LEAD 622: Philosophy of Leadership

Thrift Library's Graduate Student Support page compiles library resources that are particularly useful for graduate students. 

Thrift Library has reciprocal borrowing agreements with many institutions, granting Anderson students access to the print collections at libraries across South Carolina and the United States.

• Learn more about Atla and ACL reciprocal borrowing agreements 
• Learn more about the Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries (PASCAL)

Access ebooks and audiobooks through the Libby app! Learn more.

• When you add Anderson University (PASCAL Consortium) to your Libby libraries you gain access to the ebook and audiobook collections from every participating university in the PASCAL consortium. 
• Pro tip: Wait times for popular materials tend to be shorter through PASCAL than public libraries. 

LibraryDIY is a resource created by Thrift Library to introduce students to academic research and scholarly sources. Libraries have changed a lot in recent years. Graduate students beginning their studies after time outside of academia may find that things look different. LibraryDIY is a great place to become reacquainted. 

If you find yourself stuck or hitting roadblocks at any point in the research process, reach out to your librarian. They are available to answer questions over email, phone, or in a video meeting. 

The Thrift Library Catalog can be accessed from the library's Homepage by selecting the box labeled catalog. The search box provides one-stop searching for books, ebooks, articles, and more. Once signed in, users are able to renew items, request physical materials from other PASCAL libraries, and save searches. 

Scroll down on the catalog's front page to view video introductions to searching with the catalog. 

The catalog is a great place to start, but is still important that users conduct searches in discipline-specific databases. The catalog and individual databases will provide different sources with the same query. Additionally, there are a few databases that are not indexed in the catalog.

Thrift Library has a new AI-powered research tool called Research Assistant. Users can access the beta version of Research Assistant through the top menu on the library catalog. 

The Research Assistant uses natural language queries -- this means that you can search using a question like you may when using search engines like Google.

After you enter your research question the Research Assistant will locate the top five most relevant scholarly sources that it has access to and provide a overview of the topic. Research Assistant is searching all of the material that it has access to, which may or may not be content that Thrift Library subscribes to. 

Learn more about Research Assistant by watching the tutorial on the front page of the catalog. 

​​​​The following databases are strong choices for Leadership and Organizations research. Access these and many others on Thrift Library's website under Databases A-Z.

Tip: To view databases by discipline, use the Group By: Category function.

• Business Source Ultimate 3,500 Full-text journals in accounting, finance, banking, marketing, management and much more. In addition to accessing essential full-text journals, business students can delve into case studies, country economic reports and company profiles, as well as interviews with executives and analysts. (Ebsco)

• ERIC The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides access to educational literature and resources. Provides indexing to over 1.6 million titles and Full Text to 750,000 documents. Excellent source for scholarly literature on training and development. (Ebsco)

• APA PsychINFO This index provides citations millions of psychology articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations going back to 1840 with links to approximately 1,000 full text titles.

• Academic Search Ultimate Full-text journal articles in social sciences, humanities, multicultural studies, education, and more.(Ebsco)

​​​​The following databases are strong choices for news sources. Access these and many others on Thrift Library's website under Databases A-Z.

Tip: To view databases by discipline, use the Group By: Category function.

• News: Gale OneFile A one-stop source for the day's news and searchable archives. With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can search a collection of 2,300 national, international, state and local newspapers as well as another 1,000 other formats - magazine, newsletters, newswires, blogs, etc. (Gale OneFile)

• Newspaper Source Plus Provides the latest news from the leading national and international news sources. (Ebsco)

• Newswires Provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from the Associated Press. The collection includes AP Top News, WorldStream, Financial News, AP Online, US Politics & Government and 50 State Reports. (Ebsco)

• Regional Business News This site provides comprehensive full text articles for more than 50 regional business publications. (Ebsco)

• U. S. Newsstream A full-text news source that provides access to The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, CNN Newswires, and Huffington Post. Also provides access to local and regional news sources.

For an overview on citations, including the resources listed below, visit LibraryDIY. 

• APA Style (website) The APA Style website offers quick guides to paper formatting and citations.
  • Navigate to the Style and Grammar Guidelines tab.

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition (2020) The publication manual is the official guide to APA style. Borrow or reference a physical copy at Thrift Library.

• Tutorial on APA 7th edition Anderson students have access to tutorials on information literacy topics, including an overview on citations using APA.

What is the difference between Chicago and Turabian? Virtually nothing. The Chicago Manual of Style is the name of the style guide for use by professionals while Turabian is a simplified guide for use by students. They use the same citational style and people often refer to them interchangeably. 

For an overview on citations, including the resources listed below, visit LibraryDIY. 

• Chicago Manual Online The online version of the Chicago Manual of Style. Sections II and III are relevant to students.
• Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide The Quick Guide provides examples of how to cite a variety of sources. This is an excellent place to check formatting for different sources once you have a comprehensive understanding of the citation style.
• Turabian Online Help & Tools A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Ninth Edition is not available on the web, but the Help & Tools includes citation quick guides and paper formatting sheets. 

• Tutorials

   

Thrift Library recommends using Zotero for reference management.

Once you save an article, book, webpage, etc. to Zotero it will generate citations in the style guide of your choice. It also does so much more! With Zotero, you can...

• Save PDFs and Snapshots of your sources to folders in your library
• Annotate PDFs (when you copy and paste text from an annotated file it will automatically add quotation marks and the author, date, and page number in a parenthetical citation.)
• Search your entire library
• Generate bibliographies 

Zotero is a desktop app that also has a web library for when you need to access your library away from your primary computer. 

Zotero also offers browser connectors that enables users to save sources with a single click. 

More information about reference management as well as other available tools can be found in LibraryDIY under Citation Tools.