BUS 381: INTRODUCTION TO HR MANAGEMENT Mark Bodnar mbodnar@sfu.ca Business Librarian (Burnaby campus)

BUS 381: INTRODUCTION TO

HR MANAGEMENT

Mark Bodnarmbodnar@sfu.ca

Business Librarian (Burnaby campus)

Self-Test / Agenda

1) Do you know how to recognize academic articles when you see them?

2) Can you name a non-business database that often has useful articles on HR topics?

3) Do you know how to search for subject headings in databases?

4) You've found a great article on your topic. Do you know how to find out what newer articles have mentioned that article in their bibliographies?

5) Do you know what online tool available via the SFU Library will keep track of the articles you've been finding and automatically create a bibliography for you in citation styles such as APA?

6) Do you know where you can get help identifying relevant databases and using them efficiently?

Review

All the information in the world!

All the info on your topic (not to scale)

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Tool (Google, Catalogue, BSC…)

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Cycle your search•Authors•Subjects•References, etc.

+ Thesaurus+ Times Cited

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+ PsycInfo

Sample Search

Sample Search

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Some of the references cited in the previous article…

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Sample Search

The conversation so far...

Homsma

2009

Cited 46

Edmondson

1996Cited by

159

?

Cited by 4

?

Zhao2011Cited 99 ?

Cited by 5

Catino2013

?

?Cited 95

Tapping into this sort of conversation

is the key to effective research!

Sample Search

Scholarly? What are the clues?

Scholarly? What are the clues?

Sample Search

Same article in BSCSame article in BSC

Sample Search

(Same article in Google Scholar)(Same article in Google Scholar)

Self-Test / Agenda

1) Do you know how to recognize academic articles when you see them?

2) Can you name a non-business database that often has useful articles on HR topics?

3) Do you know how to search for subject headings in databases?

4) You've found a great article on your topic. Do you know how to find out what newer articles have mentioned that article in their bibliographies?

5) Do you know what online tool available via the SFU Library will keep track of the articles you've been finding and automatically create a bibliography for you in citation styles such as APA?

6) Do you know where you can get help identifying relevant databases and using them efficiently?

Mark: mbodnar@sfu.ca