Gleeson Library: Professional Communication Resources: Professional Communication Resources

Welcome

Welcome to this research guide for Professional Communication resources. There is a large amount of information and research about Professional Communcation available from USF's Gleeson Library and on the web. This guide is an introduction to some of those resources. For more in-depth research, contact us and a librarian can help you with your research.

Scholarly Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers

Fusion
Fusion allows you to search, in one place, the majority of the library’s books, articles, videos, etc., in our library catalog Ignacio, as well as the majority of our many databases.
Questions and Answers:

Does Fusion include everything the library has?
No, but it includes so much of what the library has that it will almost always be a good place to start a search.

When would Fusion not make sense as the first place to search?
Some examples:
- If you’re interested in finding only books, or a specific book title, then our library catalog Ignacio might be a more appropriate place to begin.
- If you’re looking specifically for statistical data, or encyclopedia/dictionary entries, or images, it would be better to use databases devoted to those specific types of information.
- If you're looking for a specific Journal title, you should use our Journal Finder.
- I’m very proficient using the subject-specific databases in my field. Is there any reason I should use Fusion?
- Because Fusion will have such broad coverage, it may locate relevant materials published in other fields that you wouldn’t otherwise find in a subject-specific database.
So then why would I want to choose a subject-specific database anymore—can I just use Fusion instead?
Fusion is not replacing any of our subject-specific databases. These databases offer valuable advanced searching capabilities tailored to their subject areas.

On-Campus Link
Google Scholar
Articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Click "more" below to customize Google Scholar to access USF library journal subscriptions.
Customize Google Scholar to provide full-text links to journal articles available through Gleeson Library subscriptions:

If you are on campus, Google Scholar should recognize you as a USF user and link you to the full text.

If you are working from an off-campus location, you will need to manually activate USF's Full Text Finder in Google Scholar Library Links:

1. Go to the Google Scholar search page.
2. In the upper left corner of the page, press the button made of three horizontal lines to open a new menu.
3. Click "Settings."
4. Select "Library links" and search for "University of San Francisco."
5. Check "University of San Francisco – Full Text Finder" in the search results, then click Save.

When you search Google Scholar, you should now see "Full Text Finder" links to the right of your results. Click on these links to check if USF has access to your article.
Communication Source
Communication Source is the key database for finding journal articles and conference proceedings in the field of Communication Studies
Communication Source features full text for more than 800 titles, including over 600 active full-text titles.

Indexing and abstracting is included for more than 1000 Core titles. Also featured is backfile coverage of top titles in Communication, reaching deep into the 20th century. Content is derived from academic journals, conference papers, conference proceedings, trade publications, magazines and periodicals. Content development for Communication Source is guided by expert advisors who are academic librarians and Communication bibliographers from leading international institutions.

On-Campus Link
Business Source Complete
This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included.
In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 25,000 most-cited authors in the database. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

On Campus Link
ProQuest One Business
A comprehensive business database containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. Includes the full text of the Wall Street Journal. Formerly called ABI/INFORM Collection

In addition to these databases, Communication Yearbook is an annual publication that publishes state-of-the-art literature reviews and essays on communication issues. Communication Yearbook is available in print in the Gleeson Library collection.

Books

Gleeson Library has approximately 1 million books, about half a million ebooks and half a million books in print. For the print books, there are two ways you can access them: (1) You can come to Gleeson Library and check them out in person or (2) You can request the book from Ignacio, the USF Library catalog, and it will be mailed to your home. If you do want it mailed to your home, check with the Gleeson Access Services Department to be sure your record is set for mail delivery. With our ebook collections, you can view them online immediately. We have ebooks on Strategic Communication, Health Communication, and Technical Communication that you can read online. Searching Ignacio, the USF Library catalog, shows you books available here at USF. Searching Link+ gives you access to millions of books in other libraries that you can request.

Ignacio: Library Catalog
The library catalog lets you search across the holdings of Gleeson Library and Zief Law Library, including books, videos, and other materials.
Link+
Search across more than 60 libraries in California and Nevada, and request available books to be delivered to Gleeson Library in 2-4 business days. LINK+ was cancelled at the end of spring semester 2024. More information.

Getting books and articles not at USF

When you are looking for a book and want to determine if we have it at USF, check Ignacio or Link+ and request it.

When you are looking for an article and want to determine if we have it at USF, check Journal Finder. Journal Finder lets you search the title of any journal and if we have it, it will tell you which database has which years.

If USF doesn't have the book or article you are looking for, you can request it on InterLibrary Loan's ILLIAD service. Log in, submit your request, and we will try to get it from another library.

Communication encyclopedias

Encyclopedias can be good starting points in research for getting an overview of topics

Encyclopedia of Communication Theory by Stephen W. Littlejohn (Editor); Karen A. Foss (Editor)
Publication Date: 2009
Encyclopedia of Health Communication by Teresa L. Thompson (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014

Professional Communication Resources

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