COMMUNICATION STUDIES

• Communication Abstracts. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1978–. Provides abstracts from more than 150 scholarly journals, books, and research reports in the field; available in both print and electronic formats.
• Communication and Mass Media Complete. Ipswich: EBSCO, 2004–. An online database that covers both scholarly articles on communication studies and trade and popular coverage of the media. A substantial portion of the contents is linked to full text, with especially rich historical material in communication theory. This database was formed by a merger of the National Communication Association's CommSearch (an index to core journals in the field, sometimes called "Matlon" after its first editor, Ronald J. Matlon) and the Mass Media Articles Index.
• Speech Index: An Index to Collections of World Famous Orations and Speeches for Various Occasions. 4th ed. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1966–. With supplements through 1980. A print index to historical speeches included in more than 250 anthologies.
• The Year's Work in Cultural and Critical Theory.
  Oxford: Blackwell, 1994–. An annual roundup of recent research on feminist theory, postcolonial studies, popular culture, virtual culture, film theory, cultural policy, and visual culture, presented as evaluative review essays written by leading scholars. This work is published in conjunction with the English Association (UK).

• Communication Studies Resourceshttp://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources A well-organized directory of Webresources useful for research. The directory covers advertising, culture studies, digital media, film studies, interpersonal and small-group communication, journalism and mass media, media studies, and rhetoric as well as online tools for communication studies researchers. It is maintained by Karla Tonella of the University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies.
• First Amendment Handbookhttp://www.rcfp.org/handbook/index.html Provides detailed analyses of constitutional law issues as they relate to the practice of journalism. Sections cover access to courts, places and people, the Freedom of Information Act, confidentiality, surreptitious recording, libel, invasion of privacy, prior restraint, and copyright. From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, compiled by Gregg P. Leslie.
• Freedom Forumhttp://www.freedomforum.org The Web site of a nonpartisan foundation devoted to free speech and freedom of the press. Includes online exhibits from the Newseum (a museum of news media), graphic images of front pages from around the world updated daily, and the latest news and analysis of First Amendment issues.
• Journalism.org: Research, Resources, and Ideas to Improve Journalism http://www.journalism.org News about the news industry, information for working journalists, background on issues of concern to journalists, and a detailed survey of the state of the news media, including print, broadcast, cable news, magazines, local TV, alternative media, and online news sources. The site is jointly maintained by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists.
• MCS: The Media and Communications Studies Sitehttp://www.aber.ac.uk/media A well-organized, searchable collection of links to Web content on a wide variety of topics — gender and ethnicity, news media, advertising, film studies, visual images, textual analysis, media influence, and more. The site is based at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

• ABC-CLIO Companion to the Media in America. By Daniel Webster Hollis. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1995. Covers important developments in mass media and significant media organizations and people in concise articles.
• American Voices: Significant Speeches from American History, 1640–1945. Ed. James Andrews and David Zarefsky. New York: Longman, 1991. A chronologically arranged anthology of major speeches of historical and oratorical significance. A companion volume covers speeches from 1945 to the end of the 1980s.
• Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism. Ed. Joseph P. McKerns. New York: Greenwood, 1989. Provides lengthy biographical sketches of major journalists, each followed by a list of sources.
• Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Ed. Thomas O. Sloane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Offers substantial, scholarly overviews of research on such topics as invention, ethos, fallacies, and rhetoric and social movements.
• History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Margaret A. Blancard. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. Covers all forms of mass media from 1690 to 1990, offering short articles on technological, legal, economic, and political developments as well as major organizations and institutions.
• International Encyclopedia of Communications. Ed. Erik Barnouw et al. 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. A multidisciplinary compilation of essays on communications, ranging from animal communications to dance as a means of communication. Each essay is followed by a selected bibliography. The encyclopedia is dated, so consult newer sources as well.
• Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television. Ed. Horace Newcomb et al. 3 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. Covers genres, programs, people, organizations, and topics related to television history. Information on television programs includes casts, producers, programming history, and bibliographies. The same publisher also offers Encyclopedia of Radio (2004).