LibGuides: Human Resources Management: Overview

Introduction to Guide

This guide is intended to help you begin your research paper and/or project and direct you to a variety of resources from the Thompson Library related to human resources management:

Reference books (print and online) that may be useful starting points for research.
Books --over 14 million books available through UM library system.
Article Databases (scholarly journals) covering your topic (over 75,000 journals)
Databases covering Company Information, Financials and Statistics
Industry Information and Statistics
Search tips for the library catalog and article databases

This Guide is intended for the use by University of Michigan-Flint students and employees. Users outside of UM-Flint may not be able to access many of the links provided.

Instructors interested in having a companion Course Guide, which organizes selected library resources required for course work, should contact their liaison librarian for assistance.

Frequently Used Databases

Human Resources Abstracts
Covers human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

HR Directory
Free online directory of resources for HR professionals.

ProQuest Business
Collection of databases relating to business.

Includes the following databases. which may also be searched individually:
• ABI/INFORM Complete
• COS Conference Papers Index
• COS Scholar Universe
• ebrary e-books
• EconLit
• OxResearch
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text: Business‎ (1639 - current)
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland: Business
‎• ProQuest Historical Annual Reports (1844-present)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Wall Street Journal (1889-1996)
• ProQuest Research Library: Business
• Women's Wear Daily Archive
Business Source Complete
1886-present. Case studies, company profiles, conference proceedings, country reports, financial data, industry reports, investment research reports, market research reports, monographs, SWOT analyses, trade journals. All aspects of business.

Due to license restrictions, access to the 500 most popular articles from Harvard Business Review is read-only--no printing, downloading, or direct linking to these 500 articles is permitted. All other HBR articles are fully accessible to all current U-M students, faculty, and staff with no such restrictions.

Use Policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of EBSCO Business Source Complete."
Business Abstracts with Full Text
1982-present. Accounting, banking, communications, economics, finance, regulations, insurance, investments, marketing, oil & gas, personnel, retail trade, small business, taxation, specific businesses, specific industries, specific trades.
Emerald Management 120
Business, Management, Economics, Library Science, Engineering and other journals published by Emerald Group Publishing.

Human Resources Management

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Introduction to Guide

Frequently Used Databases