Research Guides: Communication Studies: Home

Library Workshops

Click here for the Copley Library workshops calendar, which you can also use to register. If you have questions about a workshop please contact the presenter(s).

Style Guides

Click any of the links below for formatting guidelines.

Note: APA is the standard for Communication Studies at USD.

APA Tutorials
Online tutorials from the official APA website.
APA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue OWL)

Preventing Plagiarism Tutorial

Take this tutorial to learn more about avoiding plagiarism and using APA style for in-text citations and references.

Writing Help

Writing Center
The USD Writing Center helps students improve their academic writing. Site also includes quick links for useful tips.

New Books and Media for Comm Studies

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Welcome to the Communication Studies Guide

This guide is designed to give you a start on your research in Communication Studies. Use the tabs above to navigate to the different sections of this guide.

Click here to go to the Department of Communication Studies home page.

Key Electronic Resources

Use the databases below for locating news stories, scholarly articles, and bibliographies.

Communication Source This link opens in a new window
Communication Source was developed from a merger of Communication & Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts. It offers abstracts and indexing for more than 1,000 core titles as well as over 670 full-text journals dating back to 1900. In addition, the database features a subject-specific thesaurus.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for over 2,940 scholarly publications including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, health sciences, and ethnic studies.

JSTOR
Includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable.

Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Includes psychology and relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, animal behavior, and organizational behavior. Allows you to limit to USD holdings and includes links to full-text.
Sage Premier Journals This link opens in a new window
The Premier package provides access to virtually all of the SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences, including a backfile dating back to 1999. Journals can be browsed by title.
Screen Studies This link opens in a new window
Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform taking users from script to screen and beyond – offering a broad range of content from Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber to support moving-image studies.

Nexis Uni
Formerly Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, this database provides full-text access to more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva includes the Dow Jones and Reuters news wires, The Wall Street Journal and over 8,000 other magazines, newspapers, and trade journals from a wide variety of disciplines.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are also provided.
US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
US Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected US national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times and Washington Post, co-exclusive access to The Wall Street Journal, and exclusive access to Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.
Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of the LA times from 1985 to the present.
New York Times (1980-Present) This link opens in a new window
This is considered the official U.S. newspaper because it publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences. The paper's reporters have won scores of Pulitzer Prizes throughout the publication's 150-year history.
Film Scripts Online This link opens in a new window
American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimilie images for more than 500 of these screenplays.

Pew Research Journalism Project
Free resource providing access to essays, articles, reports, and data sets.

New Books and Media

New Books, Videos, and Audio Recordings
Click the link to a guide featuring the most recent additions to the collection at Copley Library

New English Language Feature Films

This feed shows the English films recently added to the collection.

New Foreign Language Films

This feed shows foreign language films recently added to the collection.

Communication Studies Librarian

Hugh Burkhart

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Contact:

Copley Library
5998 Alcalá Park
San Diego, CA 92110-2492

Please contact me if you need assistance with finding information or getting help researching for your projects.

hburkhart@sandiego.edu

For remote consultations and instruction sessions via Zoom, please email

Subjects: Communication Studies, Creative Writing, English, Film Studies, First Year Writing, French, News, Theatre