Management and Human 
Resources
Periodical and Book Databases
BizMiner
BizMiner offers industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more. Their market analysis reports are available at the national and local levels down to the zip code. Bizminer is a great resource to use when developing business plans, or for any sort of entrepreneurship initiatives where you need to measure peer performance in an industry. Types of reports:
- Industry Financial Profiles
- U.S. & Local Market Research Reports (includes business failure rates)
- Area Demographic Profiles
- Sole Proprietor/Startup Profit & Loss
- Local Market Vitality Profiles
Business Insights: Essentials
Company & industry news linked to electronic reference books. Contains
histories, market shares, rankings, industry surveys, and investment reports.
Business
Source Premier
Full text of over 3,400 business periodicals. This is our largest business
database. It provides our best access to scholarly journals. It also has special
reports, including "SWOT" analysis. Note the green "company
profiles" tab, which will allow you to access over 5,000 MarketLine Company
Profiles.
CCH Health and Human Resources Network
CCH Health & Human Resources Research NetWork provides access to dozens of CCH products covering such topics as: health law
including Medicare and Medicaid, healthcare compliance, state Medicaid laws & regulations, state health care laws &
regulations, and managed care; food & drug law; human resources management including personnel practices, compensation,
equal employment opportunity, employment relations, and OSHA compliance; payroll management including social security and
unemployment; pensions & benefits law; employment law including employment practices, disabilities management, labor relations,
wages & hours, and more.
Dissertations & Theses
Indexes all American doctoral dissertations since 1861 covering all subjects. Full-text of "Big Ten" University dissertations, from about 1997 to present, are available to UMD students, faculty, and staff.
EBSCO
MegaFILE
EBSCO MegaFILE's subject strength is its wide
coverage, providing indexing and fulltext for scholarly journal articles
on every topic, in addition to general and popular magazines and business-related
periodicals. The database combines three separate EBSCO databases, to which
the UMD Library also subscribes --
- Academic Search Premier (scholarly journals)
- MasterFILE Premier (general, popular, news and editorial magazines)
- Business Source Premier (business and trade scholarly journals, magazines, and newsletters)
Emerald
A smaller business database with full text of scholarly journals in English,
many of which are based in Europe.
Google Book Search
With this service, search for any keywords and discover which books are highly ranked for them. You may be able to find and read a few pages of the scanned book in context. Over 12 million books have been scanned. Use "Get-It" or our UMD "Inter Library Loan" systems to access these books.
Google
Scholar
Indexes scholarly literature. Strong in the areas of medicine, engineering,
the sciences, and business. Provides relevancy rankings based on the citation
patterns of the articles. Sources are linked to UMD Library electronic
holdings via "Find It."
Lexis-Nexis
Academic
A massive database of full text articles. Strong in the areas of news,
law, and business. Also contains many trade publications.
NBER Working Papers
Contains the full-text of working papers from the National Bureau of Economics Research. The NBER covers four areas of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals. Many of its publications, including its working papers, NBER reporter, and NBER digest, are available for download. NBER is updated frequently.
See also these three other sources of working papers:
NewsStand
Contains the full text of newspaper articles from over 350 titles. Provides
our only source of electronic access to the Wall Street Journal.
PsychINFO
Subject: Psychology Type: Bibliographic citations and abstracts Materials Covered:
Indexes more than 1,932 journals on psychology, psychiatry, sociology, education,
linguistics and physiology. The database indexes journal articles from 1887
to present and book/book chapters from 1987 to present.
Sociological
Abstracts
Subject: Covers many topics related to sociology including aging, anthropology,
criminology, crisis intervention, demographics, development policy, education,
law and penology, race relations, social psychology, sociology, urban development,
urban studies, violence Type: Index to articles, papers, and dissertations;
citations and abtracts Materials Covered: Articles in over 1600
English-language journals ; selected papers given at conferences; dissertations Dates
of Coverage: 1963 -
SBRnet (Sports Business Research Network)
SBRnet (Sports Business Research Network) provides resources related to the business of sports including industry-developed market research, government statistics, facility reports and news, international market publications, customized research, and directories.
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Business Culture, Etiquette – International Cultural Differences
Encyclopedia of Public Relations
Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society (2007)
Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics
Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology
Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment
Encyclopedia of Public Relations
Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods
Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods
Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime
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