Human Communication: Library Research Guide

CSUF subscribes to several magazine/journal databases that provide citations (and sometimes the full-text) of articles on Human Communication topics.  To get to these databases, click here:

You will see a page that looks like this:

All the databases you see listed are relevant to research
in the Human Communication. 

To learn more about each database, just click on the INFO button to the right of the list.
 

For articles on controversial/debate topics, also visit the Library's quick-guide to controversial/debate resources, here.
 

Human Communication is in many ways interdisciplinary.  For example, if you wanted to research the role of speech in social settings, you might consult the Sociology database.  To link to a listing of recommended databases for other majors, click here.

  Printed Indexes
To find articles older than 1985, you will need to consult printed indexes, since   databases typically don't cover older than that.  Printed indexes do the same thing as databases--let you find articles by subject, author, etc.--they are just slower because you have to look the citations up manually.  Here are some printed indexes helpful to Human Communication Students:
Index to journals in communication studies through 1990 (from 1970-1990)
Communication abstracts (from 1978- on)
Cum. indexes of journals of the Am.Speech&Hearing Assoc (from 1936-1972)
Speech index (from 1935-1966)
Psychological Abstracts (from 1927-1993)

Prepared by: John Hickok, Communications Librarian
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