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Background sources, such as encyclopedias and dictionaries, can be helpful if you're not very familiar with your topic. They contain basic knowledge about a topic and can provide key terms for further searching.
General Background Sources:
- Credo Reference Academic Core This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
- Oxford Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive collection of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. A useful background information source for starting your research. Simultaneous user limit: 5.
- Britannica Academic This link opens in a new windowProvides access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, an interactive world atlas, a world data analyst tool, images, timelines, videos, and primary sources.
Discipline-Specific Background Sources:
Ethics in Public RelationsCall Number: Stacks Upper Level HD59 .P3548 2008ISBN: 9780749453329Publication Date: 2008
O'Dwyer's Directory of Public Relations FirmsCall Number: Reference Stacks Main Level HM263 .O37- O'Dwyer's PR services reportCall Number: Online
A Professional and Practitioner's Guide to Public Relations Research, Measurement, and EvaluationCall Number: OnlineISBN: 9781631577611Publication Date: 2017
Public Relations and the Digital: Professional Discourse and ChangeCall Number: OnlineISBN: 9783031139550Publication Date: 2022
Use Additional Online Resources
- Council of Public Relations FirmsThe PR Council is, according to their website "a trade association designed to connect the present and next generation of PR professionals, industry innovators and business leaders through education, events and industry resources."
- Institute for Public RelationsA non-profit organization dedicated to developing research on the public relations field.
- PR NewsFrom their website: "The PR News group focuses on honing and growing PR practitioners' skills in social media, crisis management, digital PR, measurement, employee relations, media training, CSR and writing through its flagship newsletter, webinars, conferences, awards programs, workshops and guidebooks."
- Public Relations Division of AEJMCProfessional organization of public relations educators. Publishes two journals: the Journal of Public Relations Research and the Journal of Public Relations Education.
- Ragan's PR Daily"Lawrence ragan communications, inc. PR Daily is a daily news site that delivers news, advice, and opinions on the public relations, marketing, social media, and media worlds."
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