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    Communication Guide     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books on Communications: 302.2

    Full-Text Articles on Communication

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for over 1,200 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
      • Full text of U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, newsletters and journals; wire service reports; transcripts of television & radio news broadcasts; reviews, entertainment & sports news; Chronicle of Higher Education and student newspapers; foreign language news; and more.
      • Includes full text of the New York Times (June 1980 through current; abstract from 1969 to May 1980); Baltimore Sun (Jan. 1994 through current); and Washington Post (1997 through current).
      • Note: This database provides text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • Project Muse Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Search from over 100 journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
      • Only journals from the 45 Johns Hopkins Press are full text.
      • Dates vary widely, mostly 1996 to present.
    • Science Direct
      • Full-text articles from a variety of scholarly and peer-reviewed journals.

    Individual Communication Journals with Full Text
    Note: Some of these journals may also be available from the databases above.

    • Journal of Communication Disorders
      • V. 33 no. 3 (May 2000) to present. Not searchable.
      • Hoover Library carries v. 33 (2000) to present.
    • HighWire Press (Stanford University)
      • Full-text science archive. Develops and maintains Web versions of journals in the life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and social sciences.
    • Journals of Interest (University of Iowa)
      • Links to communication journals, some in full text, most not. Cannot search for articles.
    • Online Serials (Internet Public Librarian)
      • Links to full-text communications journals, magazines, etc.. Cannot search for articles.
    • Social Science Online Periodicals (UNESCO)
      • Links to over 426 social science periodicals with full text. Cannot search for articles.

    Communication Indexes with Citations

    • Communication Abstracts v.1 (1978) to present
      • (Call number: Index 300.5 C734)
      • Citations and abstracts only.
    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
    • Humanities Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes about 500 journals and magazines in archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
      • 2/1984 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format:  4/1974 to 12/1991; (Call number: Index 001.3 H918)
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.

    General Resources

    • Communication Studies Resources (University of Iowa)
      • Links.
    • Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media. 4 vols. Ed. Jeff Sumner. Detroit: Gale.
      • (Call number: R 302.23025 G151)
      • Annual guide to publications and broadcasting stations including newspapers, magazines, journals, radio stations, television stations, and cable systems. Formerly Ayer directory of Publications.

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