COMS 780
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This page features resources useful to students enrolled in COMS 780: Rhetoric and (Electronic) Media.
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Ask a Librarian
- Chat
- IM - ohiolibref
- Phone: 740.593.2699
- Jessica Hagman, Reference and Instruction Librarian | AIM/Yahoo!: jhagmanohio | hagman@ohio.edu| 740.593.2697
Technology and Media Blogs/Sites
Media
- Metafilter - community blog on media and technology
- Technology News: Media Convergence
- MediaShift – electronic media-focused news blog
Technology
- TechCrunch – tracking the “new Web”
- Engadget – gadgets and electronic media
- Gizmodo – same as above
- Wired Blogs - a variety of technology and new media topics
Internet Archive
- The Wayback Machine – search archived versions of former or extant Web pages
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 media AND remediation
- Limit your search by date range or material type
- Use * to truncate your search terms – digit* finds digital, digitized, and digitally
- Subject Searching:
- Searches librarian-created descriptors used to classify books
- Example: Digital media or Technology -- social aspects
- 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
Other Useful Article Databases
- MLA - critical scholarly materials in literature, criticism, drama, language, linguistics, humanities, and folklore.
- 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.
Resources for Grad Students
Refworks
- citation management tool, imports and stores citations and creates bibliographies
Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery
- Interlibrary Loan - receive copies of items not found in ALICE or OHIOLink
- Document Delivery - receive electronic copies of articles and book chapters in Alden or at the Annex
