Library and Information Services

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Library and Information Services

• Searching for a topic-
• Work life balance

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Library catalogue

• Book
• Harvard business review on work and life balance
• Electronic book
• Paludi and Neidermeyer (2007) Work, life and
  family imbalance how to level the playing field.

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Journals

• Use e-journal finder to link to a journal title
  and search within that journal
• You cant use this to search for subjects
  directly
• Example of journal for this topic
• Work and stress and try searching on keywords
  work family conflict
• This is a long-winded way of finding articles
  preferred method use a database!

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Academic OneFile / Infotrac

• Academic OneFile scholarly journals, some
  peer-reviewed, magazines
• Infotrac searches for newspaper articles
• To search both these, go to Infotrac resources on
  databases page
• Search for Work life balance or flexible
  hours
• Subject heading Flexible hours social aspects
• You could try adding extra terms eg name of
  company eg McDonalds

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Emerald

• Finds the full text of journal articles for
  business and management topics
• Use advanced search for better range of options
• Work life balance as phrase in All fields
  excluding full text index or in article title
  index
• Keywords found include flexible working, hours of
  work, family-friendly organizations

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Marketline annual reports

• Company and industry profiles worldwide
• Access Marketline link, then click on Library
  education users button
• Northcote annual reports database at
  Northcote.com via list of websites on Business
  and Management subject page

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Useful links on our webpages

• Business and Management subject page
• Off-campus access tutorials videos
• Lists of journals overall list Emerald list
• Searching Emerald tutorial
• Searching Emerald guide search tips
• Searching Academic OneFile