If you are accessing this page from off campus, the links to most library databases will not work. To use these resources, go to the Library Web Page, where you can connect to Articles and Databases, Reference Sources, and Electronic Journals and Newspapers after providing your Elmhurst College technology account login and password. If you don't know your E.C. login or password, you'll want to see Computer Services, Room 107 CSTC. More help on accessing resources from off campus is available online.
Use Illinet Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 44 other Illinois academic libraries.
Type the word Communication
The above search yields items with the word Communication anywhere in the description of the item; some of these may be about theories of communication, and others may focus on something else, like the FCC. To do a more focused search for gender differences in communication, try the following:
Select Boolean, and type in Communication and Gender
Sexual harassment--Law and legislation--United States
Violence -- United States -- Case studies
Select all of these and type violence media
There are many different types of articles available, and your instructor may want you to use a scholarly, rather than a popular, article. Make sure you know how to distinguish scholarly journals from other periodicals.
Use article databases to find articles (only some of the 90+ databases are listed below). Some databases will give you the full text of the article, which you can then go ahead and print, while others will require you to find out if we own the journal where the article is published.
Remember that these databases should not be confused with "the Internet," although they are accessed via the web. If you do a search for a topic on the Internet, you're most likely not finding full-text articles; rather, you're finding web pages of individuals or organizations, which may not be of any use to you. The databases, on the other hand, are especially designed to facilitate research, giving you access to articles you might not be able to find otherwise.
Use a subject directory or a search engine to find web sites on your topic. More potentially helpful, subject-specific web sites are listed below.
Despite what some would have you believe, not everything is available for free on the Internet. Don't rely on the web as your only source of information. Choose web sites carefully using the resources below, and use them to support your articles and books, not to replace them.
Below are only a few resources, in addition to those above, that might be helpful to you as you do your research. Resources are divided into the three subject areas studied earlier in the semester.
Documenting the information you use in your assignments is very important. Please check with your professor regarding the preferred citation style for your class. The librarians can help you locate a citation syle guide at the library. Further writing assistance is available from the Writing Center, located in the Learning Center.
Created
by Jennifer C. Paliatka, Assistant Librarian
Last revised
3 October, 2002
by Ayanna Gaines, Assistant Reference
Librarian
A.C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst College