Online Encyclopedia

• Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
  Detailed compendium of personal, group, mass-media, and internet communication for those interested in how communication affects our lives.

Key Databases

• ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection
  This multidisciplinary database includes articles from scholarly journals and the popular press. Search topics on the newspaper industry, journalism, polls and surveys, interpersonal communications, employee relations and more.

Streaming Video

• Films on Demand: Communication Video Collection
  Over 800 videos on human communication, interpersonal and group communication, advertising and public relations, broadcasting, digital media, film studies, film, video & audio production, journalism, publishing, media & society.

Other Resources

• Academic Search Complete
  Over 6,400 active, full-text journals, more than 5,700 of which are peer reviewed titles, providing access to critical information on all topics, including Communication, unique to this database.
• ERIC
  Coverage of topics like speech communication, computer mediated communication, nonverbal communication and interpersonal communication.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: Social Sciences
  Search doctoral dissertations and masters theses for communication topics.

Historic Newspapers

• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
  Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 by keyword and limit results by state, date range, or publication. From the Library of Congress.
• Early U.S. History: Nineteenth Century Newspapers
  Full text editions of early nineteenth century regional newspapers, mostly from the south.
• Google News: Newspapers
  Search archive of newspapers dating back to the 18th century by keyword, date, region, and publication.
• New York Times Archives
  Searchable archive of the New York Times from 1851 to 2002. Contact the library for full text access.