Communication: General Resources

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
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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 19 years.
See Mental Measurements Yearbook for more instruments, mostly psychological in nature
Communication Research Measures II: A Sourcebook
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Reserve: P91.3 .C623 2009
Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes
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Main Stacks: BF698.4 .M38 1990
See also other books of meaures on reserve for COMM 300:
  • Positive psychological assessement: BF176 .P67 2003
  • The sourcebook of nonverbal measures: P99.5 .S58 2005
  • Measures for clinical practice (2 vols): BF 176 .C66 2007

  • James McCroskey's list of Communication Research Measures

    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).
    Lexis-Nexis Academic - - indexes many newspapers back as far as 20 years; almost all full text

    SocINDEX - covers major journals in the field of sociology
    PsycInfo - Psychological Abstracts online, 1967-
    Business Source Complete - Extensive index to business and management periodicals; some full text

    See also All Indexes & Databases.

    III.   Locating Journals:

    At Wittenberg:

    Journals the Library Has - searchable list of print and electronic titles available at Witt
    EZRA, the library catalog

    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 Sources - is this content you can trust?

    V. Statistics:

    VI. People Resources:

    For help by e-mail, contact Kristen Peters,who is library liaison with the Communication Department.  You could also phone her at 937-327-7533 with a quick question or to set up an appointment for an individual consultation.  Or, stop by the library, phone the reference desk at 937-327-7511, or send e-mail to the reference desk.



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