Overview of communication
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International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences from Gale Virtual Reference Library
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences from Gale Virtual Reference Library
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences provides full-text reference articles in HTML and PDF on a broad spectrum of the social sciences, including the arts, economics, psychology, psychiatry, and religion.
Politics and Social Science Encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
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Politics and Social Science Encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across 23 subject encyclopedias and dictionaries with over 65,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
SAGE provides a collection of 20 peer-reviewed journals with full-text articles (PDF) often back to volume one. You can search across this subject collection or our entire SAGE collection. 1955-present.
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