Kresge Research Guides: Human Resources: Articles Resources

Article searching tips

An article search can often turn up all kinds of information on your company or industry. An article search allows you to be creative with your keywords describing your issue or topic, and/or you can also search on terms like "target and education" or "supply chain or SCM or logistics" or "best practices," etc. to see what turns up. Articles are a great source for independent discussion of your company's involvement in social issues, and may also pick up local news sources with additional information about your company. Be on the lookout for research articles related to your topic--look for the data section to see what resources the authors cite.

Article Databases

ABI/INFORM Collection
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ABI/INFORM contains articles from thousands of newspapers and key business magazines such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Barron’s, the Economist, and the New York Times. It also contains papers from leading academic journals across all major business disciplines.
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Business Source Complete
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Business Source Complete contains articles from thousands of newspapers, trade publications, and key business magazines such as the Harvard Business Review. It also contains papers from leading academic journals across all major business disciplines.
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 Business Source Complete."
Factiva
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Originally a joint-venture between Dow Jones and Reuters, Factiva contains articles from thousands of international newspapers and key business magazines such as the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters Newswires, Dow Jones Newswires, and thousands of others.
Technical notes: Downloads are limited to 100 documents per PDF.
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 Factiva." Traders may not use this database.
Nexis Uni
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Full-text access to over 15,000 sources of news, business, legal, and reference information, including hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, legal and business publications, wire services, broadcast media transcripts, and trade/news magazines. Here you will also find federal and state legal cases and some patent information.
JSTOR
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Full-run, full-text archive of core scholarly journals from a variety of academic disciplines, mainly in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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 JSTOR."
Science Direct
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Science Direct contains over 2,000 journals related to life and physical sciences, medicine, and technical fields. Journals such as Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management and Research in Transportation Business & Management are included.

Leading HR Academic Journals

Here are links to leading peer-reviewed journals on human resources and organizational management. Some titles have an embargo period per the publisher. The U-M Library Catalog Search link will take you to the catalog where you may find alternative methods of obtaining the full text articles. These links are for the Ann Arbor Campus.

Academy of Management Journal (journal link / U-M Library Catalog Search link)
Advances in Developing Human Resources (journal link / U-M Library Catalog Search link)
Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior (journal link / U-M Library Catalog Search link)
Evidence - Based HRM (journal link / U-M Library Catalog Search Link)
Industrial and Organizational Psychology (journal link / U-M Library Catalog Search link)
Journal of Human Resources (journal link / U-M Library Catalog Search link)
Organization Science (journal link / U-M Library Catalog Search link)
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (journal link / U-M Library Catalog Search link)
Personnel Psychology (journal link / U-M Library Catalog Search link)
Research in Organizational Behavior (journal link / U-M Library Catalog Search link)

Google Scholar Search

Google Scholar provides a familiar interface and method for searching scholarly literature across a wide array of disciplines and sources. You can find articles, theses, books, abstracts and other documents that are buried in Kresge Library databases or stored in academic institutional repositories around the world.

Google Scholar is not Google. Google Scholar is not searching the web at large, but a set of trusted resources that specifically focus on scholarly literature. Google Scholar is a good place to start to get a sense of where the scholarly literature on your topic is located.

You can also set Google Scholar up to link directly into the Library databases that you have access to as a Ross and UM student.