Blackwell Reference Online: Communication ebooks

Albertsons Library has purchased access to a collection of ebooks within Blackwell Reference Online. Available within this collection are a few titles of interest to scholars of Communication & Media Studies (4), Cultural Studies (1), and Linguistics (22), among others.

To access these ebooks, please click this link: http://www.blackwellreference.com/subscriber/uid=872/

A small sampling of the titles available online in this resource includes:

A Companion to Film Theory Edited by: Toby Miller and Robert Stam
A Companion to Literature and Film Edited by: Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo
A Companion to Media Studies Edited by: Angharad N. Valdivia
A Companion to Television Edited by: Janet Wasko

A Companion to Cultural Studies Edited by: Toby Miller

Records for these titles will also be entered in the Library's online catalog.

New Ebook: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics

The library has purchased access the the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics .

The encyclopedia is available from our online catalog: http://voyager.boisestate.edu/

If you have any suggestions for ebooks, encyclopedias or other reference works, please let me know.

Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics

The library is evaluating the online version of the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL) for purchase. Hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation, the ELL is the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics."

The online edition offers:

• Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach


• Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing


• Include updates as subjects develop


• Supplementary audio, video and text files online


• List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.)


• Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists


• Available online via ScienceDirect featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy.

Audience: students, researchers and professionals who are seeking an authoritative source of information about any particular aspect of linguistics or its applications.

The URL is: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080448541Let us know what you think about ELL! Send your comments to Peggy Cooper, or call her at 6-2311.