Communication
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media 

• Reed Library Catalog: Locate materials in Reed Library.
• WorldCat: Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles 

• CIOS: Provides citations and summaries of articles in the field of Communication. Provides access to ComAbstracts. Some full text linking is available.
• Academic Search Complete: Find information on almost any topic! Contains  the full text of over 4,450 magazines, journals and newspapers and indexing for many, many more. Coverage dates back to 1975 for many publications. A great starting point for research! 
• Communications & Mass Media Collection:  Covers over 250 journals from 1980 to the present, focusing on all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linquistics and literature.
• ERIC : Provides access to education literature and resources, including more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full text documents.  

Reference

• Encyclopedia of Communication and Information: Reference P87.5 .E53
• The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships: Reference HM1106 .C36
• Oxford Reference: Includes over 175 subject reference works.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library:  A database of subject specific encyclopedias and dictionaries offering multidisciplinary background information.

Other Tools

• American Rhetoric 
• History Channel Speech Archives  
• International Association for Mass Communication Research: Open Access Journals                           
• National Communication Association 
• The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues
• Rhetorica
• University of Iowa Communication Studies Resources: Speeches and Speechmakers