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Communications:
Communication & Mass Media Complete - our best online coverage of communication journals.
MLA International Bibliography - Covers literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Provides citations to journal articles, single-author monographs, book chapters from multi-author works, dissertation abstracts, and book series. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America.
ProQuest Telecommunications - Full text of top telecommunications industry
publications. Includes magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in
this fast changing industry.
Business :
ABI/INFORM Global - Provides scholarly and
comprehensive coverage of business research topics. Search nearly 3000 worldwide
business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions,
management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing,
economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded
international coverage. Includes The Wall Street Journal.
ABI/INFORM Dateline
- Provides hard-to-find local and regional business news coverage of large
corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles,
marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information
not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis,
information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids,
magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional
business publications.
Psychology and Social Sciences:
PsycINFO - Contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages.
ProQuest Psychology Journals - With complete
full-text coverage from top psychology and related publications, this
database meets the needs of both students and mental-health professionals.
SocINDEX with Full Text - contains full text for 253 "core" coverage sociology journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
General Coverage:
ProQuest Central
- Includes articles from over 11,000 magazines and journals. Many, but
not all, provide the full-text of articles. Over 160 subjects areas are
covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health
and medical, news and world affairs, technology, and social sciences.
Research Library - A smaller collection of
periodicals than ProQuest Central. Covers a broad range of subjects including
arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities,
international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social
sciences, and women's interests.
ProQuest National Newspapers Premier - Includes a
balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic
excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full text.
Papers include national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across the
U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver
Post, The Sacramento Bee plus other important U.S. papers.
LCSC Library Catalog - provides information about the materials owned by the LCSC Library and other North Idaho Academic Libraries, including North Idaho College and the University of Idaho. Also has a link to WIN Libraries, so you can search Gonzaga, Whitworth, and VALNet Libraries.
Encyclopedia of business and finance / Burton S. Kaliski, editor-in-chief.
Encyclopedia of communication and information: edited by Schement, Jorge Reina.
Encyclopedia of communication theory / Stephen W. Littlejohn, Karen A. Foss, editors.
Credo Reference - Search a collection of up to 100 online dictionaries and subject encyclopedias. Or click on "Find a Book," and search within only one title, such as Cambridge Guide to Theatre or Bloomsbury Guide to Art.
Virtual Reference Library - Search a collection on online reference books from Gale, a respected publisher of subject-focused encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Ad Council - "As the leading producer of public service announcements (PSAs) since 1942, the Ad Council has been addressing critical social issues for generations of Americans" [from the Website].
Advertising Age - Data Center - "A subsection of the Advertising Age site, the Data Center provides many statistics useful for marketing and advertising purposes. Some of this data may be obtained for a fee, but much of it is available at no charge to registered users (registration is free)." [L. Kong, CHOICE review, April 2007]
BusinessDictionary.com - A free online dictionary of business terms. Provided by WebFinance, Inc.
Prendismo - "Offers access to the world's premiere collection of digital video content on business, leadership and entrepreneurship.... Prendismo arose from the eClips project at Cornell University, the Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Ithaca-based intellectual property development company, KensaGroup, LLC. Prendismo has also received two Small Business Innovation Research grants from the National Science Foundation." (from Website)
Government Information:
USA.gov
- A search engine for government Web pages, with an emphasis on the Executive
Branch of the Federal Government.
Data.gov - Information and access to data generated and help by the Federal Government.
FedFlix - The best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever. A joint venture between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.org.
Federal
Digital System - Searchable database of Web pages, with an emphasis on the
Legislative Branch of the Federal Government, including Congressional bills
and hearings. Provided by the Government
Printing Office.
Thomas - An easy-to-search source for legislative information, provided by the Library of Congress.
I-Docs - An online collection of
paper and digital resources selectively chosen from published Idaho
Government Documents.
Job & Graduate School Information:
- Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor,
CareerOneStop provides job-seekers
with career information, as well as tools to help in a job search.
Idaho Career Information System - CIS is a division of the Idaho Department of Labor and since 1980 has been helping people in Idaho with volumes of information about occupations, postsecondary education, financial aid and finding jobs.
Occupational Outlook Handbook - Information on careers from the Department of Labor.
Standardized Tests:
Learning Express - Each of the
Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses,
eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at
work, or in life. Create a free account for yourself, so that the program
can track your test results.
Test Prep Review -- Free access to sample questions from many standardized tests, such as graduate school entrance exams and certification exams.
How to Cite Sources:
APA Formatting and Style Guide - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
APA Citation Style - examples of citations in APA Format for your list of References.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide - Guidance provided by Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
MLA Citation Style - Guidance provided by the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop.
Knight Cite -- An automatic generator of citations in either MLA, APA, or Chicago style. Registering for the service allows you to save citations to generate a bibliography. A free service provided by the Hekman Library at Calvin College.
Son of Citation Machine -- An "interactive Web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties" (from the Website).
Research Paper Help:
Online Writing Lab - A service of the Humanities Division at LCSC, this center provides one-on-one advice from other students on improving your papers before turning them in.
Online Resources for Writers - Links to useful information from colleges and universities, covering all phases of writing academic essays. Provided by the Amherst Writing Center.
Assignment Calculator - Based on the start date and due date for your assignment, this calculator will map out benchmarks for completing tasks leading up to the final paper. It also provides links to other pages with tips on understanding your assignment, focusing your topic, etc. It was developed by the library at the University of Minnesota, so a few of its linked resources are not available to you. But we have many similar resources available to you on this campus.
Thesaurus.com - Find synonyms for your search terms. An Ask.com service.
Wikipedia : Researching with Wikipedia - A page on the Wikipedia site that describes the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia as a source of information. It includes this statement: "In all academic institutions, Wikipedia, along with most encyclopedias, is unacceptable as a major source for a research paper."
Page Author: Barbara Barnes
Last updated: December 22, 2010
