Communication

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.

Points of View Reference Source
Covers current issues in the news and society. Contains point and counterpoint essays, articles, news transcripts, and more. It also includes helpful guides for developing arguments, writing position papers, and preparing for debates


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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

Online Newspapers
Mahoney Library's collection of news sources, as well as a guide to bias-checking 

Communciation in Digital Commons
Free articles and research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide

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. Limited to a few free samples

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.

Streaming Video

Films on Demand: Communication Video Collection
Over 1,000 videos on communication, advertising and public relations, broadcasting, digital media, film, video & audio production, journalism, publishing, media & society.

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.

Books

Search Online Catalog
Interlibrary Borrowing
eBook Resources