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	Saturday July 21, 2018 Recent Announcements Free and low-cost access to the communication field's literature is threatened by a corporate takeover of our professional societies' publishing. The ASCUS project, now gaining significant momentum, provides an exciting alternative. You can help by encouraging participation by the societies in which you participate. Join the fight! Calls for submissions for special issues of the Electronic Journal of Communication University at Albany Communication Department is new CIOS institutional homebase Try the latest version of the Visual Communication Concept Explorer on your desktop Install Now! Announcements of new books in communication Today's Wisdom Person who falls in vat of molten optical glass makes spectacle of self.
ComAbstracts: Search more than 60,000 article and book abstracts and bibliographic records from the professional literature of the communication field ComVista: The ultimate directory of scholars and degree programs in communication ComAnalytics: Tools for the analysis of productivity and prestige of communication scholars and departments in North American universities VCCE: The Visual Communication Concept Explorer Discover and visualize relations between key terms and authors in the communication literature Journals indexes (bibliographic indexes to the professional literature in communication) E. Sean Rintel's guide and tutorial for using the Visual Communication Concept Explorer ComWeb MegaSearch: Full text index to more than 86,000 communications- related web resources at hundreds of communication (mass comm., journalism, speech, rhetoric) departments Interactive tables of contents for current communication serials Keyword assisted searches Navigate CIOS databases with prepared search terms The hotline system (electronic conferences for areas of study in communication) The resource library (search and retrieve files) Electronic white pages for the communication field (universal faculty directory) The Idea Monkey -- a tool for generating creative research questions about human communication phenomena

EJC/REC: The Electronic Journal of Communication / La Revue Electronique de Communication EJC is one of the world's first peer reviewed electronically distributed scholarly journals (EJC's 1st issue was published September 21, 1990) Open Access Journals in Communication The CIOS Open Text Project Free Worldwide Access to Classic Works in Communication Communication Reports (Presented with djvu technology!) The International Journal of Listening (Presented with djvu technology!) The Journal of Communication and Religion (Presented with djvu technology!) Women's Studies in Communication (Presented with djvu technology!) Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture CommJobs (the CIOS job listing service) The ComIndex Desktop Software: An Electronic Index to the Literatures of the Communication Field - The communication field's most comprehensive index The Electronic Encyclopedia of Communication Featuring the Marshall McLuhan site! Abstracts of new books in communication (the CIOS NewBooks service)

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