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MGT 313: Human Resources Management

  1. Human Resource ManagementSearching Strategies
  2. Article Databases
  3. Best Practices Database
  4. Books
  5. Citation Help

Steve Cramer
UNCG Business Librarian
smcramer@uncg.edu
336-256-0346
AIM: stevebizlib


1. Searching Strategies

What's a database?

off campus login form

How do I get to databases?

Five basic techniques for searching databases for articles:

1. Identify the main concepts or keywords of your search question.

2. Combine keywords with "AND"
     ex: mentoring AND employee retention
AND

3. Search for synonyms with "OR"
     ex: diversity OR multicultural
OR

4. Using parenthesis, you can use OR and AND at the same time.
    ex: (diversity OR multicultural) AND mentoring

5. Truncate words that have various endings
     ex: mentor* and manage*

Journal FinderWhen to use Journal Finder

Journal Finder link in Business Source Premier


2. Article Databases

Business Source Premier

PsycInfo

Academic v. Popular v. Trade/Practitioner

 

Academic Journals

Popular Magazines

Trade Magazines
General
appearance
Plain, sober, serious; may have graphs or charts, but few pictures; long articles with footnotes

Glossy paper; lots of colorful ads & photos, short articles

Glossy paper; business-to-business ads; heavily illustrated; short articles
Audience Professors, students, researchers

General public

Professionals in an industry
Authors Professors, researchers

Reporters

Specialized reporters
Publishers Academic associations or commercial publishers Media conglomerates Professional associations or commercial publishers
Citations/
Footnotes?
Yes No No
Peer-reviewed? Yes No No
Examples Journal of Management, Managerial Finance Business Week, Fortune Advertising Age,
Chain Store Age

But how do you tell if an online article is academic?

Three examples of online articles: academic or not?

  1. Trends in U.S. economics majors: Why the decline in the 1990s?
  2. All the right moves
  3. Members' salaries still increase

3. Best Practices Database

Best Practices

Example reports:


4. Books

Library Catalog

Keyword searches examples

Subject term examples

Sometimes, the subject terms used by the catalog aren't common business terms. Here are some useful subject terms you can use alone or with other terms ADDed.


5. Citation Help

Steve Cramer
Business Librarian