Executive DBA courses

A guide specifically for the recommended research resources for doctoral candidates in the Executive DBA program. Also useful for other courses with traditionally academic research assignments.

Scholarly Articles

Essential scholarly article databases

Popular article databases from the Library, such as Multisearch and ABI/Inform, include all kinds of sources, from newspapers to academic journals. And Google Scholar includes "scholarly" material beyond articles, such as unpublished papers, research reports, and other information deemed scholarly by algorithm without review (i.e., student papers in academic institutional repositories). For in-depth, doctoral level research we recommend beginning with the top scholarly articles.

To do that, we recommend the following subscription database.

 

You can also use the big search box on the Library's homepage to find resources. That resource will find books, newspapers, journals, and more. You can use he limits of the left side to limit to "scholarly."

 

 


Another option is to limit your searching to known scholarly publishers. In the Library's A-Z Database list, you can limit in the drop down menu "All Database Types" to "Full text scholarly journals." The resources listed there collections of journals from key scholarly publishers.

Of particular interest to business and management are the following:

But if you're interests are covered by other publishers, search those directly as well. 

Self-paced tutorials

Feeling a bit overwhelmed by scholarly literature projects? Not sure where to start. Check out these self-paced tutorials of process. 

 

Annotated Bibliography Tutorial

Annotated Bibliographies

 

Literature Review Tutorial

Literature Reviews

 

Literature Reviews: An Overview for Graduate Students [NCSU Libraries]

Literature Reviews: An Overview for

Graduate Students [NCSU Libraries] (9:38)

 

Another way to get started is to see other examples. Search the Dissertations and Theses database for other scholar's work and how they have put together and formatted their own literature reviews. 

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