Communication Studies and Speech

Locating the Communication Sections
Books are arranged on the shelf in broad subject categories. Some of the major categories for communications include:

070 News media, journalism, publishing
150 Psychology
170 Ethics (Moral philosophy)
300 Social sciences
310 General statistics
320 Political science
380 Commerce, communications, transport
383 Postal communication
384 Communications Telecommunication
400 Language
600 Technology (Applied sciences)
790-791 Telecommunications
792 Theatre

Finding Materials for Communications
1st floor, west Periodicals
1st floor, north Reference
1st floor annex Government Documents
2nd floor General books
3rd floor General books

Government Documents
Federal Communications Commission, DOC GP 3.22/2:281/INTERNET

Periodicals

Journal of Family Communication, Periodical Room
Communication Arts, Periodical Room

Electronic Resources
Academic Search Elite (EbscoHost)
Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)
Article1st (FirstSearch)
Biography Resource Center
Issues and Controversies
MAS FullText Ultra (EbscoHost)
NewsFile Collection (NewsBank)
Newspaper Source (EbscoHost)
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Internet Resources
EBSCOHost: Full text periodical database
NetLibrary: Full text e-book database
NewsBank: Full text newspaper database
First Search: Periodical and information indexes
Finding Speech Resources
Finding a topic
Lists of Speech topics from the University of Hawaii.
http://www.hawaii.edu/mauispeech/html/infotopichelp.html

Background information, archived documents, and links on major U.S. public policy issues.
http://www.policyalmanac.org/

National Issues Forum
http://www.nifi.org/
A non partisan opinion research and civic engagement organization helping Americans to explore and understand critical issues since 1975. http://www.publicagenda.org/

Speak out

http://speakout.com/activism/issues/

Exploring a speech topic

n Issues And Controversies

n MAS FullTEXT Ultra

n New York Times (Current)

n NEWSBANK

n TOPICsearch

Communication Websites
Texas A&M University --Department of Communication
http://comm.tamu.edu/

University of Colorado Boulder
http://comm.colorado.edu/

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/

University of Oklahoma
http://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/

University of Southern California -- Annenberg School for Communication
http://annenberg.usc.edu/

University of Texas at Austin
http://communication.utexas.edu/