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Career Resources
To find general career resources, check FLITE Library's Career Resource Guide.
Occupational Information Databases and Websites
O*Net Online: Occupational Online Network
The O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. O*NET OnLine was developed for the U.S. Department of Labor by the National Center for O*NET Development.
Career OneStop
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, this is a one
stop-shop to explore careers, seek out education, search salary information, receive advice on resumes and interviews, and search for a job.
Educational and Career Counseling [Ferris Only]
For those undecided Ferris Students or High School Students, interested in exploring career options, contemplating a career change or academic major change, the first and most critical stage in this cycle is self-assessment. In this stage, you explore your interests, skills, values and personality preferences as they relate to possible career and education alternatives. Once you have learned more about yourself, you can use that self-knowledge to identify occupations and/or majors of potential interest to you.
Books
VGM's careers encyclopedia [electronic resource] / the editors of VGM Career Books
Career Information Center
FSU Reference--1st Floor - HF5382.5.U5 C32 2007
Occupational outlook handbook
LIB USE ONLY - FSU Ready Ref--1st Floor - HF5382 .O25
Occupational outlook handbook [electronic resource]
Sports Marketing Campaigns
Keywords for selecting a marketing campaign:
- your chosen sport's professional organization
- a slogan you're familiar with
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an athlete in your chosen sport
Databases
For searching once you've selected your marketing campaign:Academic OneFile
A very large full-text database with over 50 million articles covering a wide variety of subjects, Academic OneFile indexes academic journals, magazines, and newspapers.
ABI/INFORM Global
One of the most comprehensive business databases on the market. It includes in-depth coverage for over 3,380 publications, with more than 2,380 available in full text. ABI/INFORM Global offers the latest business and financial information for researchers.
Business and Company Resource Center [Best Bet]
Provides access to a wide variety of global business information including competitive intelligence, career and investment opportunities, business rankings, company histories and more.
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Access over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources including deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Also includes detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria and access to the Shepard's Citations® service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
Books
For books, ebooks, and documents in the circulating collection (Main Stacks), use the Online Catalog. Search either using keyword or subject.
Journal Articles
Databases
To find journal articles on a particular topic, use one or more of the databases available on the FLITE Web site. These databases provide indexing to thousands of journal titles.
Academic OneFile
A very large full-text database with over 50 million articles covering a wide variety of subjects, Academic OneFile indexes academic journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Access World News
Access World News contains the full-text of nearly 1700 primarily English-language news sources from around the world
ABI Inform
One of the most comprehensive business databases on the market. It includes in-depth coverage for over 3,380 publications, with more than 2,380 available in full text. ABI/INFORM Global offers the latest business and financial information for researchers.
Suggestions to retrieve better/more results:
- Search topic as both a keyword and subject
- Combine terms with AND or OR
- Set date ranges limit to a specific time
- Use quotes for phrases
Other databases are sorted by subject from the Database Access page.
Please read Off Campus Database Access for information on searching from home.
MeLCat
Use MeLCat to look up books in other Michigan Libraries. MelCat items will be delivered to the circulation desk and you will receive an Email when the items arrive.
Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary Loan is a service provided by FLITE to request articles and books that FLITE does not own. Most often this service is used when searching for articles in FLITE databases, and you are directed through the "Find It" button to request the item. The first time you use this service, you will need to register with ILLiad, our Inter-Library Loan service. Click on the words "First Time Users" to register. You will complete a form, creating a username and password which will be used for future requests. Article requests are emailed to you in 5-10 business days (ferris email preferred), and books will be mailed to you if you are an off-campus student. On-campus students may pick up books at the Checkout Desk.
Citing Sources
Plagiarism
Plagiarism tutorials and self-help guides, plus a link to step-by-step citation assistance.
Citations - a FLITE guide
A guide to understanding citations, and a link to different online citation management tools that can help you input your sources and create your bibliographies.
Refbase- Citation Management Software
Online Information
Internet Evaluation
Are all websites created equal?
Internet Examples
Use one of these guides to help evaluate websites.
Internet Resources Evaluation
Resource Evaluation from University of California at Berkeley
Research Help
Librarians are available to help answer research questions and provide other library assistance. You can find librarians at the Oval Information Desk located on the First Floor of FLITE, by phone at 231-591-3602, by email (netref at (@) ferris.edu), or via chat http://www.ferris.edu/library/reference/helppagechat.html. More information is available at FLITE help.
Make an appointment for a research consultation with a librarian - one-on-one personal library help for any course.
Contact: Mari Kermit-Canfield/ Email / Phone: 231-591-3636 / Office: FLITE 140G
Don't forget, you are welcome to come to the Oval Information Desk and ask for help any time. You can also call us 231-591-3602 or chat with us.
Last update: September 10th, 2009