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IRW240: Introduction to Work and Organizations

This subject guide is meant to assist students, particularly those enrolled in IREW240, with research papers and assignments.

Manufacturing Research Jumpstart

Relating to automotive manufacturers, aerospace manufacturers, manufacturing workers' unions, etc.

Current conversations in the Manufacturing industry

  • Cross industry partnerships
  • Innovation
  • Sustainable production
  • Technology adoption
  • Workforce engagement

Media articles on Manufacturing

Web resources and grey Literature for Manufacturing

Scholarly articles on Manufacturing

Searching for library resources

Creating Search Statements

Use Boolean Operators and Search Modifiers to narrow down search results to the key terms attached to a library record.

Boolean Operators Search Modifiers
  • Use AND between terms to return results that contain all of the terms.
    • Term1 AND Term2
  • Use OR between terms to return results that contain any of the terms.
    • Term1 OR Term2
  • Use NOT to eliminate any results that contain that term.
    • (Term1 AND Term2) NOT “Term3”
  • Use parentheses to group search terms
    • (Term1 AND Term2) OR (Term3 AND Term4)
  • Use quotations for exact phrases
    • (Term1 OR Term2) AND “Term3”
  • Use asterisk to return results that contain the start of the term word.
    • Ter*

Learn more here: Develop a Search Strategy

Searching Pro Tips

Pro Tip #1: An Everything search within LibrarySearch will return results for the term in any field within the item record. Use the Advance Search to interchange terms between Any Field, Title, and Subject to return additional results.

Pro Tip #2: Refine your results using filters.

Pro Tip #3: Use the same search string within different article database to find more results! Check out our list of IR/HR Databases to get started.

Need help navigating your article search? Check out these helpful links:

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