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Foster Business Library
Databases:
The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more information on Foster business databases, click Databases, A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index.
For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access.
For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.
See SIC 8743: Public Relations Services, in the 2005 Encyclopedia of American Industries, and Public Relations, in the 2002 Encyclopedia of Small Business. See also a 1987 business plan for a Public Relations Firm, in volume two of the Business Plans Handbook.
See the industry fact sheet for Public Relations, including their Selected Companies and Web Resources.
A search for the SIC code for public relations, 8743, produced a list of 158 firms in Washington state, including 107 firms in King County, and 79 firms in Seattle.
Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.
Foster
Business
Library Reference Collection:
The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.
See the long list of companies listed under Public Relations Counselors.
See volume five, pages 9626 to 9628, for SIC code 8743, Public Relations Services (including just one firm in Washington state).
See page 78 for a list of the twenty five top public relations firms in the area.
See Washington state on page 1025.
See pages A83 and A84 for Washington state corporations and page A99 for Washington state associations.
See Public Relations in volume four, on pages 1737 to 1741.
See volume two, page 821, for two tables on Public Relations (table 3608, on largest U.K. PR firms, and table 3609, on PR spending in 2004).
See pages 591 to 600 for many listings for Public Relations.
Foster Business Library
Books:
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on
all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.
To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library.
Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.
If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.
The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).
A search for the subject Public Relations, limited to the Foster Business Library, retrieved over seventy records, including:
Libraries outside Foster, in the UW system, also include books on this subject in their collection; click here for a list. Some examples include:
A keyword search for Public Relations produces a longer list of titles, since it looks not only in subjects but in titles, subtitles, chapter headings and more; click here for a list of such titles in the UW system and here for a list of Foster records.
The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of several thousand
annual reports for hundreds of U.S. and foreign companies. These reports are
filed in lateral filing cabinets near the Foster Reference desk under the sign Corporate Annual Reports. Annual reports for companies in an industry can be a valuable source of information about the industry itself. For a list of all the companies in the collection, see the library's Corporate Annual Reports Collection.
For an index to corporate annual reports in the collection by industry sector, see the Annual Reports Industry Sector Index. For an index to companies in the collection with headquarters outside the U.S., see Corporate Annual Reports Headquarters Index.
As the book Annual Reports 101 documents, corporate annual reports are also public relations documents. See the Complete Annual Reports Collection, looking especially for annual reports that have received awards for best of the year.
Foster Business Library Articles:
The UW Library's collections include:
Articles in academic journals, magazines, trade periodicals, and newspapers are one of the best sources for any kind of research. While the
Foster Business Library offers a large periodicals print collection, comprising over 800 titles, articles are most easily accessed online,
24/7, in such fulltext article databases as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases are available in the library or from off-campus, and provide access to over 10,000 periodicals and millions of articles.
Library access to most ProQuest databases will terminate at the end of
spring quarter 2008, except for ProQuest NewsStand, ProQuest Dissertations
and Theses, Historical New York Times, and the Historical Wall Street
Journal. For more about this change, see UW Libraries Providing New
Databases. After this change, comprehensive article searches should be performed in EBSCO
Business Source Premier, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest
NewsStand. Also, after this change, links to the articles below will be broken.
This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full
text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals,
magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a
very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by
word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search
for your topic in the Topic Guide.
Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article.
This database includes full text for Public Relations Journal (Jan 1992 , Volume 48, Issue 1 - May 1995 , Volume 51, Issue 1), Public Relations Quarterly (Winter 1987/1988, Volume 32, Issue 4 – current),
Public Relations Strategist (Winter 1998, Volume 4, Issue 4 - current), and
Public Relations Tactics (Mar 1998, Volume 5, Issue 3 – current).
A subject search for
SUB(Public Relations) produced over 50,000 articles, including over 2,900 articles in scholarly journals, over 6,000 magazine articles, over 29,000 articles in trade and industry periodicals, over 13,000 newspaper articles, over 800 reports, and over seventy Ph.D. dissertations.
This search can be narrowed by combining it with other subjects, such as:
Examples of articles, from the searches above, include:
For research guides on a wide variety of industries, products, companies, issues and topics, see the Team Librarian Consultation archives.
This reference work is often a good first source for identifying local businesses quickly, by industry category.
Foster Business Library Reference Desk.
This annual multi-volume set lists the top 160,000 public and private businesses in the U.S., with brief directory information about each company, and indexes by SIC code and geography.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC102 .D8 2007.
This annual publication is an invaluable source of information about public and private companies in the Puget Sound area, culled from lists that appeared weekly in the Puget Sound Business Journal. There is an index to companies and topics in the back of this volume.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HC108 .S77 .P83 2007.
This volume consists of an alphabetic catalog of 1800 U.S. companies having public or governmental affairs programs, with key contact information, plus a listing of 13,000 corporate staff employed in these offices. This volume also includes industry and geographic indexes.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD59 .N24 2005.
This publication lists 18,000 public relations and communications people, in 5300 companies, 2,000 associations, and over 350 government departments. As the foreward to this volume notes, there is a trend away from use of the term "public relations," in favor of "corporate communications." This volume includes name and geographic indexes.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HD59 .O36 2003.
This five-volume reference work includes 900 essays by scholars,
arranged alphabetically by topic, on all aspects of business ethics.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5387 .E53 2008.
Two-volume annual compilation of market share data on U.S. and international companies, products and
services, arranged by SIC code and with indexes by product, company and
topic.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HF5410 .M35 2007.
Published by the Public Relations Society of America, this old title explains how to select a public relations firm and provides an outdated list of individual and corporate members of the society, with various indexes.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HM263 .P84a 1998.
Also published by the Public Relations Society of America, this volume is a who’s who of the public relations world, way back in the late nineties.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HM263 .P85 1998/1999.
This annual volume provides 5,000 rankings of companies, products, services and business activities, with data culled from thousands of sources.
Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4050 .B88 2004.
ProQuest Databases:
The Foster Business Library Reference Desk is staffed nearly all of the hours that the library is open. The
staff at the desk will be happy to help you find business research tools and resources, exploit business databases to the fullest or advise on research strategies.
For e-mail questions, direct your query to balib@u.washington.edu. For
assistance by telephone, dial (206) 543-8012 during library hours.