Research Guides: PRS201 Research Guide: Start your Research Here

Welcome to the Research Guide for PRS201!

This Guide is Designed to Give You:

How to Use this Guide: Start with the resources on this page, or use the tabs above to navigate throughout the rest of this guide.

Business Source Complete
The best source for articles in all disciplines of business! Also includes news articles, SWOTs, industry profiles, company profiles, & market reports.
Gale Business Insights:

Brings together international business and industry reference material, statistical data, case studies, journals and newspapers.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni is a database for news, legal research (federal & state cases, law reviews), & company dossiers. Includes The New York Times.
Regional Business News Plus

A collection of full-text newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Offers information from over 600 journals in communication, mass media and related fields.

Nexis Uni - Natural Language Searching
This 4-minute video will show you how to enter a question, phrase, or description of what you want to find.
NexisUni - Working With Results
This 5-minute video shows you how to filter a search, options for viewing, sharing, and printing your results, and how to export citations for your paper.
Nexis Uni - How to search using Boolean (AND, OR, NOT)
This 3-minute video will teach you how you can do more efficient searching with the connectors AND, OR, and NOT, wildcards, and special segment searching.

This guide is designed to enable students to:

Develop search strategies based on a case study in order to research the background and history of the issue
Use library databases and search engines for researching and evaluating a public relations challenge

Course Research Guide content & student learning outcomes are based on course syllabus objectives & assignment.