Getting started with Research
Use our catalog, LumenPlus, to search for your keywords and material type to find other reference items. Source types like encyclopedias, almanacs and atlases are under All Filters -- Source Type -- Research starters.
Books and e-books
Legal language and business communication
The book discusses the proper usage of legal language in business communication. While communicating, a business leader has to take care of the legal periphery which he should never transgress. However, legal language in itself can be so complex and difficult that it is many a time unclear as to what meaning can be ascribed to different words and phrases used in a particular context. The book explores such topics.
The Concise Encyclopedia of Communication
This concise volume presents key concepts and entries from the twelve-volume ICA International Encyclopedia of Communication (2008), condensing leading scholarship into a practical and valuable single volume. Based on the definitive twelve-volume IEC, this new concise edition presents key concepts and the most relevant headwords of communication science in an A-Z format in an up-to-date manner.
The International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication, 3 Volume Set
The International Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Communication presents a comprehensive overview of the theories, concepts and processes that interpersonal communication researchers use to explain a wide variety of social interaction phenomena.
Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications
The Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications exhaustively explores the ways that editorial content - from journalism and scholarship to films and infomercials - is developed, presented, stored, analyzed, and regulated around the world.
Encyclopedia of Health Communication
Features: Nearly 600 original articles organized A-to-Z within a three-volume set to provide comprehensive coverage of this exciting field, including such topics as theories and research traditions; evaluation and assessment; cultural complexities; high risk and special populations; message design and campaigns; provider/patient interaction issues; media issues; and more. All articles were specifically commissioned for this work, signed and authored by key figures in the field, and conclude with cross reference links and suggestions for further reading.
Library Databases
You can also use the databases below to search for topics around communications. Search for methodology, theory, or research methods.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowCredo contains 410 reference dictionaries and handbooks in all subject areas. You’ll find entries for words, concepts, phenomena, quotes, figures, formulae, or historical or cultural events. Subjects range broadly over the arts, humanities, sciences, social sciences, and foreign languages.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThis indexes 12,500 periodicals in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, Physical Sciences, Medicine and Education, with 5,400 titles in full-text. The sources are a mix of academic, professional, and popular periodicals and newspapers.