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The College Experience - STDV100

The Guide provides an outline of information covered in the Information Literacy Library session and includes links to resources covered.

Topic Selection

These databases are a great place to begin searching topics for your research project.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
This is an online collection of over 950 titles with particular emphasis on subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks as well as short reference videos, art images, and additional images across all subject areas. As subject coverage is diverse, this is a good place to begin a topic search before formal research.
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center This link opens in a new window
This Facts On File resource provides career and job specific information with industry and professions articles, school planning resources, and skills and career advice.
Users can explore a multitude of industries, career fields, and professions, as well as evaluate schools. The material draws from a range of authoritative sources, including more than 880 updated articles and entries from the Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance, 16th Edition. It also features a career advice blog, a networking section, and links to outside jobs and internships.

Pre-searching/Background Information

These databases are good sources to begin your background research for narrowing your topic and for gathering search terms or keywords.

CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
A database of full-text, non-scholarly articles with coverage of a wide variety of current issues written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked to provide an introduction to a subject or topic.
Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features round out the reports. This is a great resource for topic selection and obtaining applicable terms or key words to use when performing further research.
Facts on File This link opens in a new window
This is a home page for Facts On File resources consisting of research databases, eBook collections and other online reference materials for multiple subject areas in history, career choices, science, literature, geography, health and films.
Many of these links are also listed as a separate database such as Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center and the Curriculum Resource Center.
Career & Technical Education Database This link opens in a new window
This is a ProQuest database useful to both students and instructors to research most technical topics, including computing science, healthcare, building trades, auto mechanics, sales and retail, accounting, graphic design, and photography.
Users can find access to trade publications such as Marketing, Journal of Nursing Education, Physical Therapy, Logistics Today, Accounting Horizons, and Agricultural Research. Vocational publications also provide users with occupation-focused titles such as Marketing Week, Aviation Week & Space Technology, Broadcasting & Cable, Nursing, Law & Order, Chemist & Druggist, Electronic Engineering Times, and many more as well as access to ebooks and career advice blogs.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center This link opens in a new window
This Facts On File resource provides career and job specific information with industry and professions articles, school planning resources, and skills and career advice.
Users can explore a multitude of industries, career fields, and professions, as well as evaluate schools. The material draws from a range of authoritative sources, including more than 880 updated articles and entries from the Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance, 16th Edition. It also features a career advice blog, a networking section, and links to outside jobs and internships.

EBooks

Using chapters within ebooks can be helpful to find an overview on a topic. Searching within ebooks can be done by using keywords.

EBooks (from EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
A collection of ebooks spanning a diverse array of subjects including history, health & medicine, engineering & technology, social sciences, law, education, business economics and fiction.
This database provides the ability to search within text or by subject, title, author, category, and year of publication as well as cite, save and print ebook portions, export citations, and search within chapters.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
A ProQuest collection of ebooks spanning multiple subjects including anthropology, religion, fine arts, language & literature, physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, medicine, computers, business, engineering & technology, education and history.
This database provides the ability to search within book text as well as cite, save and print ebook chapters however there are limits on the number of pages that can be downloaded.
Salem Press Ebooks This link opens in a new window
Salem Press ebooks containing writings on historical events, literature, science, health and careers.
Each writing includes a summary and an analysis of the significance of the event as well as citation information, further reading suggestions and related links.
Springer Ebooks This link opens in a new window
This digital collection is aimed at researchers and scientists with limited online access to scientific, technical and medical books and some journal article access.
Covered subjects include architecture, design and arts, behavioral sciences, biomedical & life sciences, business & economics, chemistry, computer science, earth & environmental science, engineering, humanities, social sciences & law, mathematics, medicine, physics and astronomy, professional computing & web design. Access is only available to those items that provide the option to download the PDF or view the article and are not marked with a gold lock inside of a circle.