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EBSCOhost databases
EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full-text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.
Academic Search Complete
Provides full text coverage to nearly 9,100 journals, including over 7,900 peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more. Full-text coverage dates back to 1985 and is updated daily.
ERIC
Provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1.6 million records and links to more than 337,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
Education Full Text
Provides full text of articles from over 350 journals as far back as 1996, in addition to indexing of more than 770 periodicals dating back to 1983. Content includes in-depth coverage of special education and more than 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Subject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more.
Business Source Premier
Access to the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,200 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier includes full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Updated daily
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Access to content from CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 620 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 820 titles.
APA PsycINFO
The American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 5 million records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.

Example: I'm looking for articles on career training for young adults.

Login to the Academic Search Complete database
Click the link for Choose databases
Click the boxes for Communication & Mass Media Complete, APA PsycInfo, and Business Source Premier and click OK so all of the databases can be searched simultaneously
Type career or vocational or occupational guidance into the first box and select SU Subject with the pull-down menu (the word "Or" is a search command
Type training into the second box and select SU Subject with the pull-down menu
Type youth or young adults or adolescents into the third box
Click Search
On the left-hand side, click the box for "Peer Reviewed"
Go to Publication date on the left-hand side to limit your results to more recent articles
Try searching with different keywords. For example, the word "employment "could be a good search term as well as the above terms career development or vocational or occupational guidance
You can also try searching with the term "programs" instead of "training" for articles on program evaluation

Example: I'm looking for career training articles for individuals with disabilities.

Login to the Academic Search Complete database
Click the link for Choose databases
Click the boxes for Communication & Mass Media Complete, APA PsycInfo and Business Source Premier and click OK so all of the databases can be searched simultaneously
Type career or vocational or occupational guidance into the first box and select SU Subject with the pull-down menu (the word "Or" is a search command
Type training into the second box and select SU Subject with the pull-down menu
Type disabilities into the third box
Click Search
On the left-hand side, click the box for "Peer Reviewed"
Go to Publication date on the left-hand side to limit your results to more recent articles
In addition to the broad term "disabilities," try searching for specific terms such as autism.

Example: I'm looking for articles on career education that specifically appear in the journal Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Type Journal of educational and psychological consultation into the first box and select SO Source with the pull down menu
Type career development or vocational or occupational guidance into the second box and select SU Subject with the pull-down menu
Type training into the third box
Click Search
Go to Publication Date on the left-hand side to limit your results to more recent articles
Click "Find Full-text" to obtain the full-text of the articles
When searching within a specific journal, it's usually a good idea to construct more general searches

Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)
Access to nearly 3 million searchable citations, the most comprehensive collection of doctoral dissertations and master's theses in the world. Dissertations from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts and Master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Full text for most dissertations since 1997 with 1.2 million full text dissertations available for download in PDF format. Approximately 70,000 new dissertations and theses are added each year. Coverage from 1743 to the present.
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

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