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Communication Studies: Get Started
Getting Started: Background Resources
Credo Reference helps you start your media research with dictionaries of specialized terminology and reference guides on communications, journalism, and propaganda.
Reference Sources
- Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new windowProvids access to controversial topical essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world's top political and societal publications.
- SIRS Issues Researcher This link opens in a new window
Provided by the South Dakota State Library. A general reference database containing full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.
How Do I...?
- How Do I...?Answers for our most frequently asked questions (FAQs).
Beginning Your Research: General Article Resources
These resources provide access to magazine, newspaper and scholarly articles on a variety of topics.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window General purpose databases of general/popular publications and scholarly journals. Includes information in many areas of academic study including the social sciences, humanities, general sciences, and education.
- ProQuest This link opens in a new window Provided by the South Dakota State Library. Search a comprehensive file of periodicals for a broad range of subject areas including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
Books & ebooks
Scholarly Resources
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides coverage of more than 500 journals in the communication and mass media fields, including full-text for more than 230 journals.
- Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new windowProvides access to some of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning
Zotero
Zotero helps you collect, manage, & cite sources.For additional tutorials, visit our Zotero Guide.
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