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Subject Librarian Michael Muchow

Michael Muchow
(573) 882-6824
muchowm@missouri.edu


Subject Specialist for:
Art
Art History and Archaeology
Classics
Communication
Library Science
Theatre

Arts & Humanities : Communication

Core Resources

If you are unfamiliar with boolean operators use the links below to learn about them.
You will not be able to search catalogs, databases, and the internet efficiently if you do not understand how to use boolean operators. 

If you do know how to use boolean operators, select the tabs to find basic resources.

Warning: The tab marked JOURNALS is a list, by title, of the online journals available from the Libraries. The list can be searched only by journal title.

Instead, search one of the databases and click  FinditAtMU button   to locate full-text and print articles.

Other Resources Online

Databases for Articles

Databases for Communication
Academic Search Premier Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph
  
 Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,600 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,500 journals. Over 3,500 journals are peer reviewed. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. Provided courtesy of MORENET. [more]

Communication and Mass Media Complete Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ufh
  
 Communication and Mass Media Complete is comprised of two databases, CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index and indexes journals, encyclopedias and handbooks in the area of communication studies. [more]

Communication Studies: A SAGE Full Text Collection Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=columbia&access=columbia8&db=sagecom-set-c
  
 Communication Studies: A SAGE Full Text Collection includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Subjects covered include Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies / Intercultural Communication, Television / Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational / Management Communication, Written Communication, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies. [more]

Journals

Journals for Communication
Browse Journals on Communications Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://mulibraries.1cate.com/?category=socsci.comm
  

Tips for finding journals and journal articles
  • Looking for a specific article or journal? Try the Journal/Article Finder
  • Need to search for articles by keyword or topic? Try Databases in the Databases tab

Other Resources Online

Other Resources Online for Communication
Boolean Operators - YouTube Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tm-sDKCnO4
  

Paper Assistance - Where to brain storm topics, find articles, etc
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/guides/paperassistance.htm
  

Tips for searching a database - Construct your search
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/guides/paperassistance.htm
  

Tips for searching a full-text database
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/Reference/muchow/fulltextsearching.htm
  

eBooks / Books

eBooks / Books for Communication
Encyclopedia of Communication and Information Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|9780028658872&v=2.1&u=morenetuomcolum&it=aboutBook&p=GVRL&sw=w
  

Tips for finding books
  • Looking for a specific book? Try the Book Finder
    • The Book Finder first searches in the MERLIN catalog.
    • If no resources are found in MERLIN, the search moves to the MOBIUS catalog (a catalog of many Missouri libraries).
  • Need to search for a book by keyword or topic? Search the MERLIN catalog