LibGuides: Communication and Design Arts: Speech Communication

Academic Search Complete (aka. Academic Search Premier) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journal and popular magazine with full-text and indexes, covering a wide range of topics. A good database for beginning searches.
Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Communication and Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.

Debatabase
"Debatabase is an authoritative collection of over seven hundred debates mostly written by experienced debaters. They cover topics from the affirmative action to Zimbabwe, on all sorts of themes including politics, economics, religion, culture, science and society. "

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Media and Communication This link opens in a new window
107 free full-text journals belonging to subject: Mass Media and Communication.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a search engine that provides a way to search for scholarly articles and other academic literature.

JSTOR (articles) This link opens in a new window
JSTOR includes scholarship published in high quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. (Journal issues for the most current years may not be available.) These journals may also be searched from the library catalog.

JURN: Search Millions of Free Academic Articles, Chapters and Theses
"JURN is a unique search tool which helps you find free academic articles and books. JURN harnesses all the power of Google, but focusses your search through a hand-crafted and curated index. Established in 2009 to comprehensively cover the arts and humanities, in 2014 JURN expanded in scope. JURN now also covers selected university fulltext repositories and many additional ejournals in science, biomedical, business and law. In 2015/6 JURN expanded again, adding over 600 ejournals on aspects of the natural world."

MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new window
Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE provides full-text for nearly 2,000 general interest periodicals Topics include reference, business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues. It also contains full-text for over 500 reference books, 80,000 primary source documents, and 600,000 photos, maps & flags.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) and international newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. It has selective full-text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. And also includes full-text television and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc. .
Web News This link opens in a new window
Provides near real-time access to thousands of global news feeds. This collection includes over 14,000 feeds across a range of business and general news topics.
Nexis Uni (formerly called LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
LexisNexis includes more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources. LexisNexis includes full text from hundreds of business & legal journals, newspapers, and news wire services. You'll also find business and company reports, SEC filings, legal case law, state and US legal code. It includes U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

American Speech
1925 to 2016
Communication, Culture and Critique
2008 to Present
Communication Education
1952 to Present
Communication Monographs
1976 to 2016
Communication Quarterly
1953 to Present
Communication Studies
1999 to 2016
Communication Theory
1997 to Present
Human Communication Research
1997 to Present
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
1999 to Present
Journal of Communication
1996 to Present
Journal of Communications Research
2008 to Present
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
1995 to Present
Journal of Mass Media Ethics
1985 to 2014
Qualitative Research Reports in Communication
2000 to Present
Quarterly Journal of Speech
1928 to Present

Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) and international newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. It has selective full-text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. And also includes full-text television and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc. .

New York Times Online
Read the current daily featured stories and search the past 12 months.

McClatchy-Tribune (current regional news) This link opens in a new window
The McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 500 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. In the past, this database included the Anderson Herald-Bulletin, but, not as of 2020. It does include the Indianapolis Star, Goshen News, Lebanon Reporter, and Munster Times.

Fact Check
"A review of world political events, mainly American political events."
FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
"Challenging media bias since 1986. FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints."
ProCon.org
"The leading source for pros and cons of controversial issues."
Speakers Lab-Butler University
This site created by Butler University Speakers Lab contains practical tips on public speaking and includes information guides in PDF format and a 5-minute video presentation titled, "Five Basic Public Speaking Tips."

American Presidency Project
Presidential documents archive includes inaugral addresses, state of the union and convention speeches, weekly addresses, etc.
American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank
"Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two."
History and Politics Out Loud
"Listen here for famous speeches made by influential leaders of the 20th and 21st centuries."
History Channel Famous Speeches
Includes video and audio files of famous speeches and eyewitness accounts of major historic events.

Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the ATLA and ATS is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries...The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.
Life Photo Archive
"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."
WorldImages
"This site contains approximately 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery."

C-SPAN
"Digital version of C-SPAN video library provides access to its daily coverage and more than 200,000 hours of archived political programming since 1987."
How to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking: 3 Tips
"Learn how to speak confidently in front of a crowd with these three tips from speech instructor Steven D. Cohen."
TED Talks: Ideas Worth Spreading
"TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less)."
TV News Search from the Internet Archive
"Segments of 355,000 news broadcasts."
Why Do We Fear Public Speaking?
"Ever wonder what fighting a bear and public speaking have in common? Professor Guin explains the hunter-gatherer perspective behind why humans fear public speaking more than dying."
Why I Live In Mortal Dread of Public Speaking
"Megan Washington is one of Australia's premier singer/songwriters. And, since childhood, she has had a stutter. In this bold and personal talk, she reveals how she copes with this speech impediment—from avoiding the letter combination “st” to tricking her brain by changing her words at the last minute to, yes, singing the things she has to say rather than speaking them."
Open Vault: WGBH Media Library and Archives
"Open Vault provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning. The ever-expanding site contains video excerpts, searchable transcripts, a select number of complete interviews for purchase, and resource management tools."

Anneberg School For Communication
"Founded in 1959 through the generosity and vision of diplomat and philanthropist Walter Annenberg, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania is devoted to furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education and service."
Idebate
"International Debate Education Association is a global Network of organisations who educates people in debate in order to give young people a voice for their ideas. Includes an online debate database which is home to the top 100 debates written by experienced debaters."
National Communication Association
"The National Communication Association advances Communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media, and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific, and aesthetic inquiry."

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