BUSINESS 325: EMPLOYMENT LAW
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Find Articles
Full-text sources
ABI / Inform (ProQuest) - Articles on business, management and industry; includes peer-reviewed scholarly research. Full-text coverage for more than half of included sources. Full-text coverage of The Wall Street Journal from 1984-present.
Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost) - Another source for articles from scholarly journals, trade publications, and newspapers on business, management, companies and industries. Includes full-text coverage of the Harvard Business Review from 1922-present.
Westlaw Campus - Federal and state laws and statutes; court decisions; law review articles; legal encyclopedias for background information and analysis.
Access World News (News Bank) - Full-text access to U.S. national, state, and local newspapers, as well as nternational newspapers, news transcripts, and newswires. Includes full text of The New York Times from 2000-present., newsletters and journals. Also see News & Information (Westlaw Campus) for additional news sources; and Historical New York Times (ProQuest) for articles from 1851-2003.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) - Multidisciplinary database that provides citations and abstracts to over 4,000 periodicals. Approximately two-thirds of the articles are available fulltext. Searches can be limited to peer reviewed, i.e., scholarly sources.
Social Sciences Abstracts (Wilson Web) - Provides indexing, abstracting, and selected full text to articles in over 350 leading English language periodicals covering anthropology, criminology, psychology, political science, women's studies, and sociology. Enter your search terms, and then in the Subject Area dialog box, select Social Sciences. Searches can be limited to peer reviewed, i.e., scholarly sources.
Indexes and abstracts
(see below for tips on locating a copy of articles cited ).
Criminal Justice Abstracts - This resource indexes and provides citations and abstracts from international journals, books, reports, and dissertations in criminology and related disciplines. Coverage is from 1968-present and includes crime trends, crime prevention and deterence, juvenile delinquency and justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. Available in print on the index tables in the Reference Room.
NCJRS Abstracts-National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts - A searchable database provided by the National Criminal Justice Reference Service. It contains summaries of more than 150,000 criminal justice publications including government and research reports, books, and journal articles. Over 1,500 fulltext publications are also available online.
PsycINFO - This is the principle index to the international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as business, education, psychiatry, sociology, and social work. Coverage is from 1887-present. Provides citations to and abstracts from journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports. Some searching tips for PsycINFO are available.
Sociological Abstracts - This is the principle index to the literature in sociology and related disciplines. It is an international database that provides citations to and abstracts from journals, books, dissertations, and conference papers.
PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) - Indexes and provides citations and abstracts from policy oriented literature of the social sciences, including political science.
Locating a Copy of the Article
The Library subscribes to numerous journal titles. Try the following to obtain the articles you want.
. To determine if the Library has access electronically
to a particular journal, browse or search this list
of journal titles .
. Search the TCNJ
Library Catalog to determine if the Library owns a print
copy of the journal (select Journal or Magazine Title from the
"Search in:" drop-down list).
. If the journal title is not available at TCNJ in either print or
electronic format, you can request a copy of the article through
Interlibrary
Loan .
Find Books
Some reference sources that may be useful include:
. West's Encyclopedia of American Law (13 volumes) REF KF154.W47 2005
. West's American Law Yearbook REF KF154.W472 2005-2006
. Labor law REF KF3369.6 .J37 2002
. State by state guide to human resources law REF KF3455.Z95
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. Employee rights in the workplace REF KF3455.Z9 J37 2003
Search the TCNJ Library Catalog to find books on your specific topic. Try Keyword-Boolean searches to begin. [example: employment and law and discrimination ]. Refine your search by using relevant Subject Headings from the results of your initial search.
Related Resources
General Information
Legal Information Institute
(Cornell Law School): Employment
Law .
Human Resources and Employee Rights -- from Nolo.com
"Everyday Law for Everyday People"
Employment Law Information Network
: "Your Source For Employment Law On The Web"
Labor and Employment Relations
Research Association "Shaping the Workplace of the Future"
International Labour Organization "Promoting Decent Work for All"
If your research paper will require in-depth legal analysis, you may want to review the Comprehensive Law Resources section of the TCNJ Subject Guide to Law .
Selected Academic Institutions and their Libraries
University of Illinois Institute
of Labor and Industial Relations | ILIR
Library
Cornell School of Industrial
and Labor Relations | Catherwood
Library
Federal and State Sources
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. National Labor Relations Board
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
State Labor
Offices
Citation Guides / Style Manuals
Citation
& Style Guides (TCNJ)
Guide
to Style Manuals (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Citing Sources
and Avoiding Plagiarism (Duke University)
Citation
Styles and Plagiarism (Emory University)
Created and Maintained by:
Terrence Bennett tbennett@tcnj.edu
