Public Relations Resources  

The Communication and Mass Media Complete database is a primary collection of articles and other references to published literature in all sub-disciplines of public communications, including public relations.  Covers articles from scholarly peer-reviewed journals, as well as trade journals and other periodicals in additional related fields such as media studies, broadcasting, advertising, journalism and more.  Includes coverage of PR journal titles such as:  Public Relations Review, Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Quarterly, Public Relations Research Annual.

The Business Source Elite database covers nearly 1,100 business publications and economics journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications.  Includes coverage of the Harvard Business Review

Need help on formatting the sources you cite in your academic writing (e.g., APA, MLA, etc.) or want access to a full-fledged online bibliographic management system-like "RefWorks?"  Visit SU Library's Citation Support website.

SU Library offers numerous research tools and information sources to assist you when investigating public relations. Explore the various sections of this guide for links to leading examples of these tools.

In the center column below you'll also see a series of short tutorials introducing the general SU Library website and its core research tools.  If navigating the library site gives you trouble, you'll definitely want to take a few minutes and view some of these.  Tutorials designed by SU Library Learning Commons Librarians and Staff.

Weekly trade journal in public relations.  Current and back issues are available from SU Library via various platforms.  

PRWeek (U.S.) - Online
*access note:  for year 2000 thru current issues - click on go button adjacent to "miscellaneous ejournals"

PRWeek (U.S.) - Print
Current Issues - 2nd floor, Current Periodicals Section - E.S. Bird Library
Back Issues - HD 59 P79 - 3rd floor, E.S. Bird Library

PR Week (U.K.) - Online
*access note: for year 2003 thru current issues - click on go button adjacent to "Proquest Central."  As noted on the ejournals screen, back issues to 2005 also available via "Access World News" database.   In addition, there is back issue access via the databases Lexis Nexis Academic and Factiva (but issue by issue browsing not supported - in Lexis Nexis & Factiva one must perform a keyword search to retrieve PR Week article content).

Click on the image to view these tutorial modules.

Click on the image to view these tutorial modules.

Click on the image to view these tutorial modules.

Click on the image to view these tutorial modules.