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Resources By Subject

Communication Arts

Databases
Web resources
Dictionary
Encyclopedias
Professional organizations
Finding books
Google Search: Communication Arts

what are these?
These are social bookmarking services that allow internet users to store, search, and share bookmarks of webpages.

Databases

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidisciplinary, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains indexing and abstracts for over 8,450 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. Over 3,600 journals are peer-reviewed.

Communication and Mass Media Complete
CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 400 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles. This database includes full text for 292 journals, a sophisticated Communication Thesaurus and over 3,000 Author Profiles, with biographical data and bibliographic information.

Web resources

American Rhetoric
Audio files of over 5,000 speeches.

Communication Studies, Cultural Studies and Media Studies Infobase CCMS)

Library Resources for Communication Studies

Dictionary

Dictionary of media and communications (electronic resource)

Webster's New World dictionary of media and communications

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of communication and information

Encyclopedia of communication theory (electronic resource)

International encyclopedia of communication (electronic resource)

Professional organizations

American Forensic Association

Alliance of Rhetoric Societies

American Communication Association

Communication Associations

Northwest Communication Association

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

Communication

Interpersonal communication

Language arts

Literature Study and teaching

Visual communication

Written communication

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

BF 637.C45 Communication. Interpersonal communication
HD 30.3 Communication in organizations/management
HD 90.M3 & HM 1206 Communication, mass media
HM 141& HM 1211 Intercultural communication
HM 1261 Leadership Communication
PN 4181- 4191 Forensics

Google Search: Communication Arts

This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific web sites selected by the librarians.