Communication Databases || Books || Online Journals || Online Books (Selected) || Websites
| Featuring over 4,020 journals, ABI/INFORM Complete is the most comprehensive business database on the market today with over 2,950 full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as competitive and product information. | |
| This database offers indexing for 8,175 journals, including full text for nearly 4,700 scholarly publications. Offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. | |
| AP Images, a division of The Associated Press, is one of the world’s largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. As an essential source of photographs and graphics for professional image buyers, AP Images strives to meet the needs of today’s global customer through superior image quality, selection and service. | |
| This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who, find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people. | |
| Provides full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Contains full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily. | |
| Provides quality research solutions in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). | |
| Provides up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on approximately 600 current topics, combining objective analysis and clear explanations of opposing points of view. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced coverage of current and historical events. | |
| Provides access to thousands of news, business, legal, and medical publications and information sources, including: newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, and broadcast transcripts. The legal component of the database includes comprehensive, current legal information. This consists of federal and state case law, statues, secondary sources such as law reviews, and state legal materials. | |
| Offers current articles in nearly every academic discipline, as well as current affairs and general interest topics. Subject areas include: arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. | |
| Contains the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Business Full Text, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, and Social Sciences Full Text. |
To locate books relevant to the subject of communication, please use the library's online catalog to conduct searches by keyword, title, or author. Additionally, you may conduct a search set to a "subject browse" and use the following subject headings as search terms:
Also try browsing through the collection on the first floor of the library to find reference works. The following reference books will get you started.
Advertising:
Ad men and women : a biographical dictionary of advertising:REF HF5810.A2 A3 1994
Advertising age encyclopedia of advertising:REF HF5803 .A38 2003
Encyclopedia of major marketing campaigns:REF HF5837 .E53 2000
Journalism:
Associated Press guide to Internet research and reporting:RREF PN4784.E5 B27 2001 (Ready Reference section)
Associated Press stylebook and briefing on media law:RREF PN4783 .A83 2004 (Ready Reference section)
Bacon’s magazine directory:REF Z286.P4 B32
Bacon’s newspaper directory:REF Z286.N48 B32
Journalism : a guide to the reference literature: REF PN4731 .C38 2004
New York Times manual of style and usage:REF PN4783 .N485 1999b
That or which, and why : a usage guide for thoughtful writers and editors:REF PE1460 .J46 2007
Mass Media:
Bacon’s Internet media directory:REF P88.8 .B337
Encyclopedia of international media and communications:REF P87.5 .E535 2003
History of the mass media in the United States : an encyclopedia:REF P92.U5 H57 1998
Media career guide : preparing for jobs in the 21st century:REF P91.6 .S44 2006
Media internship book:REF P91.5.U6 M42 2005
World press encyclopedia : a survey of press systems worldwide:REF PN4728 .Q52 2003
Public Relations:
Encyclopedia of public relations:REF HD59 .E48 2005
Handbook of public relations:REF HD59 .H267 2001
O’Dwyer’s directory of corporate communications:REF HD59 .O35a
Radio:
Bacon’s radio directory:REF HE8664 .B33
Encyclopedia of American radio : an A-Z guide to radio from Jack Benny to Howard Stern:REF PN1991.3.U6 L29 2000
Encyclopedia of American radio, 1920-1960:REF PN1991.2 .S57 2000
Historical dictionary of American radio:REF PN1991.2 .H57 1998
Museum of Broadcast Communications encyclopedia of radio:REF TK6544 .M87 2004
Radio drama : a comprehensive chronicle of American network programs, 1932-1962:REF PN1991.9 .G73 2000
Speech:
Lend me your ears : great speeches in history:REF PN6122 .L4 1997
Speaker’s lifetime library:REF PN4193.I5 S64 1979
Speeches of the American presidents:REF J81.4 .S63 2001
Television:
Bacon’s TV/cable directory:REF HE8700.8 .B33
Encyclopedia of ethnic groups in Hollywood:REF PN1995.9.M56 P374 2003
Encyclopedia of television:REF PN1992.18 .E53 2004
Film and television : a guide to the reference literature:REF PN1992.63 .E46 2006
Television cartoon shows : an illustrated encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003:REF PN1992.8.A59 E74 2005
Women and American television : an encyclopedia:REF PN1992.8.W65 L69 1999
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Media, modernity and technology
Producing for TV and video
Reputation management the key to successful public relations and corporate communication
Speak with confidence
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