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English/Communication

  Your Subject Librarian is John Baken. He can be reached at 314-719-8088.

Books

Subject Search for "Communication": Provides more specific search terms. Click on link for titles in our collection.

Background Information

Oxford English Dictionary

• This historical dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language tracing the usage of words over the past 1000 years.

• Subjects: Linguistics and its history.

Oxford Reference Premium

• This reference source contains full-text entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, chronologies, and images, including bi-lingual dictionaries.

• Subjects: All areas of academic study.

For Articles

Communication & Mass Media Complete   

• This EBSCO database contains a periodical index providing access to over 690 journals (380 in full-text) and over 5,000 author profiles.

• Subjects: Communication, mass media and other closely-related fields of study.

Humanities International

• This resource from EBSCO provides full text of more than 1,200 journals,along with books and other published sources from around the world.

• Subjects: includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. 

JSTOR (Arts & Science I-IV)

• This archival database contains the full-text of scholarly journals from volume 1, issue 1 of each title along with previous and related titles. The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are generally not available; however, current issues for 150 journals are included.

• Subjects: Science, ethnic & multicultural studies, business, law, mathematics, language & literature, psychology, religion and women's studies.

MLA International Bibliography  

• This EBSCO database contains over 2.2 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and 1,000 book publishers, many international in scope.

• Subjects: Literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, rhetoric and composition, theory and practice of teaching language and literature and the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

Points of View Reference Center

• This EBSCO full-text database provides hundreds of essays, presenting multiple sides of current issues along with thousands of supporting articles.

• Subjects: Topics from Animal Welfare to Women’s Issues and everything in between.

Websites

Project Gutenberg

• Online access to works that have passed out of copyright protection.

Reading: Harvard Views

• An online exploration of the intellectual, cultural, and political history of reading as reflected in the historical holdings of the Harvard Libraries. 

   

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