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Databases

Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text)
Combines the CommSearch database and the Mass Media Article Index. Contains full-text to over 60 journals in addition to journalism reviews, recent encyclopedias and handbooks in the area of communications studies.

Business Source Premier (Full Text)
Provides full text for over 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.

Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text)  Discus

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

JSTOR (Full Text)
Full-text archive of important scholarly journal literature in the fields of language and rhetoric.

Campus Research (WestLaw)
Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.

Custom Newspapers (Full Text)
Contains full-text of the Charleston Post and Courier beginning Jan. 2001 and the last 365 days of the New York Times.

PsycARTICLES (Full Text)
An online database containing more than 25,000 searchable full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations from 1988 to the present.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.

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Print and Electronic Resources

Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (Full Text)
Gale Reference Online

International Encyclopedia of Communications
REF P87.5 I5

Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications
REF P87.5 W45

History of Mass Media
REF P92 U5 H55

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
REF PN172 E52

Broadcast Communications Dictionary
REF PN 1990.4 B 75

Communications Standard Dictionary
REF TK 5102 W 437 1996

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Internet Resources

AJR NewsLink
American Journalism Review's guide to news worldwide and to jobs in journalism.

Central States Communication Association
Official site.

Eastern Communication Association
Official site.

International Communication Association
Official site

The Journalist's Toolbox
Online resources for reporters and editors.

National Communication Association
Official site.

Newslink
Guide to media worldwide. Includes employment listings in the field of communication.

Southern States Communication Association
Official site.

Western States Communication Association
Official Site.

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Resources at the College

Current Print Periodicals

Administrative Science Quarterly
Argumentation and Advocacy
Communication Education
Communication Quarterly
Communication Reports
Communication Research
Communication Research Reports
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Human Communication Research
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
Journal of Business Communication
Journal of Communication
Journal of Mass Communication
Journalism and Mass Communicatin Educator
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Management Communication Quarterly
Media, Culture, and Society
Political Communication
Quarterly Journal of Speech
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Southern Communication Journal
Text and Performance Quarterly
Western Journal of Communication

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