BC3 Library: Communication: Recommended Resources

Suggested Databases for Communication

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This EBSCOhost multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

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EBSCOhost's MasterFILE Premier database is designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

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CQ Researcher provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. The reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features round out the reports. Shorter "Hot Topics" articles provide a solid introduction to subjects most in demand by students.

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Explore current issues and events with in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates. Topic pages feature the latest related news coverage from Reuters® as well as a variety of helpful background information, from the key pro/con arguments to chronologies of related events to primary documents. Updated weekly.

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Provides full-text online access to a range of reference works published by Salem Press in the areas of health, history, literature, and science

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Print and Electronic Books in our Library

Communication Skills by Ian Tuhovsky; Wendell Wadsworth (Editor)
Call Number: 153.6 T818c
ISBN: 9781515031918
Publication Date: 2015-07-11
Workplace Communications by George J. Searles
Call Number: 658.45 Se17w7
ISBN: 9780134701301
Publication Date: 2019-07-17
Doesn't Hurt to Ask by Trey Gowdy
Call Number: 153.852 Gowdy
ISBN: 9780593138915
Publication Date: 2020-08-18
Communication Rx by Laura Cooley
Call Number: 610.141 C737c
ISBN: 9781260019742
Publication Date: 2017-10-03

Journalism in the Age of Virtual Reality by John Pavlik
Call Number: 070.43 P289j
ISBN: 9780231184489
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Metro Dailies in the Age of Multimedia Journalism by Mary Lou Nemanic
Call Number: 071.3 N34m
ISBN: 9781439916766
Publication Date: 2020-03-20
Practicing Convergence Journalism by Janet Kolodzy
ISBN: 9780415890304
Publication Date: 2012-08-08
Writing for the Internet by Craig M. Baehr; Bob Schaller
ISBN: 9780313376955
Publication Date: 2009-11-12

Business and Professional Communication by Kelly M. Quintanilla; Shawn T. Wahl
ISBN: 9781506369594
Publication Date: 2019-01-23
The Business Writer's Companion by Gerald J. Alred; Charles T. Brusaw; Walter E. Oliu
ISBN: 9780312631321
Publication Date: 2010-12-22
The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Meerman Scott
ISBN: 9781118711200
Publication Date: 2013-06-19
Stories That Stick by Kindra Hall
Call Number: 658.452 H143s
ISBN: 9781400211937
Publication Date: 2019-09-24

Locating Books

The BC3 Library has both print and electronic books for many topics related to communication. They are all listed in the BC3 Library Catalog where you will find Dewey call numbers to locate books on the shelves (lower level of the library) and links to connect you to e-books. E-books can also be searched separately in our two e-book collections: e-Book Central by Proquest and e-Book Collection by EBSCO.

Browsing the Stacks

070 - Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing

384 - Communications

Books about communications in specific fields may be found with other books related to that field. For example, business communication books can be found with other business books in the 658 section, and books about communication in nursing can be found with other nursing books, in the 610 area.

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Collection of academic online books covering a wide range of subjects.

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