ECSU Smith Library Research Guide for Career Services
Compiled by Hope Marie Cook
8/9/2005
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
BUSINESS AND COMPANY RESOURCE CENTER
Provides over 300,000 company profiles and includes their industry rankings, financial overviews, products, statistics, and more. Dates of Coverage: Indexing & Abstracting 1977- ; Full-text 1985-Current.
A cover to cover collection
of over 28,000 college catalogs from 2 year, 4 year, professional,and graduate schools
across the
Indexes article citations in various areas including business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social sciences and technology. Majority of sources are in English, but coverage is international.
Is a bibliographic database
that indexes articles of at least one column in length from English-language
periodicals and yearbooks published in the
EDUCATION-A SAGE FULL-TEXT COLLECTION
Full-text articles about methodology, higher education, secondary education, vocational, measurement & testing, educational psychology
ERIC, the
GENERAL REFERENCE COLLECTION GOLD
A collection of scholarly and general interest material (periodicals, journals, newspapers, and encyclopedias) covering a wide variety of topics including business, politics, current events, arts & entertainment, health care, personal finance, computing and more.
ICONN (CONNECTICUT DIGITAL LIBRARY)
A
Provides access to your library's collection of eContent. eContent can be digital versions of printed material such as books or journals, databases or any digital content. All available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage
for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage
of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and
rural areas within the
REFERENCES RESOURCES Online & Print
REFERENCE USA -Online
The ReferenceUSA
database contains contact and basic descriptive information on more than 12
million
Xreferplus - Online
Xreferplus is a giant online reference library that provides you with access to a selection of reference books from a total of 169. Xreferplus includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law
Print Reference Resources (This is just a brief listing of what is available. Please visit the Career and Information area for the full selection of available materials). This area is found on the 2nd floor of the Library.
American Salaries and
Wages Survey,
Barron’s How to
Prepare for the Graduate Management Admissions Test, GMAT.,
Cambridge Preparation for the TOEFL Test, by Jolene Gear and Robert Gear, Cambridge, UK; New York, N.Y. USA, ECSU Career and Information Ref PE 1128.G35 2002 Disc can be obtained for 4 hour reserve
Career Opportunities
in Casinos and Casino Hotels by Shelly Field,
Career Opportunities in Law Enforcement, Security and Protective Services, Susan Echaore-McDavid ECSU Career and Information Ref HV8143.E34 2000
Careers in Social Work
by Leon H. Ginsberg,
Designing the Perfect
Resume by Pat Criscito,
Encyclopedia of Careers
and Vocational Guidance/edited
by Andrew Morkes,
Guide to
Guide to Distance Learning
Programs:
Guide to Law Enforcement
Careers by Donald B. Hutton
& Anna Mydlarz,
GRE Exam, by the staff of
Higher Education Directory,
Insider’s Guide
to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology,
Moving and Relocation
Sourcebook and Directory,
Occupational Outlook
Handbook/U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Peterson’s CLEP
Peterson’s Graduate
and Professional Programs, an Overview,
Peterson’s Graduate
Programs in Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Environment and Natural
Resources,
Peterson’s Graduate
Programs in the Biological Sciences,
Peterson’s Graduate
Programs in the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences,
Peterson’s Graduate Programs in the Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Agricultural Sciences, the Environment and Natural Resources, Princeton, N.J.: Peterson’s, ECSU Career and Information Ref L901.P445 2005
Peterson’s Summer
Opportunities for Kits and Teenagers,
Plunkett’s Employers’
Internet Sites with Career Information,
Professional Resumes
for Accounting, Tax, Finance, and Law: A Special Gallery of Quality Resumes
by Professional Resume Writers,
Requirements for Certification
of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators
for Elementary and Secondary Schools:
Scholarships, Grants
& Prizes,
Study Abroad,
The Big Book of Jobs
The Book of
The Directory of Executive
Recruiters,
The Internship Bible,
CAREERS AND JOBS IN CONNECTICUT
STATE OF CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF ADMINSTRATIVE SERVICES
CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
U.S.DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS