Department of Communication
Departmental Research Guide

This research guide relays some basic information on library and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.

• Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE, MAS FullTEXT Ultra: these all-subject services, a part of the EBSCOhost system (which is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Libraries, or through direct connection) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full text.
• ArticleFirst: This all-subject FirstSearch-based database indexes almost 13000 journals and magazines from 1992 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• Reader's Guide to Periodicals Literature (Per. Ind. A13 .R48): Paper index covering articles on all subjects in magazines since 1904.
  

The following services are recommended for use by advanced students and researchers:

• Project Muse: Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
  
• ComAbstracts: Contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication field.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete: This EBSCOhost database includes abstracts and some full-text of articles in the communication field.
  
• JSTOR: Provides the full text/full image web access of the complete archival collections of several communication related journals up to the most recent three to five years.
  

These full-text FirstSearch-based databases are available to graduate students and faculty, and to undergraduates by special permission.

• WilsonSelectPlus: Full-text articles in science, humanities, education and business
• PerAbs: Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals

Special resource:  TDNet Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries' electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles; includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]

If you go to the publisher's site of certain journals through TDNet rather than EBSCO, you should be able to get full access to all recent issues (including embargoed ones). Some communication journals, such as Communication Research, can be accessed in full text through the urls indicated below. .

COMMUNICATION MONOGRAPHS
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713695619~db=all
COMMUNICATION STUDIES
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713721871~db=all
COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
http://crx.sagepub.com/