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Subject Guide: Communications Studies

Books

Selected Reference Books in McQuade Library (First Floor):

  • Dictionary of Mass Communication & Media Research (REF P87.5 .D449 2005)
  • International Encyclopedia of Communications (REF P87.5 .I5)
  • Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times
    to the Information Age     (REF PN172 .E53)
  • Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (REF P87.5 .E53)
  • Encyclopedia of Propaganda (REF HM263 .E53)
  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communications (REF P87.5 .D36)
  • History of Mass Media in the United States (REFP92.U5H55)
  • Language and Communication : A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia (REF P29 .F47)
  • NTC's Mass Media Dictionary (REF P87.5 .E45)

Search the Library Catalog for more books in McQuade Library. Try these sample subject headings:

Interpersonal communication Communication and technology
Cybernetics Popular culture
Persuasion Propaganda
Visual communication Rhetoric
Mass media Intercultural communication
Nonverbal communication Communication social aspects

Articles

Selected journals, magazines, and newspapers in print (2nd floor Periodicals Room) and on the Web:

  • Communication Monographs (2000 - ) publishes original research/new theories on communication processes in interpersonal, public, group, and organizational communication.
  • Critical Studies in Mass Communications (2000 -) publishes articles that offer integrative approaches to mass communication theory and research. Topics include mass-media criticism, mass communication systems, and the relationship between culture and mass communication.
  • Journal of Applied Communication Research (2000 -) is a publication of the Speech Communication Association that publishes articles that address the relationship between practice and theories of communication, rhetoric, criticism and/or performance.
  • Philosophy and Rhetoric (2000 -) is a source for studies of theoretical issues concerning the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric, aspects of argumentation, rhetoric of historical figures and rhetoric and human culture and thought, and psychological and sociological aspects of rhetoric.
  • Quarterly Journal of Speech (2000 -) publishes articles that focus primarily on rhetorical theory and criticism in a wide variety of settings.
  • Southern Communication Journal (2000 -) publishes scholarly research on human communication.
  • Communication Yearbook (P87 .C5974 in circulating collection) contains literature reviews and articles published annually by the International Communication Association.
  • Media, Culture & Society (2000-) provides a major international forum for the presentation of research and discussion concerning the media, including the newer information and communication technologies, within their political, economic, cultural and historical contexts.

Selected print periodical indexes:

  • Reader's Guide To Periodical Literature [1890 -] (REF AI3 .R48) is a subject and author index of approximately 200 popular and general interest periodicals.

Search these databases to find articles:

  • Academic Search PremierThe world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,500 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis. via EBSCOHost

  • Communication & Mass Media CompleteEBSCOhost provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. via EBSCOHost

  • INFOTRAC databases cover general reference, literature, health, business, and more. Includes full-text.

  • Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, user-friendly online access to over 300 humanities, arts and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Every journal is heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is the sole source of complete, full-text version of titles from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies.

  • Media Review Digest Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources via FirstSearch.

  • JSTOR A searchable digital archive containing back-issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It contains complete runs of these scholarly journals, many of which date from the 1800s. Note: the most recent 3 to 5 years of archive.

  • AltPressIndex | AltPressIndexArchive
    Index of journals (archive covers 1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change via FirstSearch

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