LibGuides: Educational Leadership: Find Articles & Databases

Education Databases

ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.

Sample Search in DIssertations

"Educational Leadership" AND Maryland NOT Universities

Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest ) This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997.
Coverage: Arts, Business, Education, Humanities and Social Science, Humanities, Behavioral, Natural and Physical Sciences.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
A full-text research database covering sociology including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, religion, racial studies, and social work with extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources.
APA PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
A full-text peer-reviewed articles from more than 100 journals published by the American Psychological Association and affiliated journals. Updated weekly.
APA Psycinfo This link opens in a new window
Provides APA's (American Psychological Association) peer-reviewed scholarly journal, book chapters, books and dissertations in behavioral science and mental health includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals published from 1800s to present. Update weekly.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Educator resources. The database provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators.
This database contains author names with and without full first names. To find all authors with the last name 'Smith' and the first name 'Richard', you may want to search on 'Smith, Richard' OR 'Smith, R' in the Author field.

Upon Graduation, The access to Bowie State University Databases goes away.

You may wish to buy the lesser expensive database for your school district.

OneSearch (EBSCO) and Catalog USMAI

OneSearch (EBSCO Discovery Service)
Available on the Bowie State University Library E-Resources page. An all inclusive search solution that makes in depth research easy. --EBSCO

Tips:

Use the down arrow key to select title and input keywords in the "title" box. The results you receive will tend to be the primary focus of the academic article or book.
Refine search using these left navigation options
- Scholarly (Peer Reviewed Journals)
- Publication Date 2017-2023

Use OneSearch search "public leadership" AND "public education".

When you see the results many health-related topics do not apply. Add NOT "health" to the search.

Next there were many higher education topics. Add NOT "higher education" to the search.

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