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Subject Librarian: Kimberly Clarke E-Mail: clark078@tc.umn.edu The subject of communication covers interpersonal, small group, organizational and intercultural communication; rhetoric and public address; nonverbal communication; discourse analysis; and mass media. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
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Communication and Mass Media Complete    Find academic journal articles on topics in mass media, film, television, marketing, and communications in business, health, and other communication studies.
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Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| EBSCO MegaFILE This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education Save time and search all four EBSCO databases at once. The EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of the complete content and functionality of Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Film and Television Literature Index with Full-Text This database can be used to find research articles on film studies' topics. List of titles included. Aspects covered include theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, reviews (back to 1914) and more. The database allows full searching of more than 270 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Articles are available for more than 80 journals and texts from nearly 50 books. If the article you are interested in is not available online, click the Find It-button to see if the article is available in another library database, or to see if the library has the article in print.
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| FMG On Demand - Film Media Group Films OnDemand provides access to streaming video on a wide range of discipline areas from Arts & Humanities to Professional Programs (e.g., Nursing, Business).
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| Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
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| PsycINFO Covers all areas of psychology. Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles from more than 1300 international journals in psychology and related fields. In addition, PsycINFO covers books, book chapters, and dissertations.
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| Sociological Abstracts This core database for the field of sociology contains information on sociology and social policy worldwide. Sociological Abstracts includes citations from the 1952-present.
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| Theses Canada Search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965.
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| Web of Science (ISI) Indexes over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk(*).
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. Need some Lexis-Nexis searching help? Try our guided exercise on Searching LexisNexis Academic or take a look at this guide to finding transcripts in LexisNexis.
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| MasterFile Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| PCI: Periodicals Contents Index This title has changed its name to Periodicals Index Online.
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| ProQuest Newspapers This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. ProQuest Newspapers provides indexing and abstracting for 150 full-text titles, plus another 200 regional news sources. Full-text titles include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Christian, Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other newspapers of record. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Indexes, Other
| Gallup Brain The Gallup Brain is a searchable database providing a record of more than 70 years of public opinion information. The Gallup Brain provides full-text answers to more than 125,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935. This poll database also houses current Gallup Poll News Service articles that feature the latest in-depth poll analyses and replicas of news stories and press releases linked to the surveys.
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| Index To Theses accepted for higher degrees in the universities of Great Britain and Ireland [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Designed to promote access to scholarly research and increase sharing of knowledge, this database provides free online access to thousands of theses and dissertations from all over the world.
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| Polling the Nations Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 500,000+ questions and responses, from 14,000+ surveys, conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world.
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| Television News Archive The Television News Archive available from Vanderbilt University, is an index to more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC (August 1968 - present), and CNN daily news (1995 - present). Also, there are more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since September 1988. University faculty, staff, and students can view online video from the Archive's collection of CNN material; copies or compilations of other site material can be ordered for a cost-recovery fee paid to Vanderbilt. Note: 60 Minutes, 20/20, and other news magazine programs are not included here.
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| Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Lists information for over a quarter-million serial records such as newspapers, popular and trade magazines, and academic and scholarly journals. Includes active, ceased, and forthcoming publications. Search by title, subject and more.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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| WorldCat This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, theses/dissertations, and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 65 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources
| American Orators of the Twentieth Century |
| Biography and Genealogy Master Index A comprehensive index to more than 12 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering over 4 million contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
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| Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Journalists [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Who's Who in the Media and Communications [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Dictionaries
| Communication Handbook: A Dictionary Briefly defines more than 2,000 terms, with extended essays on 100 additional terms relating to communication theory and practical communication tasks such as public speaking.
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| Communications Standard Dictionary Terms and definitions in the science and technology of communications.
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| Dictionary of Media & Communication Studies [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Directories
| Speech Communication Directory [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Dissertations and Theses
| Center for Research Libraries Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database This database is no longer being updated. The titles included in this database as well as almost 600,000 other dissertation titles are cataloged in CRL’s catalog and in OCLC’s Worldcat. We update our catalog and Worldcat daily.
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| Digital Dissertations Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities: http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/CICUniversities.shtml [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Encyclopedia of Television, Cable, and Video [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| International Encyclopedia of Communications 1989 Provides information on all aspects of communication, including speech, language, mass media, communication theory and technology as well as biographical information and
references.
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| Mass Media: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Televison... [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
| Communication and the Mass Media: A Guide to the Reference Literature |
| Mass Media Bibliography: An Annotated Guide to Books and Journals for Research and Reference [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites
| Communication Institute for Online Scholarship http://www.cios.org/ Provides access to thousands of files in the resource library, dozens of scholarly conference, bibliographic indexes to professional literature in communication and to the ComAbstracts database. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Listservs and Discussion Groups
Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Journal Titles
| Iowa Guide: Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields Now available online, this publication helps scholars find appropriate journals in which to publish their work and offers advice on how to prepare manuscripts for publication.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals
| Bibliographic Formats and Descriptions Provides citation format samples from major style guides: the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers; Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA); compiled by the University of Houston Libraries.
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| MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, educators, and professionals in psychology, sociology, business, economics, nursing, social work, and justice administration.
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Writing Guides
| Center for Writing The Rhetoric Department, English Department, Center for the Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing and the General College Writing Center
have come together to bring you writing support in one place.
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Library Information
Primary Subject Location
Wilson Library
Wilson Library houses the main humanities and social sciences collections of the University Libraries.
Campus: West Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: 309 19th Ave. S.
Telephone: Reference: 612-626-2227; Circulation: 612-624-3321
Main URL: http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/
Reference URL: http://infopoint.lib.umn.edu/
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/OMWL/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/wilson/hours
Secondary Subject Location(s)
Journalism Library (Eric Sevareid)
Journalism, advertising, public relations, visual communication, and general mass media studies; Heggen library on creative writing.
Campus: East Bank, Minneapolis
Address: 20 Murphy Hall
Telephone: 612-625-7892
Main URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/journalism/
Reference URL: http://infopoint.lib.umn.edu/
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/MurH/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/journalism/hours
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