This guide will assist you in locating speeches available in the I.D. Weeks Library. 

Text and/or criticism of many speeches can be found by searching the Library's online catalog PALS. Http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/databases.html

Use the following selected headings as a subject or subject key word search when using the Online Catalog: Speeches, orations, rhetoric, public speaking, oratory, business communication, communication social aspects, communication small groups, business presentations.

The sources listed below include materials available in the Library's general and reference collections and electronic resources. 

American Orators before 1900: Critical Studies and Sources. Ref PN4055 .U5 A4 1987 

American Orators of the Twentieth Century: Critical Studies and Sources. Ref PN4193 .P6 A44 1987

  Arts and Humanities Search. Library web page Http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/databases.html  

CommSearch95. Speech Communication Association. Stand-along computer station. Index/abstracts with full-text to major communication journals.

Communication Abstracts. Reference Index Tables A comphrensive source of information about communication-related publications. Covers interpersonal communication, speech, small group communication, organizational communication, etc.

Education Abstracts. Library web page Http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/databases.html

ERIC. Library web page Http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/databases.html Abstracts over 700 periodical titles and provides access to microfiche gathered by sixteen specialized educational clearing houses.

Index to American Women Speakers, 1828-1978. Ref PS400 .M36x 1980 Index to Journals in Communication Studies through 1990. Ref P87 .M37 1992 Indexing contents: Communication Education, Communication Monographs, Communication Quarterly, Communication Studies, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journalism Quarterly, Southern Communication Journal, Western Journal of Speech Communication. 

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Library Web. Full text access to journal and newspaper articles, reports and statistical information covering a wide range of subjects. 

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts. Library LAN Covers language behavior, linguistics, and related disciplines. 

Newspaper Abstracts. Library web page Http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/databases.html Abstracts describes significant items in more than 50 national and regional newspapers. 

Speech Index; an index to 259 collections of world famous orations Ref A13 .S85 1966 

The Annals of America. Ref E173 A793 A collection of original source readings from 1493-1968. Includes speeches, letters and official documents. 

Congressional Record. 2^nd floor U.S. Government Documents Collection. X 1.1: Debates and speeches given on the floor of Congress. Http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/index.html  

Documents of American History. E173 .D59 1988 

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History. PN6122 .L4 1992 

The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches. D411 .P46 1992 

The Presidents Speak: the Inaugural Addresses of the American Presidents from Washington to Clinton. J81 .62 1994 

Representative American Speeches. 3^rd Floor PS668 .B3 annual
Contains 10 to 20 representative speeches of the year. 

U.S. Presidents as Orators: a Bio-Critical Sourcebook. PN4055 .U53 P648 1995 

Vital Speeches of the Day. 2^nd floor current/bound periodicals Reprints of noteworthy speeches. Vital Speeches is indexed in Expanded Academic ASAP Http://www.usd.edu/library/electronic/databases.html  

The World's Great Speeches. PN6121 .C66x

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Library Web. Full text access to journal and newspaper articles, reports and statistical information covering a wide range of subjects. Includes full-text of New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and many other major newspapers. 

Newspaper Abstracts. Abstracts describes significant items in more than 50 national and regional newspapers.