LibGuides: Adult Degree Programs: Find Articles

Find journal articles

Video - Choosing EBSCO Databases 1min.17 sec.

Demo on choosing more than one EBSCO article database to search simultaneously. Note: the link is no longer on the library homepage but you can find it here: Search ALL EBSCO Databases

Video - EBSCOhost Advanced Search 2 min.38 sec.

Video by EBSCOhost demonstrating how to search our EBSCO databases. Demo takes place in the Academic Search Premiere database and is applicable to other EBSCO databases.

Video - Using the EBSCOhost Result List 3 min.39 sec.

Popular EBSCO Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Popular multidisciplinary database covering thousands of scholarly/peer-reviewed publications.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Covers thousands of journals in all business disciplines, plus industry reports, company profiles, country reports, case studies, market research reports, SWOT analyses, and more. Popular database.
Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection This link opens in a new window
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new window
CINAHL with Full Text is an authoritative index of nursing and allied health literature. Subject headings follow the structure of MeSH and provide additional specificity, making it a great choice for searching nursing and physical therapy literature.

Search all EBSCO Article databases simultaneously

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Features include: Search all scholarly literature from one convenient place; Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications; Locate the complete document through your library or on the web; Keep up with recent developments in any area of research; Check who's citing your publications, create a public author profile.

Examples of database searches

Diversity AND group AND decision making
Hundreds of article results published from the keyword search above.
Manag* AND high performance AND team
Over a thousand article results on keyword search above (note the asterisk after the letter g in manag* for manage, managing, management, etc.
Subject: Employee Motivation AND Keyword: Improv*
Article results published since 2009 to present on the Subject of Employee Motivation and the Keyword improv* (the asterisk at the root finds the terms improve, improved, improving, improvement).
Subject: Job Satisfaction And Keywords: improv* And employee
Articles published since 2010 to present on the Subject of Job satisfaction And Keywords: improv* and employee.
Subject: Stress OR Stress Management And Keywords: employee And lower or reduc*
Articles published since 2010 on the Subject of Stress or Stress Management and the keywords: employee, And lower or reduc*.

Individual Business Journals

Journal Examples from GFU Library Subscription Databases

Harvard Business Review Full text: 10/01/1922 to present - Publication Type: Periodical

Written for upper level management. Presents analysis of management problems and helpful commentary on advanced thinking and practice in all fields of management and administration.

The Leadership Quarterly Full Text: 01/01/1995 to present - Publication Type: Academic Journal

Stresses theory and empirical research on effective leadership in all walks of life. Publishes scholarly research and developmental applications from fields of inquiry about leadership.

Wall Street Journal
Indexing and full text of the WSJ from 1985 to the present.