Scholarly Databases
- Communication Source
- List of Online Journals in Communication Studies
- JSTOR
- Project Muse
- Online Research Resources
Journals Available Online
- Advances in The History of Rhetoric
- Argumentation and Advocacy
- Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
- Critical Studies in Media Communication
- Journal for the History of Rhetoric
- Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric
- Newsletter: Rhetoric Society of America
- Philosophy & Rhetoric
- POROI
- Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Rhetor: Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric
- Rhetoric & public affairs
- Rhetoric, Politics & Culture
- Rhetoric review
- Rhetoric Society Quarterly
- Rhetorica
- Rhetorical Review: The Electronic Review of Books on the History of Rhetoric
Books
Dissertations
Current Newspapers and Periodicals
- Find Newspapers (UIUC Library Newspaper Database)
- Academic Search Complete
- LibGuide: Finding Online Newspapers
Historical Newspapers and Periodicals
Image Resources
- American History in Video (moving images)
- ARTSTOR (still images)
- Saskia Digital Images (still images)
Reference Sources
- Online Reference Collection
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
- James Jasinski, Sourcebook on Rhetoric (Sage, 2001) (Non-circulating Reference)
- Thomas Sloane, ed., Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (Oxford, 2006)
- Hogan and Parry-Giles, eds., Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address (Blackwell, 2010)
- Enos, eds., Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition (Garland, 1996) (Non-Circulating Reference)
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Dryzek, et al, eds., Oxford Handbook of Political Theory
- Oxford Art Online
- SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies
- SAGE Knowledge: Communication (Click on SAGE Reference tab, then browse by discipline and select Media, Communication, & Cultural Studies)
- SAGE Knowledge: Other Subject Areas (Click on SAGE Reference tab, then browse by discipline of interest)
Subject-Specific Library Resources
- African American Studies LibGuides
- American Indian Library Resources
- Asian American Studies
- Classics
- LGBT Studies
- Gender & Women’s Studies LibGuides
- Political Science
- Digital Humanities
- Scholarly Commons
- Writers Workshop
Websites
- ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
- American Rhetoric
- EEBO: Early English Books Online
- Gifts of Speech, Women’s Speeches from Around the World
- Internet Archive
- Perseus Digital Library (classic texts/images)
- Queer Rhetoric Project
- Silva Rhetoricae (Tropes and Figures defined)
- Voices of Democracy, the U.S. Oratory Project
Citation Guides
(Resources on this page were compiled by Cara Finnegan, in consultation with Rhetoric graduate students and faculty in Communication, ICR, English, and the Communications Library)
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