Public Relations: Databases

Indexing and full text database that provides access to published material on Australian social sciences and humanities. Source documents include periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers, and books. Includes public relations resources, as well as other multi-disciplinary subjects. Inclusive coverage from 1978 to the present, with full text from 1995 onwards.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) web site provides comprehensive access to Australian statistical and reference information. There are statistics on the following themes: economy; environment and energy; industry; people; and regions.

A definitive scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content. Business Source Complete offers indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, it also provides full text journals in all disciplines of business & economics.

Communication & Mass Media Complete incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create an authoritative research and reference resource in the communication discipline. CMMC offers core indexing and abstracts for nearly 600 journals, and selected priority coverage of nearly 200 more.

Detailed analyses of selected Australian industries, covering major players, industry performance and outlook, market characteristics, industry participants and recent news articles. Monash University Library subscribes to the following six modules: AU Industry Reports, AU Specialised Industry Collection, AU SME Industry Reports, AU Business Environment Profiles, AU Industry iExpert Summaries and China Industry Reports.

The Proquest platform is a leading multidisciplinary portal allowing cross-search access to many key online databases, both full text and bibliographic. Databases cover most academic and professional disciplines, including public relations and consist of scholarly journals, books, video & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers and more. A complete list of database titles available to Monash University students and staff is available at the site.