CST 105 - Introduction to Communication Studies
Basic Library Services
Finding Articles and Books
Website Evaluation
Additional Resources
Basic Library Services
Finding Articles and Books
How to Find Articles in Scholarly Journals
Academic Search Premier
- Indexes and abstracts approximately 3,000 scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas.
- Full text available for over 1,200 journals; some of these date back to 1990.
- How to find articles in scholarly journals.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
- Provides indexing and abstracting (as well as some full-text) for several hundred human communication and mass media journals.
- Narrow your search by adding additional search terms and connecting them with "and".
EBSCO Newspaper Source Plus
- Provides access to newspapers from all over the US, including several in North Carolina
- Use this if you're looking for information about a local organization for your community awareness speech.
Opposing Viewpoints
- Provides background information on many controversial issues, as well as arguments presented by supporters and opponents of each issue.
- Includes full-text articles, reference sources, statistics, primary documents, images, web links, and more.
Library Catalog
- Search for books in The University Libraries.
- Use the search connector "and" to do a keyword search for more than one term.
Searching the Web
Guidelines for Evaluating Web Resources
- Suggestions for how to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality material. From our online tutorial Finding It!
Activity
Group activity
Additional Resources
APA Style Reference Sheet
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First-Year Instruction Coordinator
