Human Resources - Introduction
The Library provides lots of resources to assist you with your studies, including books, journals, articles, databases and business information sources.
These are purchased by the Library and allow you to access the very latest high-quality information online.
- Use the University's VPN system to ensure you can access these resources from anywhere!
1. Start with what your lecturers advise - reading lists
- These are an essential starting point when looking for information for any assignment.
- Check under the 'Reading List' tab in your Moodle modules.
2. Find alternative books and ebooks via the Library Catalogue:
- Use the 'Click to search Library resources' button (top right) to access the Library Catalogue (second search box).
3. Look for academic journal articles in Discovery and elsewhere:
Not sure why you should use journals?
- Getting started with a search:
- Use the 'Click to search Library resources' button (top right) to access Discovery (first search box).
- Using Discovery
- If you are getting too many results or they are not relevant:
- Try our other finding articles databases such as Business Source Complete.
- Search in an individual recommended journal.
- Advanced users may want to consider
- Using a citation database such as Scopus or Web of Science
- Searching cABS journals
4. Explore HR, company, industry and market information in our specialised subscriptions:
- XpertHR - a professional toolkit for the HR industry (you need to login - choose the Shibboleth option and University of Portsmouth)
- Company and Industry resources
- News Services including the FT and the Economist
5. Additional Sources
- There are many other library subscriptions and useful websites you can access
6. Top tips when using Google/Scholar
7. Keep up-to-date!
8. Reference your sources
- To understand why and how to reference your sources, please complete the Business Faculty's bespoke Academic Integrity and Referencing tutorials (you will need to self-enrol on the Moodle site and click back on this link)
- Additional Library guidance includes:
- My APA referencing introductory video (you will need to self-enrol on the Moodle site to view this video and then click back on the link)
- APA Style 6th ed. booklet
- Referencing@Portsmouth (further information and more examples)
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Your Subject Team
Lizzie Wildgoose
Assistant Faculty Librarian
Email: lizzie.wildgoose@port.ac.uk
Phone: (023) 9284 3452
Further Information
- Pages for Human Resources
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