Communication Studies | Laurier Library

Primary subject databases
Database	Description
Communication Studies @ EBSCOhost	Selected EBSCOhost databases for Communication Studies. View Full Description

Secondary subject databases
Database	Description
Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database	Provides access to Canadian journals, magazines and news resources on all topics. View Full Description
Communication Studies @ ProQuest	Selected ProQuest databases for Communication Studies. View Full Description
CPI.Q	Index for Canadian academic journals and popular magazines View Full Description
Factiva	A full-text resource with news, business information and journal articles drawn from almost 9000 worldwide sources, including Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and the KW Record. View Full Description

Tertiary subject databases
Database	Description
Google Scholar (with Laurier content access)	Searches for articles and web resources from academic publishers and universities. View Full Description
Journal Citation Reports (via Web of Science)	Research tool, developed by ISI, to show the relative importance of journals within subject categories. Includes impact factors. View Full Description
LexisNexis Academic	Full-text documents for international news, business, legal research, and key people in the news. View Full Description
Libris Canadiana	Index for historical Canadian periodicals. View Full Description
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global	International database with full text and/or abstracts for doctoral dissertations and selected master's theses. View Full Description
Social Sciences Citation Index	(included in Web of Science) View Full Description
Wilson databases (all)	Search the three H. W. Wilson databases we subscribe to on the EBSCOhost platform. View Full Description

Course guides organized by course number and course title
Course #	Title
CS100A	Introduction to Media History
CS101A	Canadian Communication in Context
CS322B	Gender, Communication & Culture
CS340LA	Mobilities
CS400P	Feminist Print & Periodical History
CS405	Work and Worker Organizations in Creative Industries

Advertising Age encyclopedia of advertising: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 3 volumes. Print location: HF5803 .A38
Dictionary of media and communication, by Chandler, Daniel; Munday, Rod: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Dictionary of media and communication studies, by Watson, James; Hill, Anne: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. Print location: P87.5 .W3 2012
Encyclopedia of communication and information: Published 2001-2002.
Encyclopedia of media and communication, by Danesi, Marcel: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Encyclopedia of television, by Newcomb, Horace: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. 4 volumes. Print location: PN1992.18 .E53 2004
Johns Hopkins guide to digital media: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Sage handbook of nonverbal communication, by Manusov, Valerie; Patterson, Miles L.: Sage, 2006.

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Try these suggested subject headings to focus your search:
- Advertising
- Business Communication
- Communication and Culture
- Communication in Management
- Comunication in Organizations
- Communication in Politics
- Communication Research
- Communication, Social Aspects
- Culture
- Cyberspace
- Digital Communications
- Discourse Analysis
- Information Technology
- Intercultural Communication
- Mass Media
- Nonverbal Communication
- Popular Culture
- Rhetoric
- Telecommunication
- Visual Communication