Research Guides: Communication
Books: Use the Library Catalog
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Articles in Journals/Magazines
Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications.
Alternative Press Index
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
General periodical index based on tables of contents.
Business & Industry
Facts, figures and news on international companies and markets.
Business Dateline
References to businesses from regional publications.
Business Organizations
Directory of business and industrial organizations.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
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)
A full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world.
Consumer Index
Abstracts on consumerism and consumer protection.
JSTOR
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
Reviews of educational media and entertainment resources.
MLA Bibliography
Modern Language Association's International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations.
Project Muse
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
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
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
Index of articles on social, political, historic and global issues. (Social Issues Resources Series, Inc.)
Social Services Abstracts
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
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.
Clarion Ledger Indexes
Index to the Clarion-Ledger newspaper compiled by Eudora Welty Library staff.
The New York Times Online (1980 – present)
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
(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
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)
The complete text of Wall Street Journal articles back to 1984 is provided in text format.
Oxford English Dictionary
The complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series.
GPO Access -- Federal Government Information
Full text access to Federal government information.
International Communication Association
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
NCA is the oldest and largest national organization to promote communication scholarship and education.
Public Relations Society of America
The world's largest organization for public relations professionals.
Britannica's Original Sources
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.
Dictionary of Marketing Terms
Call Number: --Reference HF5415.D4874 1995
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age--
Call Number: Reference PN172.E53 1996
International Marketing Data and Statistics
Call Number: --Reference HA42.I56
Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing & Advertising
Call Number: --Reference HF5415.B273 1984
The Encyclopedia of Management
Call Number: --Reference HD19.H4 1982
World Consumer Lifestyles Databook: Key Trends
Call Number: --Reference HF5415.3.W67

