Communication & Media

These resources are intended for students and researchers in communication and media. Keep in mind that the librarian selected these as curated resources. You are encouraged to explore other interesting subject guides.

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The subject is quickly located in the library using the following call number:

070 News media, journalism, publishing
302 Social interaction
303 Social processes
304 Factors affecting social behavior
305 Groups of people
306 Culture & institutions
307 Communities
320 Politics
323 Civil & political rights
384 Communications (Radio)
650 Management & public relations
651 Office services
652 Processes of written communication
659 Advertising & public relations

Selected Journals

Journal of Computer Mediated Communication

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) is a fully open-access scholarly journal. Its focus is social science research on communicating with computer-based media technologies. Within that general purview, the journal is broadly interdisciplinary, publishing work by scholars in communicatio
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Human Communication Research

Human Communication Research is one of the official journals of the prestigious International Communication Association and is read by more than 3,500 of its members. It is a top-ranked communication studies journal and one of the top ten journals in the field of human communication. Major topic are
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Communication, Culture & Critique

Communication, Culture & Critique (CCC) publishes high-quality, original scholarship utilizing a diversity of critical approaches to place questions of power, inequality, and justice at the center of empirical and theoretical inquiry. CCC prioritizes qualitative scholarship that engages with wider h
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Communication Theory

Communication Theory is an international forum publishing high quality, original research into the theoretical development of communication from across a wide array of disciplines, such as communication studies, sociology, psychology, political science, cultural and gender studies, philosophy, lingu
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Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL is revolutionizing global research by providing free, worldwide access to knowledge about life on Earth. To document Earth’s species and understand the complexitie
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Chinese Electronic Periodical Services (CEPS)

It provides online access to about 1,500 journals in the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, applied sciences as well as life science and medicine. Full-text articles are available in most journals.Subject: MultidisciplinarySearchable in Discovery System: YesProvider: Airiti
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SAGE Journals

The SAGE Humanities and Social Science (HSS) Package provides access to 554 journals in the humanities and social sciences fields, including leading international peer-reviewed titles many of which are ranked in the 2013 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters 2014).Now there are more choices — a
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萬方學術期刊 | China Online Journals

該期刊在中國提供了 7,400 多種中文學術期刊全文全文,涵蓋從藝術、金融到醫學和技術的所有學科。 它被中國數百家研究所、公共圖書館和大學圖書館廣泛使用,作為其圖書館服務不可或缺的一部分。COJ provides a collection of over 7,400 Chinese academic journals in full text in China, covering all subjects from arts, finance to medical and technology. It is widely used by hundreds of research institu
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Selected Databases

Global Breaking Newswires

A source of timely news and, with increasing pressures on the traditional news industry, newswires are often the only news coverage for many large regions of the globe.Subject: NewsSearchable in Discovery System: Yes (Via Proquest Central)Provider: Proquest SEARCH
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International Newsstream

International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives that stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Je
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Social Science Database

A wide range of social science disciplines include anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology. Subject: MultidisciplinarySearchable in Discovery System: Yes (Via Proquest Central)Provider: Proquest SEARCH
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Telecommunications Database

Essential resource for anyone researching the industry or its technology, including the latest news on WAP technology, market penetration of new technologies, or gathering information about the key players dating back to the early 1990s. Subject: TechnologySearchable in Discovery System: Yes (Via Pr
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U.S. Newsstream

Premium U.S. news archived back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. Subject: Communication & MediaSearchable in Discovery System: Yes (Via Proquest Central)Provider: Proquest SEARCH
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time from 1903 to 2001. Subject: MultidisciplinarySearchable in Discovery System: Yes (Via Proquest Centra
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Newswires

This collection includes AP Financial News, AP Top News, AP WorldStream, AP U.S. Politics & Government, AP 50 State Reports, UPI Business, UPI Entertainment, UPI Sports, UPI Top News, and more. End users can immediately access the full text of the web content, by following the link in the record. Su
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Communication Source

Communication Source is the most comprehensive resource on the market for communication research. Communication Source was developed from a merger of high-quality EBSCO databases, Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts (formerly published by Sage), and includes many unique
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