Subject Guide: Communication

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Databases

Databases provide information about, and links to, journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

• American History in Video
• ComAbstracts
• Communication Abstracts
• Communication Abstracts, 1978- P90 .C57 (Annex Floor 1A)
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Film & Television Literature Index
• Index to Journals in Communication Studies through 1992 P87 .M3 (Annex Floor 1A)
• America's Newspapers
• AP Multimedia Archive
• Columbus Dispatch / Columbus News Index
• Newspaper Source
• New York Times Archive 1851-2005
• Television News Archive

Reference Books

Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.

• 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook
• Dictionary of Media and Communication  P87.5 .W38 2003
• Electronic America
• Encyclopedia of Communication and Information
• Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
• Encyclopedia of New Media : An Essential Reference to Communication and Technology  QA76.575 .E5368 2003
• Encyclopedia of Political Communication
• Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
• Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communications  P87.5 .D36 2000
• Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications  P87.5 .E532 2003
• Freedom of the Press: Rights and Liberties Under the Law
• Freedom of Speech: Rights and Liberties under the Law
• International Encyclopedia of Communication
  Included in Gale Virtual Reference Library, under 'Social Science.'
• Media and Politics in America: A Reference Handbook
• Propoganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia
• Violence in the Media: A Reference Handbook

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:

• AlterNet - Independent News & Information
• Federal Communications Commission
• How to find Newspapers 
• Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
• On the Media from NPR
• Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television & Radio and the Museum of Broadcasting)

Information Literacy Resources

• Evaluating Web Sources
• Information Literacy Tutorial from the Five Colleges of Ohio Libraries