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Top Databases for Communication

Communication Source This link opens in a new window
Communication Source is a full-text research database for communication studies. It offers hundreds of top communication journals, magazines and other sources covering all related disciplines, including media studies, linguistics, speech pathology, rhetoric and discourse.

Academic Search Premier
A general database with full-text that has information on most any subject. Includes magazines, academic journals and newspapers.

CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Provides in-depth coverage of current topics and issues. Great for researching for persuasive and informative speeches and essays.

Scopus
Abstract and citation database which combines a comprehensive, expertly curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines.

Klaus Bruhn Jensen (Ed.). 3rd ed. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.
This book is a standard reference work for students and researchers in the fields of media, communication and cultural studies, integrating perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities, and focusing on methodology as a strategic level of analysis that joins practical applications with theoretical issues.

Daniel Chandler and Rod Munday, authors. 3rd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
This authoritative and up-to-date A-Z covers all aspects of interpersonal, mass, and networked communication in over 3500 entries, including digital and mobile media, advertising, journalism, social media, and nonverbal communication.

Robert L. Heath, ed. 2^nded. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Reference, 2013. 1093 pp. 2 vols.
This work explores the evolution of the Public Relations field, with examples from history describing events, changing practices, and the key figures who developed and expanded the profession.

Edited by Marcel Danesi; Published by: University of Toronto Press, 2013
Comprehensive encyclopedia for the growing fields of media and communication studies. It synthesizes a wide array of works and perspectives on the making of meaning. The appendix includes timelines covering the whole historical record for each medium, from either antiquity or their inception to the present day. Each entry also features a bibliography linking readers to relevant resources for further reading.

Charles R. Berger (Ed.) Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2014.
This handbook comprehensively covers the field of interpersonal communication, including research on processes of social influence, the role of communication close personal relationships, nonverbal communication, cognitive approaches, conflict, bargaining and negotiation, health communication, organizational socialization, social networks, and technologically-mediated communication, as well as two chapters on research methods.

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