Trial Database: Blackwell Reference Online

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On trial through April 7th, Blackwell Reference Online provides electronic access to nearly 300 scholarly reference works.

Titles in communication studies include A Companion to Media Studies and A Companion to Television, but the value to communication scholars doesn't stop there.  Other sources in Sociology, Psychology, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, and other areas will also be valuable.

Search the full database, for example, for "interpersonal communication and gender" and you'll retrieve more than 40 articles from such sources as The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management,  The Handbook of Language and Gender,  The Handbook of Discourse Analysis,  A Companion to Media Studies,  The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture, and others.

To browse or search the database, go to the Electronic Resource Trials page at http://www.bc.edu/libraries/meta-elements/res/trials.html and follow the instructions on the screen.  Let me know what you think.  Postive comments from faculty and students will help build support for adding this database to our list of resources.