Communication: General Resources

Communication: General Resources
Spring Semester 2008

I. Books:

EZRA- Catalog of books and other materials in Wittenberg's library

OhioLINK- Combined catalog of more than 70 Ohio academic libraries

Communication Research Measures: A Sourcebook: Reserve: P 91.3 .C62 2004; A guide to existing scales, surveys and other instruments used in communication research. Note, despite the 2004 copyright, this is reprint of a 1994 volume, so this does not include new measures from the last 14 years.; See Mental Measurements Yearbook for more instruments, mostly psychological in nature
Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes: Main Stacks: BF698.4 .M38 1990

II. Databases for Finding Journal and Newspaper Articles: Some Places to Start:

Communication & Mass Media Complete - Indexing and some full text for articles in communication.

ComAbstracts - Basic index to journal articles on communication

Academic Search Complete - indexes about 1800 periodicals; full text for many. Includes academic journals as well as popular magazines.

Social Science Citation Index - indexes and abstracts of articles in the social scieces, including links to related articles (citing or cited by the article in question).

Wilson Indexes - includes Social Sciences Index, Humanities Index, and the General Science Index. Contains only academic articles. Full text for many articles beginning in 1995.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - General News Topics - indexes many newspapers back as far as 20 years; almost all full text

Sociological Abstracts - 1963-

PsycInfo - Psychological Abstracts online, 1967-

Business Source Premier (1971- ) - Extensive index to business and management periodicals; some full text

P.A.I.S - Public Affairs Information Service

III. Locating Journals:

At Wittenberg:

Journals the Library Has - searchable list of print and electronic titles available at Witt -- see particularly our list Communication Journals
EZRA, the library catalog
Periodicals Holdings List (PHiL - blue folders in Reference and in 1st floor periodicals area)

At other Ohio academic libraries:

OhioLINK Central Catalog (Note: you cannot get periodicals via OhioLINK; use Interlibrary Loan instead.)

VI. Evaluating and Citing Resources

Scholarly v. Popular Articles - what is the difference and why should you care

Evaluating Web Sites - is this content you can trust?

Citing Electronic Resources - credit where credit is due (and in the right format!)

V. Statistics:

University of Michigan Documents Center Statistical Resources on the Web
The United States Census Site. From here you can click on the Related Sites box for links to State Data Centers and Fedstats, which has links to more than 70 statistical agencies
Statistical Universe - a source of general statistics
STAT-USA - Business, trade, and economic statistics from the US Department of Commerce
Atlas of American Society Ref. HN60 .A5 1995
Statistical Portrait of the United States: Social Conditions & Trends Ref. HA214.S73 1998

VI. People Resources:

For help by e-mail, contact Ken Irwin,who is library liaison with the Communication Department. You could also phone him at 327-7594 with a quick question or to set up an appointment for an individual consultation. Or, stop by the library, phone the reference desk at 327-7511, or send e-mail to the reference desk.

Compiled by Ken Irwin, based on earlier work by Gina Entorf, Wittenberg University Library

Communication: General Resources Spring Semester 2008