Communication Studies Resources
Finding ARTICLES
Communications and Mass Media Complete - In depth research in communication & media studies with full text of 200 specialized journals. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)
CQ Researcher - A good place to start for speech assignments. Each full text issue is devoted to a different current events topic. (Database Service: CQ Press) user guide
LitFINDER - Includes full text speeches from antiquity to modern times. Select "Speech" in the "Type of Work" option. (Database Service: Thomson Gale)
Humanities International Complete - Full text from hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)
Academic Search Complete - Interdisciplinary articles including communication and mass media with extensive full text. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)
ProQuest Research Library - Covers a wide range of subject areas dating back to 1985. (Database Service: ProQuest) user guide (PDF 78k)
Academic OneFile - Interdisciplinary articles back to 1980 with many in full text. (Database Service: Thomson Gale) user guide (PDF 75k)
Credo Reference - An electronic reference book collection.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - A library of electronic encyclopedias in a wide range of disciplines.
Finding BOOKS
Edgewood's Catalog - Books, journal titles, videos, more. See also new books.
Course Reserves - Search by course number or instructor
WorldCat - for books, videos, etc from libraries nationwide
Communication Studies WEBSITES
Center for Nonverbal Studies - Private research center. Includes the Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs and Body Language Cues.
Radio/Television
Encyclopedia of Television - Over 1,000 original essays on specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - site includes daily headlines, hot topic issues and other communications information from the government.
Old-Time Radio - Informative resource for those interested in the history of old-time radio programming.
Media Studies
Adbusters - Online version of Vancouver-based magazine dedicated to studying "the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces."
Center for Media and Public Affairs - Nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.
Center for Public Integrity: Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest - A nonprofit, nonpartisan, independent journalism organization whose mission is to "make institutional power more transparent and accountable."
Native Networks - Online information about film, video, and radio produced by indiginous people of the Americas and Hawaii, from the Smithsonial Institution.
Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies - Excellent guide to links in the areas of media theory and history, journalism, TV/video, radio, telecommunications issues, and cyberculture.
Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank - "Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two."
History Channel Speech Archives - requires RealPlayer - listen to 20th century broadcasts -text introduction to speaker and events surrounding the speech.