Leadership Research Tools
This page has been developed to assist students in the School of Leadership and Professional Advancement make effective use of Duquesne University's Gumberg Library. Below are links and tools to aid you in finding relevant, scholarly resources about leadership.
- Fall 2011 schedule of Library leadership research webinars and librarian office hours.
- This file contains bookmarks to over 200 peer-reviewed electronic journals useful for leadership studies. Download it, save it to your desktop, and add your own links to Web pages you visit frequently.
- This page contains links to over 100 special journal issues and research review articles on dozens of leadership-related topics. Articles in special issues (and references cited in them) often provide a good starting point for a bibliographic search.
- This page illustrates how subject heading classifications for the same article in EBSCOhost and ProQuest differ - important when searching in a database.
- This page contains links to hundreds of Internet Web sites related to various aspects of leadership.
- View a tutorial on searching the ProQuest database here, and link to multiple tutorials for different databases in the EBSCOhost family here.
- Ask Here PA is a library reference service available to all Pennsylvania residents and all students enrolled in a Pennsylvania university. You can chat with a reference librarian 24/7.
- RefWorks is an online reference management service available to Duquesne students. It facilitates the creation of bibliographies in APA format. Create your RefWorks account here. For help on using RefWorks, see this page.
- This RefShare page contains reference citations to all textbooks required by SLPA faculty for MLLS 710, 714 and 717 (core leadership courses). From it, you can select and import citations into your own reference database.
- Google Scholar helps you locate scholarly resources relevant to your topic of interest. Use this link to set your preferences to include Duquesne University among the list of Library collections searched and to select RefWorks as your preferred export tool.
Please e-mail Jim Wolford-Ulrich your ideas and suggestions for improving this page.
Thank you!