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APA PsycInfo (EBSCO)
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Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records. View a tutorial on this database here.
Educational Administration Abstracts
Abstracts of literature concerning educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, and educational research.
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Education Database
Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling, and adult education
Education Research Complete
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Covers all aspects of education including multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and all levels of education from early childhood to higher education.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
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Subject coverage includes emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes more than 3,000 journals across 55 social science disciplines, as well as selected items from 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Covers from 1900 to the present. Part of Web of Science.
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Organizational Theory in Higher Education
Organizational Theory in Higher Educationoffers a fresh take on the models and lenses through which higher education can be viewed by presenting a full range of organizational theories, from traditional to current.
Proquest e-Book
Leadership : Learning, Teaching, and Practice
The purpose of this book is to examine the tensions, gaps, and intersections between the practices of leadership in educational systems, school leadership preparation programs, and the often different worlds of academia and k12 schools.
ProQuest e-Book
Handbook of Educational Theories
Although educational theories are presented in a variety of textbooks and in some discipline-specific handbooks and encyclopedias, no publication exists which serves as a comprehensive, consolidated collection of the most influential and most frequently quoted and consulted theories. Covers 101 theories
ProQuest e-Book
Using Research Evidence in Education: From the Schoolhouse Door to Capitol Hill
This book includes a set of rigorous and accessible studies on the topic of “research evidence” from a variety of levels and educational vantage points. It also provides the reader with thoughtful commentaries from leading thinkers in the field. The complex process of acquiring, interpreting, and using research evidence makes for a rich and under examined area in educational research, practice and policymaking.
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Five Critical Leadership Practices : The Secret to High-Performing Schools
Provides an accessible, research-based framework for school improvement that is correlated with the field’s standards.
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AERA: Organizational Theory Special Interest Group (SIG)
The purpose of the AERA Organizational Theory Special Interest Group (SIG) is to advance scholarly inquiry into traditional and alternative conceptualizations of educational organizations by promoting the use and development of organizational theory in the context of educational research.
Center for Creative Leadership
Leadership development that drives sustained impact for you, your team, your business, and the world.
Institute for Educational Leadership
The goal of this organization is to equip leaders to better prepare Children & Youth for College, Careers, & Citizenship
Organization Development Network
OD Network serves change agents by creating a global community for exchanging best practices, opportunities to interact with thought leaders and access to leading edge practices, tools and technologies. As a result, our members create change and sustainable impact in today’s organizations, communities and beyond.
Society for Organizational Learning
Allows people to improve their lives and worlds through personal mastery, leadership and organizational learning

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Administrative Science Quarterly
Articles that advance understanding, address administration or have mutual relevance for empirical investigation and theoretical analysis that advance the understanding of administration.
from 06/01/1956 to present
American Journal of Sociology
The journal presents pathbreaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods. AJS strives to speak to the general sociological reader and is open to sociologically informed contributions from anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists.
from 07/01/1895 to present
American Sociological Review
Publishes original works of interest to the discipline of sociology in general, new theoretical developments, results of research that advance understanding of fundamental social processes, and important methodological innovations.
from 02/01/2004 to present
Organizational Dynamics
Research and commentary on organizational behavior and development and human resources and strategic management aimed both at academics and practicing managers.
from 1972 to present
Organization Science
A multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about organizations.
from 1998 to present
Organization Studies
OS is a multidisciplinary journal with global reach, rooted in the social sciences, comparative in outlook and open to paradigmatic plurality.
from 01/01/1980 to present

E-Journal of Organizational Learning & Leadership
Addressing the learning organization, transformational thinking, visionary leadership, and servant-leadership topics.
from 04/01/2010 to present
Education & Urban Society
Communicates new ideas on educational processes, controversies, research, and policy. It places special emphasis on the relationship between educators and society.
from 11/1/1968 to present
Educational Administration Quarterly
Publishes prominent empirical and conceptual articles focused on timely and critical leadership and policy issues of educational organizations.
from 01/01/1965 to present
Journal of Organizational Behavior
The journal focuses on research and theory in all topics associated with organizational behavior within and across individual, group and organizational levels of analysis.
from 1981 to present
National Forum of Educational Administration and Supervision
Covers a wide range of topics from renowned scholars in the fields of education, applied research, counseling, business, international affairs, and multicultural issues aimed at providing research and professional development.
from 01/01/2010 to present

International Journal of Leadership in Education
A forum for theoretical and practical discussions of educational leadership
from 01/01/1998 to present
Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership (JCEL)
The journal offers a wide range of cases that embody relevant and timely presentations of issues germane to the preparation of educational leaders.
from 03/01/1998
Journal of School Leadership
Promotes the exchange of ideas and scholarship about schools and leadership in education.
Online from 2015 to present
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Academy of Management Journal
Original articles and research notes that develop, test or advance management theory and practice for members of the Academy of Management.
from 03/01/1963 to present
Academy of Management Review
Articles selected through anonymous review, reviews, syntheses, applications and critiques focused on organizational and management theory aimed at members of the Academy of Management.
from 01/01/1976 to present
International Journal of Educational Management
Addresses the increasingly complex role of the educational manager against a backdrop of fundamental changes in structure and philosophy, and diminishing budgets and resources.
from 01/01/1987 to present
Leadership & Organization Development Journal
Examines the body of management theory around leadership and organizations in order to discover new, more effective ways of managing in organizations.
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Strategic Management Journal
The journal publishes original material concerned with all aspects of strategic management. It is devoted to the improvement and further development of the theory and practice of strategic management and it is designed to appeal to both practising managers and academics.
from 1996 to present

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