Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources are free to use and offer students access to hundreds of quality academic papers, journals and books to help in your studies.
Make sure you have your ProQuest login details to hand. These can be found on Blackboard. Also, note you will be required to create a BookBoon account to access and download the textbooks.
Any questions or issues please contact our Librarian Luke Privitera - LPrivitera@holmes.edu.au
Communication
OER Commons - Interpersonal Communication - Examines theories and topics within interpersonal communication, such as verbal and nonverbal communication, perception, self-concept, communication climate, relationship satisfaction, conflict, and self-disclosure within different communication contexts.
Open Textbook Library - Interpersonal Communication: A Mindful Approach to Relationships - A Mindful Approach to Relationships helps readers examine their own one-on-one communicative interactions using a mindfulness lens. The writing team of Jason S. Wrench, Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter, and Katherine Thweatt incorporates the latest communication theory and research to help students navigate everyday interpersonal interactions.
OER Commons - Process of Communication - Surveys the discipline of Communication Studies, emphasizing a theoretical understanding of human communication.
WikiBooks - Communication Theory - This book is an introduction to communication theory — the theory of how humans share, encode, and decode what they know, what they need, and what they expect from each other.
BCcampus OpenEd - Introduction to Professional Communications - This book covers key business communications topics that will help you in your career, including intercultural communication, team work, professional writing, audience analysis and adapting messages, document formatting, oral communication, and more.
BCcampus OpenEd - Communication for Business Professionals - Canadian Edition – This textbook provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to oral communication within a business to help both students and professors.
University of Kansas - Be Credible - Information literacy for journalism, public relations, advertising and marketing students.
University of Minnesota - Information Strategies for Communicators - The definitive text for the information search and evaluation process as practiced by news and strategic communication message producers.
Open Library Pressbooks - Professional Communications – A textbook on professional communication.
Open Library Pressbooks - Writing for Strategic Communication Industries - Good writing skills are important in today’s competitive work environment. This is especially the case for communication-related professions such as public relations, brand communication, journalism, and marketing.
Pressbooks - An Open Guide to Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) - The Open Guide to Integrated Marketing Communications is an OER that was written and edited by KPU students in 2020. It covers a range of topics related to designing and launching integrated marketing campaigns, such as research, audience segmentation, creative briefs, content calendars, and more.