapolis: Janice Kragness (651-962-4645) jlkragness@stthomas.edu
St. Paul: Eric Kallas (651-962-5013) epkallas@stthomas.edu

Find articles in business and communication databases and electronic reference books

Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier porvides access to nearly 3,000 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals covering many business topics such as finance, human resources, international trade, economics, marketing and information technology.

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides abstracts and full text articles from journals related to communication, public relations, and mass media.

The International Encyclopedia of Communication
This online encyclopedia covers many facets of communication studies including coverage of cutting edge theories, technology, interpersonal communication, intercultural and intergroup communication, business and organizational communication. 

Find articles in databases from other disciplines

Business and communications databases are a natural place to start your research, but because of the interdisciplinary nature of many topics we recommend using other sources to compliment your business research.  The reuslts will be a more well rounded paper.  Listed below is a sample of useful databases but the list is not comprehenisive.  For more suggestions please contact a librarian.

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest academic, multi-discipline database, Academic Search Premier provides abstracts and full-text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including the full-text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals.

ERIC
The ERIC database provides extensive access to education related materials from abstracts of journal articles, books, dissertations, lesson plans, conference proceedings and more.  Database coverage dates from 1966 to the present.

Ethnic Newswatch
Ethnic Newswatch is a full-text database of the newspapers, magazines and journal of the ethnic, minority and native press that presents a rich collection of articles, editorials, columns and reviews that portray a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. 

PsycINFO
PsycINFO contains abstracts from journals, book chapters and dissertations from the field of psychology and also features research on the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as education and industrial psychology. 

Locate full-text journal articles by journal title

If you have all the information to find a journal article, click on the Journals A - Z link to find if the article is available full-text online. 

Find books and articles not held at the library

Interlibrary loan, also known as 'ILL' is a service that obtains books and journal articles from other libraries for you that are not available at UST.  ILL service is available only to current UST students, faculty and staff with a valid UST ID.

Click on this link and follow the instructions to set up a free Illiad account.  If you need further assistance please ask a librarian.

RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based program to help you create bibliographies and manage citations for your papers, projects and research.  To learn more about this product contact a librarian or call the Keffer reference desk at 651-962-4664 or the O'Shaughnessy-Frey reference desk at 651-962-5001.

Research consultations

Professional reference service is available at both the St. Paul and Minneapolis campus libraries. If you are interested in a research consultation, contact:

Ryan Carter, Minneapolis, (651) 962-4646, cart9467@stthomas.edu
Marianne Hageman, St. Paul, (651) 962-5404, mdhageman@stthomas.edu
Eric Kallas, St. Paul, (651) 962-5013, epkallas@stthomas.edu
Andrea Koeppe, Minneapolis, (651) 962-4647, arhudson@stthomas.edu
Janice Kragness, Minneapolis, (651) 962-4645, jlkragness@stthomas.edu

Created by AK 9/25/06