Click here for Humanities databases (includes Speech).

The best starting point for any sort of research, databases are large collections of information which may include citations, abstracts, ebooks, fulltext articles from scholarly journals or magazines, images, multi-media files and more.

NEW. Films on Demand - Communication. Includes videos on both human and mass communication. VIDEOS.

Find Journals on Communications & Mass Media.

Journals found here are available in print at Plough Library and/or online through CBU databases. Look for the name of the journal you are interested in, for example:

• vital speeches of the day*

*Vital Speeches of the Day presents significant transcripts of significant political speeches. It is available online through EBSCO databases back to 1934 and includes speeches from historic figures

Advanced Public Speaking Institute: Offers over 100 free articles on practical aspects of public speaking.

Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking Site: Offers 6 information modules (Assess, Analyze, Research, Organize, Deliver, and Discern) to learn about the process of public speaking and to help you prepare your talks.

American Rhetoric: Offers the Online Speech Bank and the Top 100 Speeches. The online speech bank is a growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews and other recorded media events. The top 100 speeches are a partial database of full text transcriptions of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century.

ACA: The American Communication Association: Numerous resources: check out links under Communication Studies and Communication Law. Also includes the full text online journal, The American Communication Journal since 1997.

Center for Nonverbal Studies: Includes The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues, which draws on the work of anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, and others who have studied human communication from a scientific point of view.

Freepress: National nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system

Rhetoric and Composition: Includes links to works of classical rhetoric, glossaries of rhetorical terms, and much more.

Television News Archive: Material in this Vanderbilt University archive can be identified for use through the TV-NewsSearch Database. Tthrough its detailed content related to news events, this resource serves as a unique reference tool for studying historical and political events.

• Chambers classic speeches. Credo e-reference.
• Communication skill, 2007. EBSCO ebook.
• Encyclopedia of new media: an essential reference to communication and technology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003. R302.23 E536
• Power speaking: the art of the exceptional public speaker, 2004. EBSCO ebook.
• Public Speaking and presentations demystified, 2010. EBSCO ebook.

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