LibGuides: Coventry University London: Human Resource Management

Human Resources Management Overview

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Key Resources

Welcome to the Human Resources Management Subject Guide

This Subject Guide provides you with key academic and professional resources related to Human Resources Management.

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Key Resources

General Resources

Journals, Magazines & Databases - ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Central, EBSCO Business Search Complete, Emerald, Sage Journals and Elsevier Science Direct.

Economic, Market & Company Information - FAME (for companies) IBIS World (industries) and Statista (reports and statistics).

Newspapers - Financial Times (FT), EBSCO Regional Business News and LexisNexis Lexis Library.

Human Resources Management-Specific Resources

British Standards Online (BSOL) -

Additional Resources

We also have a range of free resources which are recommended for wider reading around human resources management - see the 'Subject Gateways' and 'Other Useful Resources' tabs.

Database Searching Tips

Alphabetical List of Resources

ABI/INFORM Complete [ProQuest] It features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a broad picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) It is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included.
Emerald Management Journals Emerald is a publisher specialising in academic journals in the areas of Business, Management and Engineering. Search and access the full text online.
ProQuest Central ProQuest Central combines all of ProQuest’s main business, marketing, finance and humanities databases, allowing you to search over 24,000 academic publications at once. The collection includes academic and trade journals, magazines, reports and newspapers. ACCESS: Instead of using your username and password, click on "Open Athens" from the right side of the screen.
Sage Journals SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE journals span a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology.
Science Direct ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.

Euromonitor Passport Contains full text market research reports and statistical data. Information includes consumer lifestyles, country information and company and brand data. ACCESS: Click "Open Athens" from the right side of the screen. Search for "Coventry University" and click "Submit". If you get an error message or they ask you to complete a form with your details, just close the tab and open Euromonitor again.
FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy) Financial Analysis Made Easy (FAME) is a financial database of public and private British and Irish companies. Each detailed record contains the profit and loss account, the balance sheet, financial and profitability ratios and financial and profitability trends. It is provided with searching and analysis software. This means that it is possible to carry out searches using criteria such as company name or registration number, trade description or SIC codes, number of employees, geographical area (postcode, post town or country) or accounting or financial data such as turnover. Any number of these criteria may be combined and inter-company comparisons made.
IBISWorld IBISWorld contains market research reports and industry ratings from around the world. It also has industry Brexit Impact statements for the UK reports. This database covers a wide variety of industry sectors including, construction, energy, manufacturing, finance, wholesale and retail.
Statista Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22500 sources on over 60000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database.
UK Data Service UK Data Service is a free web based database containing macro and micro economic data and social data from the IMF, OECD, Eurostat, ILO, UN as well as the UK’s Office for National Statistics. A comprehensive resource to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data. Although it is a free database, you must register and indicate how you will use the data prior to downloading it.

British Standards Online BSOL includes all British standards and international and European standards that have been adopted as British standards. It also includes ASTM standards and ISO standards that haven't been adopted as British standards. BSOL also holds BSI Publicly Available Specifications, as well as BSI books. IEC standards that haven't been adopted as British standards are scheduled to be added in autumn 2015. This service can only be accessed on University computers, or via Remote Desktop.
Financial Times - Subsciption Link The Financial Times is an international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. Students can click on the link and subscribe with their Coventry email address in order to access all of the features that the newspaper provides. The format of the email address should be username@coventry.ac.uk.
Lexis Library [LexisNexis] Search newspaper articles to find background information and press coverage of companies in preparation for job seeking and interviews. Lexis Library is a newspaper and legal database. British national and many local daily & Sunday newspapers are in full text. Access to full text legal information is also included: UK and international cases and legislation with links to full-text journal articles, where the law journal is included in the Lexis database. It is an excellent resource for locating full-text United States cases and legislation and numerous full-text US legal journals. Full text EU law is also available. Search hints: For off-campus access to this resource: click login, then select login with Shibboleth or Athens, choose Coventry University & enter your Coventry University username & password. To search only for newspaper content select ‘news’ on the search bar and type in search terms.
Regional Business News [EBSCO] Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources. Search hints: For access to this resource login with your Coventry University username & password. Select EBSCOhost Web icon and scroll down list of EBSCO subscribed database and check box for Regional Business News.

Global Issues in Context (Gale) Designed by information professionals and subject experts to support global awareness and the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills, Global Issues in Context empowers users with the tools they need to understand today’s world issues from a global perspective. Published by Gale and Cengage Learning.

CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) The CIPD are the professional body for HR and people development, they provide expertise, set professional standards and provide the know-how to drive the HR and L&D professions forward.
IDS employment law brief IDS provides authoritative analysis of key developments in employment law for HR professionals. An unrivalled source of current awareness, IDS Employment Law content is written by an in-house team of specialist employment lawyers providing a constantly updated bank of case reports, forthcoming UK and EU cases and news alerts.
ONS - Office for National Statistics ONS is the UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.
Personnel Today – the UK's leading free-access HR website Essential HR news, jobs and employment law guidance from the team behind the UK’s leading online HR resource, XpertHR.