Review Outline of Communication Studies - for browsing topics and approaches. See section on Fields of Communication

Basic surveys of information on topical social questions

 

Books and videos, including ebooks

Business research database with articles on marketing, branding, companies and management.

Articles specifically about Communication research and scholarship. Fewer articles, but more that are likely to be relevant for Communication studies.

Articles in many topics/fields: a good source for Communication studies. Includes many scholarly journals among the millions of articles.

Articles in many topics/fields, including Communication studies.

Newspapers, wire services, and legal articles and documents (e.g. court cases). Good for politics and current events and journalism sources.

Public Affairs Information Service: articles about politics, including government documents. Good source for public policy issues and controversies.

Psychology articles including clinical studies and research.  Good source for quantitative research studies.

Articles from scholarly journals published by Sage: emphasis on social issues and questions ranging from business to anthropology and sociology. Includes Communication journals.

Articles in Sociology and related fields including Communication. Primarily scholarly.

American Communication Association - The national professional organization of scholars, students, and practitioners in the field of communication.

American Society of Newspaper Editors - Read the latest issue of the journal The American Editor, research recent topics, and other editorial and journalistic Web links.

International Communication Association

The purposes of the Association are (1) to provide an international forum to enable the development, conduct, and critical evaluation of communication research; (2) to sustain a program of high quality scholarly publication and knowledge exchange; (3) to facilitate inclusiveness and debate among scholars from diverse national and cultural backgrounds and from multi-disciplinary perspectives on communication-related issues; and (4) to promote a wider public interest in, and visibility of, the theories, methods, findings and applications generated by research in communication and allied fields.

National Communication Association

the largest national organization dedicated to communication

Society for Cinema & Media Studies

Devoted to the Scholarly Study of Film, Television, Video & New Media

Society of Professional Journalists - Includes sources pertaining to current controversies over journalism codes of ethics.