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This guide is a collection of communication resources available through Walsh University Library. It is designed to help students of COM 360 find appropriate material for research papers and projects.
Finding Books
@ Walsh and OhioLINK
- Walsh Catalog
- Find what books Walsh owns on your topic.
- OhioLINK catalog
- The OhioLINK catalog allows you to search all of Ohio's academic library collections. You can use the catalog to find and request materials online, then pick them up two to three days later at the library's circulation desk.
Finding Articles
Start with these databases
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- This database contains research and reference resources in the communication and mass media fields.
- Academic Search Complete
- This database is designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
- Wall Street Journal
- You can find all three Wall Street Journal Articles here. Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly, so researchers can access not only top news stories but also detailed information from all the paper's sections
- Lexis Nexis-Newspapers
- The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Remember to limit to News!
- America's News Magazines
- America's News Magazines is a collection of full-text magazines, covering general news, business, entertainment, lifestyle, and sports.
Research Tips
Boolean Operators: AND, OR, NOT
AND: stocks and bonds - Both words must be in record
OR: alaska or canada - Either word in record will do
NOT: adventure and not vacation - Do not include vacation
Truncation: * ?
Examples : environment* polic*, comput**, wom?n
Subject Headings: Tags librarians use to describe and categorize books and articles
Iraq War 2003-Press Coverage-United States
Iraq War 2003-Journalism-Military
McClellan, Scott, 1968-
Presidential Press Secretaries-United States-Biography
United States-Politics and government-2001
AND: stocks and bonds - Both words must be in record
OR: alaska or canada - Either word in record will do
NOT: adventure and not vacation - Do not include vacation
Truncation: * ?
Examples : environment* polic*, comput**, wom?n
Subject Headings: Tags librarians use to describe and categorize books and articles
Iraq War 2003-Press Coverage-United States
Iraq War 2003-Journalism-Military
McClellan, Scott, 1968-
Presidential Press Secretaries-United States-Biography
United States-Politics and government-2001
MLA Citation Style Guides
- Citation Machine
- Online website that helps you create citations in MLA
- Citation Builder
- Online website that helps you create citations in MLA
- MLA Style Guide-Print
- Available in print @ Walsh!
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Melissa Meggitt is a reference and electronic resources librarian @ Walsh University.
Contact Info:
Phone: 330-244-4658
Email: mmeggitt@walsh.edu
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