• Electronic Databases
• Print Resources
• Internet Sites
• Related Pages
• Speech Communication at UWP

Electronic Databases

Many of the databases listed below are for use by UW-P students, faculty and staff only. For information on using databases from off campus, please see the Guide for Off-campus users or Service to Distance Education Students.

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• Academic Search Premier Abstracts and full text journal articles in all subject categories from more than 4,650 journals.
• Arts & Humanities Citation IndexA citation index can be searched by author, topic and citation.
• Humanities Full TextCovers the fields of art, history, communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, philosophy and religion. Full text.
• Readers' Guide Full Text
  Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 popular journals, from as far back as 1983. Also available in print, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900 - 1982 (Reference Area)
• General Electronic Databases

Print Resources

• Essay and General Literature Index (Reference Area)

Comprehensive Sites on Speech Communication

• ACA Center for Communication Studies
• Checklist for Analyzing SpeechesFrom the American Communication Association.
• FACSNET Provides the resources journalists need to effectively communicate information to the public through the news.
• Journalistic Resources Page
• PubList.com
• Presenting SolutionsThe art of communicating effectively.
• Speeches.comTips, free advice for making the perfect speech.
• Web Builders' and Multimedia ResourcesCopyright and multimedia law for webbuilders edited by Karla Tonella, University of Iowa.
• Yahoo! Site for Communications

Related Sites at UW-Platteville/Karrmann Library

• Citing Sources in Bibliographies Karrmann Library's guide for citing print and electronic sources.

Speech Communication at UW-Platteville

• The Speech Communication Office is located in 448 Gardner and the contact person is Dan Fairchild. For a listing of courses or for more information on this program, call (608) 342-1143.
• John Berg is the Karrmann Library's liaison to the Speech Communication program. Contact John at (608) 342-1355 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in Communication. His email address is bergjo@uwplatt.edu