Often your professor will ask you to use scholarly articles, academic articles, or peer-reviewed articles. These are generally all the same thing. They are written by scholars who are experts in their fields and are usually tied to a college or university. They are great for:
Find Journal Articles about your topic:
Leading scholarly business database with over 1,300 publications, including peer-reviewed journals. Covers all business disciplines, including marketing, management, accounting, finance, and economics. Also includes financial data, company profiles, industry reports, market research reports, SWOT analyses, and more.
A full-text collection of more than 400 journals in business and the liberal arts, with especially strong coverage of business, finance, economics, history, regional studies, education, and sociology. (Our subscription includes the Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences IV, Business I, and Business II collections.) JSTOR is notable for the high quality of the journals it includes. The most recent three to five years of each journal are usually excluded from JSTOR, however.
Bowman Library has a large variety of books and ebooks that are chosen for their relevance to the courses offered. You can access ebooks directly from the library website whether your off or on campus. Books and ebooks are good for finding overviews and history of your topic. You don't need to read the whole book to get the information you need for your project; often one chapter of a scholarly book will cover the information you need.
Figuring out the subject headings related to the areas of information you need will help you zero in on the resources that will be the most helpful. For this final project try some of the following subject terms to locate books and/or articles in support of your topic.
Remember: Searching the catalog doesn't find everything we have! Check out the other tabs above to search for more specific types of information.
Provides full-text reference books in 20 subject areas. It includes over 180 titles and 65,000 images "powered by a network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers to provide answers - and new connections - in context." coverage: Varies
The world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. PQDT Global consists of PhD and Masters dissertations and theses - over 3 million theses abstracts, with approximately half in full text. Subject coverage includes business and economics, social sciences, technology, arts, and humanities.
Find articles in a variety of newspapers and online publications about the topic of Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace. If you are developing a diversity statement for a real company, researching newspapers based in the city or state in which your company is headquartered is a way of tracking whether or how that company is reported on in the news.
TIP: Search within a particular publication by conducting a SITE: search in Google. Type site: plus the url of any publication leaving no spaces between characters, then leave a space and add keywords to conduct your search.
Here's an example of this type of search - site:nytimes.com diversity inclusion goldman sachs
Below are a few possible online magazines and newspapers that will provide news and information about diversity policies in the workplace.
New York Times
After activating your subscription from one of the links below, log on to the New York Times site directly using your Menlo e-mail and password. iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are available with your login.