Free Resources
- Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS)This institute and its partnership with HR leaders in the field fosters excellence in human resource management. Read the CAHRS Working Papers, which represent the latest research in human resource management. Discover other benefits available to CAHRS Partners.
- CIA World FactbookThe World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.
- USA.govThe U.S. government's official web portal, linking to U.S. government information and services on the web.
- CU Library Alumni ResourcesThrough this website, you’ll find access to scholarly journal articles and databases, archives of The Cornell Daily Sun, links to treasures from our special collections, information on exhibits in our libraries, and updates on library events.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.--About Google scholar.
- Watch that PageWatchThatPage is a free service to monitor web pages and extract new information from them. Changes are sent in a daily email.
- RefDesk.comRefdesk is a free web site that indexes and reviews current web-based reference resources.
Finding Books
- Library CatalogUse this to find materials held anywhere in the US. Make sure to use the drop down box to select "Cornell University Library" if you only want to find items held here.
Subscription Databases
- ABI/InformABI Inform is an extensive international business and management database, contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and full text of articles appearing in professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines published worldwide. Also known as ProQuest.
- Business Source CompleteBusiness Source Complete provides full text for scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,800 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for top scholarly journals, including the Harvard Business Review. It also includes industry and country reports from Euromonitor and company and industry reports from Datamonitor.
- PsycINFOContains citations and summaries of the international literature in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences.
- Web of ScienceThe Web of Science citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.
- Sociological AbstractsAbstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Provides article citations from 1952 to the present, and abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications since 1974. Also contains abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Many records from key journals since 2002 also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article.
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ILR Research Team
Contact:
ilrref@cornell.edu
Martin P. Catherwood Library
Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3901
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Martin P. Catherwood Library
Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3901
Subjects: Economics, Human Resources, Labor & Employment