Research Guides: Organizational Behavior: Getting started

Getting started with psychology research

If you are new to conducting research:
Consider reviewing the Starting Your Research tutorial to learn the phases and processes of doing research.

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Start your Organizational Behavior research with these key resources

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Discover scholarly articles and research in psychology and behavioral and social sciences.
Content type: Scholarly articles, magazine articles, dissertations, books
Coverage dates: 1600s-present
One great feature is the ability to limit by methodology.
Language: English, German, French, Spanish
Keywords: APA Psyc Info
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Main database for both historical and contemporary research on business, management, and finance topics.
Content type: Scholarly articles, magazine articles, trade journal articles, newspaper articles, industry reports, market reports, dissertations, SSRN working papers, business information
Coverage dates: 1855-present; varies by title
Only full text source of The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition and digital images of selected key business journals from the first issue to the present. Included databases are ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry.
Language: English, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, etc.
Keywords: ABI INFORM
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Explore information on business and organizational management topics, including marketing, human resources management, information management, and quality management.
Content type: Scholarly articles, books, case studies
Coverage dates: 1991-present
Language: English
Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Discover articles and other research material across all of the social sciences, including sociology, social work, linguistics, education, and more.
Content type: Scholarly articles, trade journal articles, magazine articles, reports, dissertations and theses
Coverage dates: 1600s-present
Language: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for conducting wide reaching searches of the scholarly literature and exploring citation based connections between articles.
Content type: Abstracts of scholarly articles, books, book chapters, patents
Start your search in Google Scholar from the library website to get access to open access materials and items only available through Library subscriptions.
Language: English

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Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for finding resources that explain research methods and help guide the development the development of your own research project.
Content type: Books, reference materials, cases, datasets, podcasts, videos
This resource also includes a Methods Map, a Project Planner, Statistical Methods selection tool, and further reading lists.
Language: English

Sage Research Methods Video

Focusing primarily on Data Science, this provides much needed information on the data aspects of research.

Sage Research Methods Video

Focusing primarily on Data Science, this provides much needed information on the data aspects of research.

Additional Resources

PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window
Why search here? The main database for discovering psychological assessments and measures, including some downloadable psychological tests, for use in social and behavioral science research.
Content type: Abstracts, psychological tests, psychological measures
Coverage dates: 1920-present
Some tests, although downloadable, have further documentation that should be obtained from the author or publisher.
Language: English
Keywords: APA Psyc Tests PsycNet Net
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for journal articles across many social sciences and includes tools for robust citation chaining, journal citation reports, and author searches.
Content type: Abstracts, scholarly articles, trade journal articles, conference proceedings
Coverage dates: 1970-present
Language: English
Keywords: Web of Science WoS

Advanced Library Search
Search for books, articles and other library materials at The Library and libraries across the country.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Evaluate and compare scholarly journals using citation data.
Content type: Data and statistics
Each journal’s profile includes a wide variety of data points, including number of articles published, contributions by organizational affiliation and country, Journal Impact Factor, subject category and citation relationships with other subjects, open access article counts, and more.
Language: English
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for research about a wide variety of business and management topics, including accounting, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, management information systems, and some industry reports.
Content type: Scholarly articles, magazine articles, trade journal articles, newspaper articles, industry reports, market reports, SWOT analyses
Coverage dates: 1886-present
Special Note: Exclusive source for Harvard Business Review.
Language: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Russian, etc.
Keywords: BSP

Additional Resources and Research Guides

Psychology Research Guide

Data & Statistics Research Guide

Managing Research Data

Sociology Research Guide

Business & Management Guide

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