Databases for Careers and the Job Search

Use RefWorks with Library databases to organize your research, include citations in papers, and create bibliographies.

Expanded Academic ASAP Plus
Provides indexing and abstracting of approximately 1,580 scholarly and general interest periodicals. The full text of articles from more than 520 academic periodicals is available.
General BusinessFile ASAP
General and interdisciplinary information on business and economics, including company profiles and other full-text material from journals, magazines, and newspapers.
LexisNexis Academic
Full-text information from newspapers, the legal literature, and other sources on a variety of topics.

For articles about jobs in a specific field, see the suggested databases for that field. Examples:

America: History and Life
Abstracts covering the world's scholarly literature relating to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Provides abstracts to the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies.
GenderWatch
A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.
EconLit
Indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature.
PAIS International
An index to the world's public and social policy literature in the fields of business, economics, local and federal government, political science, international relations, finance, and other social sciences.
PsycINFO
Indexes articles in journals, chapters in books, dissertations, and other resources in psychology and the socal sciences.
Women's Studies International
An interdisciplinary combination of nine important files, drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases.

This page is maintained by Erin Daix, Reference Department.

Last modified: 10/21/09