Research Guides: Communication: Finding journal articles & titles

Keeping up with the journal literature in Communications

Introduction

You can find communication literature in many publications. You can use a specific, subject index such as Communication & Mass Media Commplete (CMMC) to find articles. Listed below are a couple of relevant journals. You can also use the search box at the top of the page or search using Web of Science.

Selected journal titles

American communication journal: ACJ by American Communication Association
Call Number: Electronic journal

ISBN: 1532-5865

The American Communication Journal (ACJ) is an open-access and peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the conscientious analysis and criticism of significant communicative artifacts. The ACJ is committed to publishing interdisciplinary scholarship on communication. Appreciating the diversity of research agendas and methodologies in the study of communication, the Editorial Board of ACJ welcomes submissions on any topic related to the discipline.
Communication, culture & critique (CCC) by International Communication Association
Call Number: Electronic journal

ISBN: 1753-9137

CCC seeks to bring a diversity of critical approaches (political economy, feminist analysis, critical race theory, postcolonial critique, cultural studies, queer theory) to bear on the role of communication, media, and culture in power dynamics on a global scale.
Communication monographs by National Communication Association
Call Number: Electronic journal

The journal asks questions about the diverse and complex issues that interest communication scholars, including areas such as media studies, interpersonal and relational communication, organizational and group communication, health and family communication, rhetoric, language and social interaction, intercultural communication ...
Communication theory: CT by International Communication Association
Call Number: Electronic journal

Communication Theory is an international forum publishing high quality, original research into the theoretical development of communication from across a wide array of disciplines, such as communication studies, sociology, psychology, political science, cultural and gender studies, philosophy, linguistics, and literature.

Selected article indexes

Communication & mass media complete (CMMC) by Ebsco
Call Number: Electronic resource

This is the main article index for the field of Communications and Mass Media.
Academic search complete by EBSCO
Call Number: Electronic resource

A scholarly, interdisciplinary article index and a good starting place for article searching on any subject.
Web of science citation databases by Clarivate
Call Number: Electronic resource

The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Keeping up with the journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature for all facets of Communication? And you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's you can download and read the articles you want.

You can get the app from the App Store or Google Play.

Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's now available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.