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Industrial Relations

A guide to resources with an aim to support graduate students interested in the multidisciplinary field of Industrial Relations.

Key Databases

Business Source Premier

International business and management academic journals and industry publications. Includes human resources, compensation and benefits, labor relations, management theory, economics, organizational behaviour, conflict resolution, negotiation and more. Includes full-text of the Harvard Business Review.
EBSCO search platform
 
Academic economic literature.  Indexes articles from journals, books, dissertations, working papers, also book reviews.
 
Provides full-text access and/or indexing to thousands of business sources, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade publications, financial newspapers, books, dissertations, company, country, and industry reports, videos and more. Includes a mix of practical and theoretical content that covers all areas of business including accounting, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, finance, human resources, information systems, international business, management, marketing, operations research and strategy.
ProQuest search platform
 
The definitive resource in psychology, PsycINFO indexes journal articles, reports, book chapters and other scholarly material. For students of Industrial Relations, the resource indexes material on the subject of organizational behaviour.

Other Useful Databases

Includes both scholarly and popular Canadian journals and magazines
 
Data and reports on national, provincial and metropolitan economic trends & forecasts, industries, organizational performance and public policy issues. The Conference Board of Canada is business oriented, but non-partisan. See 'Knowledge Areas' and 'Publications', including Human Resources.  Free registration may be required.
 
Coverage varies but many titles go back to the early 1980s. Hundreds of international newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newswires. Use Companies/Markets tab for public company profiles,financials, peer comparisons, industry reports. Contains same-day and archival coverage of major newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Times, Guardian, Le Monde and the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and other Canadian papers.
 

Lexis+ Premium Canadian resource
Includes case law and legislation from Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, as well as Halsbury’s Laws of Canada, Halsbury’s Laws of England, Jurisclasseur Quebec, Jurisclasseur France, and a vast collection of Canadian and international texts and treatises. Also includes Canadian Legislative Pulse, which provides access to full-text searching of newspapers and business news, as well as U.S. law.

 
Psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences academic articles and studies. Covers organizational behaviour,  
PsycINFO is available via two platforms – APA and Ovid.
 
Working papers in economics, business, law, social sciences. SSRN's ‘Research Networks’ include Corporate Governance, Leadership, Management, Negotiations, Sustainability.
 
Law review and journal articles, legal commentaries, cases, decisions and statutes.

Useful Multidisciplinary Indexes

A multi-disciplinary index (with abstracts) to more than 10,900 publications including peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs and reports.
 

Print holdings: 1969 - present Indexes alternative, radical and left publications, which discuss the theories and practices of cultural, economic, social and political change.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. Interdisciplinary and international coverage including industrial relations, human behaviour, organization theory, law and more...