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ComAbstracts

Abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field.

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Alternative Press Index

Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change.

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Covers 1991 to present; 1969-1990 is covered in the Archive.

CIOS

A not-for-profit organization supporting the use of computer technologies in the service of communication scholarship and education. Available are the back issues of a dozen communication journals and more than 4,500 electronic files such as communication bibliographies, syllabi, journal articles, research tools, descriptions of graduate programs, and the archives of CIOS/Comserve hotline dialogue.

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Film Literature Index Online

”A joint project between
SUNY Albany Film and Television Documentation Program and Indiana University Digital Library Program, FLI annually indexes the full contents of 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries, as well as selectively indexes the contents of 200 other periodicals which have articles on film and television. Includes scholarly and popular periodicals. Contains over 700,000 citations to articles, book reviews, and film reviews.”

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Articles, book reviews and film reviews published between 1976 and 2001.

LexisNexis® Academic

News, business, and legal information. Indexes legal periodicals and law reviews; federal and state case law; federal, state and European codes and regulations; U.S. tax law; patents; legal career resources.
Detailed company financial information from sources such as Disclosure and Standard & Poor's. Also accounting and income tax regulations, articles and other accounting sources.

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Full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Provides information on social issues, including viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

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Points of View Reference Center

A full-text database with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), and counterpoint (opposing argument).

ProQuest National Newspapers Premier

Includes a balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text. Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across the U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver Post, The Sacramento Bee plus other important U.S. papers.

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Varies by publication.

PsycINFO (CSA)

The most complete listing of scholarly publications in psychology and related fields. Provides references to and summaries of scholarly journal articles, books, book chapters,and dissertations. Updated monthly.

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References to journal articles, 1840 - present.
References to books, book chapters, and dissertations, 1987 - present.

SAGE Journals Online

”SAGE publishes more than 485 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.”

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Sociological Abstracts

The most complete database for scholarly works in sociology and related disciplines. Provides citations and summaries for articles, dissertations, books and association papers (most of which are unobtainable) in sociology and related disciplines. International in scope. Updated monthly.

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Citations are available from 1963 to the present; summaries for articles from 1974 to the present.

American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches

THE TOP 100 SPEECHES is an index to and partial database of full text transcriptions of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according to a list compiled by Professors Stephen E. Lucas and Martin J. Medhurst. Dr. Lucas is Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Medhurst is Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Baylor University (Texas). 137 leading scholars of American public address were asked to recommend speeches on the basis of social and political impact, and rhetorical artistry.

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netLibrary

8,000 recently published books, including scholarly, reference, and professional titles. More than 3,400 classic titles are also available.

You may actively view the full-text eContent (turning pages, searching within the full-text, etc.) in 15-minute increments. If you are not actively viewing an item, it returns to the collection for someone else to view.

If you create an account you may make a list of Favorites, make notes in individual full-text eContent items, and customize your account preferences.

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Guide to Public Opinion Poll Websites: Polling Data from around the World

A featured article from C&RL News, October 2006, that suggests some of the best internet resources regarding worldwide polling data.

MRI+

Provides demographic data on magazine, cable television,
Internet access, and online services subscriptions by consumers. Useful for
planning media campaigns.
Registration required (free).

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Pew Internet & American Life Project

The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through collection of data and analysis of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world.

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Statistical Abstract of the United States

Statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included.

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Glossary of Social Science

An A-Z list of definitions in the social sciences. Created by Dr. Frank W. Elwell of Rogers State University.

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Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences

A searchable A-Z list of definitions in the social sciences.

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Encyclopedia of Communication and Information

Jorge Reina Schement, Ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 1161 pp. 3 vols.

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Explores the full spectrum of communication, from careers to information technologies, in an interdisciplinary fashion. Emphasis is on both historical and current issues, topics, and people.

Encyclopedia of Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Steven Rogelberg, Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2007. 950 pp. 2 vols.

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Introductions to and coverage of almost every topic currently studied by I/O psychologists.

Encyclopedia of Sociology

Provides an in-depth look at major sociology topics.

Edgar F. Borgatta and Rhonda J.V. Montgomery, Eds. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2001. 3481 pp. 5 vols.

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Encyclopedia of World Biography

7,000 biographies on notables from every part of the world and from all time periods. Includes thousands of photos.

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St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, Eds. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. 3065 pp. 5 vols.

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Includes more than 2,700 signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and, where appropriate, photographs and textual cross-references to related essays.

World Factbook

Provides detailed "country profiles" for most countries in the world.

Ad*Access

Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.

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Browse through the categories or do searching by keyword or subject. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals

Lists open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

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All subject areas and languages are covered.

SAGE Journals Online

”SAGE publishes more than 485 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.”

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American Communication Association

The ACA is a not-for-profit virtual professional association with actual presence in the world of communication scholars and practitioners. Features include the association listserv, a membership directory, mission statement and COMM Wiki.

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Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

”The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
is a non-profit, educational association of journalism and mass communication faculty, administrators, students and media professionals.
Founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1912,
AEJMC has some 3,500 members around the world.”

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Society of Professional Journalists

”The Society of Professional Journalists is the nation’s most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior. Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to a well-informed citizenry through the daily work of its nearly 10,000 members; works to inspire and educate current and future journalists through professional development; and protects First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press through its advocacy efforts.”

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Television News Archive

world's most extensive and complete archive of television news.

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Business Ethics: From Oxymoron to Defining Issue of 21st-Century Business

A featured article from C&RL News, June 2006, that suggests some of the best internet resources related to business ethics.

Cultivating Your Leadership Skills: Online Resources to Develop and Strengthen Your Leadership Role

A featured article from C&RL News, November 2006, that suggests some of the best internet resources for recognizing and strengthening leadership skills.

Journalism: Resources from Advocacy to Media Watchdogs

A featured article from C&RL News, March 2006, that suggests some of the best internet resources related to journalism.

Media History Project

An event timeline, article archive and quiz all chronicle the changes in media from prehistoric times to the present.

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Virtual Library: Communications and Media

Includes useful links in several areas of communication.

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Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. 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.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles