COMMUNICATION WEB RESOURCES

Field of Communication

• American Communication Association
• Association for Business Communication
• Bibliography of Communication, Columbia University (Somewhat outdated)
• Computer-Mediated Communication Studies Center
• Douglass Archives of American Public Address
• Technology and Communication
• Web Sites for Media Research (Compiled by Mark Schlesinger)

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We are grateful to Professor Rusty Simonds for many of these entries.

Reference

• Healey Library Guide to On Line Reference Works
• My Virtual Encyclopedia
• OneLook Consults many dictionaries to look up word meanings
• Merriam-Webster  Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Translation from/to 16 languages; weak on Asian languages

Style Guides

• UMass Boston Healey Library Information Literacy Tutorial (Great intro to research, citations, etc.)
• The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) -- Great for all writing issues, including the preparation of research papers

General Search Engines

• Google Uses unique search algorithm, works well.
• Yahoo
• AltaVista
• Northern Light
• Ask Jeeves! Natural language engine
• MetaCrawler Meta-search engine -- consults several other engines
• Alexa Internet Ask questions in natural language; sometimes get answers!

Directories

• ZIP codes from the USPS
• AnyWho Find phone numbers & addresses
• BigBook Yellow Pages
• Switchboard  People Finder
• WhoWhere? Ditto
• Internet Movie Data Base Want to know every film S.Z. Sakall was in?
• Terra Server Look into your own backyard
• What Time Is It?

Web Guides

• E-Blast Encyclopaedia Britannica reviews Web
• Internet Scout Guide to Web Resources in the Social Sciences, Business/Economics, Science/Engineering
• CIT Infobits Locates monographs, etc., published on the Web about technology, the internet, and the Web

Current News and Issues

• The New York Times on the Web Read today's news; register to see yesterday's
• The Boston Globe Accessed through Boston.Com

Find that Book

• Healey Library Start here!
• Book Finder Find books, including rare and out of print, and locate resellers
• Amazon The on-line marketing exemplar
• Library of Congress Catalog
• AND DON'T FORGET YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE!

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