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Databases -- Communication Studies, Social Sciences

Academic Search Elite, Premier, Complete, & Ultimate (fee-based) A multi-disciplinary full-text database, offered at 4 levels. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,900 journals and a total of more than 12,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc
ComAbstracts (CIOS) (fee-based) Produced by CIOS, ComAbstracts is a database of article abstracts, books, bibliographic records, and other sources of relevance to researchers, scholars, and students interested in fields related to communication studies. Expanded and updated throughout the year, with some coverage back to early 1970’s.
Communication Abstracts (fee-based) Containing more than 320,000 records, Communication Abstracts indexes and abstracts communication-related publications. Updated bi-monthly and including materials published since 1977, the database covers articles, reports, papers, and books. Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in interpersonal organization, risk communication, crisis communication, marketing, and advertising. Available from EBSCO.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) (fee-based) Commination and Media database offered in 2 levels Indexing for some 1,000 periodicals, including full text for over 500 titles, in areas related to communication and mass media. 1920-present.
Communication Source (fee-based) Developed from a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO’s Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communications Abstracts (formerly published by Sage), Communication Source features full text for more than 860 titles, including more than 630 active full-text journals and over 200 full-text journals not found in other EBSCO academic databases.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints Pro and con arguments with contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues drawn from news articles, journals, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (fee-based) Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Produced by British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, with the support and assistance of International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation and UNESCO.
JSTOR (fee-based) Full text of 100+ core research journals in many subject areas. Coverage starts at the beginning year of publication and includes all but the most recent years (as required by the publisher). Each year an additional year of currently published titles is made available. More subject areas and additional titles are being added regularly.
Omnifile Full Text Mega (fee-based) OmniFile Full Text Mega covers applied sciences, art, education, humanities, law, social sciences, and technology, featuring full-text articles from nearly 3,000 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed. Additional content includes indexing and abstracting for thousands of publications and retrospective coverage.
PAIS Index (fee-based) Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) Index indexes journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports, government documents, and microfiche covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Includes research in economics, political and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, political science, and potential legislation. Coverage is 1972-present.
Project Muse (fee-based)
APA PsycINFO (fee-based) APA PsycINFO contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.
Scopus (fee-based) Offering nearly 18,000 titles in the fields of medicine, science, social science, and technology, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. References go back to 1996 and 80% of all Scopus records back to 1823 have an abstract.
Social Sciences Full Text (fee-based) Social Sciences Full Text covers a wide array of areas, including addiction studies, ethics, public welfare, urban studies, and much more.
Social Sciences Abstracts (fee-based) Social Sciences Abstracts produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, indexes and abstracts some 620 publications on a wide range of interdisciplinary fields, such as addiction studies, anthropology, corrections, economics, gender studies, gerontology, minority studies, political sciences, psychology, sociology, and more. Coverage: Indexing goes back to 1983 and abstracts back to 1994.
SocINDEX with Full Text (fee-based) A full-text research database covering sociology, gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, religion, racial studies and social work. It includes hundreds of full-text journals, abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895, as well as extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources. It also includes searchable cited references.
Sociological Abstracts (fee-based) Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Coverage: 1963-present.
Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) Social Sciences are the primary focus of this network, but resources may also be relevant to those in the communications field.
Web of Science (fee-based) (Clarivate Analytics) Covers over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide. Can search by authors, keywords, or cited references and can also perform related item searches. The ability to search both the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index simultaneously is an advantage for psychology researchers

Journals -- Communication Studies

* indicates the National Communication Association (NCA) journals

Annals of the International Communication Association (Formerly Communication Yearbook)
Asian Journal of Communication
Atlantic Journal of Communication
Canadian Journal of Communication
Chinese Journal of Communication
Communicatio
Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies* A peer-reviewed journal founded in 2004 that publishes scholarship for an international readership on communication as a theory, practice, technology, and discipline of power
Communication, Culture, & Critique
Communication and Democracy* Formerly known as First Amendment Studies (2013-2021) and Free Speech Yearbook (1970 - 2012). Publishes research on the methodologies and aspects of free speech within culture, media, and legal contexts
Communication Education* Formerly known as: The Speech Teacher. Publishes high-quality international scholarship that is committed to the advancement of communication and learning broadly defined as instructional communication and communication education.
Communication Methods & Measures
Communication Monographs* Formerly known as: Speech Monographs (1934 - 1975). Provides original scholarship that ask questions about the diverse and complex issues that interest Communication scholars, including areas such as media studies, interpersonal and relational communication, organizational and group communication, health and family communication, rhetoric, language and social interaction, intercultural communication and cultural studies, and others.
Communication Quarterly
Communication Reports
Communication Research
Communication Research Reports
The Communication Review
Communications The European Journal of Communication Research
Communication Teacher* Publishes instructional activities that can be conducted in either the K-12 or college classroom; manuscripts focused on communication education assessment of student learning, classroom practices (K-12 or college), or program development; and original teaching activities with links to assessment articles.
Communication Theory
Critical Studies in Media Communication* Formerly known as: Critical Studies in Mass Communication (1984 - 1999). Provides a home for scholarship in media and mass communication from a cultural studies and critical perspective. It particularly welcomes cross-disciplinary works that enrich debates among various disciplines, critical traditions, methodological and analytical approaches, and theoretical standpoints.
European Journal of Communication
International Journal of Communication
Journal of Applied Communication Research* Publishes original peer-reviewed scholarship that addresses or challenges the relation between theory and practice in understanding communication in applied contexts.
Journal of Communication
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication * Publishes original research on international and intercultural communication. The journal showcases diverse perspectives and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, critical and textual approaches. It addresses an international readership and features research conducted in a wide range of locations by diverse groups of scholars.
Qualitative Research Reports in Communication
Quarterly Journal of Speech* Formerly known as: Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking and Quarterly Journal of Speech Education. Publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews of interest to those who take a rhetorical perspective on the texts, discourses, and cultural practices by which public beliefs and identities are constituted, empowered, and enacted
Review of Communication* Publishes scholarship that advances the discipline of communication through the study of major themes that cross the disciplinary sub-fields, and essays that build theory, advance our understanding of a method, extend or challenge a current paradigm, bridge a divide, clarify a term or concept, or demonstrate a pragmatic function.
Review of Communication Research
Southern Communication Journal
Text and Performance Quarterly* Formerly known as: Literature in Performance. Publishes scholarship that explores and advances the study of performance as a social, communicative practice; as a technology of representation and expression; and as a hermeneutic. Articles address performance and the performative from a wide range of perspectives and methodologies, and they investigate all sites of performance from the classical stage to popular culture to the practices of everyday life.
Western Journal of Communication

Rankings of Communication Studies Journals

Eigenfactor Communication Journals Eigenfactor scores are intended to give a measure of how likely a journal is to be used, and are thought to reflect how frequently an average researcher would access content from that journal.
Scimago Communication Journals Uses Scopus data to compare journals by h-index and average citations per published document,
Scopus Communication & Organizational Behavior Journals Lists publications that might be relevant to general and organizational communication. Provides Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), Impact per Publication (IPP), and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR).
ComAnalytics (fee-based) ComAnalytics provides data about the relative publication performance of individual scholars and of departments of communication (journalism, mass communication, speech, communication studies, media studies, rhetoric, etc.) It is the only national system that covers the communication field comprehensively, that properly classifies the field's programs, and that uses metrics validated against relevant external benchmarks (ISI journal impact ratings and rankings from the NCA study of doctoral program reputation). It is the only system that allows individual scholars to benchmark their own performance.

Reference Works -- Communication Studies

Communication Research Methods III: A sourcebook Part I: Measurement Trends and Issues 1. Measurement in Interpersonal CommunicationCarolyn K. Shue and Glen H. Stamp2. Measurement in Family CommunicationJeffrey T. Child and Shawn C. Starcher3. Measurement in Health CommunicationNichole Egbert and Catherine E. Goodall4. Measurement in Instructional CommunicationJoseph P. Mazer and Elizabeth E. Graham5. Measurement in Intergroup CommunicationAngela M. Hosek and Valerie Rubinsky6. Measurement in Organizational CommunicationHeather L. Walther and Andrea L. Meluch7. Measurement in Sports CommunicationBryan E. Denham8. Measurement in Public RelationsKathleen Stansberry9. Measurement in Computer-Mediated CommunicationNicholas David Bowman and Cathlin V. Clark-Gordon10. Measurement in Intercultural and Cross-Cultural CommunicationStephen M. Croucher and Stephanie Kelly11. Measurement in Mass CommunicationTang Tang and L. Meghan MahoneyPart II: Measure Profiles
ComVista The ultimate interactive directory of scholars and degree programs in communication and the best guide to leading graduate programs.
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory Comprehensive overview of communication theory, offering current descriptions of theories as well as the background issues and concepts that comprise these theories.
The International Encyclopedia of Communication Published by the ICA. Spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas
Sage Research Methods SAGE Research Methods supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through every step of the research process. Nearly everyone at a university is involved in research, from students learning how to conduct research to faculty conducting research for publication to librarians delivering research skills training and doing research on the efficacy of library services. SAGE Research Methods has the answer for each of these user groups, from a quick dictionary definition, a case study example from a researcher in the field, a downloadable teaching dataset, a full-text title from the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series, or a video tutorial showing research in action.

Open Educational Resources -- Communication Studies

Communication Open Textbooks Collection (from MERLOT)
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The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material. All of these items have been contributed by the MERLOT member community, who have either authored the materials themselves, or who have discovered the materials, found them useful, and wished to share their enthusiasm for the materials with others in the teaching and learning community. All the materials in MERLOT are reviewed for suitability for retention in the collection.
Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies overviews the time-tested conceptual foundations of the field, while incorporating the latest research and cutting-edge applications of these basics. Each chapter will include timely, concrete, and real-life examples of communication concepts in action.
Survey of Communication Study This text offers the opportunity to introduce people to Communication as an academic field of study. We have broken the book into two parts. First, we lay the foundation by covering the scope of communication study, its history, as well as a brief introduction to theories and research methods. Second, we provide chapters that survey many of the areas of specialization practiced in the field of Communication today.'
A Primer on Communication Studies This book overviews the time-tested conceptual foundations of the field, while incorporating the latest research and cutting-edge applications of these basics. Each chapter will include timely, concrete, and real-life examples of communication concepts in action. A key feature of this book is the integration of content regarding diversity and organizational communication in each chapter through examples and/or discrete sub-sections. Discussions of diversity are not relegated to feature boxes. Also integrated into the content are examples that are inclusive in terms of race, gender, sexuality, ability, age, marital status, religion, and other diverse identity characteristics.