Library: Communications Studies: Home

Core Resources

OneSearch
Combined search engine, searches most of the library databases & catalogs at once. Find articles, books, etc.

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.

Opposing Viewpoints
Essays taking the pro/con side of today's hottest social issues.
Kanopy
Includes documentaries and films on journalism and media studies. From the main page, click Subjects at the top, and then Media & Communication.

Humanities International Complete
Full-text journals, books and other published sources from around the world.
PsycINFO
The premier database for scholarly literature in Psychology. Its articles are especially useful for topics such as communication disorders, interpersonal communication and organizational communication.
Business Source Complete
Comprehensive coverage in all disciplines of business, including business communications and organizational communication

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 Non-Verbal Studies
this website is devoted to the scientific study of human communication in all of its forms, apart from language. Its main feature is a well written, exhaustive dictionary about different aspects of such communication.
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
An invaluable source of information, especially statistical and poll information, about how media, news, and other communications effect public perception of national and world events.