Library Guides: Labor and Human Resources/Human Resources and Employment Relations (LHR/HRER): Databases

General Interdisciplinary Resources

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)
Designed for academic institutions, this database is a leading resource for scholarly research across all subject areas. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more.
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines, including economics, labor & employment relations, management & organizational behavior, public policy, and sociology. Mainly an archival database, it often does not contain the most current issues of journals.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that provides a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and a selection of scholarly books. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. While indexing for JSTOR articles is covered in LionSearch, the full text of the articles is not searched in LionSearch. Search JSTOR itself to ensure detailed coverage of full texts.
Web of Science
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database that indexes articles from thousands of journals and also indexes the citations used in those articles, thus allowing the user to see which papers have cited a core paper, and how many times a paper was cited in a given time period. Covers published content is almost every discipline.
Web of Science provides access to: the Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-present; the Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-present; and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present. Web of Science indexes articles from thousands of journals and also indexes the citations used in those articles, thus allowing the user to see which papers have cited a core paper, and how many times a paper was cited in a given time period. Covers published content is almost every discipline.

Business & Economics

ABI/INFORM Collection
The database contains thousands of citations and full-text articles, dissertations, working papers, and key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist and Sloan Management Review. It also contains company/country/industry-focused reports, and major news sources like the Wall Street Journal. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Search a complete database comprising full-text business periodicals and news sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry.
Business Source Premier
An essential article database for business research providing the full text for more than 2,000 periodicals, including about 1,000 scholarly journals. Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including: diversity in the workplace, economics, econometrics, employment, globalization, human relations, labor issues, and organizational sociology, among others.
An essential article database for business research providing the full text for more than 2,000 periodicals, including about 1,000 scholarly journals. Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including: accounting, economics, econometrics, finance, marketing, management, MIS, QMM and supply chain management.
EconLit
The American Economic Association's comprehensive resource to the world's economic literature. It includes the leading economics publications including peer-reviewed journal articles, working papers from leading universities, PhD dissertations, books, collective volume articles, conference proceedings, and book reviews
EconLit provides citations, with selected abstracts, to the international publications on economics since 1969. EconLit covers a broad range of document types, including journal articles, books, dissertations, and articles in collective works.
Management - Oxford Bibliographies
Covers topics on the process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling an organization’s financial, physical, human, and information resources in ways intended to achieve and maintain organizational effectiveness. Contains entries on human behavior within organizational settings and the strategic approach to hiring, developing, and motivating employees.
"Oxford Bibliographies in Management will offer students and researchers alike a reliable, up-to-date, and authoritative guide to the best literature in the field."
NBER Working Papers
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. NBER-affiliated researchers study a wide range of topics and they employ many different methods in their work. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies.
Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.
SAGE Business Cases
These collection of case studies covers the following subjects: entrepreneurship, human resource management, international business, marketing, operations management, and more.
This collection of case studies covers the following subjects: entrepreneurship, human resource management, international business, marketing, operations management, and more.
SAGE Business Researcher
Sage Business Researcher is a collection of original in-depth reports on timely topics in business and management. Reports are published every other week.
Sage Business Researcher is a collection of original in-depth reports on timely topics in business and management. Reports are published every other week.

Education & Psychology

ERIC (ProQuest)
This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the major database for education literature, sponsored by the U.S. Department. of Education. The same database content is available on many platforms.
PsycINFO (via ProQuest)
Centered on psychology and the behavioral and social sciences, the database contains interdisciplinary content covering a broad range of the field. It includes literature on employer/employee relations, and issues related to industrial & organizational psychology, such as leadership, performance, motivation, and teamwork.
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

Labor & Employment Law

Arbitration Law Online
Treatises, Practice Manuals, and Monographs related to arbitration law.
Juris’ Arbitration Law Online provides access to more than 160 proprietary Treatises, Practice Manuals, and Monographs related to arbitration law.
Bloomberg Law
legal content and analysis
Bloomberg Law provides access to legal content and analysis, practice tools, company information, and market intelligence. It includes all content formerly in the Bloomberg BNA Resource Library, as well as case law, statutes, regulations and other legal sources.
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CCH Cheetah (now VitalLaw)
Contains news, treatises, rules and regulations, state laws and cases, arbitration awards, acts and statutes, guidance and policy information, and daily employment-related updates.
CCH Cheetah (now VitalLaw) includes full-text primary sources of law with commentary, a variety of CCH, Wolters Kluwer, and Aspen legal publications, smart charts, practical tools, news, webinars, white papers, and blogs. Practice areas covered include corporate & securities, labor & employment, intellectual property, healthcare, human resources, intellectual property, and tax. VitalLaw replaced CCH Cheetah in November 2021.
Westlaw Campus Research - Law
PSU02006
Thomson Reuters Westlaw Campus Research - Law is a comprehensive database of resources for researching U.S. Law. It includes primary sources including case law, statutes and regulations at the federal and state levels as well as secondary sources, e.g., American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, and over 800 law reviews.

Labor History

America: History & Life with Full Text
Search for articles on all aspects of the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Articles from national, state and local historical journals are covered, as well as historical articles in major humanities and social science journals. Also includes citations to reviews, books, and dissertations.
Search for articles on all aspects of the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Articles from national, state and local historical journals are covered, as well as historical articles in major humanities and social science journals. Also includes citations to reviews, books, and dissertations. Keywords: African-American, Afro-American, Black, Hispanic, Latino, Colonial, Pennsylvania, Native Americans, women, gender, revolution, revolutionary war, civil war, Vietnam War, Cold War, World War I, World War II, Immigration, Immigrants, labor, agriculture, culture, society, politics, religion, economic, military, historiography.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Companion database to America: History and Life, this resource covers world history from 1450 to present (excluding for the United States and Canada). It includes articles in journals worldwide, including a selection of major social science and humanities journals. Also included are references to dissertations and books.
Search for articles and other publications on world history from 1450 to present, (except for the United States and Canada which are indexed in the companion work, America: History and Life). The database includes articles in journals worldwide, including a selection of major social science and humanities journals. Also included are references to dissertations and books.
History Vault
History Vault contains multiple modules that provides access to digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials. It includes Workers, Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century, which consists of federal government records with coverage of strikes and radical labor unions in the first half of the 20th Century. Researchers interested in labor rights and workers can also search the Civil Rights and Black Freedom Struggle and Women's Studies categories for related materials on American workers in the 20th Century.
Primary source documents including records from civil rights activists and organizations (Southern Christian Leadership Council, NAACP, Revolutionary Action Movement). Other collections include; Law and Society Since the Civil War; Slavery and the Law (petitions to southern legislatures and courts and slavery statutes); Southern Life and African-American History, 1775-1915 (diaries, account books and other records of daily life); The Struggle for Women's Rights, 1880-1990 (records of the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women's Action Alliance); Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from The Schlesinger Library; The Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975, and Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1880-1930.

Policy and Social Issues

CQ Researcher
Weekly reports on current topics, this is a good first step when researching policy issues. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features round out the reports. Shorter "Hot Topics" articles provide a solid introduction to subjects most in demand by students. Archive extends back to 1923 for historical perspective of today's most pressing issues.
The CQ Researcher is a collection of reports covering political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Keywords: hot topics, current events, social issues, social trends, archive, English 15, CAS 100, background information, general interest, contemporary issues, overviews. CQ Global Researcher (formerly a stand alone DB) content was merged into CQ Researcher.
PAIS Index
PAIS chronicles the world's public affairs, public and social policies, international relations, and world politics through citations from journals, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. With coverage back to 1914, all subjects that bear on contemporary issues and the making and evaluating of public policy, is indexed. This includes the policy oriented literature of the academic social sciences such as economics, finance, law, public administration, and reports and commentary on public affairs.
This resource covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS International is the current file covering 1972 to present, and PAIS Archive includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976.
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.