This document is available online at: http://www.se.edu/lib/commres.htm

Doing research in communication will require you to gather information from possibly many resources. Here at the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library there is much useful information that is available in many different locations in the library and also in many different formats. This document will hopefully point you in the right direction in locating the right materials for your communication research project.

Books on communication fall into two main numbers in the Dewey Decimal classification: 301 to 309 and 384. However, items on communication can fall into many other places. Business communication falls in 651 and 658, nonverbal communication is in 153 and 302, writing is in 800-809, and speech is in 808. So it is helpful to have a catalog to locate exactly where books on different aspects of communication are.

SIRSI ILINK CATALOG

A great place to start your research is in the catalog. The catalog is one of the main access points or gateways to the information housed in the Library. Here is what the catalog looks like:


This is the SE library catalog. Use this to search for books, videos, government documents on a topic.

REFERENCE SOURCES  

Search the reference collection for brief facts, biographical information, addresses, telephone numbers, statistical information, articles in encyclopedias, general and subject, on all aspects of human knowledge. Much information is included in the general encyclopedias, such as Compton's, Academic American, or World Book. However, more specialized information is included in subject encyclopedias, dictionaries and other subject specific reference sources. Additional information can be found in these sources:
 
R 070.442 Ed4c CQ Researcher
Published by Congressional Quarterly, the staff does research a topic of current interest, such as AIDS, gun control, abortion, lotteries, Acid rain, toxic waste, hate crimes, sexual harassment etc. Great place to start doing research on a topic. Each weekly report contains an extensive bibliography at the end of the report. 
 
R 303.603 D54e Issues and Controversies on File
 Similar to the CQ Researcher except the reports are not as long
 
Varies Opposing Viewpoints Series
Each book in this series contains articles about one controversial topic.
 
Varies Contemporary World Issues Series
Excellent for gaining the grasp of a topic. Each book in the series covers a different topic. Each topic covered in the series has the following: an overview section, which has a discussion of the main questions being asked or arguments raised about the topic, then a chronology section, a biographical sketches section of the main figures in the topic, facts and statistics section, documents and reports, laws and legislation pertaining to the topic, and a directory of agencies and organizations associated with the topic. 
 
R 305.8 C26d3  Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations
Provides coverage of race and ethic relations topics, such as: police and racism, racial discrimination, media and racism, racist, racial harassment, and institutional racism. Also provides articles on Latinos, holocaust, diaspora, ethnicity, and equal opportunity and affirmative action.
 


COMMUNICATION DICTIONARIES,  ENCYCLOPEDIAS & DIRECTORIES  

 
R 302.203 In8 International Encyclopedia of Communications
Contains articles on communication systems and organizations, history of communications, communication modes, media, and codes, communication behavior and effects, biographies of  people important in communication
R 302.203 En1s Encyclopedia of Communication and Information
This is an interdisciplinary encyclopedia that contains articles written by international experts on many aspects of communication. This encyclopedia is covers communication in eight general tropics: 1. Careers in communication, such as journalist librarian, publicist, researcher, teacher; 2. Information science, such as human-computer interaction, information storage and retrieval; 3.Information technologies, such as broadband , The Internet, radio, telephony, television, cable television; 4. Literacy such as computer literacy, media literacy, and traditional literacy; 5. institutional studies such as elections, government policy, information society, law, media history; 6. Interpersonal communication, such as groups, organizations, relationships, rhetoric; 7.library science such as cataloging, library functions, text-based literacy; and finally 8. media effects, such as advertising, alcohol, dependence, interventions, opinion formation, public health campaigns.
R 302.203 D19e Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, And Communications
    "Semiotics, media, and communications are three closely linked fields. Briefly stated, semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; communication studies is concerned with how meaning is conveyed; and media studies considers the ways in which messages are transmitted and received."
R 070.172 Ed4 Editor and Publisher International Yearbook
This is an encyclopedia of the newspaper industry. It contains address, telephone numbers, circulation, price, advertising, equipment, names of managers of U.S. newspapers.  It also contains information on newspapers from other countries in the world. 
R 070 G13g Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
Contains addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers and web addresses of newspapers, magazines, journals, radio stations, television stations and cable systems in the United States and Canada.
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R 302.23 EL5n NTC Mass Media Dictionary
Contains over 20,000 definitions of mass media terms from television, radio, newspapers, magazines, film, graphic arts, books, billboards, public relations and advertising.
 
R 301.01 EN1R Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Contains 336 articles on specific social theories, theorists, schools of thought, key concepts, topical subjects and biographies of important social theorists.
 
R 152.403 En1L Encyclopedia of Human Emotions
This encyclopedia is important to communication research, because communication effects emotions and through emotions we communicate our feelings. It contains articles on many emotions and aspects of emotions such as: communication, body movement, gesture and display, expression, facial expression, human development and many more.
 
R 303.342 P43D The Persuasion Handbook: Developments in Theory and Practice
This handbooks contains sections that deal with the basic issues in persuasion, the theories of persuasion, affect and persuasion, persuasion campaigns, and media and persuasion.
 
R 303.6 SA1O The Sage Handbook of Conflict Communication: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice
This handbook contains sections that deal with interpersonal Conflict, organizational conflict, community conflict, and international/intercultural conflict.
 
R 303.625 P95s The Psychology of Terrorism
This four volume set contains essays on the psychology of this terrible form of communication.
IA Public Understanding--provides an overview of issues in a way to help the public, in general, to understand the issues involved
IIClinical Aspects and Responses--offers much in the way of dealing with the emotional impacts of such traumas.
III Theoretical Understandings and Perspectives--offers various perspectives of psychological understanding and theory intertwined with culture, context, politics, globalization, and social injustice as well as diplomatic processes.
IVPrograms and Practices in Response and Prevention--provides a mix of preventative ideas and methods for youth and communities, as well as therapeutic aspects for those in trouble.
  
R 302.23 W43w Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications
Contains 336 entries on specific social theories, theorists, schools of thought, key concepts, and topical subjects definitions of communications and media terms.
 
R 791.4503 
B81L3		 Les Brown's Encyclopedia of  Television
Contains articles on TV technology, TV shows, TV executives, TV personalities, and more
 
R 302 H19g4 The Handbook of Social Psychology
R 302.207H19 Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through Communicative and Visual Arts
This book is published by the International Reading Association, is divided into several parts:  Part 1:  theoretical bases for communicative and visual arts teaching, Part 2: Methods of inquiry in communicative and visual arts teaching: Part 3: research on language learners in families, communities, and classrooms, Part 4: Research on Language teachers: conditions and contexts: Part 5: expanding instructional environments: Teaching,  learning, and assessing the communicative and visual arts: Part 6 Research Perspectives on curricular, extracurricular, and policy perspectives:  Part 7: voices from the field
R 303.380973 G13g The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 2001 by George Gallup, Jr.
R 303.375 C899p Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present Nicholas J. Cull, David Culbert, and David Welch
R 302.2244 L71G Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Theory, and Practice
This encyclopedia "provides a comprehensive overview of the study and teaching of literacy in the United States." It encompases traditional literacies of writing, reading, and speaking, plus new literacies such as popular culture, media, and technology.
R 302.3503 In8c International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies
This encyclopedia contains articles on all aspects of orgainzation studies, including: approaches to management theory, approaches to organization theory, culture and symbolism, human resource management, innovation and creativity, organizational behavior, organizational cognition, change and communication, organizational economics, organizational power, politics, and conflict, organizational relations, and more.

COMMUNICATION AND THE LAW
 
R 344.73079 
  Y86		 College Student and the Courts 
Contains briefs of court cases decided in the federal and state courts that deal with student/institutional relationships in higher education. There are cases dealing with alcoholic beverages, student records, athletics, suspension, discrimination, free speech and sexual harassment, copyright, search and seizure, campus harassment policies, hazing, free speech and speech codes, homosexual students, financial aid, and separation of church and state. 
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R 348.7303 G94 The Guide to American Law: Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia
Designed to meet the layperson's needs for basic legal information.
Contains articles on legal principles and concepts, biographies of important people in legal matters, accounts of famous trials, important documents and laws.
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342.73 M25f Freedom of Speech, Press, and Assembly
This book is a part of the Exploring the Constitution Series. It contains chapters on: what is speech?, where can people speak?, Political speech: the clear and present danger test, Entertainment speech: the problem of obscenity, and more. 
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R 342.73 En5l  Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
Contains articles on doctrinal concepts of constitutional law, (such as federalism, cruel and unusual punishment, religious liberty, and freedom of speech) It also has articles on other topics that have an effect on the constitution, such as: age discrimination, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, race- consciousness, gender rights, feminist theory, and extremist speech. It also has articles on people associated with the development and interpretation of the constitution, articles on all amendments to the constitution, famous and/or important court cases, public laws (statutes, treaties, and executive orders), plus articles on constitutional history. Each article has a bibliography of other sources that can be used for further information. Also has appendices which have the complete text of the constitution and a glossary of legal terms.
R 342.73099 M78M2  Mass Communication Law and Ethics
Outlines the law of mass communication, covering topics as the American legal system and the judicial process, government restraints on mass communication, such as: prior restraint, corporate and commercial speech, electronic mass media and telecommunications, libel, right of privacy, and press and public access to the judicial process, records, places and meetings. Also covered is intellectual property, and obscenity, indecency, and pornography. Also covers the codes of ethics and sources of U.S. Law.
R 344.73097 L41b4  Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries
Covers many topics, such as: representing talent, talent contracts, acquisition of rights or ideas and other property, literary publishing, music publishing, television, films, the internet, multimedia and emerging technologies, and theatre
R 346.730482 H67c  Copyright in Cyberspace
R 346.730482 C85w2  The Writer's Legal Guide
Internet LoisLaw
This is an online database of state and federal statutes, state and federal court cases and administrative rules and regulations. Find thousands of court cases relating to communication issues in the Supreme Court, Federal Appellate and District courts and courts of the fifty states. You can get the username and password at the Information desk in the Library

Electronic Books
There are many changes beginning to come about in the way we access information. One of the standard ways to access information for many centuries has been the printed word on sheets on paper. Now that is changing to electronic format. Books are being published online. Whether or not electronic books will replace printed books remains to be seen. There are companies  that are putting collections of electronic books online. One of those companies is NetLibrary. The Southeastern Library as access to around eleven thousand electronic books.

The electronic books collection is included in iLink, our electronic catalog.  Additionally one can access the electronic books collection on the Internet.  Go to the Electronic Sources page on the library page at http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm Click on  the Electronic Books link, and then click on the Netlibrary icon. When you get to the NetLibrary homepage, you can type in the title of the book you want to find, or search by subject. To access NetLibrary from home, you need to create an account. Establishing an account is much like creating an email account.

Here are examples of books on communication from the NetLibrary collection.

The Theory and Practice of Political Communication
Theory, Text, Context: Issues in Greek Rhetoric and Oratory
Developing Communication Theories
Emerging Theories of Human Communication
The Acoustic Mirror: the Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema
Virtualities: Television, Media, Art, and Cyberculture
VIDEOCASSETTES
Body Language: An Introduction to Non-Verbal Communication (25 Min) Call No: 302.222 B63
Conformity, Obedience, and Dissent (29 min) Call No: 302.14 C76
Effective Decision-Making in Groups (30 min) Call No: 302.2 Ef3
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen (six 30 min videos) Call No: 302.2 H83
Nonverbal Communication--Paralanguage and Proxemics (28 min) Call No: 302.222 N73m
How to Deal With Difficult People (2 videos) Call No: 302 B77h
Information Processing (14 min)Call No: 025.04 In3r
Communication (28 min) Call No: 658.45 C73j
Messaging the Media (60 min) 302.23 M38p
Eyeball to Eyeball: Dilemma in the Newsroom Part 1: 60 min Part 2: 57 min) 302.23 Ey3
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (60 min) 302.23 M99J
Trial by Television (50 min) 302.23 T73h
Project Censored: Is the Press Really Free? (57 min) 323.445 K28p
Free Speech for Sale (57 min) 323.443 F87h
Men are from Mars, Women from Venus: Advanced Relationship Skills (90 min) Call No: 306.872 M52g
Hate and the Internet: Web Sites and the Issue of Free Speech (22 min) 323.44302854 H28aT73h
Basic Sign Language: For Adults and Children (43 min) Call No: 419.071 B29m
Forms of Discussion (28 min) Call No: 658.45 F76
The Business Meeting (15 min) (Business Communications Series) Call No: 658.456 B96
Technology on the Job (15 min) (Business Communications Series) Call No: 658.514 T22
Teamwork on the Job (15 min) (Business Communications Series) Call No: 658.3 T22
Business Presentations (15 min) Call No: 651.7 B96r
The Job Interview (15 min) Call No: 650.14 J57c
Conflict Resolution (15 min) Call No: 303.69 C76
Officer Calling: Asking Questions to Gain Information Call No: 658.15224 Am3o
Be Prepared to Lead (26.5 min) (Toastmasters International Communications Series) Call No: 658.4097 B35
Another Set of Eyes: Conferencing Skills370.71 An7d
Communications that Count (28 min)658.45 C81i
Communicating Non-Defensively (20 min) 658.45 C73T
Verbal Communication: The Power of Words (29:53 min) 658.452 V58C

MAGAZINES,JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS

A magazine or journal is something that is published periodically, and so in libraries they are called periodicals. A magazine is a periodical that can be published daily, weekly, or monthly. Magazines usually contain fairly short articles written in a style of writing that is easy to understand. There are usually lots or advertising in a magazine. A journal, however, contains the results of research or experiments done. Usually in a journal article there is data presented about a research project, and the language can be quite technical, and there are few advertisements.

Unlike books, the contents of journals are not available in the SE library catalog. So where are they located? They are located in magazine and journal indexes. Magazine and journal indexes assign a subject to each article in each journal indexed in the magazine and journal index. Until the 1990's most magazine and journal indexes were in paper, now they are almost all on the Internet. Some of these journal indexes on the Internet index popular magazines, other scholarly, while others are devoted to one subject area, NO Journal Index indexes every journal that is published, so they are selective.

HOW TO FIND ARTICLES IN JOURNALS, MAGAZINES

Step One: Look in a Periodical Index

A periodical index is a publication that indexes the content of periodicals. There are many different periodical indexes, some general and some subject specific. One thing needs to be made clear: There is not any periodical index that indexes every single periodical being published today. So each index is selective in what periodicals it indexes. Periodical indexes tend to index the most important or most popular or most respected or well known periodicals.

PAPER PERIODICAL INDEXES

For many years periodical indexes were published in paper, like a book. They would usually come out every few months with an update, and then come out at the end of the year with an annual cumulation. Paper periodical indexes are cumbersome to use and take some take to look at every year, but they can contain information on many valuable articles written sometimes years ago, and paper indexes are valuable places to search for topics in music, drama, art, literature and history.

Basement International Index
An index to periodical literature in the social sciences and humanities. The index begins in 1907 and ends in 1964.
basement Social Sciences and Humanities Index An index to articles appearing in several hundred magazines and journals. Coverage begins in 1965 and continues to 1974.
Basement

Humanities Index
An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the humanities. Coverage begins in 1974 and continues until 1993.
Basement

Social Sciences Index
An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the social sciences. Coverage begins in 1974 and continues until 1998.
Basement

Art Index
An index to articles found in several hundred magazines and journals in the arts. Coverage begins in 1967 and continues until 2002.
Basement Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
A guide to periodical literature published in 1802-1906.This is a hard index to use, so see a reference librarian.
Basement Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
A general subject index to about 200 popular magazines. We have this index from 1915 to the present.
Basement New York Times Index
Index to the New York Times, a major national newspaper. The library has the New York Times from 1851 to the present on microfilm. The index is subject arranged. Paper indexes begin in 1929, and from 1851 to 1928 they are on microfiche. There is an online Index to the New York Times available at: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html

PERIODICAL INDEXES ON CD-ROM

In the 1980's many of the old paper periodical indexes began to be digitized and made available on a CD-ROM disk. This made it easier to search, but these had to be updated constantly like paper indexes. One of these CD-ROM indexes that we still have on communication is listed below:

CommSearch
This index, published by the National Communication Association, is on a CD-ROM and can be found at the information desk.  It contains indexing and abstracting for 26 communication journals.
 
Argumentation and Advocacy1964-1996
selected coverage from 1988, FT from 1990 to present in CMMC		 Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1973-1997 
Full Text 1991-1997
FT 1981 to present (12 month delay) in CMMC
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration, 1972-1996
FT 1973 to 2001 in CMMC		 Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 1956-1996
selected coverage 1956 to 1989, full coverage, 1990 to present, FT 1990 to present (12 month delay) in CMMC
Communication Education, 1952-1996
Full Text  1991-1997
FT 1952 to present in CMMC (12 month delay)		 Journal of Communication, 1951-1996
selected coverage, 1951 to 1989, full coverage, 1990 to present, FT starting in 2006 in CMMC (with 12 month delay)
Communication Monographs, 1934-1997
Full Text 1991-1997
FT 1934 to present in CMMC (12 month delay)		 Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 1924-1996
FT 1995 to present in CMMC
Communication Reports, 1988-1996
FT 1988 to present in CMMC (12 month delay)		 Journal of Communication and Religion, 1978-1996
FT 1979 to present in CMMC
Communication Quarterly, 1953-1996
FT 1953 to present in CMMC(12 month delay)		 Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1968-1996
FT 1968 to present in CMMC
Communication Research, 1974-1996
indexing only 1974 to present in CMMC		 Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1915-1997
Full Text 1991-1997
selected coverage, 1915 to 1927, FT 1928 to present in CMMC
Communication Studies, 1949-1988
selected coverage 1949 to 1995, full coverage 1996 to present, FT 2004 to present (12 month delay) in CMMC 		Communication Research Reports, 1984-1996
FT 1984 to present in CMMC
Communication Theory, 1991-1996
selected coverage 1991-1999, full coverage 2000 to present, FT starting in 2006 (12 month delay) in CMMC		 Southern Communication Journal, 1935-1996
selected coverage, 1945 to 1995, full coverage 1995 to present, FT 2005 to present (with 12 month delay) in CMMC
Communication Yearbook, 1978-1996
selected coverage 1978 to 2002, full coverage 2002 to present, NO FT in CMMC		 Text and Performance Quarterly, 1980-1997
Full Text 1991-1997
FT 1980 to present (12 month delay) in CMMC
Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1984-1996
Full Text 1991-1997
FT from 1984 to present (12 month delay) in CMMC		 Western Journal of Communication, 1937-1996
FT 1937 to present (12 month delay) in CMMC
Human Communication Research, 1974-1996
selected coverage, 1974 to 1993, full coverage, 1994 to present, FT 2006 to present (12 month delay) in CMMC		 Women and Language, 1982-1996 selected coverage, 1989 to 1995, full coverage, 1996 to present, FT 1999 to present in CMMC
Howard Journal of Communications 1988-1996
full coverage, 1988 to 1997, FT 1998 to present (12 month delay) in CMMC		 Women's Studies in Communication, 1977-1996
selected coverage, 1984, full coverage, 1985 to present, FT 2004 to present in CMMC

ONLINE PERIODICAL INDEXES

In the 1990's many periodical indexes that were available on CD-ROM became available online on the Internet. In this form they can still be called indexes, but they are usually referred to as DATABASES.

Why use online databases?

There is a disadvantage to online databases for those who are researching topics in history or literature

Some Online Databases that the SE Library Has

FirstSearch Article First

This database contains citations to articles that appear in journals in science, technology, social science, business and humanities, and popular culture. With over 15,000 journals indexed, this is one of the largest journal databases in the SE Library's collection. It covers from 1990 to the present,
and is updated daily.
EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Elite provides full text for nearly 2,050 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural  journals, and abstracts for about 1330 more. Over 1,500 journals are peer reviewed.  Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
EBSCOhost, and FirstSearch ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a very large education database that has been around since 1966. It was funded by the U.S. Department of Education until 2003, and since has been in limbo. So the database is current as of the end of 2003. IT contains over 1 million records in two types: (1) ERIC Documents, which are classroom guides, results of research not published, dissertations, manuals, results or research, and (2) Journal articles from almost 1000 journals. A new contractor for ERIC, called CSC, is currently putting 2004-2005 materials into the ERIC database. About 107,000 of the ERIC Documents from 1993-2004 are available full-text online. There is another online version at the Department of Education website, at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/
For more information on ERIC, go to the following website: http://www.se.edu/lib/eric.htm
EBSCOhost Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
EBSCOhost PsychInfo
PsychInfo contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the late 1800's includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year.
EBSCOhost PsycARTICLES
"PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 39,000 searchable full text articles from 44 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 52 journals. Examples of titles offered in PsycARTICLES include: American Psychologist, Behavioral Neuroscience, Canadian Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychotherapy: Theory/Research/Practice/Training, etc. Coverage spans from 1985 to the present."
EBSCOhost
Communication and Mass Media Complete
"Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for over 390 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of nearly 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for more than 285 journals."
FirstSearch H.W. Wilson Select Full Text

Covers 1,600 periodicals from 1994 to the present. Contains records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, and Business Abstracts and other Wilson databases. It is updated weekly. An important feature of this database is that all articles are full text.
EBSCOhost MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost  MAS Ultra School Edition 
 Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. 
EBSCOhost Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and Junior high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost Primary Search 
 Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
FirstSearch MLA Bibliography

This database is compiled by the Modern Language Association, and is one of the top indexes of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. It contains over 1.3 million citations to over 6,500 periodicals and other publications. It covers from 1963 to the present, and is updated 9 times a year.
ABI-Inform ABI-Inform

This is a large business database, and indexes over 3000 journals, magazines and newspapers.

1. Where the Databases are located
These databases are all to be found on the SE Library's Electronic Resources Page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm

2. What EBSCOHost and FirstSearch are
The word EBSCOhost or FirstSearch to the right of the database name in the table above indicates the name of the database vendor where you can find these databases. If you look at the list of links on the ELectronic Resources page, you will see the links organized by the type of database that they are. You will find EBSCOhost and FirstSearch under the listing of databases called Periodical Databases. When you go down the list, you will see at least two links for both EBSCOhost and FirstSearch. The first link is for those that are on the SE campus. Click on that link, and you will be taken to the list of databases under EBSCOhost or FirstSearch. The second link is the off campus link. This link is necessary to use if you are off of the SE Campus. This link takes you to a page where you will be asked to type in a userid or authorization number, and a password. The userid or authorization number and password to gain access to EBSCOhost and FirstSearch is available at the SE Library Reference Desk, and also is on the proxy server.

What the Electronic Resources Page looks like on the SE Library's Webpage. You can see the links to EBSCOhost and FirstSearch

Step Two: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text

(the steps from here on pertain only to online databases)

Databases have changed much in the last ten years. it used to be that databases contained only the citation (information needed to find the article) and sometimes a summary, or abstract of the article. Starting about ten years ago, database vendors began to offer some articles in full-text, that means that the entire article was available online, making it unnecessary to find the article in a library. Now there are fewer databases that offer no titles in full-text, and so after doing research in one of SE's databases, check to see if the article that you are interested is available full-text. There will be a link that say something like this: HTML full text, or PDF full text. When you click on the link, you are presented with the full-text of the article, and you are finished. What if the full-text of the article is not available in the database that you are searching? If that is the case, then we move onto Step Three

Step Three: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text in another database


If you can't find an article full-text in one database, then look to see what other databases have a journal title available full-text. You do that by checking another database called A-to-Z A-to-Z is located at: http://atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?id=seosu, or you can also get to A-to-Z from the electronic resources page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm. A-to-Z is a list of journals that are available full-text, either in an online database that we subscribe to or available in the library in paper in the basement on in microform.

Step Four: Check to see if the the SE Library has the journal in paper


The library subscribes to almost one thousand journals, magazines, and newspapers. In many cases the journal article that you want is located in a journal that we have downstairs in the basement, or on microform. How do you check to see if the library has a journal? By checking A-to-Z, or checking a copy of the SE Library's Periodicals Holding List http://www.se.edu/lib/perhold.htm

COMMUNICATION AND MASS MEDIA PERIODICALS THAT THE LIBRARY SUBSCRIBES TO
 
   Advertising Age 
This is a weekly newspaper of advertising and marketing developments.

HOLDINGS:  MICROFILM HOLDINGS: 1982-1984 (V.53-V.55) 
MICROFICHE HOLDINGS: 1985-2004 (V. 56-75) 
Indexed: Article First, PerAbs, WilsonSelect, EBSCO Academic Search Elite (FT 1996) Communication and Mass Media Complete (FT 1996-present)
Basement  American  Journal of Distance Education
Published by the American Center for the Study of Distance Education, this quarterly was "created to disseminate information and act as a forum for criticism and debate about research in and practice of distance education in the Americas." The journal covers the "role of print, electronic, and telecommunications media and multimedia systems in the delivery of education and training in universities and colleges, business and industry, the military, and in the public schools." 
HOLDINGS: 1995-PRESENT (V.9-PRESENT)
Indexed: ERIC, Article First
Basement

 

 American Speech
Published by the American Forensic Association.
HOLDINGS: 1938-1999 (V.13-V.74)
Indexed: ERIC, EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete
Basement

 

 Argumentation and Advocacy 
Published by the American Forensic Association.
HOLDINGS: 1990-1996 (V.27-V.32)
Indexed: ERIC, PerAbs, EBSCO Academic Search Elite (FT 1990)
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 Central States Speech Journal
Published by the American Forensic Association.
HOLDINGS: 1966-1988 (V.17-V.39)
Indexed: Communication and Mass Media Complete, ERIC, PerAbs, EBSCO Academic Search Elite (FT 1990)
Basement

 

 Child Development
Published by the American Forensic Association.
HOLDINGS: 1949-PRESENT (V.20-PRESENT)
Indexed: Communication and Mass Media Complete, ERIC, PerAbs, EBSCO Academic Search Elite (FT 1990)
Basement College Composition and Communication 
Published by the National Council of Teachers of English, this journal provides a "forum for critical work on the study and teaching of reading and writing at the college level." 
HOLDINGS: 1955-PRESENT (V.6 #3-PRESENT)
Indexed: ERIC, MLA, Article First
Basement Communication Education 
Published by the National Communication Association, this journal contains articles dealing with teaching and other educational aspects of communication topics.
HOLDINGS: 1976-PRESENT (V.25-PRESENT)
Indexed:ERIC, MLA, Article First, PerAbs, PsychInfo, EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text from 1952 to the present with 12 month delay)
Basement
& Microform		 Communication Monographs 
Published by the National Communication Association.
HOLDINGS: 1992-PRESENT (V.59-PRESENT) 
MICROFICHE HOLDINGS: 1990-1991 (V.57-V.58)
Indexed:ERIC, PsychInfo, EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full text 1934 to present with 12 month delay)
Basement Communication Research 
Contains scholarly articles and research reports of studies in communication.
HOLDINGS: 1981-PRESENT (V.8-PRESENT)
Indexed:ERIC, MLA, Article First, PerAbs, PsychInfo,  EBSCO Academic Search Elite (FT 1990), Communication and Mass Media Complete
Basement Communication Reports
This is one of two publications of the Western States Communication Association, and it contains articles that are related to human communication.
HOLDINGS: 1994-PRESENT (V.7-PRESENT)
Indexed:  ERIC, Article First, PsychInfo,  EBSCO Academic Search Elite (FT 1990) Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text from 1988 to present with 12 month delay)
Basement Communication Theory 
Published by the International Communication Association.
HOLDINGS: 1994-PRESENT (V.4-PRESENT)
Indexed: Article First, PerAbs,  EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text will start in 2007)
Basement Critical Studies in Media Communication 
Published by the National Communication Association, contains articles on the interpretive approaches to mass communication theory and research. 

HOLDINGS: 2000-2001 (V17-V18) in basement
PRECEDED BY: CRITICAL STUDIES IN MASS COMMUNICATION 
MICROFICHE HOLDINGS: 1984-1999 (V.1-16) Indexed:ERIC, MLA, Article First, PerAbs,  EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text from 1984 to 1999 for Critical Studies in Mass Communication, and from 2000 to present with one year delay)
Basement Dramatics
HOLDINGS: 1949-PRESENT (V.21-PRESENT)
Indexed: Article First

  Basement		 Human Communication Research 
Published by the International Communication Association, this quarterly journal is "devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding about human symbolic activities." 
HOLDINGS: 1989-PRESENT (V.16-PRESENT)
Indexed: ERIC, MLA, Article First, PerAbs, PsychInfo,  EBSCO Academic Search Elite (FT 1994), Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text starting in 2006 with one year delay)
Basement ICA Newsletter
This is the official newsletter of the International Communication Association.
HOLDINGS: V.27:1-PRESENT (1999-PRESENT) 
Basement Journal of Advertising
HOLDINGS:1986-1997 (v 15-26)
INDEXED: Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full text from 1972 to the present)
Basement Journal of Applied Communication Research 
Published by the National Communication Association, this journal contains "articles that address relationships between practice and theories of communication, rhetoric, criticism and/or performance."
HOLDINGS: 1992-PRESENT (V.20-PRESENT)
Indexed:ERIC, Article First, PerAbs, PsychInfo,  EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text from 1981 to present with a 12 month delay
Basement Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 
Published by the Broadcast Education Association, this quarterly publication contains scholarly articles on television and radio, with articles such as: personality of TV addicts comparison of Chinese and U.S. national news, broadcasting regulation in Lebanon, and  more.
FORMERLY: JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING 
HOLDINGS: 1985-PRESENT (V.29-PRESENT)
Indexed:ERIC, Article First, PerAbs, PsychInfo,  EBSCO Academic Search Elite (FT 1990), Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text from 1990 to the present with one year delay)
Basement Journal of Business and Technical Communication
This is a "refereed journal that provides a forum for discussion of communication practices, problems, and trends in business, professional, scientific, and governmental fields."
HOLDINGS 2001-present (V 15- present)
Indexed: EBSCO Business Source Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete
Basement Journal of Communication 
This is the official journal of the International Communication Association, and contains articles that deal with communication  theory and research, such as: humor and TV violence, the Internet as a mass medium, violent video games and adolescent self-concept, and more.
HOLDINGS: 1992-PRESENT (V.42-PRESENT) 
MICROFICHE HOLDINGS: 1990-1991 (V.40-V.41)
Indexed:ERIC, EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text starting in 2006 with 12 month delay)
Basement Journal of Public Relations Research
Published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, this quarterly contains research in public relations topics, such as: conducting public relations more effectively, and provide scholarly criticism of public relations practice, history of public relations, ethics of public relations and the philosophy of  public relations.
FORMERLY: PUBLIC RELATIONS RESEARCH ANNUAL 
HOLDINGS: 1992-PRESENT (V.4-PRESENT)
Indexed: EBSCO Business Source Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text 1992 to present with 12 month delay)
Basement Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, this journal  is devoted to publishing articles containing research and commentary on journalism and mass communication topics.
FORMERLY JOURNALISM QUARTERLY  (1983-1994)
HOLDINGS: 1995-PRESENT (V.72-PRESENT)
Indexed:ERIC, Article First, PerAbs, Communication and Mass Media Complete (full Text from 1995 to present)
Basement Journalism and Communication Monographs
Published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, this quarterly publishes "original, scholarly works which are too long as articles and too short or too specialized for book form." It publishes works in journalism and mass communication, "whether the methodology  was historical, legal, behavioral, or whatever."
HOLDINGS: 2000-PRESENT (V2-PRESENT)
Indexed: PerAbs, EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text from 1999 to present)
  Journalism & Mass Communication Abstracts 
Published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, this annual publication contains abstracts of dissertations and theses in journalism and mass communication.  In the coming year, the Abstracts will be available at:  http://www.aejmc.org
HOLDINGS: On-Line Only
Basement Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
Published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, this quarterly is "devoted to research and commentary in Journalism and Mass Communication Education."
HOLDINGS: 2000-PRESENT (V.55-PRESENT)
Indexed:ERIC Article First, PerAbs, EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Communication Complete (Full Text from 1974 to the present)
Basement Management Communication Quarterly 
Published by Sage, this journal  "is devoted to both theory and practice in the field of organizational communication."
HOLDINGS: 1998-PRESENT (V.11#3-PRESENT) 
MICROFICHE HOLDINGS: 1992-present (V.6- present)
Indexed: ERIC, Article First,  PerAbs PsychInfo, EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete
Basement Philosophy and Rhetoric 
Published by the Pennsylvania State University Press, this journal publishes "articles on theoretical issues involving the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric (including the relationship between formal and informal logic and rhetoric), articles on philosophical aspects of argumentation (including argumentation in philosophy itself), studies of philosophical views on the nature of rhetoric held by historical figures and during historical periods, philosophical analyses of the differences between Western and non-Western rhetorics and of the relationship to rhetoric of other areas of human experience such as literature and scientific inquiry, and psychological and sociological studies of rhetoric with a strong philosophical emphasis."
HOLDINGS: 1993-PRESENT (V.26-PRESENT)
Indexed: ERIC, MLA, Article First, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text from 1968 to the present)
Basement Quarterly Journal of Speech 
Published by the National Communication Association, this quarterly journal publishes "research that is concerned with the theory and practice of human discourse."
HOLDINGS: 1915-1934 (V.1-V.20), 1938-1945 (V.24-V.31), 1947-1972 (V.33-V.58) 
1974-PRESENT (V.60-PRESENT)
Indexed: ERIC, MLA, Article First, Per Abs, Psych Info, EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text from 1928 to the present with a one year delay)
Basement Rhetoric Review
Published by the Rhetoric Review Association of America, this is a journal of rhetoric and composition, and publishes articles that "explore the history, theory, practice, and strategies of current movements in rhetoric and composition."
HOLDINGS: 1995-PRESENT (V.13 #2-PRESENT)
Indexed: EBSCO Academic Search Elite, Professional Development Collection, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text from 2001 to the present with a twelve month delay)
Basement Southern Communication Journal 
Published by the Southern Speech Communication Journal,  this journal publishes "scholarship that makes significant contributions to understanding human communication."
HOLDINGS: 1988-PRESENT (V.54-PRESENT)
Indexed: ERIC, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text from 2005 to the present with a one year delay)
Basement Small Group Research 
This is an "international and interdisciplinary journal presenting research, theoretical advancements, and empirically supported applications with respect to all types of small groups. Through advancing the systematic study of small groups, this journal seeks to increase communication among all who are professionally interested in group phenomena."
HOLDINGS: NOV. 1997-PRESENT (V.14-PRESENT) 
MICROFICHE HOLDINGS: 1993-1997 (V.24-V.28) 
Indexed: Psych Info, ERIC, Per Abs, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Selected coverage from 1990)
Basement Southwestern Mass Communication Journal 
Published by the Southwest Education Council for Journalism and Mass Communication, this semi-annual publication provides mass communication scholars from Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah and Texas with a place to report research findings.
HOLDINGS: 1999-PRESENT (V.15-PRESENT)
Indexed: ERIC
Basement Variety 
This is a weekly newspaper of the entertainment industry, and contains stories on movies, TV, and broadway plays. It also has the weekly Nielsen ratings for TV shows.
HOLDINGS: CURRENT YEAR RETAINED
Indexed: PerAbs Wilson Select
Basement Western Journal of Communication 
Published by the Western States Communication Association, this journal publishes articles that advance human understanding of human communication. 
HOLDINGS: 1993-PRESENT (V.57-PRESENT) 
Indexed: ERIC, Article First, PerAbs, PsychInfo,  Academic Search Elite, Communication and Mass Media Complete (Full Text from 1937 to present with a 12 month delay)

Step Five: Use InterLibrary Loan to obtain the article from another college library that has the journal that you want


If you have determined that you cannot locate a journal article full-text on any online database, AND the SE library does not have the journal that the article is in, then what do you do? Give up? You can, but if the article is an important one for your research, you would still like to get it, right? There is one last way for you to get a copy of this article. You can obtain a copy of an article from almost any journal by using a service called Interlibrary Loan. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service that the SE Library provides to students where you can ask (through us) another library that has the journal title that you want . The process of doing this is simple.

1. Obtain an Interlibrary loan form from the circulation desk or go to an online InterLibrary Loan form at: http://www.se.edu/lib/illjournalreq.htm for a journal article and http://www.se.edu/lib/illbookreq.htm for Interlibrary loaning a book. 2. Fill out the form, take note that those fields of the form that have an asterisk in front of them are required fields that are needed to send the information via e-mail. Click submit after filling out the form. 3. The process of receiving something from InterLibrary loan takes about 4 days to two weeks, so if InterLibrary Loans are needed,

OTHER, NON PERIODICAL INDEXES AND DATABASES
There are indexes and databases that do not contain articles to periodicals. Here are some of them:

Basement Essay and General Literature Index

This is an index to essays found in books that contains collections of essays with particular emphasis to materials in the social sciences and humanities. It begins coverage in 1900 and goes to 2002.
FirstSearch Proceedings

Contains over 149,000 citations of every congress, symposium, conference, and workshop from all over the world that was received at the British Library from October 1993 to the present. This database is updated twice a week.
FirstSearch PapersFirst

Contains citations to papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. To be included the information must have been received by the British Document Supply Center. It covers from October 1993 to the is updated monthly. It has 4.9 million records and is updated 24 times a year.
FirstSearch WorldCat

A database of over 52 million records of materials representing 400 languages, such as: books, magazines,  films, slides, journals, manuscripts, maps, musical scores,  newspapers,  videocassettes,  audio-cassettes, computer data files, and computer programs,  that have been cataloged by OCLC members worldwide.  The records cover items from 1000 BC to the present, and this database is updated daily.
FirstSearch GPO Monthly Catalog

This contains citations to 522,000 publications of the United States Government, such as: Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by an executive department  or federal agency (defense, education, justice) The database covers documents that have been published since July 1976. 


 COMMUNICATION RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET
Electronic Resources
http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm
This page contains links to electronic databases that the SE Library subscribes to or free databases that were put on this page.
Internet Resources by Subject
http://www.se.edu/lib/
This is a page that has been put together by librarians that contain a list of links to resources on the Internet by topic.
Search Tools
http://www.se.edu/lib/search3.htm
This is a page that has been put together by librarians that contain a list of links to search tools on the Internet, such as Google, Yahoo, and Librarians Internet Index.
Government Documents
http://www.se.edu/lib/govdocs/govdoc%20home.html
This is a page of links to government documents, which are documents and databases published by the United States government on many different topics. There are many useful reports and statistics published by the government on the Internet.
Yahoo-News & Media
http://www.yahoo.com 
This is a part of the Yahoo directory of Internet sites.  Type in media in the box, and a list of categories that contain media appear.
AJR Newslink
http://www.newslink.org/news.html
PubList
http://www.publist.com/
" Search our database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals. Find FREE in-depth information on familiar and hard-to-find  publications from around the world, representing thousands of topics." Can help user determine the type of journal, whether scholarly or popular.
Journalism and Mass Communication Resources
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/soc/journal/
At this site from New York University there are research guides for journalism resources, communication and media resources, cinema resources television and radio resources, government resources. There are also links to databases and electronic journals, mass media and cultural studies sites, and communication and journalism organizations and associations
Communication Theories and Theorists


RESOURCES HELPFUL IN WRITING YOUR PAPER
After you have found your information, the next step is to put it together into an essay, research paper, or report. There are several resources that the SE Library has to help in this effort.
R 808.02 L18T3 10,000 Ideas for Term Papers, Projects, Reports, and Speeches
R 808.02 T84m6 A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
This is commonly known as the Turabian style manual, because it was written by Kate L. Turabian. It is commonly used in history papers.
R 808.02 Am3p

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
This is a common style manual used in the sciences and social sciences. It is published by the American Psychological Association, and is commonly known as the APA style manual.

R 808.027 G35m

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
This style manual is used some in the humanities and english. It is commonly known as the MLA style.
R 808.042 F82L6

The Little, Brown Handbook
This is an excellent book in helping you to write better. It contains chapters on grammar, and style, tense, spelling rules, plus how to document sources.
R 808.042 C86r6 The Random House Handbook
This is a guide to good writing, and it covers how to compose whole essays, how to construct a research essay, how to support a thesis, how to construct good paragraphs, sentences, and good usage of words, punctuation, and more.
R 428.2 L98s The St. Martin's Handbook
This is a good book to use in writing a term paper, and takes you through the process of choosing a topic, gathering sources, evaluating and analyzing a resource. The next section takes you through the grammar lessons, and word usage.
808.06 How to Write Term Papers and Reports
This book takes you through the whole term paper process, from choosing your topic to how to do research, to how to write the term paper and cite your sources.
Internet General Research Information
http://www.se.edu/lib/generalresearch.htm
This is a link on the Research Aids to Library Resources Page. It contains links to sites that contain hints to doing research, how to avoid plagiarism, how to cite sources that you used in your paper, and more.
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Last Updated: June 23, 2008