Communication Resources

Library Databases | Reference Titles |  Books (CLICnet) | Selected Web Sites | Communication Organizations | Advocacy Groups | RefWorks

Selected Indexes and Databases for Communication Studies

• Communication and Mass Media Complete 
  Covers journals in media and communication studies; over 200 titles in full text.
• Academic Search Premiere
  Articles from numerous sources, scholarly and non-scholarly. Many in full-text.
• Expanded Academic
  Articles from hundreds of scholarly as well as general interest publications.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
  News, legal, business, industry, and financial information from national and international sources. Includes the Star Tribune from 1991 to the present.
• Proquest Newsstand
  Full-text access to hundreds of newspapers including the Star Tribune, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.
• Opposing Viewpoints
  Key resources for researching social issues.
• CQ Reseracher
  In-depth, non-biased coverage of political and and social issues.
• Biography Resource Center 
  Biographies from respected Gale Group sources as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.

Online Reference Sources

(Full-text titles from Blackwell Reference Online)

• A Companion to Media Studies (covers issues such as feminist media, media history, the future of theory, digital capitalism, power, agency, popular culture, race, and intellectual property).
• A Companion to Television (a collection of original essays that chart the history of television from its inception to the present day).
• A Companion to Cultural Studies (addresses key topics in the field and cultural studies around the world).
• A Companion to Racial & Ethnic Studies (offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates and issues, surveying the status of race and ethnic studies).
• International Encyclopedia of Communication (a definitive reference source that spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas.)
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
  (a comprehensive survey of one of the Western world's oldest disciplines. It is the most wide-ranging reference work of its kind, combining theory, history, and practice, with a special emphasis on public speaking, performance, and communication).

Books

Finding books: search the online book catalog for books on your topic (in-depth, broad coverage, a variety of aspects).

•  Search for books through CLICnet, the online book catalog for UST and other ACTC libraries.  Books can be requested from other campuses and will be delivered to the St. Thomas library of your choice.  UST students, faculty, and staff may use their UST ID cards to check out as well as place holds on books from other libraries in the CLICnet system. Searching CLICnet can be done in a number of ways, including:
  
• By Author (last name first)
• By Ttile
• By Keyword -- combine search terms with "and" connector:
  -- eating disorder and body image
  -- rap and hip hop culture
  -- first ladies and press
  
  

Selected Web Sites

• American Rhetoric
  A gateway to useful resources, including full transcribed text and streaming audio of numerous famous and important speeches. 
• Communication Bookmarks
  Includes directories, organizations, books, journals, colleges and departments of communications Web sites, communication courses on the Web, non-academic communication Web sites, debate and forensics, and public relations.
• Communication & Rhetoric Information Sources
  Categories of links include: communication organizations, major communication collections, conferences, and programs.
• History of televised debates
• PopCultures.com
• A guide to cultural studies and popular culture on the Internet 
• Rhetoric Resources
  From the University of Iowa; links to all-things-rhetorical.
• Virtual Institute of Information
  Web site created by the Columbia Business School. The emphasis is on media and communication resources.
• Yahoo Social Science: Communications
  Includes many links including conferences, forensics, media ethics, media literacy, organizations, public speaking, resources, rhetoric, speechwriting,  and a links to indices of communication resources on the Web.

Professional Communication Organizations

• American Communication Association WWW
  Numerous resources are available under Communication Law, Communication Studies, and the ACA Reference Desk.
• Comserve (Communications Institute for Online Scholarship)
  Major categories for links include: Orientation (background information about the Web site), Research and Conferencing Services, News and Publications, Especially for Students, and Fun and Miscellaneous. 
• National Communication Association (NCA)
  Information about conferences, publications, research, news and more.