Web Research Links

Library Databases

The UAH Salmon Library subscribes to numerous databases providing full-text access to scholarly journals.  You can access these from off campus (requires a login) at the Library home page, http://www.uah.edu/library/ (click on Online Databases on the top navigation bar).

You can also browse whole issues of the major journals in technical communication from the Library Website from the Journals page http://lib.uah.edu/journals/index.html .  Typing "technical communication" in the search window will bring up all of the relevant journals (and some irrelevant).  The main ones are described on my Key Journals page.  On the Library Web, the databases that index each journal are listed below each one.  Some databases provide easier access to full text than others.  For example, Technical Communication is mostly easily browsed through the Gale Group Professional Collection.  If you already know the date of a special issue

Guides to Internet Sources

**EServer TC Library:  A Cooperative Library for Technical Communicators http://tc.eserver.org/
 Well organized links to online sources in technical communication, organized topically.  This is your first stop for searching online sources.

The UAH Library's Guide to Internet Sources in Communication Arts organizes useful links on a variety of topics, including links to a guide to internet resources in technical communication

Internet Resources for Technical Communicators http://www.soltys.ca/techcomm.html
Includes a download page with several Word macros for single sourcing documents.

Professional Organizations

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (has syllabi, links to bibliographies, and other materials) cms.english.ttu.edu/attw/

IEEE Professional Communication Society www.ieeepcs.org/
Their professional journal, IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication, is searchable at this site.  The UAH Library subscribes to it.

Society for Technical Communication (conference papers and some publications searchable) http://www.stc.org/  
 This international professional organization has an active Huntsville chapter and publishes scholarly research in a quarterly journal.  Student membership is $50-$65, depending on membership level (a bargain, compared to regular membership).  The UAH Library subscribes to it.

Miscellaneous

 Techwr-L listserv Searchable archive (Techwr-L listserv is a huge group of technical writers):
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/index.php3

Job-hunting: www.uah.edu/english/EHTJobs/

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