Library Guides: LEADERSHIP: Research Guide: Find Articles

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Databases to search for articles on leadership within various disciplines, including
- Business
- Education
- Nursing
- Sports
- Psychology
General or multidisciplinary databases
Selected journals that address leadership topics

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Articles, which you can access through databases and through the library's catalog, will report on specific research done by scholars in the field. When you know your topic or research question, dig into articles for information that will support your ideas or answer your questions.

Business Databases

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Business-focused database with coverage of marketing, management, information technology, operations, human resources, accounting, finance, and economics. Contains scholarly journals, trade publications, and news/magazine sources.
Gale OneFile: Business This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, and management through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications.
Gale Business Insights This link opens in a new window
Provides business and industry content such as market share reports, SWOT analyses, corporate chronologies and company histories, and articles from academic, trade, and news publications.
Gale OneFile: Communications & Mass Media This link opens in a new window
Communications-focused collection of scholarly journals and trade publications. Subjects covered include advertising, public relations, linguistics, and literature.

Education Databases

ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The premier database for research in education and related fields. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations, and books dating back to 1966.
ProQuest Education Database This link opens in a new window
Access over 900 top educational publications with coverage on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education. Many titles are indexed in ERIC.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high-quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles, designed specifically for professional educators.

Nursing Databases

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly research, quick summaries, and evidence-based information sheets covering 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine, and more.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new window
Reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text.
Nursing Journals @ OVID This link opens in a new window
Search AJN: The American Journal of Nursing, Journal of Nursing Administration, MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, Nursing Research, and Nursing. We subscribe to full text for the past 5 years.

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Sports/Coaching

SportDiscus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles on physical education, physical training, sports medicine, and other sports-related topics. Some full text.

Psychology Databases

PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles for journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber, 1894 to the present.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The premier database for peer-reviewed research in all areas of psychology. Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for international psychological literature from the 1800s to the present.
ProQuest Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
General psychology database providing access to titles indexed in PsycINFO. Covers behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, and social psychology plus personality and psychometrics.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly research, trade journals, and popular news/magazines covering all disciplines. A good place to start for most research topics. (An expanded version of Academic Search Premier.)
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
For general scholarly research. Covers the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. (An expanded version of Academic OneFile Select.)
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
For scholarly research especially in the humanities and social sciences. Includes scholarly articles, books, and primary sources (but may not include the most recent issues of journals).

Selected Leadership Journals

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
Full text available online from 1998-2010; citations and abstracts available to the present.
Leadership
Available online (full-text) from 1994.
Board Leadership
Available online (full-text) from 2000 (12 Month Delay)
Nonprofit Management & Leadership
Available online (full-text) from 1998 (12 Month Delay)
Journal of Leadership Education
Open Access
International Journal of Leadership Studies
Open Access, ceased publication in 2015.
Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership
Open Access
Journal of Business & Educational Leadership
Available online (full-text) from 2013.
The International Journal of Servant-Leadership
Open Access
Academy of Management Journal
Available online (full-text) from 1958
Harvard Business Review
Available online (full-text) from 1922; available in print (1981-2010) in Raugust Library, call number: Serials in Storage 380.5 H26

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LEADERSHIP: Research Guide - Find Articles

Online Research & Instruction Librarian

Off Campus Access

In This Section

In this section, you'll find:

Great for going deeper

Business Databases

Education Databases

Nursing Databases

Sports/Coaching

Psychology Databases

Multidisciplinary Databases

Selected Leadership Journals

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