Career Counseling: Primary Databases for Career Counseling

Career & Technical Education - This database is the definitive source for articles about vocational education. It includes over 600 periodical titles, with more than 500 of them in full text.

 Vocational & Career Collection provides full-text coverage for almost 350 trade and industry related periodicals.

 Occupational Outlook Handbook provides career information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The profiles featured cover hundreds of occupations and describe What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more. Each profile also includes BLS employment projections for the current decade. The Handbook is the yearly compilation of information of occupations;  Occupational Outlook Quarterly and Monthly Labor Review are also published by the BLS.

Mental Measurements Yearbook -- Mental Measurements Yearbook contains full-text information on commercially-available, standardized English-language tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas. Information given on instruments includes test name and classification, author(s), publisher, publication date, price, time requirements, existence of validity and reliability data, score descriptions, levels, and intended populations. Published reviews of the tests are referenced.

 The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database covers all aspects of education and educational research, includes both abstracts of published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. It corresponds to the printed indexes of RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). This database is produced by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education. The EbscoHOST, Cambridge Scientific, and AskERIC versions of the ERIC database include the searchable Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors. Coverage: 1962 to the present Updates: MonthlyThe ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database covers all aspects of education and educational research, includes both abstracts of published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics. It corresponds to the printed indexes of RIE (Resources in Education) and CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education). This database is produced by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education. The EbscoHOST, Cambridge Scientific, and AskERIC versions of the ERIC database include the searchable Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors. Coverage: 1962 to the present Updates: Monthly

Education Full Textwith Retrospective Index from 1929 -- Provides comprehensive coverage back to 1983 from an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Also includes a retrospective index dating back to 1929.

PsycINFO (at Ebsco) contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.

  If you find scholarly journal articles difficult to navigate, take a look at Anatomy of a Scholarly Article, from NCSU.

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