Subject Guides: COMM 735: Communication Theory: Home

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Welcome to the guide!

This guide has been created to address the research and information needs of students in Prof. Erba's COMM 735 course, "Communication Theory."

This guide provides information about:

Getting Started with a communication-focused paper topic;
Core resources for scholarly & professional literatre.

Professional & Scholarly Publications

For other subject-specific database suggestions, browse the Library's databases by subject page.

ABI/Inform (Business and Management) This link opens in a new window
Contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and full text of articles appearing in international business and management publications, academic journals, and trade magazines published worldwide.
ComAbstracts (CIOS) This link opens in a new window
Contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field, including 150+ journals. Affiliated with the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS) non-profit.
Communication Source This link opens in a new window
Developed from a merger of Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communications Abstracts, Communication Source offers worldwide full-text content pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields and includes many unique sources previously not available.
PsycINFO (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Coverage is from 1952 to the present.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is a major political science index providing citations and abstracts to journal articles, book chapters, books, and websites on subjects including international relations, law, and public administration and policy. Dating from 1975 and updated monthly, the WPSA is built on two indices: Political Science Abstracts and ABC POLSCI. Roughly 1,510 titles are being monitored for coverage; of these, 67% are published outside the United States.

Other Useful Databases

Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Contains bibliographic and citation information for 3,000 international scholarly journals across 50 disciplines.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
A citation and abstract database for peer-reviewed research literature, primarily in the sciences and social sciences.
Dissertations and Theses (American University-authored) This link opens in a new window
Access full text of dissertations and theses in PDF format authored by American students. Access includes digitized and electronic dissertations and theses from 1916 until present. To see other formats, check our library catalog.
SAGE Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of books, journal articles, case studies, videos and reference materials published by SAGE Publications on research methods and design. Includes Sage Research Video: Market Research; Practical Research and Academic Skills; Data Science, and Big Data Analytics, and Digital Methods.