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Información y documentación especializada en los diferentes ámbitos de la comunicación, orientada a los investigadores, estudiantes y profesionales de la Comunicación, prioritariamente de América Latina, España y Cataluña.

This site is a springboard that librarians, students, and researchers can use to find information in the area of communication studies. It is not exhaustive, rather it includes the core or primary resources within each category presented. The resources included within this site were selected by communication studies librarians serving as members of the Association of College and Research Libraries Educational and Behavioral Sciences Section Communication Studies Committee.

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The Oxford Text Archive hosts the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Centre for Literature, Languages and Linguistics, one of the five Subject Centres of the AHDS. The Archive holds several thousand digital resources of interest to researchers, teachers, and learners working across the range of literary and linguistic disciplines. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works, and a range of language corpora. Searches can be executed by author, title, or language, and other criteria will be added over time. Users can also use these criteria to browse the catalogue. The resource is freely available. The Archive also provides support for the creation and use of electronic texts, including guides to good practice, and advice and tools for using the Text Encoding Initiative's Guidelines for encoding texts in SGML and XML. The Oxford Text Archive receives funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Description based

Corpus Linguistics is a site designed as a supplement to the book Corpus Linguistics, although it can be used on its own. The project is funded by IHE (Innovation in Higher Education). The site consists of four major sections: Early Corpus Linguistics and the Chomskyan Revolution; What is a Corpus and What is in it?; Quantitative Data; and The Use of Corpora in Language Studies

The Survey of English Usage is one of the first corpora of the English language, started in 1959 by Prof. Randolph Quirk. It contains a million-word corpus of written and spoken English collected between 1955 and 1985, originally available on paper, now computerised