SUBJECT GUIDE TO COMMUNICATION


This guide aims at providing you with a compiled list of resources, which are relevant to Communication. Online databases with their short annotations, print and electronic journals, reference resources, etc. available in SKL constitute this subject guide.

Online Databases/E-books
Electronic/Print Journals
Reference Materials (Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Guides, etc.)
AV Materials
New Books
Internet Resources

For detailed information, please contact with:
Duygu Kızılaslan
Reference Librarian- Arts & Humanities Collection
Email: dkizilaslan@ku.edu.tr
Ext: 1225

ONLINE DATABASES

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost) How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
ASP is a multidisciplinary database providing 894 journals under the subject of Communication. More Information

Art & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)   How to Set Alert Services  Off-Campus Access
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. More information

Blackwell - Synergy   How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
Blackwell Synergy is the online journals service from Blackwell Publishing providing full-text access to 291 journals in Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences while it contains nearly 325.000 articles to search from 697 Blackwell's journals. More Information

Cambridge Journals Online   How to Set Alert Services  Off-Campus Access
Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) provides full text for 175 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities since 1990 to present with reference linking via crossref where applicable. It has alert option to keep you abreast in your research field as well as in many databases to which SKL already subscribed. More Information

ERIC (EbscoHost)   How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
ERIC, the U.S. Department of Education Educational Resource Information Center database, contains citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational journals, as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests. More Information

JSTOR   Off-Campus Access
JSTOR (Journal STORage) offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections. It is a unique digital archive starting with the very first issues from 1800s, enabling full-image access all the titles in the Arts & Sciences I, II, III, and IV Collections and the General Science Collection Business, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics, and Music Collections. The Arts & Sciences Collections represent the building blocks of a single interdisciplinary archive of over six hundred journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. More Information

Oxford University Press Journals   How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
OUP covers 167 full text titles available online in Science Technical Medical (STM), Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, and Professional Studies. It has alert service that provides table of contents from all Oxford journals. Its archival access goes back to 1995. More Information

MasterFILE Premier   How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 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 nearly 450 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. More Information

Proquest: ABI Inform Global (ABI)   How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
With more than 1.6 million entries, UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database is the one central, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. More Information

Professional Development Collection  How to Set Alert Services Off-Campus Access
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full text education journals in the world. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 900 journals.

Religion and Philosophy Collection  How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. This database is updated daily via EBSCO.

Sage Journals Online   How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
SAGE Journals Online includes nearly 400 journals in the social sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and life sciences. More Information

ScienceDirect  How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
ScienceDirect, a database of Elsevier Science, provides scientific information offering access to the full text of 200 peer reviewed journals in Social Sciences. More information

SpringerLink   How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
It provides online, full-text access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other publishers.SpringerLink also provides electronic supplementary materials such as color images, simulations, video and sound, etc. Subjects includes also sociology of economics while the database covers life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics,medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics. Users may sign up for table of contents alerts, keyword alerts, and subject area alerts More information

Taylor & Francis   How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
Taylor & Francis provides online access to Taylor & Francis titles across the social sciences and humanities, science, technology and medicine. An online alerting service (SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting-) is designed to deliver tables of contents for any issue by email or on user’s own tailored page to anyone. Taylor & Francis is also participator of CrossRef Search Pilot, which provides scholars with cross-publisher reference linking across 29 leading journal publishers with free full text searchability.  More information

Web of Science   How to Set Alert Services   Off-Campus Access
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. More information

Wiley InterScience   How to Set Alert Services  Off-Campus Access
Wiley InterScience is the dynamic online content service from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., delivering the full text of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals in different subject fields as business, finance & management, chemistry, computer science, education, engineering, law, life and medical sciences, mathematics and statistics, physics, and psychology.

E-BOOKS

EBRARY  Off-Campus Access
Ebrary is an aggregator with a growing multidisciplinary collection. It provides 18,927 titles in total.



ELECTRONIC JOURNALS



PRINT JOURNALS



REFERENCE MATERIALS

Dictionaries:

Encyclopedias:

Handbooks and others:


AV MATERIALS


NEW BOOKS

To display the new books added to the Communication Collection, click here

INTERNET RESOURCES

Associations & Organizations

Area Studies

Miscellaneous