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Literature Review Journals
Many journals publish literature reviews. These can be found by searching in databases. Reference books will also review the literature on a general topic and point towards useful articles.
- Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowProvides access to authoritative, analytic reviews of research in 29 focused disciplines, including the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.
Best Bets: Top Databases for Journal Articles in Organizational Studies
Library databases (also known as "indexes") identify articles published on a particular topics. In addition to journal articles, many databases will also identify book chapters, dissertations, and other reports.
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Multidisciplinary Database
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCovering 12,000+ scholarly journals, plus selected books and published conference proceedings in all academic disciplines, the Web of Science Core Collection combines seven citation indexes which permit searching for articles that cite a known author or work, as well as searching by subject, author, journal, and author address.
Business Databases
- ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new windowCombined access to all three ABI/INFORM business databases: Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry.
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window2,000+ business-related periodicals (1,200+ peer-reviewed), including Harvard Business Review, plus reports, videos, etc.
Economics Database
- EconLit This link opens in a new windowIndex and abstract of journals and books, dissertations, and working papers for the field of economics.
Psychology Database
- PsycInfo (APA) This link opens in a new windowPremier resource for surveying the literature of psychology and adjunct fields. Covers 1887-present. Produced by the APA.
Sociology Databases
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides access to the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. Covers 1800+ journals, back to 1952.
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowIndexes 1,800 sociology-related journals & magazines back to 1895, with full text for 620 of them, plus indexing for books, etc.
More Databases with Organizational Studies Content
Multidisciplinary Databases
- U-M Library Articles Search This link opens in a new windowUse Articles Search to locate scholarly and popular articles, as well as reference works and materials from open access archives.
- ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Combined access to all ProQuest databases, covering many different fields and full text articles.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowInternational multi-disciplinary indexing & abstracting database for scientific, medical, technical, and social sciences.
- Google Scholar @ U-M (with U-M Ann Arbor MGet It Links) This link opens in a new windowSearches for scholarly documents on the web, with the added feature of "Availability at UMichigan" links.
General Social Science Databases
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts covering over 1700 journals in the social sciences.
- Social Sciences Abstracts (with Full Text) This link opens in a new windowCovers 625 of the most important English-language journals across all the social sciences.
Subject Specific Databases
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowCoverage of more than 500 full-text journals in the communication and mass media fields.
- Human Resources Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowIncludes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to over 15,000 sources of news, business, legal, and reference information worldwide.