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HR-specific Resources

St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide
The 2-vol. St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide provides in-depth analysis of more than 300 key events in labor history over the last 200 years, focusing on the relevance of these events to both the labor movement as a whole and to societal changes around the world.

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Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History includes 900 original articles by noted scholars from more than 35 countries.
Articles range from 500-word entries on inventors, theoreticians, and industry leaders to overarching, 8,000-word essays on markets, industries, and labor.

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Management Databases

Management - Start Here

Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.

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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
Covers trade publications from industries including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and more. Covers over 700 publications for trade and industry information. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, and construction.

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Contents ~70% indexed in Ship Library Discovery Search.
Mergent Online
Covers company SEC filings and business executive information.
Contains a wide variety of information about public and private companies, industries, countries and more.

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Morningstar Library Edition
Provides a comprehensive look into financial information on companies, funds, ETFs, and markets. Also provides a portfolio tool for comparisons and planning. Subscription limited to 2 simultaneous users.

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Management - Specialized Resources

IBISWorld
Detailed reports on over 1,300 US industries including supply chain information on the market, historical and forecasted revenue data, operating strengths and weaknesses, analysis of external drivers, the competitive landscape and major players, and industry profit and costs benchmarks. Also includes expert summary reports and specialized reports on niche industries. Search or browse industry reports by key word of NAICS code.
MarketResearch.com Academic
Contains industry reports and related materials covering management, marketing, accounting, supply chain and other angles into various industries.

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Mintel Reports (Mintel Oxygen)
Contains market reports for US and Global industries and some brands.

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Passport (Euromonitor)
Includes research reports on industries and market segments, consumer behavior patterns, and country outlooks in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

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Westlaw
Westlaw is a legal database that includes secondary and primary legal sources. It contains statutes, codes, arbitrations, and case law. Westlaw also includes the legal encyclopedias, journals, treatises, and law reviews. Also includes public and private business information and coverage of news and broadcast information sources.

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Regional Business News
Covers regional business news sources including newspapers and business trade magazines.
Contains full text and links to news articles.

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IQS Directory
Industrial Quick Search Directory: list of manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors with brief descriptions of each company. Search by product or service and by company.
ThomasNet
Covers industrial categories, product and company information, and CAD drawings.
Comprehensive resource of over 650,000 distributors, manufacturers and service companies.

Freely accessible database.

USA Trade Online
Covers STAT-USA and the Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. Census Bureau data.
Contains monthly information on U.S. imports and exports on more than 18,000 commodities.

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Freely accessible database.

Value Line Research Center
Covers comprehensive source of financial information and advice.
Contains information on >1,700 stocks, >90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.

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General Resources

These databases contain broad subject coverage which applies to many disciplines.

Academic Search Ultimate
Academic Search Ultimate is our largest single comprehensive database. It includes records for some 40 million items, with 25+ million immediately available in full-text. It covers all subject areas and includes newspapers and other news sources, general and specialized magazines, and scholarly journals. It is an excellent starting place for most undergraduate research.

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Contents indexed in Ship Library Discovery Search.
Sage Premier
One of the most important publisher archives, Sage Premier includes the full test of 1,000+ peer-reviewed journals included some 1 million scholarly articles. Large topic areas include Health Sciences, Life & Biomedical Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering, and Social Sciences & Humanities.
JSTOR
JSTOR is our most comprehensive interdisciplinary archive of scholarly journal articles. For each journal included in JSTOR, it includes the full-run of the journal, from its beginning up until the most recent 3-5 years. Covers a wide variety of subjects such as history, literature, biology, business, and African-American studies.

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Project MUSE
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search across 1,000+ Gale reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.

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Oxford Reference Online: Premium
Search across an extensive collection of authoritative Oxford reference books and encyclopedias by keyword or subject.

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Citations

Citation Formatting

Check out our quick guides for APA, MLA, and Chicago styles and links to some of the better online citation tools.

APA Style

APA 6 Style - Quick Guide
Handy guide for formatting citations to common sources in APA style.
APA Formatting and Style Guide - OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.)
Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2010
Publication Date: 6th ed., New York: American Psychological Association, 2010
Lehman Library owns 3 copies of the APA Manual. One may be found on the Style Manuals shelf on the first row and column of the last reference shelf (library main level, before the DVDs). The other 2 may be checked out from the Reserves Desk for up to 3 hours.
See SECTION 7 for Reference Examples.

MLA Style

Note: The 8th edition of the MLA Handbook is not yet available at Lehman Library. For guidance to the 8th edition, see the MLA Style Purdue OWL link or the new MLA Style Center link below.

MLA 7 Style - (printable Quick Guide)
Dr. Cook has prepared this helpful "quick guide" to get you started with MLA Citation style.
MLA Formatting - OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue
MLA Style Center: Quick Guide (8th ed.)
Learn about core elements and containers and use a practice template to create entries in the list of Works Cited.

MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America
Call Number: LB2369 .G53 2016
ISBN: 9781603292627
Publication Date: 2016-04-01
Lehman Library owns 3 copies of the MLA Handbook. One may be found on the Style Manuals shelf on the first row and column of the last reference shelf (library main level, before the DVDs). The other 2 may be checked out from the circulation desk's reserves for up to 3 hours.

Chicago Style

The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.) by University of Chicago Staff (Editor)
Call Number: Z253 .U69 2010
ISBN: 9780226104201
Publication Date: 2010-08-01
Lehman Library owns 3 copies of the Chicago Manual of Style. One may be found on the Style Manuals shelf on the first row and column of the last reference shelf (library main level, before the DVDs). The other 2 may be checked out from the circulation desk's reserves for up to 3 hours.
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (8th ed.) by Kate L. Turabian; Wayne C. Booth (Revised by); Gregory G. Colomb (Revised by); University of Chicago Press Staff (Revised by); Joseph M. Williams (Revised by)
Call Number: PN203 .T8 2013
ISBN: 9780226816388
Publication Date: 2013-03-28
Lehman Library owns 1 copy of the Turabian Manual, which may be found on the Style Manuals shelf on the first row and column of the last reference shelf (library main level, before the DVDs).

Associated Press (AP) Style

AP Style Tip Sheet - Knight Chair in Political Reporting at Syracuse University
This document provides quick tips on common rules of AP Style.
Associated Press Style - OWL (Online Writing Lab) at Purdue
These resources provide an overview of journalistic writing with explanations of the most important and most often used elements of journalism.

The Associated Press Stylebook 2013 by Associated Press Staff
Call Number: PN4783 .A83 2013
ISBN: 9780465082995
Publication Date: 2013
Lehman Library owns 1 copy of the Associated Press Stylebook, located on the Style Manuals Shelf on the first row and column of the last reference shelf (library main level, before the DVDs).

ASA Style

American Sociological Association Style Guide (5th ed.) by ASA
Call Number: HM569 .A54 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Lehman Library owns 2 copies of the ASA Style Guide. One may be found on the Style Manuals shelf on the first row and column of the last reference shelf (library main level, before the DVDs). The other may be checked out from the circulation desk's reserves for up to 3 hours.

CSE Scientific Style

CSE Style - Quick Guide
Handy guide for formatting citations to common sources in CSE style.

Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers by Council of Science Editors
Call Number: T11 .S386 2014
ISBN: 9780226116495
Publication Date: 2014
Lehman Library owns 2 copies of the CSE Manual. One is on the Style Guides shelf and the other may be checked out from the circulation desk's reserves for up to 3 hours.

Other Citation Styles

Online Citation Tools

These programs allow you to electronically format your sources and create a bibliography that can be downloaded directly into your paper.

Citation Machine
Generates works cited entries in MLA and APA formats which are able to be copied and pasted into a word document.
Zotero
Zotero is a free citation management system. You can access Zotero online using the link above (or download the software to your home computer to utilize the full capabilities of the program). Zotero allows you to collect, organize, cite, and share sources for your research projects. You may want to use Zotero to share sources and notes with your group members.

Using Zotero to Cite and Manage Sources
Follow this guide by Prof Fic to set up your Zotero account, and use Zotero to do your citations for you!

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