Communication Arts

Databases
Web resources
Dictionary
Encyclopedias
Professional organizations
Finding books

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, 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 This database includes biographies, historical documents, selected topical editorials from across the U.S., and background articles written specifically for the World News Digest.

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