To Find Books

Library Catalog

The Library Catalog will be a copious source of information on communication topics chiefly in our book collection. Usually a good approach is to do a keyword search on natural language terms, e.g. communicat? (turns up communicate, communicates, communicating, communication, etc.) and gender? Sometimes an exact phrase search, in quotation marks will be productive, when an exact match is what you need, e.g. "code switching." Take a good look at the records that you find and select subject headings from them for further research.

WorldCat

To widen your search, use a similar strategy in WorldCat , or other library catalogs.

ILLIAD

Register for ILLIAD in order to be able to request books or journal articles on interlibrary loan.

General Library Information

Library home page

Interlibrary Loans via ILLIAD

Floor map of Kresge Library

Contact Information

Frank Lepkowski   

238 Kresge Library    

Oakland University

248-370-2497   

lepkowsk@oakland.edu

Databases

Good multi-disciplinary databases that may offer useful full-text articles in the field of communication include:

WilsonSelectPlus

InfoTrac OneFile

Expanded Academic Index

Another important, and exhaustive resource for literature on communication from a psychological perspective, usually of a scholarly, research-oriented nature, is found in the PsycInfo database.  Although there are some full-text journals included (including the PsycArticles collection of American Psychological Association journals), because it is such a comprehensive database for the field, there are many titles that OU does not carry.  In order to obtain these, use the ILLIAD system.