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Communication Studies

Finding Publicly Available & Free Resources

Many of the resources collected on this guide require an affiliation with URI or use of a public computer within the URI Libraries. You can always check access restrictions for recommended resources by looking at the icon next to each link. The little green "A" icon to identifies resources that are accessible. 

Freely Available resource icon - Free Resource: All Can Access

URI Only resource icon - URI Only (must be a URI student, faculty, or staff member to access)

You can also check out the recommendations on this page for additional resources you can access without a logon restriction! 

To browse for open access, freely available scholarly material on your topic, check out the Directory of Open Access Journals linked below!

Online Resources

The following book recommendations are Open Educational Resources (OERs), meaning that they are teaching and learning materials that are free to access and licensed for reuse and adaptation. 

Free resources for speech writing and rhetoric topics in communications. 

Free resources in public policy for background information on communications related topics. 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.