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by Timothy Stephen

ComAbstracts is an OpenURL-enabled database of article abstracts, books, bibliographic records, and other sources of relevance to researchers, scholars, and students interested in fields related to human communication studies (mass communication, human interaction, rhetoric, health communication, communication and new media, journalism, communication history, etc.). ComAbstracts is expanded and updated throughout the year. The database is available for library and institutional subscription at low cost and to those with personal CIOS memberships.

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The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field as well as bibliographic records and audio materials. No other electronic resource on the world wide web provides more comprehensive coverage of the communication discipline's first line scholarship. The full text of the ComAbstracts database can be searched; that is, records may be searched by word, phrase, or author. The search system supports full Boolean search logic (AND, OR, NOT, XOR), proximity searching, wildcard searching, and word conflation (which finds alternative forms of words based on common linguistic roots).

Synonyms are available for many clusters of terms and are included automatically in searches unless they are explicitly overriden in the search specification (for example, a search for 'YOUTH' will also match 'TEEN' and 'ADOLESCENT'). The database may also be searched using (1) a keyword system consisting of menus of prepared subject terms and search specifications or (2) using the Visual Communication Concept Explorer a next-generation visual interface build on statistical analysis of word relationships unique to the academic communication literature.

At this time, coverage of scholarly articles is as follows (note: the database is updated throughout the year with both older and newer materials -- book records are not included in the list below):


Title (ISSN) Coverage
Starts With
Update
Schedule
    Advances in Discourse Processes   1977   1   annual
    Advances in Telematics   1991   1   annual
    American Journalism (0882-1127) 1983   1(1)   continuous
    Argumentation and Advocacy/
    Journal of the American Forensic Association (1051-1431)
1964   1(1)   continuous
    Asian Journal of Communication (0129-1986) 1990   1(1)   continuous
    Australian Journal of Communication (0811-6202) 1982   1(1)   continuous
    Australian Studies in Journalism (1038-6130) 1992   1   continuous
    Canadian Journal of Communication (0705-3657) 1978   5(1)   continuous
    Communicatie (0771-7342) 1997   26(1)   ceased
    Communication (0305-4233) 1974   1(1)   ceased
    Communication Education/
    Speech Teacher (0363-4523)
1952   1(1)   continuous
    Communication Law and Policy (1081-1680) 1996   1(1)   continuous
    Communication Monographs/
    Speech Monographs (0363-7751)
1970   37(1)   continuous
    Communication Quarterly/
    Today's Speech (0146-3373)
1953   1(1)   continuous
    Communication Reports (0893-4215) 1988   1(2)   continuous
    Communication Research (0093-6502) 1974   1(1)   continuous
    Communication Research Reports (0082-0496) 1984   1(1)   annual
    Communication Review (1071-4421) 1995   1(1)   continuous
    Communication Studies/
    Central States Speech Journal (1051-0974)
1970   21(1)   continuous
    Communication Theory (1050-3293) 1991   1(1)   continuous
    Communication Yearbook   1987   10   annual
    Communications: The European
    Journal of Communication Research (0341-1059)
2002   27(1)   continuous
    Convergence (1354-8565) 1995   1(1)   continuous
    Critical Studies in Media
    Communication/
    Critical Studies in Mass
    Communication (0739-3180)
1984   1(1)   continuous
    Discourse and Society (0957-9265) 1990   1(1)   continuous
    Discourse Processes (0163-853X) 1978   1(1)   continuous
    Electronic Journal of Communication (1183-5656) 1990   1(1)   continuous
    European Journal of Communication (0267-3231) 1986   1(1)   continuous
    Free Speech Yearbook   1962   1   continuous
    Gazette (0016-5492) 1970   16(1)   continuous
    Harvard International Journal of
    Press/Politics (1081-180X)
1996   1(1)   continuous
    Health Communication (1041-0236) 1989   1(1)   continuous
    Howard Journal of Communication (1064-6175) 1988   1(1)   continuous
    Human Communication Research (0360-3989) 1974   1(1)   continuous
    Information Communication & Society (1369-119X) 1998   1(1)   continuous
    International Journal of Listening (0889-1596) 1987   1   continuous
    International Journal on Media
    Management (1424-1277)
1999   1   continuous
    Issues in Applied Linguistics
    Management (1424-1277)
1990   1   continuous
    Journal of Applied Communication Research
    Journal of Applied Communications Research (0090-9882)
1973   1(1)   continuous
    Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media/
    Journal of Broadcasting (0883-8151)
1969   14(1)   continuous
    Journal of Business Communication (0021-9436) 1963   1(1)   annual
    Journal of Business and Technical Communication/
    Iowa State Journal of Business and
    Technical Communication (0892-5720)
1987   1(1)   continuous
    Journal of Communication (0021-9916) 1968   18(1)   continuous
    Journal of Communication and Religion/
    Religious Communication Today (0894-1838)
1978   1(1)   continuous
    Journal of Family Communication (1526-1409) 2001   1(1)   continuous
    Journal of Health Communication (1081-0730)) 2001   6(1)   continuous
    Journal of Language and Social
    Psychology (0261-927X)
1982   1(1)   annual
    Journal of Mass Media Ethics (0890-0523) 1985   1(1)   continuous
    Journal of Media Economics (0899-7764) 1990   3(1)   continuous
    Journal of Media and Religion (1534-8423) 2002   1(1)   continuous
    Journal of Public Relations Research (1062-726X) 1992   4(1)   continuous
    Journal of Social & Personal
    Relationships (0265-4075)
1984   1(1)   continuous
    Journalism (1464-8849) 2000   1(1)   continuous
    Journalism History (0094-7679) 1974   1(1)   continuous
    Journalism and Communication Monographs/
    Journalism Monographs (1522-6479)
2001   2(4)   continuous
    Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly/
    Journalism Quarterly (1077-6990)
1970   47(1)   continuous
    Language and Communication (0271-5309) 1981   1(1)   annual
    Management Communication Quarterly (1077-6990) 1987   1(1)   continuous
    Mass Comm Review (0193-7707) 1973   1(1)   ceased
    Mass Communication Research (1016-1007) 2001   66(1)   continuous
    Mass Communication & Society (1520-5436) 1998   1(1/2)   continuous
    Media, Culture and Society (0163-4437) 1979   1(1)   continuous
    Media Psychology (1521-3269) 1999   1(1)   continuous
    Media Studies Journal/
    Ganett Center Journal (1057-7416)
1987   1(1)   ceased
    New Media and Society (1461-4448) 1999   1(1)   continuous
    Nordicom Review (0349-6244) 1981   1   annual
    Operant Subjectivity (0193-1713) 1977   1(1)   annual
    Organization Communication: Emerging Perspectives 1986   1   annual
    Philosophy and Rhetoric (0031-8213) 1968   1(1)   continuous
    Political Communication/
    Political Communication and Persuasion (1058-4609)
1980   1(1)   continuous
    Public Opinion Quarterly (0033-362X) 1966   30(1)   continuous
    Public Relations Research and Education () 1984   1(1)   ceased
    Public Relations Review (0363-8111) 1975   1(1)   continuous
    Quarterly Journal of Speech/
    Quarterly Journal of Pubic Speaking/
    Quarterly Journal of Speech Education (0033-5630)
1915   1(1)   continuous
    Research on Language and Social
    Interaction (0835-1813)
1987   20(1)   continuous
    Rhetoric and Public Affairs (1094-8392) 1998   1(1)   continuous
    Rhetoric Review (0735-0198) 1982   1(1)   continuous
    Semiotica (0037-1998) 1969   1(1)   annual
    Small Group Research/
    Small Group Behavior/
    Comparative Group Studies (0090-5526)
1973   4(1)   annual
    Southern Communication Journal/
    Southern Speech Communication Journal/
    Southern Speech Journal (1041-794X)
1980   46(1)   continuous
    Studies in Communications 1980   1   continuous
    Television & New Media (1527-4764) 2001   2(3)   continuous
    Visual Communication (1470-3572) 2002   1(1)   continuous
    Western Journal of Communication/
    Western Journal of Speech Communication/
    Western Speech Communication/
    Western Speech (1057-0314)
1937   1(1)   continuous
    Women's Studies in Communication (0749-1409) 1977   1(1)   continuous
    Written Communication (0741-0883) 1984   1(1)   continuous