Paley Center for Media iCollection for Colleges

The iCollection includes streaming video for over 15,000+ programs from the Paley Center’s collection.  They are adding many programs each month as they work to digitize the collection, which includes nearly 150,000 television and radio programs and advertisements.

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Welcome to the Communication Studies Guide.  This subject guide provides links to the most useful databases and resources for researching topics related to communication. 

Use the tabs to navigate through the pages of this guide. 

• Articles - main databases for finding communication/media articles
• Books - databases for finding books
• Encyclopedias - major communication/media encyclopedias
• Dissertations & Theses - databases and help finding dissertations
• News - news subject guide
• Communication by Topics - additional resources by subject (advertising, journalism ethics, public opinions, rhetoric, tv ratings, and more)
  

Class & Event Guides

• Taking It To The Street: Public Voices & Political Discourse
• COM/LING 470

• Audio & Video
• Business
• Cinema Studies
• History
• News
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Media, Consumer Behavior, & Demographics
• More ...

UW Departments & Centers

• Department of Communication
• Master of Communication in Digital Media
• Center for Communication & Civic Engagement
• Center for Local Strategies Resesarch
• Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR)
• Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
• Simpson Center for the Humanities
• Urban Archives Project
• World Information Acess Project

Related Libraries

• Foster Business Library
• Government Publications
• Media Center
• Microforms & Newspapers
• Special Collections