Best library databases for HR research
Here is a list of the many databases at Sheridan that support great research on HR topics.
HR Insider is a Canadian resource available only to Sheridan's HR students, staff and faculty. Please ask your professor or the Sheridan Library for our login information. It includes:
- Job descriptions for many positions
- Complete Guide To Canadian HR Compliance
- Latest Legal Updates
- HR Legal cases by province
- Videos
- HR Tools including checklists, forms, quizzes, letters, policies and spreadsheets
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowCompany and industry profiles, SWOT analysis, market research, case studies, and 2,000 peer-reviewed journals, including Chief Learning Officer, Human Resource Management Journal and Training & Development
- Conference Board of Canada InFact This link opens in a new windowReports on Canadian economic trends, human resources, training, organizational performance and public policy. You need to set up a free e-library username to access content.
- Emerald Insight This link opens in a new windowOver 60 ejournals and ebooks covering human resources & organizational behaviour.
- LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new windowLinkedIn
Online training database containing access to thousands of high-quality instructional videos on a broad range of topics in the areas of computer software, business skills, design concepts, programming, photography, education, animation and more.
See LinkedIn Learning Guide for technical details. - O'Reilly Learning This link opens in a new windowMore than 500 ebooks covering HR Organizational Management topics. Your personal highlights and notes in O'Reilly e-books can be exported. See the O’Reilly tips page for instructions.
- Skillport This link opens in a new windowOver 29,000 ebooks and 21,500 videos covering business, including human resources, and other topics.
- Westlaw Collective Bargaining Index This link opens in a new windowContains the full-text of Collective Bargaining and Agreement by David J. Corry and is available as part of the Westlaw LabourSource database.
Permitted Uses - Westlaw EmploymentSource This link opens in a new windowContains cases and decisions, Labour and Employment Statutes and Regulations, as well as annotations, eLooseleafs, articles and newsletters.
Permitted Uses - Westlaw LabourSource This link opens in a new windowContains labour cases and decisions, statutes and regulations as well as annotations, eLooseleafs and collective bargaining materials.
Permitted Uses
LinkedIn Learning video courses
- LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new windowOnline training video database with access to thousands of instructional videos, including Human Resources and other key business operational functions.
HR Bookshelf
Fundamentals of HR Analytics by
The future of the Human Resource Management profession is inextricably linked to understanding data analytics. This book provides practical, hands-on approaches to connect data to HR policies and practices to help influence overall business performance. Building on traditional HR skillsets, the book makes understanding and engaging with data analytics possible for professionals at all levels. Leveraging key statistical and financial concepts, including ROI and people productivity, and commonly available tools such as Workday and Tableau, the authors explore key skills and tasks in an accessible and illuminating way, including: data-analytic thinking data management data collection clean-up and warehousing building descriptive and predictive models applying HR analytics skills and tools to workforce planning, recruitment, training, and turnover analysis. Fundamentals of HR Analyticsis an essential resource for aspiring, new and experienced HR professionals across a wide range of industrial contexts, as well as data analysts working on business workforce focused projects and upper level students of HR encountering data analytics in this context for the first time.
ISBN: 9781789739633Publication Date: 2019-11-11
Conference Board of Canada
- Conference Board of Canada InFact This link opens in a new windowOn the left, click on Topics > Leadership and Human Resources to begin. Over 4000 reports on Economic Trends, Organizational Performance and Public Policy.
- Workforce Planning Practices in Canada: Human Resources Trends and Metrics, Fourth EditionThe Conference Board of Canada, 89 pages, May 18, 2017
