Research Resources - HRM 602 - Employment Law and Labor Relations Research Guide - LibGuides at West Chester University of PA

How to Navigate this Guide

Navigate this Guide by Column. The column in the middle of this page helps you find scholarly sources. The column on the left helps you find cases and trade sources. The column on the right helps you with citations.

Finding Cases

WestLaw This link opens in a new window
Federal and state legal information including cases, court rulings, the U.S. Code Annotated, Code of Federal Regulations, and the Federal Register. WestLaw also has national and international news as well as company profiles and EDGAR filings and disclosures.
(Thomson Reuters)

Finding Trade and News Sources

Harvard Business Review
SHRM Employment Law
HRSpecialist.com
Lexology (lawyers’ intelligence platform and contains practical know-how guidance)
U.S. Major Dailies (newspaper source including Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, etc.)
Philadelphia Inquirer

Government Website

Finding Scholarly Sources

How to find an impactful scholarly law Journal?
Some journal ranking systems can help identify the best law journals based on different ranking metrics.

W&L Law Journal Ranking created by the Washington & Lee Law School Library lists law journals by subject, country and other factors, and allows users to rank journals by impact factor, etc.
HeinOnline Most Cited Law Journals. It also offers ScholarRank's Top 250 Journals.
SJR Journal Ranking is a more general journal ranking system based on SJR indicator and H-index.
Google Scholar Metrics (Law Reviews) is annual ranking of law reviews by h5-index and h5-median. Sort by categories, Social Sciences--> Law.

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window

Use HeinOnline to search scholarly law journals and law reviews. Click "Browse Database by Name - Law Journal Library" and search the library. At the article page, use Cite button to create citations.

WestLaw This link opens in a new window

Use WestLaw "All Content - Secondary Sources" - " Law Reviews & Journals" to search scholarly journals and law reviews. WestLaw has more recent coverage of law review articles than HeinOnline.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window

Use Business Source Complete to find Business Journals that discussed employment and labor issues. You can browse individual journal below or do a global search at the Business Source Complete. Use Cite button to create citations.

Google Scholar (West Chester University Setup)

Use Google Scholar to search general employment topics and find the full-text in our library. Click Quotation " sign to create a citation.

Google Scholar-> Settings (clicking three lines at the upper left corner)-> Library Links-> Search West Chester University-> Check the box -> Save; At the search result page, click find it @ WCU to access full-text article.

Top Employment and Labor Journals (Public Site)

* Almost all of these journals are available in HeinOnline, so you can conduct the searches more effectively by searching HeinOnline. You can use the following sites to browse and find your interested content.