Contents
Pollicies and Procedures
Journal Articles
Company Information
Legal and Regulatory Resources
Government Resources
Compensation Information
HRM 403 Assignment Guide
Policies and Procedures
BNA Human Resources Library [BNA]
- information on policies, laws, and regulations, as well as expert analyses and guidance in the areas of personnel management, fair employment practices, compensation, wages and hours, and labor relations
- summaries of state and federal laws; introduction to global HR management
General searches for journal articles
ABI Inform Global Edition [Proquest]
- Full text is included for more than 600 journals from 1992 forward - selected titles are available in full-text from 1920+
- indexes and abstracts more than 1,300 sources, including over 350 titles from outside the United States
- business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information.
Business Source Elite [EBSCOhost]
- often extends back to 1980 with many full-text titles back to 1990
- scholarly business, management and economics journals
- full text for 1,111 business publications
Emerald Insight Full Text
- a database of full-text scholarly journals
- approximately 155 scholarly periodicals available in full text
- Not a traditional database. Searching is limited to the citation and full text of the articles
General BusinessFile ASAP (INFOTRAC) [GaleGroup]
- 1980- present, updated monthly
- more than 850 business, management, and trade journals, and includes business-related articles from over 3,000 other publications
- Full text is included for articles in more than 400 sources
JSTOR
[select Business journals]
- a database of full-text scholarly journals
- covers over 300 scholarly periodicals
- Contains searchable full text of all the contents back to their beginning
Company Information
Business and Company Resource Center [GaleGroup]
- includes General Business File ASAP
- 1980- present, updated monthly
- covering over 2000 journals with 1300 full journals and newsletters
- Access to Investext Plus reports are included within the database
Charities Register from the
Office of the New York State Attorney General.
Enables searching for charities which have filed under state regulation to be treated as charities for taxation purposes. Annual reports and tax returns are available.
Vault - Online Career Library
- vocational guidance and employment assistance
- Carefully researched and continually updated "insider" information on over 3,000 companies and 70 industries
- extensive free job board with thousands of top job openings
Legal and Regulatory Resources
BNA Labor and Employment Law Library [BNA]
- Supports research into federal and state labor and employment law issues -- decisions, statutes, regulations, litigation, negotiations, trends, and other new developments, plus explanations, insights, and commentary
- Americans with Disabilities Act law with Cases decided under the ADA, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and state laws, going back to 1974
Westlaw w/ Key Cite
- search the legal literature
- starting place for legal research
- full-text legislation and case law for federal and state law as well as selected journal and encyclopedic information. Searching the history of a case and where it has been cited is now supported
Government Resources
GPO Access (US Government Documents)
- 1976- present, updated monthly
- 450,000 records for documents printed by the U.S. government
- Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by executive departments
USA.gov
- a finding aid to government web resources and online publications
Occupational OutlookHandbook
-Produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this guide forecasts and describes most careers in the United States.
-Updated every two years.
Compensation Information
Executive Compensation
-Companypay.com provides information on the total compensation package for CEOs of the 100 Top Companies ranked by revenue by Fortune Magazine.
-The AFL-CIO labor union website also watches executive compensation closely at their EXECUTIVE PAYWATCH database.
Guidestar
-a comprehensive resource for not for profit organizational information
The National Compensation Survey
-Provided by the US Department of Labor, this site provides comprehensive measures of occupational wages; employment cost trends, and benefit incidence and detailed plan provisions. Detailed occupational earnings are available for metropolitan and non-metropolitan regions as well as nationally.
Occupational Employment Statistics
-Also from the U S Department of Labor, this site provides employment and wage estimates for over 800 occupations.
O*net Resource Center
-A third government resource which is under development which deems itself the nation's primary source of occupational information. Researchers and job seekers alike will find this site helpful.
Salary.com
-Reports at this site are available for a fee but those with less depth are available without charge. Easily used, wage and benefit information can be found by occupation and zip code. Benefits of additional education are easily calculated and comparisons are easily made.
Updated September 18, 2009 by Cathy Scott