HTML vs PDF

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a document exchange format; this enables easy sharing of the document, which can thus be downloaded and printed. The most widespread tool to create or read PDF documents is Adobe Acrobat; though the Reader is free and can be downloaded from Adobe’s website, the Writer version is quite expensive. Therefore, to create PDF documents one can use the software suites provided by OpenOffice.Org which are downloadable for free.

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and PDF are different types of files. HTML is usually used for creating web pages. While PDF is like a photograph of a document. The former is viewed via a web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox etc.) the latter is viewed via a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat.

See: What is the difference between HTML and PDF files? at WebBriefcase.com.au

Web Sources

Communication Institute for Online Scholarship

New Media Encyclopedia

Informaword

Intute: arts & humanities

JSTOR (paid membership)

Sage Journals Online

Taylor & Francis Group

Wikimedia Foundation

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Worldcat.org

Journals

Communication arts.

Has CD-ROM supplement. Interactive design; Communication arts; Commercial arts.

Digital Creativity.

“journal at the intersection of the creative arts and digital technologies”

Discourse: Berkeley journal for theoretical studies in media and culture.

Massmedia, Communication.

Journal of visual communication and image representation. (Available online-paid service)

Image representation by partial information, Local and global schemes of image representation, Analog and digital image processing, Fractals and mathematical morphology, Image understanding and scene analysis, Deterministic and stochastic image modeling, Visual data reduction and compression, Image coding and video communication, Biological and medical imaging, Early processing in biological visual systems, Psychophysical analysis of visual perception, Astronomical and geophysical imaging, Visualization of nonlinear natural phenomena, real-time imaging.

Media studies journal.

Massmedia, Communication. Each issue has also a distinctive title.

PAJ: A journal of performing arts (continues as Performing arts journal)

Performing arts journal (continues from PAJ).

Performing arts, Drama, Collections.

Performance Research: A journal of the performing arts. London: Routledge.

Abstracts available online from 11 (1)

promotes dynamic interchange between scholarship and practice in an expanding field of performance; interdisciplinary in vision and international in scope; emphasis on research in contemporary performance arts within changing cultures.

Sanat çevresi.

Contains painting, sculpture, decorative arts, architecture, theatre, cinema, television, photography, art events and news. Modern art; Performing arts – Turkey.

Sight and sound. British Film Institute. (Database of back issues can be searched online)

Motion pictures

Text and performance Quarterly.

Abstracts available online from 21(1)

Text & Talk.

"An interdisciplinary journal of language, discourse & communication studies." Discourse analysis, Language and languages, Communication.

Visible language (Searchable database at: http://ir.iit.edu/id/)

“The journal for research on the visual media of language expression"

Visual studies.

Key resource for all disciplines that engage with images, society and culture; Visually-oriented articles in a broad range of areas; Visually-based research in sociology, anthropology, cultural and media studies, documentary film and photography, information technology, education, communication studies as well as other fields concerned with image-based study.

Word & image

"A journal of verbal/visual inquiry"; “Study of the encounters, dialogues and mutual collaboration (or hostility) between verbal and visual languages”; Arts; Communication in arts.

Readership: Literary critics, art historians and critics, linguisticians, cultural and social historians, philosophers and psychologists, members of academic departments of literature, art history, and media, communication, and cultural studies.

Abstracts

Art and archaeology technical abstracts (1966-67, 1969, 1970-89, 1990, 1991, 1993, Semiannual). New York: Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Communication abstracts (1996, Bimonthly, Quarterly. March 1978-). Beverly Hills, CA.: Sage Publications. (Available online: http://ejournals.ebsco.com)

Graphic Arts Literature Abstracts, an expansion of the Graphic Arts index. (1990-91, Monthly). Rochester, NY.: Rochester Institute of Technology, Technical and Education Center of the Graphic Arts.

Linguistics and language behavior abstracts: LLBA (1985, April). La Jolla, CA.: Sociological Abstracts, Inc.Sociological abstracts (1981-1999. 7 issues a year). San Diego, CA.: Sociological Abstracts, Inc.

The Turing Institute abstracts in artificial intelligence & neural computing. (1992-94, Bimonthly). Glasgow: The Institute.

Indices

Applied science and technology index (1987-2000). Bronx, NY: H.W. Wilson Co.

Art Index (1988-2000.Quarterly). Bronx, NY.: H.W. Wilson Co.

Arts & HumanitiesCitation Index (1976-1992). Philadelphia, Institute for Scientific Information.

Design & applied arts index (1987-2001). Burwash, England: Design Documentation.

Film Literature Index

Humanities Index (1988-2006.Quarterly). Bronx, NY.: H.W. Wilson Co.

Lacroix, A. F. B. (Ed.). (1996) MLA directory of periodicals: a guide to journals and series in languages and literatures: periodicals published in the Americas: a companion to the MLA International Bibliography. New York, NY.: Modern Language Association of America.

Social Sciences Index

Specialty dictionaries, handbooks

Art 20: The Thames and Hudson multimedia dictionary of modern art. (1998) [CD-ROM]. New York: Thames & Hudson.

Atkins, R. (1990) Artspeak: A guide to contemporary ideas, movements, and buzzwords. New York, NY.: Abbeville Press Publishers.

Au, S. (2002) Ballet and modern dance. (Rev. ed.) London: Thames & Hudson world of art. (I own a copy. 1988 ed.

Chevalier, J., & Gheerbant, A. (1996) The Penguin dictionary of symbols. (J. Buchanan-Brown, Trans.). London: Penguin Reference Books.

Cotton, B., & Oliver, R. (1997) Siberuzay sözlüğü = Understanding hypermedia: From multimedia to virtual reality. (Ö. Arıkan & Ö. Çendeoğlu, Trans.). Istanbul: Yapı Kredi.

Cotton, B., & Oliver, R. (1997) Understanding hypermedia 2.0: Multimedia origins, Internet futures. (2nd ed.). Phaidon Press.

Dictionary of media studies. (2006) London: A & C Black.

Duranti, A. (2001) Key terms in language and culture. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.

Goldberg, R. (2001) Peformance art: From Futurism to the present. (Rev. ed.) London: Thames & Hudson world of art.

Macey, D. (2001) The Penguin dictionary of critical theory. London: Penguin Reference Books.

Mayer, R. (Ed.). (2005) The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning. Cambridge: The University Press.

Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary. (1994, 10th ed.) Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.

Real, M. R. (1996) Exploring media culture: A guide. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage Publications, Inc.

RHWUED - The Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary. (1996). 2^nd ed. [CD-ROM]. New York, NY.: Random House.

Rozenberg, G., & Salomaa, A. (Eds.). (1997) Handbook of formal languages. New York : Springer.

Silverblatt, A. (1997) Dictionary of media literacy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Simpson, P., Bushell, M., & Rodiss, H. (Ed.). (2005) The Rough Guide to cult fiction. London: Rough Guides.

Trachtenberg, S. (Ed.). (1985) The Postmodern moment: A handbook of contemporary innovation in the arts. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Weiner, R. (1990) Webster's New World dictionary of media and communications. New York, NY.: Webster's New World.

Encyclopedia

Asher, R.E. (Ed.). (1994) The Encyclopedia of language and linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Crystal, D. (1998) The Cambridge encyclopedia of language. (2^nd. ed.) Cambridge: The University Press.

Jones, S. (Ed.). (2003) Encyclopedia of new media: An essential reference to communication and technology. Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage Publications.

Johnston, D. H. (Ed.). (2003) Encyclopedia of international media and communications. San Diego, CA.: Academic Press.

Lamarque, P. V. (Ed.) (1997) Concise encyclopedia of philosophy of language. Oxford: Pergamon.

Romano, R. M. (Ed.). (1998) The GATF encyclopedia of graphic communications. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall PTR.

Guides to reference sources

Blazek, R. (1994) The Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information Sources. (4th ed.) Englewood, CO.: Libraries Unlimited.

Block, E. S. (1991) Communication and the mass media : a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, CO.: Libraries Unlimited.

Blum, E. (1990) Mass media bibliography : an annotated guide to books and journals for research and reference. Urbana, ILL.: University of Illinois Press.

Curtiss, D. (1987) Introduction to visual literacy : a guide to the visual arts and communication. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Edgerton, G. R. (Ed.). (1988) Film and the arts in symbiosis: A resource guide. New York, NY.: Greenwood Press.

Finnegan, R. (1992) Oral traditions and the verbal arts: A guide to research practices. London: Routledge.

Frost, C. O. (1989) Media access and organization: a cataloging and reference sources guide for nonbook materials. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

Mullay, M. (1993) Walford's guide to reference material. London: Library Association.

Porsyniuk, J. (Ed.). (1991) Modern arts criticism: A biographical and critical guide to painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects from the beginning of the modern era to the present. Detroit: Gale Research.

Simons, L. K. (1994) The performing arts: A guide to the reference literature. Englewood, CO.: Libraries Unlimited.

University at Albany. Communication studies: A guide to reference sources. [Online]. Available: http://library.albany.edu/subject/guides/communication.htm

University of Maryland. Communication theory and applied communication, UM Libraries. [Online]. Available: http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/communication.html

University of Maryland. Dance, UM Libraries. [Online]. Available: http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/dance.html

University of Maryland. Guide to linguistics resources, UM Libraries. [Online]. Available: http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/linguistics.html

University of Maryland. Theatre, UM Libraries. [Online]. Available: http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/theatre.html

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Westfield State College Ely Library. Communication: Reference Sources. [Online]. Available: http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/guidcommun.htm