Research Guides: Organizational Leadership (ORGL) Research Guide: Library resources: Databases & articles

Finding Articles using Library Databases

Knowing how to find journal articles is critical to your success as a graduate student. Databases allow you to identify articles on the topic of your choice. As a bonus, many databases allow you to limit your results by publication date, peer-review status, and full text availability.

The search box introduced on the page about finding books WILL work for locating articles, as well. A more efficient route to locating articles on your topic is to search a database directly. You can do this be selecting a link to a database below or by visiting the "A-Z Databases" page.

Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier provides articles from over 1,000 business publications and company profiles from over 10,000 companies.
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals with a multidisciplinary focus. Over 3,000 journals are available with full-text. Abstracts without full-text are offered for articles published in over 8,000 journals.
EBSCO Management Collection
Management collection provides full-text for 1,200 business publications and links to over 10,000 company profiles.
Oxford Academic
Oxford Academic provides access to the full-text of nearly 400 academic journals in the areas of science, social science and the humanities.
PsycINFO
Indexes journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related fields going back to 1887.

Tips on Reading Scholarly Journal Articles

Some lessons from this video:

Look up unfamiliar terms and concepts as you read.
Skim the abstract first.
Give yourself plenty of time to read a scholarly article.
Multiple readings are probably needed to understand the article.
It's OK to not read the sections of the article in the order they are presented.

A library database that is helpful for looking up unfamiliar concepts and definitions.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference provides access to a large number of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and other reference books. Subjects covered include art, biography, history, literature, music, religion, and science and technology.