Communication
Communication research at Virginia Tech two broad areas of teaching and research: mass communication (print and electronic journalism; media effects and criticism; film studies; communication history and law) and public communication (public relations and issue management; public advocacy; political communication; organizational communication).
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Communication & Mass Media Complete from EBSCOhost
Communication & Mass Media Complete from EBSCOhost
CMMC indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text articles (HTML and PDF) from journals and conference papers in the communication field. This database also offers cited reference searching and author profiles that provide biographical data and bibliographic information on prolific authors in the discipline. You can limit to scholarly/peer reviewed sources. 1900-present.
Communication Abstracts from CSA
Communication Abstracts from CSA
Communication Abstracts indexes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, conference papers, selected websites, and industry reports in all areas of communication, including film studies, technology, and business. You can to peer-reviewed sources. 1977-present.
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of hundreds of databases covering topics such as news, business, legal research, people, and company information. The default start search form uses the Easy Search method in the General search tab. Select Power Search for more advanced search options. Use the Sources link to choose from individual databases. All content is full text in HTML. News sources 1977-present; legal source 1789-present.
College & University News from LexisNexis
College & University News from LexisNexis
Includes college & university newspapers (the University Wire), the Collegiate Newswire, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the TLS Times Higher Education Supplement. To limit to Collegiate Times articles, include "collegiate times" inside quotes with your search terms. All content is full text. 1997-present.
Newspaper Source Plus from EBSCOhost
Newspaper Source Plus from EBSCOhost
Newspaper Source Plus indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from more than 860 newspapers. Full-text articles are available in PDF format.The database covers major newspapers and television and radio news transcripts. 1985-present.
Project MUSE ejournals
Project Muse ejournals
Project MUSE provides full-text access (in HTML and PDF) to over 400 journals in the humanities and social sciences. 1963-present.
ScienceDirect from SciVerse Hub
ScienceDirect from SciVerse Hub
A faceted-searching interface for ScienceDirect that also includes content from PubMed, ETDs, numerous journal publishers, and digital repositories. We do not subscribe to Scopus, so no results from that database are included. Full-text content restricted to Virginia Tech users, but searching citations and abstracts is not restricted.
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