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Research Guides: Communication



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Articles in Journals/Magazines

Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications.

Alternative Press Index On campus use only
Indexes nearly 290 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, and social change.

Article First On campus use only
General periodical index based on tables of contents.

Business & Industry On campus use only
Facts, figures and news on international companies and markets.

Business Dateline On campus use only
References to businesses from regional publications.

Business Organizations On campus use only
Directory of business and industrial organizations.

Business Source Premier (EBSCO) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Provides full text for over 2,710 scholarly business journals. **A new interface provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research.

Business Wire News (EBSCO) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
A full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world.

Consumer Index On campus use only
Abstracts on consumerism and consumer protection.

JSTOR Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Full-text back runs of major academic journals. The Arts & Sciences I Collection, to which Millsaps subscribes, includes the complete back runs of 117 titles in 15 disciplines. Established in 1997, it is JSTOR's first collection and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

Media Review Digest On campus use only Some full text available
Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources.

MLA Bibliography Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Modern Language Association's International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations.

Project Muse Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
Index and full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Project MUSE offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

PsycARTICLES Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
PsycARTICLES contains more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 35,000 searchable full text articles from 41 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Examples of titles offered in PsycARTICLES include: American Psychologist, Behavioral Neuroscience, Canadian Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychotherapy: Theory/Research/Practice/Training, etc. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present.

PsycINFO Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Index and abstracts to psychology and related journals. PsycINFO contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1872 to the present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Examples of titles offered in PsycINFO include: Academic Medicine, Academic Psychiatry, Behavior Genetics, Behavioral Disorders, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Journal of Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychological Assessment, Psychological Medicine, etc.

SIRS Researcher On campus use only
Index of articles on social, political, historic and global issues. (Social Issues Resources Series, Inc.)

Social Services Abstracts Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

SocINDEX with Full Text Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 2,035,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 746 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 800 books and monographs, and full text for 11,991 conference papers.

SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.

Newspapers

Clarion Ledger Indexes Unrestricted Resource
Index to the Clarion-Ledger newspaper compiled by Eudora Welty Library staff.

The New York Times Online (1980 – present) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The complete text of articles back to 1980 is provided in text format. The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine are provided in PDF format.

New York Times Online Newstand Edition Unrestricted Resource Some full text available
(December 18, 2007 - today) A searchable image of the New York Times is available online. This shows the full page of the print version including the photos, graphics and the article text.

Newspaper Abstracts On campus use only
Abstracts from over 50 national and regional newspapers. Items from national and regional newspapers: news articles; reviews; editorials; commentaries; editorial cartoons. Included are the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Houston Post, Los Angeles Times, and others. Dates covered are 1989 to present.

The Wall Street Journal Online (1984 - present) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The complete text of Wall Street Journal articles back to 1984 is provided in text format.

Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series.

Government Information

GPO Access -- Federal Government Information Unrestricted Resource
Full text access to Federal government information.

Organizations

International Communication Association Unrestricted Resource
ICA is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching, and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication.

National Communication Association Unrestricted Resource
NCA is the oldest and largest national organization to promote communication scholarship and education.

Public Relations Society of America Unrestricted Resource
The world's largest organization for public relations professionals.

Primary Sources

Britannica's Original Sources Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Some full text available
The site includes original source documents, critical selections and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature, Social Science, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Philosophy, and Language.

Print Reference Sources

Dictionary of Marketing Terms
Call Number: --Reference HF5415.D4874 1995
On campus use only Some full text available

Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age--
Call Number: Reference PN172.E53 1996
On campus use only Some full text available

International Marketing Data and Statistics
Call Number: --Reference HA42.I56
On campus use only Some full text available

Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing & Advertising
Call Number: --Reference HF5415.B273 1984
On campus use only Some full text available

The Encyclopedia of Management
Call Number: --Reference HD19.H4 1982
On campus use only Some full text available

World Consumer Lifestyles Databook: Key Trends
Call Number: --Reference HF5415.3.W67
On campus use only Some full text available