University of Southern Maine

LOS 350--Leadership

Introduction | Reference Sources | Indexes & Databases | Internet Resources | Writing the Paper

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Encyclopedia of leadership
LEW Reference HD57.7 E53 2004 

The encyclopedia of leadership : A practical guide to popular leadership theories and techniques
LEW Reference HD57.7 H525 2001 

For additional books, check the URSUS catalog under the following subject headings:

Executive ability

Leadership

Management

For journal articles, consult the following:

Academic Search Premier
Varied coverage
Lists of articles from 8,025 publications, with some full text ; includes journals and other scholarly publications.

Business and Company Resource Center
Varied coverage
Comprehensive source of information for conducting company, industry and market research. Provides access to the contents of over 4,000 business and economics periodicals (over 3,000 with full-text coverage).

Business Source Premier
Varied coverage
Provides full text for more than 2,800 scholarly business journals of which 912 are peer reviewed. Coverage includes: management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

Communication and Mass Media Complete
Varied coverage
Covers a large number of journals in many communication fields, including organizational communication

PsycARTICLES
Coverage from 1985
Offers full text to articles from American Psychological Association publications

PsycINFO
Coverage from 1887
Index to the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage includes references and abstracts to over 1,300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. The database includes information from empirical studies, case studies, surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, discussion articles, conference reports and dissertations. Updated weekly.

Sociological Abstracts
Coverage from 1974
Covers sociology and related disciplines including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, gerontology, mental health, minority studies, political science, public health, social psychology, social work, urban studies, welfare programs, and women's studies. Comprehensive and international in scope. Covers about 2,600 journals in 30 different languages from 55 different countries. Also includes books, conference papers,and doctoral dissertations.

There is no authority control for the Internet. In choosing Internet resources it is imperative to evaluate the authenticity of the source. Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources (UCLA College Library) provides excellent evaluation criteria. The following selected resources have been chosen because of authenticity and comprehensiveness of coverage.

Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership

Leader to Leader Institute

National Communication Association: Organizational Communication Division

Organizational Theory (The Free Dictionary)

Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology (American Psychological Association)

Theory Classics