Communication Resources

General Resources:

Finding books and background/overviews:

• How to use CONSULS to find books
• Handbooks
• Communication Yearbook

Finding articles:
Articles are published in journals, magazines, and newspapers (collectively called serials or periodicals). To search the content of hundreds of periodicals at once, run a keyword search in a database. You will need to establish a PIN before using databases from off-campus.

• Searching by subject:
  • ComAbstracts (Info)
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete (Info) (Ebsco help)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index/Web of Science (Info)
  • Newspapers (Info)
  • ABI/Inform (Info)
  • Opposing Viewpoints (Info)
  • Other databases (Info)
  • Other journals

If you have a bibliography and want to find out if the library has full-text access to an article listed in it, or if you want to find out whether the library has access to a particular journal, use the Journal Locator.

• Seaching by citation or within one specific journal:
  • Journal Locator
  • Journal Locator help

Other resources:

• CIOS Home Page
• APA Style Guide basics
• Evaluating websites
• Annotated bibliography help

• Advertising, promotions, marketing
  • Collections of advertisements
  • Company profiles
  • Competitors & rankings
  • Consumer behavior & demographics
  • Industry profiles
• Interpersonal and relational
• Organizational
• Video production
• CONSULS subject headings for books & videos:
  • Digital cinematography
  • Digital video-editing
  • Documentary films
  • Documentary films-production and direction
  • Documentary television programs-production and direction
  • Motion pictures-editing
• Best database for articles: Film & Television Index