Access via IAC InfoTrac SearchBank Coverage includes all academic disciplines in humanities, social sciences, and science. Provides abstracts to dozens of communications journals. Full text is available for selected titles. The site with links to hundreds of reviews and some full text of articles in all fields of communication. Among research topics are textual analysis, media influence, gender and ethnicity, the written and spoken word, the visual image, news media, advertising, TV and radio, film studies, information technology and telecommunications, media education, and pop music and youth.
Site features book reviews, grant and fellowship information, and notices of upcoming conferences.
A historical timeline traces the history of communication from ancient times to the present. Web links are provided to such historical topics as oral and scribal cultures, printing and publishing, journalism, photography, advertising, comics, telegraphy, telephony, sound recordings, radio, film, television, and computing. Full text of articles from American Journalism Review can also be found at this site. Although it covers all fields of study, a search of the term communication yeilds over 300 journal titles, all available in full text.