Strategic Communication: Use Web Resources

Professional associations often provide research and education and professional development resources.

List of Communication associations from the Association of College and Research Libraries Educational and Behavioral Sciences Section Communication Studies Committee.

American Communication Association	International Telecommunications Society
Asian American Journalists Association	Internet Society
Association for Business Communication	Journalism Education Association
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication	National Association of Black Journalists
Association for Educational Communications & Technology(AECT)	Media Ecology Association (MEA)
Association for Women in Communications	National Association of Broadcasters
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)	National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Broadcast Education Association	National Communication Association
Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM)	National Federation of Press Women
The Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture (CSCC)	National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
Central States Communication Association	Native American Journalists Association
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship	Public Relations Society of America
Eastern Communication Association	Religious Communication Association
European Communication Research and Education Association	Southern States Communication Association
International Association for Mass Communication Research	Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT)
International Association for Business Communicators	Society for Technical Communication
International Communication Association	Western States Communication Association
International Institute of Communications (IIC)	World Communication Association
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
International Speech Communication Association

Less than 10% of the Web is indexed by search engines such as Google and Bing.  The remaining 90% is what we call the Deep Web or the Invisible Web.

Because of licensing and fee structures, most of the content in the Library databases is part of the Invisible Web.

Image: Freedom of Information Blog (November 2011)

The following websites provide good collections of additional resources:

From the Association of College and Research Libraries Educational and Behavioral Sciences Section Communication Studies Committee.

URL = Uniform Resource Locator (website address on the Internet)