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
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost)
Off-Campus Access
ASP is a multidisciplinary database providing 894 journals under the subject of Communication. More InformationArt & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
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 informationBlackwell - Synergy
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 InformationCambridge Journals Online
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 InformationERIC (EbscoHost)
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 InformationJSTOR 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 InformationOxford University Press Journals
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 InformationMasterFILE Premier
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 InformationProquest: ABI Inform Global (ABI)
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 InformationProfessional Development Collection
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
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
Off-Campus Access
SAGE Journals Online includes nearly 400 journals in the social sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and life sciences. More InformationScienceDirect
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 informationSpringerLink
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 informationTaylor & Francis
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 informationWeb of Science
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 informationWiley InterScience
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.![]()
EBRARY Off-Campus Access
Ebrary is an aggregator with a growing multidisciplinary collection. It provides 18,927 titles in total.
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- Communication Theory
- Computational Linguistics
- Critical Studies in Media Communication
- European Journal of Communication Online access is limited to subscription period (01/01/2001-31/12/2001)
- Journal of Communication
Try also other e-journals in Communication from databases.
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- Assays
- Critical Studies in Media Communication: A Publication of the Speech Comm...
- Communication Research
- Discourse processes
- International Journal of Intercultural Relations
- Journal of Media Economics
- Journalism Abstracts
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Dictionaries:
- A thesaurus of word roots of the English language
- Abbreviations dictionary
- Acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations dictionary
- American Heritage dictionary of American quotations
- Barnhart abbreviations dictionary
- Brewer's dictionary of modern phrase & fable
- Cassell dictionary and thesaurus
- Doubter's companion: a dictionary of aggressive common sense
- Elsevier's dictionary of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, and symbols
- From talking drums to the Internet: an encyclopedia of communications technology
- Homophones and homographs: an American dictionary
- Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society
- Little Oxford: thesaurus
- Merriam-Webster thesaurus
- Merriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage
- Oxford: companion to women's writing in the United States
- Oxford: desk dictionary and thesaurus
- Oxford: dictionary of abbreviations
- Oxford: dictionary of political quotations
- Oxford: thesaurus
- Random House Webster's college thesaurus
- Roget's international thesaurus
- Twentieth-century Caribbean and Black African writers: Third series
- Usage and abusage: a guide to good English
- Webster's new world dictionary and thesaurus
- Webster's new world dictionary of media and communications
- Write right! : a desktop digest of punctuation, grammar, and style
Encyclopedias:
Handbooks and others:
- Communication and the mass media: a guide to reference literature
- Handbook of scripts and alphabets
- Introduction to professional newswriting: reporting for the modern media
- Magazine article: how to think it, plan it, write it
- Prentice Hall handbook for writers
- Professional news reporting
- Reporter's handbook: an investigator's guide to documents and techniques
- Show makers: great directors of the American musical theater
- Webster's new world dictionary of media and communications
- Writing academic English: a writing and sentence structure handbook
- Communication yearbook
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- Better together than apart [videorecording] : intercultural communication
- Chansen : bilder aus der Arbeitswelt [videorecording]
- Don Gabor's talking with confidence [videorecording] : a guide to starting, continuing….
- Effective presentation skills administrator’s guide [videorecording]
- GRE verbal and analytical review [videorecording] : for the general exam
- Kontakt Deutsc [videorecording] : Deutsch fur berufliche situationen
- Le français des affaires : par la video [videorecording]
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Associations & Organizations
- American Communication Association:
- National Communication Association:
- International Communication Association Online
Area Studies
- Communication Studies Resources – University of Iowa:
- Communication Studies, Cultural Studies and Media Studies
- Studies of the Mass Mediums
Miscellaneous
- Grammar and Writing:
- Purdue Online Writing Lab:
- Net Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences
- Communciations Skills Test
- A Guide to Speech-language Pathology and Audiology Resources on the Internet
- Online Guide to Researchers, Books, Papers, Journals, Research Centers, and more
- Cooperative Communication Skills:
- Resources on Communication Theory(General Semantics, Semiotics, Cognitive Science, Rhetoric)