Research Guide: Rhetoric and Media Studies
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Current Course Reserves
Reserves Lists for COMM classes
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R&MS Encyclopedias
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International Encyclopedia of Communication
- Spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas. (more info)
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Encyclopedia of Political Communication
- This encyclopedia considers political communication from that broad interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the many different roles that communication plays in political processes in the United States and around the world. (more info)
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R&MS-related databases
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Film & Television Literature Index
- A bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 300+ publications in the fields of film and television. (more info)
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Film Literature Index
- FLI annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 1976 to 2001 for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly and critical to the popular. (more info)
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PsycINFO
- Database of scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. PsycINFO covers journals, books, reviews, and dissertations. (more info)
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Social Sciences Citation Index
- A part of the Web of Science database, the SSCI tracks 'who's citing whom' in the social sciences. Coverage is 1980-present. (more info)
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Communication
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EBSS Library Resources for Communication Studies
- The resources included within this site were selected by communication studies librarians serving as members of the Association of College and Research Libraries Educational and Behavioral Sciences Section Communication Studies Committee. (more info)
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Rhetoric
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American rhetoric
- This noncommercial site links to five indexes: Speech Bank, Top 100 Speeches, Movie Speeches, Figures in Sound, Christian Rhetoric, Rhetoric of 9-11. Transcripts and,in some cases, mp3 audio are available for the speeches.
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LitFinder
- LitFinder includes full text poems, stories, plays, essays, and speeches. (more info)
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Congressional Digest Debates Online (formerly Pro & Con Online)
- A database of issues covered by Congressional Digest, Supreme Court Debates and International Debates since 1998. (more info)
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Speech Index
- A guide to speeches of famous orators from all eras that were published in collections from 1900 to 1965. Arranged by orator and subject. Includes a supplement covering collections published from 1966-1980.
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Representative American Speeches
- Includes the full-text of importnat speeches back to 1969.
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Vital Speeches of the Day
- Reprints the full-text of of speeches on national policy issues twice a month, going all the way back to 1947. The full text back to 10/08/1934 is available in the database entitled Academic Search Premier.
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Media Content
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C-SPAN Video Library
- Broadcasts and transcripts of U.S. federal government events since the 1980s. Examples include press conferences, bill signing ceremonies, political meetings, congressional hearings and debates. (more info)
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Vanderbilt Television News Archive
- "The world's most extensive and complete archive of television news"..."recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968." (more info)
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Global Voices
- "An international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media throughout the world." Global Voices is a blog aggregator, bringing together writing and video from across the Web and the world. Browse by country, by topic or by contributor. (more info)
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Internet Archive: TV News
- Search closed captioning transcripts to find relevant television news programs from 2009-yesterday. The collection now contains 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired. Older materials are also being added. (more info)
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Advertising
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Ad*access
- The Ad*Access Project presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. (more info)
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Ad Council
- The Ad Council is a private, non-profit organization and has been the leading producer of public service advertisements (PSAs) since 1942. (more info)
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Advertising Resources
- Maintained by the University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies, this site provides links to Advertising Resources, Advertising Texts, and Political Advertising.
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AdViews: A Digital Archive or Vintage Television Commercials
- Free digital archive of more than 12,000 television commercials from the 1950s to the 1980s, this site provides access to commercials created or collected by the New York advertising agency Benton and Bowles. Housed at Duke University. (more info)
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Emergence of Advertising in America
- Over 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the United States, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. (more info)
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Landscapes of Capital
- A multimedia Web-based book (and database) dedicated to studying how corporate television commercials portray a world shaped and defined by global capitalism at the turn of this century. One of the authors, Robert Goldman, is a Lewis & Clark Sociology Professor.
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For Thesis and Capstone Students
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Watzek Wants YOUR thesis
- Follow these guidelines to electronically submit your senior thesis to the Lewis & Clark College Libraries. Your thesis will then be in our collection and available to the L&C college community. See available theses at http://library.lclark.edu/theses/ (more info)
