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A resoource guide for Communication
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Typically Communication books in the library will be found under call number H (social sciences) or P (language), but since Communication is a broad subject area, you might find related books in other areas of the library.

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  • Albertsons Library Catalog  
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    We've got a collection to meet your needs. Feel free to contact me if you can't find what you're looking for.
  • WorldCat.Org
    An easy interface to search for local holdings of materials as well as books beyond BSU. Can also link to interlibrary loan.
  • Google Books  
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    Search inside books! Then check the Library catalog to see if we've got it. If not, then request it through Inter-Library loan.
  • Books beyond BSU - World Cat  
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    Search for books in other major libraries and if we don't have them you can click the "FIND IT" button to request it through Inter-Library Loan.
 

Communication Info from the Web

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General Communication Databases

Below are the databases available to Boise State University students related to Communication. These will allow you find and access articles from journals on Communication.

Look for the  button to link out to possible full-text access to the articles you find.

  • Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)  
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    A great mix of full-text and indexing coverage. The recommended starting point for most Communication research.
  • Communication Abstracts  
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    A comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale, Communication Abstracts covers major communication-related articles, reports, chapters, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources.
  • ComAbstracts  
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    The premier finding aid for Communications research. Use this tool to find articles and chapters on your topic. Be sure to click on the FIND IT button in the item record to link to library resources.
  • SAGE PREMIER  
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    Links to Sage journals - contains many full-text communication journals including those formally found uner Communication Studies-SAGE full-text
  • ProQuest Telecommunications database
    Search the full text of top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in this fast changing industry. Coverage starts 1995
  • Lexis Nexis Academic
    Looking for Radio or TV news transcripts? This is the place to go. Ask if you need help.
  • Web of Science / Web of Knowledge
    A great interdisciplinary database that also tracks citations. Be sure to use the FIND IT button to locate the full-text article.
  • America History and Life
    Use this resource to locate historical articles, books, or chapters on your topic. You can limit by specific ERA
  • American Film Scripts Online
    American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimilie images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online.
  • Alternative Press Index
    articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
 

General Databases

These general databases may also contain Communication journals and articles...

  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)  
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    A great general databases with lots of full-text.
  • ProQuest Central
    An interdisciplinary database searching across multiple ProQuest information products.
  • JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive  
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    A historical journal database with 100% full-text. Its focus is not on the most recent journal issues, but instead provides historical coverage.
  • Social Sciences Citation Index  
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    Allows one to see who is citing whom and where. A great research tool.
  • PsycINFO  
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    Indexes abstracts of psychological journals. Some students have founds this helpful in the Communication research.
  • Albertsons Library Databases Page  
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    A link to the Library databases page.

    Check out the A-Z list of databases.
  • CQ Researcher
    Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook online
    provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership
 

Encyclopedia of Communication

 

International Encyclopedia of Commmunication

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Communication Websites

  • FlowTV  
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    Flow is an online journal of television and media studies Flow’s mission is to provide a space where researchers, teachers, students, and the public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media at the speed media moves
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