LibGuides: .Communication Studies: Start Here

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Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides research solutions in areas related to communication and mass media; for students, researchers, and educators. Some articles need to be requested through interlibrary loan, but a significant amount of full text articles are immediately available.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study. It provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
ComAbstracts This link opens in a new window
Citations and Abstracts only. Includes more than 28,000 article and book abstracts and bibliographic records from the professional literature of the communication field.

View All Oregon Tech Databases
Communication Studies often overlaps with a specific field being written about. Use this link to see a list of all of our article databases, with the option to filter them by the subject you are writing about.

CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Includes the weekly 44 issues per year of CQ Researcher, which provides a balanced, in-depth analysis of contemporary, controversial topics of the day. Each issue is written by a veteran journalist, and includes pro and con arguments by experts, a chronology, and annotated bibliography. Covers from 1991 present.

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
This collection of over 66,000 video titles spans a wide range of subject areas such as: business, counseling, health, engineering, or psychology. You will find videos of lectures, of trainings, of demonstrations, from documentaries, and from TV. Most films include limited public performance rights.