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Communication: Find Sources

Article Databases

Academic journals present new research or analysis written by scholars and reviewed by scholars about a narrow topic or specific case study, and their intended audience is other scholars and practitioners.

News Articles

News articles are written by journalists for the general public and reviewed by editors for accuracy.

Book Databases

Sometimes scholars get together to tackle a subject, breaking it apart into article-length chapters written by experts on that specific subtopic. We call those books anthologies, and they can be very helpful in choosing a rabbit hole, so to speak. And since books tend to be published for a broader audience than journals, they can be easier to approach than articles.

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Browsing the Stacks

Use these numbers to help you locate books in our stacks.

000-099 Computer science, information & general works

000-009 Computer science, knowledge & systems
  • 003 Systems 003.5 Theory of communication and control
070-079 News media, journalism & publishing
  • 070 Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing

300-399 Social sciences

300-309 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
  • 302 Social interaction
    • 302.2 Communication
      • 302.23 Media (Means of communication)
  • 303 Social processes
    • 303.3 Coordination and control
      • 303.37 Social norms
        • 303.375 Propaganda
  • 306 Culture and institutions
320-329 Political science
  • 327 International relations
380-389 Commerce, communications & transportation
  • 384 Communications
    • 384.1 Telegraphy
    • 384.3 Computer communication
    • 384.5 Wireless communication
    • 384.6 Telephony
    • 384.8 Motion pictures

400-499 Language

400-409 Language
  • 401 Philosophy and theory; international languages
    • 401.4 Communication; semantics, pragmatics, languages for special purposes
    • 401.9 Psychological principles, language acquisition, speech perception
      • 401.93 Language acquisition
      •  401.95 Speech perception
410-419 Linguistics
  • 417 Dialectology and historical linguistics
  • 417.2 Dialectology
  • 417.7 Historical linguistics (Diachronic linguistics)

600-699 Technology

650-659 Management & public relations
  • 659 Advertising and public relations
    • 659.1 Advertising
    • 659.2 Public relations