Library Guides/ Communication and Information Sciences

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This guide covers a set of high-quality sources of information for Communication and Information Sciences. It is a good starting point for doing research for bachelors and masters in Communication and Information Studies.

Bibliographies / Article databases

Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Key resource for Communication and Information Studies. Bibliographical and full-text database on communication and mass media.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4.650 journals.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database of education-related journals and documents
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
Bibliography containing references and abstracts on language and linguistics
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new window
Online bibliography on language and literature
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni is an online database with full text articles from the archives of newspapers and other news resources. International and national newspapers are included, but also e.g. news agencies.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The leading international bibliography for psychology
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Very large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. With oer 21.500 titles in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social science and arts and humanities.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Online bibliography for the discipline of sociology and its subdisciplines, including demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, politics, religion, violence, welfare, and many others. It features about 2 million records and contains journal articles, books, papers. For some journals it dates back to 1895.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, science and medicine,multidisciplinary database.

Reference works

Body, language, communication: an international handbook on multimodality in human interaction This link opens in a new window
Communication - Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
Contemporary studies in conversation analysis This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedia of Communication and Information This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedia of health communication This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics This link opens in a new window
The prime online encyclopedia on language and language behavior
The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society This link opens in a new window
The International encyclopedia of language and social interaction This link opens in a new window
Oxford Handbooks Online; Linguistics This link opens in a new window
Oxford University Press's handbooks on Linguistics
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window

A searchable collection of online reference books including specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks. Select from appropriate subject headings, for example, Political Science and Social Sciences.

Handbooks

Smartcat

Online resources

CiteseerX

CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.

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