Reference Works
Getting On the Air and Into Print: A Citizen's Guide to Chicago Area Media
Reference 88.8 G488
Finding Books
Books may be an appropriate source to find information on your topic. Books in the COD Library are considered reputable sources, but they may not contain the most up to date information on the topic. Use the Library Catalog to do a subject search on your topic. If you don't locate anything with a subject search, try a keyword search to look for essays or chapters in books. If you still aren't finding anything ask at the Reference Desk in person, by phone at 630-942-3364, or online.
Some subject headings which cover topics you are studying are:
Databases
- Business & Company ASAP
Access to articles on business, management and marketing. Also includes directory listings and links to articles about approximately 150,000 companies. - Business Source Elite
Provides full text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. Includes full text for approximately 3000 business publications and 5,000 Datamonitor company profiles. - Communication and Mass Media Complete
Articles and other research materials in areas related to communication and mass media. Indexing and abstracts for more than 600 journals and full text for 301 journals. - Hoover's Online
Hoover's, Inc. delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence. This database covers 12 million companies, and provides in-depth coverage of 25,000 of the world's top business enterprises. - Wall Street Journal
Indexing and full-text articles from the world's leading financial newspaper from 1984-present.
Web Sites
- Center for Media and Democracy: Publishers of PR Watch
"PR Watch, a quarterly publication of the Center for Media & Democracy, is dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry." - Ethics Codes and Beyond: Can You Improve Your Code of Ethics?
Excerpts from newspapers' codes of ethics. Subjects include public relations. - Institute for Public Relations
The Institute for Public Relations is focused on the science beneath the art of public relations. We exist to expand and document the intellectual foundations of public relations - KnowThis.com: Knowledge Source for Marketing
Search on public relations for articles. - Public Relations
Has PR-related subject categories, with annotated links.
Marianne Berger, Reference Librarian
630.942.2338
berger@cdnet.cod.edu
21 January 2006
