The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship is a not‐for‐profit organization affiliated with the Department of Communication at SUNY‐Albany which supports the use of technology “in the service of communication scholarship and education”. CIOS was founded in 1986 and is supported primarily through individual and institutional memberships, through publication of The Electronic Journal of Communication, and through subscriptions to its databases such as ComAbstracts and ComVista.
CIOS offer three kinds of subscription:
Discounts for academic library consortia and universities in developing nations are available.
The CIOS Resource Library at http://www.cios.org/www/library.htm is an online repository of announcements, research collections, bibliographies,...
