Searching Beyond the DBU Databases

Free Article Databases

Directory of Open Access Journals - This site provides an advanced search for finding articles among the 1,224 journals searchable in this way. Various academic topics are included among those journals.

FindArticles.com - The site now provides both basic and advanced search options and provides access to thousands of publications and over 10 million articles.

Open J-Gate - Searchable collection of 4,732 Open Access Journals. The site states that "Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain."

Free Dissertation/Thesis Search Sites

Australian Digital Theses Program - this site provides both citation and full-text access to a few thousand theses and dissertations published in Australia.

The British Library - The British Library provides access to citations of theses from British universities (most doctoral theses from the early 1970s onward), from the United States (475,000 doctoral theses), and from Canada (several hundred doctoral theses from 1980 forward).

Center for Research Libraries - Twenty thousand doctoral dissertations from outside of the United States and Canada are searchable from this site. Items can be ordered through ILL by students, faculty, and staff.

Digital Library and Archives - Digital Library and Archives allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations. Free full-text access is provided for over 4,500 of these items.

NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations - NDLTD provides access to citations from thousands of digital dissertations and theses that are in PDF format. A significant number of these resources are freely available in full-text and can be viewed online.

RIM: Research in Ministry Online - “RIM® Online is a freely available database that indexes DMin and DMiss projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981.”

Theses Canada Portal -
Theses Canada provides access to bibliographic citations for all the theses in the National Library of Canada Theses Collection. Access to full-text theses is available for all items published between January 1, 1998 to August 31, 2002.

TREN: Theological Research Exchange Network - TREN provides citations to 6,800 theological theses/dissertations and conference papers. Items can then be purchased through this site. The opening page actually states that they have 10,000 theses/dissertations, but the search page allows searching of 6,800 items.

Citation Databases (No Full Text)

ERIC - ERIC is a large citation database related to the field of education. It also addresses many other topics related to education, such as leadership, psychology, motivation, etc. When you find articles cited here, you can then get the full articles through the DBU databases or through DBU’s Interlibrary Loan service.

IngentaConnect - IntentaCollect allows you to search through over 25 million articles, chapters, reports, etc. They provide you will a full bibliographical citation for each item, and you then can order the article through DBU’s Interlibrary Loan service or find it on DBU’s online databases.

Google – You can locate full-text reports, studies, and dissertations related to leadership by searching via Google. For instance, when searching Transformational Leadership Dissertation, the second item listed is a full-text Ed.D. dissertation. One likewise could search Transformational Leadership Survey or Transformational Leadership Report and find results.