COMS 420

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This page features resources useful to students enrolled in COMS 420: Gender and Communication.

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ALICE – Search the Online Library Catalog

Use ALICE to find books in Alden library or in OhioLINK, or to search for issues of journals and magazines. The ALICE catalog is not meant for finding individual articles - the section on research databases will go over the best way to do that.

  • Keyword Searching:
    • Searches for words in the title, subject headings, and book description
    • Use AND and OR to separate search phrases, such as gender AND communication
    • Limit your search by date range or material type
    • Use * to truncate your search terms – gender* finds genders, gendered, and gender
  • Subject Searching:
    • Searches librarian-created descriptors used to classify books
    • The language of these is hard to anticipate - for example: Communication -- Sex differences and Man-woman relationships
    • If your book is checked out, try an intercampus/annex request, OhioLINK, or Interlibrary Loan.


Article Databases

InfoTree is a library site that organizes article databases and other resources.

Communication Studies

  • Communication and Mass Media Complete - Indexes over 300 communications studies and telecommunications journals, and includes full text for nearly 200 journals.
  • ComAbstracts - Features citations with abstracts from 56 core communications journals, with coverage for some going back to the late 1970s.
  • Communication Abstracts - Covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources


Women's/Gender Studies

  • Gender Studies Database - A combination of Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases from 1972 to the present, with the coverage of sexual diversity issues covering "the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia."
  • Women's Studies International - Citations and abstracts from a variety of essential women's studies databases.
  • Gender Watch - A full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.


Other Useful Article Databases

  • PsycINFO - Index to articles in over 2000 scholarly journals in the field of psychology and related disciplines.
  • Academic Search Complete - Indexes nearly 11,000 scholarly and other publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.


Newspaper Databases

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