Databases

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for more than 4,500 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study.

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.

Facts on File World Digest News
A digest of world news with coverage going back 40 years. Articles are hyperlinked so the researcher can follow the thread forward and backward in time. This database includes biographies, historical documents, selected topical editorials from across the U.S., and background articles written specifically for the World News Digest.

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

Webster's New World dictionary of media and communications

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of communication and information

International encyclopedia of communication (electronic resource)

International encyclopedia of communications

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.

Customized search engine

FoxSearch Communication Arts 

This Google Custom Search engine searches quality web sites selected by the library.