Encyclopedia articles are useful in helping to understand a new area or finding key words for subject searching. This well-known source is available through OhioLINK as a web site. Britannica Online has the content of the print encyclopedia, but also provides links to relevant web sites and an impressive directory of more than 130,000 web sites deemed to have useful content and effective design. This 4-volume set covers the field of communication at its broadest, including journalism and the media, communication theory and research, the arts, language, education, government regulation, advertising, speech, and religion. Historical contexts are covered, too, as are popular media such as motion pictures and television.
Most communication reviews are of the latter variety.
Publishers produce series volumes on a regular basis. They typically are on different themes each year, but are related topically. This site provide tables of contents from 1993 to the present. Annual reviews and series in book form include the following. Look for these in your library.