Subject Resources

Good Starting Points

ComAbstracts (from CIOS)
Provides the most comprehensive coverage of the communication discipline's first line scholarship.  more info

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

Communications Electronic Journals
Selected titles in communications from the Consortium Library's Electronic Journals Collection.  more info

More Databases

Social Sciences Citation Index
Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.  more info

ArticleFIRST
Index of articles from the contents pages of journals.  more info

FindArticles.com
Contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals  more info

LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, and reference publications.  more info

TOPICsearch
Current events database.  more info

Wilson Select Plus
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

Recommended Web Sites

American Communication Association
The official ACA site.  more info

Debate Central
Provided by Alfred C. Snider and the University of Vermont.  more info

Gifts of Speech
Women's speeches from around the world.  more info

Great American Speeches
Eighty years of political oratory.  more info

Virtual Presentation Assistant
Online tutorial for improving public speaking skills.  more info

Selected Print and CD-ROM

Speech index : an index to 259 collections of world famous o
By Roberta Briggs Sutton.  more info

Women in Communication
Edited by Nancy Signorielli ; foreword by Alan M. Rubin.  more info