Mass Communication Resources

Field of Communication

American Communication Association
Association for Business Communication
Bibliography of Communication, Columbia University (Outdated information)
Computer-Mediated Communication Studies Center
Douglass Archives of American Public Address

Study, Research, and Learning Tools

We are grateful to Professor Rusty Simonds for many of these entries.

Reference
My Virtual Encyclopedia
OneLook (Consults many dictionaries to look up word meanings)
Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
TravelLang (Translation from/to 16 languages; weak on Asian languages)

Style Guides
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL -- Great for all writing issues)

General Search Engines

Google
Yahoo
AltaVista
Northern Light
ask.com
MetaCrawler (Meta-search engine -- consults several other engines)
Alexa Internet (Ask questions in natural language; sometimes get answers!)

Directories

ZIP codes from the USPS
AnyWho (Find phone numbers & addresses)
Switchboard

WhoWhere?
Internet Movie Data Base
Terra Server (Look into your own backyard)
What Time Is It?

Web Guides

E-Blast
Internet Scout (Web Resources in the Social Sciences, Business/Economics, Science/Engineering)

Current News and Issues

The New York Times

The Boston Globe (Accessed through boston.com)

Find that Book

Healey Library
Book Finder (Find books, including rare and out of print, and locate resellers)
Amazon (The on-line marketing exemplar)
Library of Congress Catalog

AND DON'T FORGET YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE!