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to EH 501 main pageKey Technical Communication Journals and Where Indexed
Note: I personally subscribe to those starred and will loan copies when
necessary. More important, full text of most
articles is available through Academic Search Premier at UAH Salmon Library,
which is accessible from your home computer.
From the library home page, select Online Databases and login with
your last name and Banner ID.
*Technical Communication Quarterly - TCQ (library has 1992 -
present; full text available from EBSCO since 1993)
(Library also has 1986-1991 of a previous version titled Technical Writing
Teacher. )
Published by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW),
this journal is directed to teachers.
Education Index
Abstr. Anthropol.
C.I.J.E. (also known as ERIC online)
*Technical Communication - TC (library has 1986 - present;
most, but not all, articles available in full text from Academic Search Premier)
The scholarly research journal of the Society for Technical Communication (STC).
Curr. Cont.
C.I.J.E. (also known as ERIC online)
Comput. Abstr.
Bus. Ind.
Abstr. Anthropol.
Educ Tech. Abstr.
Int. Aerosp. Abstr.
Mag. Ind.
IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication (library has
1972-2001; full text available from IEEE Xplore back to 1988)
This journal emphasizes writing in engineering companies. Articles
tend to be shorter and more practitioner-oriented than those in the other
journals listed here.
Applied Science & Technology Index
Current Contents
Engineering Index (online also)
Mathematical Review
Social Science Citation Index
Computer Abstracts
*Journal of Business and Technical Communication -JBTC (library
has 1987-1997). Full-text available online through Business Source Premier.
(originally titled Iowa Journal of Business and Technical Communication)
This journal includes research about teaching both technical writing and
business writing.
CIJE
(also known as ERIC online)Journal of Technical Writing and Communication - JTWC
(library has 1986-1995 and it is available online in full text through Academic
Search Premier)
This journal emphasizes empirical
research.
Communication Abstracts
Current Contents
Engineering Index
Linguistics Abstracts
Social Science Citation Index