Human Resources

	Welcome to the Library’s page for courses in human resources management at ODU! Here you can identify and access many resources and tools for your research, including databases, web sites, reference works, and citation help.
I. Key Research Databases | II. Top Internet Sites | III. Relevant Reference Works

I. Research Databases for Human Resources

Databases for Business, HR, and Legal Research

Additional Databases Useful for Human Resources

II. Internet Sites for Human Resources Research

This course page gives you access to select non-profit, professional, and government sites covering the following areas:

1. Employee Discrimination and Employee Rights 
2. Employee Relations, Retention, Termination 
3. Managing a Diverse Workforce 

Employee Discrimination and Employee Rights

• Americans with Disabilities Act ADA Homepage 
• Employment Law Guide, U.S. Dept. of Labor 
• Employment & Labor Laws, U.S. Business - "plain-English” for employment and business law issues
• Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures - on the use of selection procedures and tests to ensure compliance with federal laws
• U.S. Census Bureau - for data on demographic composition of the population and relevant labor markets
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services  
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Employee Relations, Retention, Termination

• American Institute for Managing Diversity 
• American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
• DisabilityInfo.gov - portal to federal government resources for disability-related information
• Human Resource Management (HRM) Guide - web portal for current trends, articles, & news about HR surveys, employment law, & human resource research
• International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) - on improving human resource performance in the workplace
• Job Accomodation Network (JAN) - information on reasonable accommodations
• Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
• Performance Management, U.S. Office of Personnel Management 
• Small Employers and Reasonable Accommodations, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission  

Managing a Diverse Workforce

• Background Checks & Other Workplace Privacy Resources, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse  
• CCH Homepage - news and publications concerning HR management and related issues
• Economic Policy Institute (EPI) - wages, living standards, labor market conditions
• Handbook of Research on Workforce Diversity in a Global Society: Technologies and Concepts (Business Science Reference, c2012) 
• Health Care Financing and Insurance: Options for Design (Springer, 2011)
• United States Health Care Policymaking: Ideological, Social and Cultural Differences and Major Influences  
• U.S. Dept. of Labor - wage and hour laws
• Wrongful Termination Checklist, Fair Measures, Inc.  
• Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act (Dept. of Labor)

III. Reference Works Relevant to Human Resources

• Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary (Gale, 2008)
• A Dictionary of Human Resource Management (Oxford UP, 2008)
• Employment Law for Human Resource Practice (South_Western Cengage 2010; Reserves 344.7301 W16823, use in library)
• Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (Sage, 2010)
• The Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management. Volume one: Short Entries  (Wiley and Sons, 2012)
• The Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management. Volume two: HR Forms and Job Aids (Wiley and Sons, 2012)
• The Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management. Volume three, Thematic Essays (Wiley and Sons, 2012)
• Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Gale, 2008) - includes information on affirmative action, race relations, immigrant workers
• Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender (Gale, 2008) - includes information on domestic partnership, employment discrimination, FMLA, sexual harassment
• Growing Old in America (Gale, 2008)
• Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research (Springer, 2005)
• The Health Care System (Gale, 2007)
• Immigration and Illegal Aliens: Burden or Blessing? (Gale, 2008)
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (MacMillan, 2008)
• National Survey of State Laws (Gale, 2008)
• Oxford Reference, Law (Oxford UP) - searchable set of nine refernece ebooks
• Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (3 vols., Sage, 2004; use in library)

Library Course Page Outcomes

According to one of the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education from the Association of College Research Libraries (ACRL), information literate students are able to access needed information effectively and efficiently and retrieve information online or in person using a variety of methods (2.3.).

This course page was created to help meet the following desired outcomes of that standard, wherein the information literate student:

• Uses various search systems to retrieve information in a variety of formats
• Uses various classification schemes and other systems to locate information resources within the library or to identify specific sites for physical exploration
• Uses specialized online or in-person services available at the institution to retrieve information needed

Page last modified: 28 November 2012
Creator of course page: Christina Bonner, M.L.I.S., Ph.D., Reference & Instruction Services, ODU Library. Readings, documents, and links above determined by faculty request. Image provided by ClipArt.