MRU Library Website: Business: HRES 4407

Develop your search

Trying different keywords and using synonyms is important when searching. For example, one topic could be searched a number of ways:

"change management" theory
"change management" perspectives
"change management" (theory or perspectives)

"change management" thurley
kotter change lewin
kotter change beckhard

Resources to help: The differences between Scholarly/Popular/Trade publications and Is this scholarly?

Below are three different ways to try searches to find academic articles:

I. Search every database at once

This is the same search box that is on the Library homepage. Once you've done a search, you can change the type of your results by clicking the filters on the right.

Check off Peer-Reviewed Journals under the Availability filter to find scholarly articles. Select Available online to retrieve full-text articles.
Check off Articles under the Resource Type filter to just see both popular and scholarly resources.
Limit by publication date by using the Creation Date filter
Use the Advanced Search link to open an advanced search box for more precise searching

II. Google Scholar

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides searching of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources. This MRU specific link connects users to items available full text via MRU.

If you find one good article make sure to "chain" by clicking Cited by and Related articles below its summary.
Does not include magazines or trade publications.
Besides providing links to articles in MRU databases, Google Scholar links to online repositories which contain articles the author has been allowed to upload. Academia.edu and ResearchGate are among the repositories searched by Google Scholar.
To set up off-campus follow Menu Icon --> Settings --> Library Links.

III. HR-related article databases (trade & scholarly)

ABI/INFORM Collection
Key business and economics journals, and country and/or industry focused reports, and downloadable data.
Business Source Complete (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Full text journal articles, covering business management, economics, banking, finance, accounting.
Access to this resource is funded by Alberta Advanced Education through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library.

Use these to find trade and scholarly sources. You can apply limits for Trade Publications, Scholarly Articles, and by Date.
After conducting a search change the list of results from Date/Most recent first to Relevance.
Both of these resources have a feature that allows you to search more content: i.e., Choose Databases in Business Source.

Manage and cite your research

There are a number of free citation managers that help with saving research. Two of the more popular are:

Mendeley www.mendeley.com
Very useful if your research is mainly pdfs. It is recommended to get both the desktop and browser versions. You can drag-and-drop pdfs into the desktop version which also has a Word plugin that will automatically insert in-text citations and create a bibliography. The browser version has a web importer that allows you to import web pages. "Sync" the desktop and browser versions to access Mendeley anywhere in the world. Files and folders can be shared with other users. The desktop version is installed on most MRU lab & library computers. Create a "Group" to share research (3 members maximum).

Zotero www.zotero.org
Useful if much of your research is in html format. Has most of the same features as Mendeley.