Career
Center Workshop
Spring 2003
Individual course index / career_center_sp03.htm
Introduction
| Print resources | Subject-specific
databases | General/multidisciplinary
databases | Book catalogs | Suggested
websites |General reference tools
Other helpful information
Introduction:
This guide provides information on locating and accessing print
and online resources from Langsdale Library.
For questions,email
us at langref@ubalt.edu or phone
us at (410) 837-4274.
Print
resources:
See our Career Planning Guide
Subject-specific
databases (these databases specifically cover statistics; other subject-specific
databases may also cover some statistics in those areas. For more databases,
see full list of Electronic Databases):
ABI Inform [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Indexes more than 1,300 journals on business, management, with 75% full-text.Business and Company Resource Center [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1979 - present. Profiles 400,000 companies. Provides company histories, business articles, industry rankings and analyses for selected public companies.Business Source Premier [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies– present. Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Includes company profiles, many of which contain SWOT analyses.Mergent Online [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Current. Mergent Online contains the electronic versions of the Mergent (formerly Moody's) Manuals (Industrial, OTC, Banking and Finance, and International), covering over 10,000 U.S. companies and thousands for foreign companies. The financial data for most companies covers 15 years. Industry reports are included.General BusinessFile ASAP [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1979 - present. Indexes more than 2600 business and trade publications with substantial full text. Includes SIC Descriptions with links to industry articles and Investext with full-text investment reports.ReferenceUSA [on-campus]
Regional Business News [on-campus]
Coverage: Current. Provides directory, sales and employee size information for more than 12 million businesses in the U.S.
Coverage: Varies. Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.STAT-USA [on campus] [help]
Coverage: current. Stat-USA is a gateway to databases that assemble current information on business, economics, and trade from diverse government sources. It is divided into two parts: the State of the Nation section covers domestic statistics and Globus/NTDB cover information relating to US foreign trade. Most of the information deals with marketing and investing opportunities in foreign countries. Stat-USA is a subscription service available to the Langsdale Library as part of the government depository program.
General/multidisciplinary
databases:
Use these to find full text periodical articles and/or citations to articles.
Academic Search Premier [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).Lexis-Nexis Academic [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals. Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals.
Book
catalogs:
Use these to locate books, journals (not individual articles), videos,
and government documents.
Catalog USMAI [help]
Books, journals, government documents and other materials in the University System of Maryland, including UB. You may search up to six individual locations or the entire system.WorldCat [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals , dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide. Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
Suggested
websites:
These may
provide useful information or agencies or organizations who may be sources
of information.
O*NET OnLine!
"…Occupational Information Network Online 4.0, an improved version of its database of worker attributes and job characteristics. O*Net, available at online.onetcenter.org, replaces the department’s Dictionary of Occupational Titles...
Available at: http://online.onetcenter.org/Langsdale web resources
A listing of valuable internet sites by subject area, including Career Research links.
General
reference tools:
These may assist you in your search for material or in evaluating
and citing material found.
Full-text Periodical List
Provides a listing of database locations for print and online periodicals accessible through Langsdale Library.Help Series
Series of subject bibliographies and tutorialsEvaluating Web Resources
Guide to evaluating material obtained via the InternetCiting Electronic and Print Resources
Guides to MLA, APA, and other citation styles.How to Cite Sources: APA Style
Comprehensive guide to citing references according to APA.
Accessing materials from home (Researchport)
For more information email langref@ubalt.edu, call 410-837-4274 or Chat with a Librarian at http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/info_services/contact.htm.
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