Subject Guides
Encyclopedia
- Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
- Detailed compendium of personal, group, mass-media, and internet communication for those interested in how communication affects our lives.
Key Databases
- ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection
- This multidisciplinary database includes articles from scholarly journals and the popular press. Search topics on the newspaper industry, journalism, polls and surveys, interpersonal communications, employee relations and more.
- ProQuest Research Library: Social Sciences
- This subset of the Proquest Research Library database includes journals that cover communications, sociology, and linguistics.
Streaming Video
- Films on Demand: Communication Video Collection
- Over 800 videos on human communication, interpersonal and group communication, advertising and public relations, broadcasting, digital media, film studies, film, video & audio production, journalism, publishing, media & society.
Other Resources
- Academic Search Complete
- Over 6,400 active, full-text journals, more than 5,700 of which are peer reviewed titles, providing access to critical information on all topics, including Communication, unique to this database.
- ERIC
- Coverage of topics like speech communication, computer mediated communication, nonverbal communication and interpersonal communication.
Historic Newspapers
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
- Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 by keyword and limit results by state, date range, or publication. From the Library of Congress.
- Early U.S. History: Nineteenth Century Newspapers
- Full text editions of early nineteenth century regional newspapers, mostly from the south.
- Google News: Newspapers
- Search archive of newspapers dating back to the 18th century by keyword, date, region, and publication.
- New York Times Archives
- Searchable archive of the New York Times from 1851 to 2002. Contact the library for full text access.
LibGuides
- Communication in Credo
- LibGuides are resources that are built by scholarly professionals with content specifically related to Communication.
Citing Sources
- APA Style Guide
- MLA Formatting and Style Guide
- Zotero
- A citation generator and management tool, Zotero can help you keep all of your citation information together and generate a bibliography for you.