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Communication Subject Gateway

Sections on this page:

• Subject Specialist Librarian
• Article Databases
  
• Web Sites
  
• Selected Journals
  

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Article Databases (17 items)

Use these searching tools to identify articles in journals, newspapers, and other sources. All the databases provide citations to the material, many provide abstracts and many provide access to the full-text of the articles.

Off-campus access to most of these resources will require you to validate with your 14-digit library bar code. It's the number printed on your TU OneCard. Don't have your 14-digit library bar code handy? Click the button below, then enter your TU username and password and we'll show it to you:

  All links below lead to external sites.

Major Databases

·		Communication & Mass Media Complete About
·		FAITS - Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies About
·		LexisNexis Academic About
·		Mediamark Reporter (MRI+) - First time users About
·		Mediamark Reporter (MRI+) - Registered users About

Other Databases:

·		Academic Search [Ebsco] About
·		America: History and Life About
·		Biography Resource Center About
·		Business Source Complete About
·		ebrary Academic Complete About
·		Humanities Abstracts About
·		IngentaConnect About
·		JSTOR About
·		Project Muse About
·		Sage Journals Online About
·		Social Science Abstracts About
·		Social Sciences Citation Index 1995- / Web of Science About

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Web Sites (13 items)

  All links below lead to external sites.

·	Advertising World - This site from the University of Texas is one of the more comprehensive sites for advertising and marketing information.
·	American Communication Association - This national professional organization provides information about its mission and contains a strong collection of materials concerning First Amendment issues and communication law.
·	American Journalism Review - News and columns from the American Journalism Review magazine and other useful features such as "Reporter's Tools".
·	Cultural studies, communication studies, media studies infobase - "....resources on communication.....from Shannon-Weaver to chaos..." (quote from site)
·	Emergence of Advertising in America - Part of the American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress. This project contains over 9,000 images relating to advertising.
·	Federal Communications Commission - Wide variety of information in broadcasting, children's programming, television, and digital communications.
·	Journalism Resources - Nice collection of annotated resources by Karla Tonella, of the University of Iowa.
·	Mary Ranadive's Instructional Web Page - Useful links from the library liaison.
·	MCS - the media and communication studies site - A British-based gateway to web resources useful in the academic field of media and commmunication.
·	Media in the United States - "Overview of U.S. media and pointers to sites of major American periodicals, newspapers, and media resources that report and examine news events and issues."
·	NewPages.Com - alternatives in print and media
·	Newslink - Links to newspapers, broadcasters and magazines, and JobLink advertising.
·	Voice of America - United States Government's International Broadcast Bureau home page, with online recordings and live audio in many languages.

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Selected Journals (12 items)

Off-campus access to these resources will require you to validate with your 14-digit library bar code. It's the number printed on your TU OneCard. Don't have your 14-digit library bar code handy? Click the button below, then enter your TU username and password and we'll show it to you:

  All links below lead to external sites.

·	Communication Research
·	Corporate Communications: An International Journal
·	Harvard International Journal of Press / Politics
·	Human Communication Research
·	Journal of Communication
·	Management Communication Quarterly
·	Mass Communication & Society
·	Media, Culture & Society
·	Public Opinion Quarterly
·	Public Relations Review
·	Rhetoric and Public Affairs
·	Rhetoric Review

To identify other journals available at Cook Library, you may search our list of print and electronic journals.