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: Search inside the book @ Amazon; 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: Search inside the book @ Amazon; Reserve: P91.3 .C623 2009
Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes: Search inside the book @ Amazon; 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

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:

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 Abstract of the U.S. - source of statistics on the social, political and economic conditions of the U.S.
Statistical Insight - a source of general statistics
Statistical Portrait of the United States: Social Conditions & Trends Ref. HA214.S73 1998

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