COMMUNICATIONS
& THEATRE ARTS
Resources
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Grasselli Library
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Breen Learning Center


DATABASES
These electronic databases, selected from the library's collection, are particularly useful for getting started in studying and researching communications topics in general. A student researching a topic for Communications courses should consult the appropriate subject listing on the Subject List of Databases.
  • Business Source Complete
           A selected full text database of scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, and international business.
  • Communication & Mass Media Complete
           Index, abstracts, and full text for journals in communication and mass media. Includes or has links to full text.
  • ComAbstracts
            Abstracts 40 titles and one full text journal in the field of Communications.
  • ComIndex
            For use in the library only, ComIndex provides citations to 90 journals in the field of Communications.
  • CQ Researcher
            Full text of Congressional Quarterly's reports on current and controversial issues.
  • CQ Weekly
           Full text of legislative news and analysis from Congressional Quarterly.
  • International Bibliography of Theater and Dance
           Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs.
  • PsycINFO
           Citations to articles and book chapters in psychology and related fields from 1964-

SELECTED SUBJECT RESOURCES

BIOGRAPHY

Online:

In the Reference Area:

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Online:

In the Reference Area:

GENERAL

  • DWM: a directory of women's media. 1992. (Ref AAZ7962 .D57)
  • The Essential researcher. 1993. (Ref AG105 .C86)
  • Gale directory of publications and broadcast media. 134th ed., 2000. (Ref AAZ 6951 .G35)
  • The Iowa guide: scholarly journals in mass communication and related fields 8th ed. 1999 (Ref AAZ5633 .D94 1999)
  • The Media and morality. 1999. (P94 .M353)
  • The newspapers handbook. 2d ed. 1998. (Ref PN4783 .K44 1998)
  • Picture researcher's handbook. 5th ed. 1992. (Ref N4000 .E8 1992)
  • Radio reseearch: an annotated bibliography, 1975-1988. 2d ed. 1989. (Ref AAZ7224.G7 L36 1989)
  • Special edition: a guide to network television documentary series and special news reports,1980-1989. 1997. (Ref PN1992.8.D6 E56)
  • Theatre annual. 1944- (PN2012 .T5)
  • Theatre world. 1980- (PN2277.N5 A175)
  • World media handbook. 1995. (Ref P88.8 .W66)
    • STYLEBOOKS
    SELECTED JOURNALS

    INTERNET RESOURCES

    The following are links to some important sites on the Internet dealing with Communications. As do many sites on the WWW, they will lead to other useful sites that can be bookmarked.
    • Communication Studies Center
             The American Communication Association's Communication Studies Center is an annotated collection of communication-related hyperlinks organized by subfields within the commmunication discipline with the goal of providing a centralized index of web resources on Communication research and practice.
    • Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
             Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. It is intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at Northwestern University.
    • Media and Communication Studies Site
             The MCS (pronounced 'mix') site is a British-based gateway to Web resources useful in the academic study of media and communication. This site is what is sometimes called a 'meta-index' to its topic area. A key purpose of such thematic indexes is to act as a 'first stop' in exploring what is available on a topic on the Web.
    • University of Iowa Communication Studies Resources
              An extensive, alphabetical list of links to communication resources from the University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies.

    The "Communications Resources Page" is maintained by Ruth Connell, Library Liaison for the Department of Communications & Theatre Arts at John Carroll University. Send comments to connell@jcu.edu
    Last updated August 2006.