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Professional Associations

Use these sources to find associations in your career field. Associations often publish periodicals that provide information on what's going on in a field and people important in the field. Associations may also give awards to recognize individuals, organizations, or companies significant in their field.

Encyclopedia of Associations

Call Number: Reference: AS22 .E5

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Check the sources of additional information at the end of a report for names of professional associations. Available online - http://www.bls.gov/oco/

Google Search

Search for associations in your field. Also search for awards given in a field, for example awards in online marketing, to identify individuals, organizations, and companies important in the field.

Business Databases

Use these databases to find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles on your topic or person.

Business Insights: Essentials (formerly Business & Co. Resource Center)
Company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and articles.
Business Index ASAP
Academic and business journals with full text and images.
Business Source Premier
2,710 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals.
JSTOR
Backfiles of scholarly publications including the full runs of each journal which allows viewing of the articles exactly as they appear in print.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
Regional Business News
Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications incorporating coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from the United States.

Science Databases

Use these databases to find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles on your topic or person.

BioOne
BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
GreenFILE
Information covering aspects of human impact on the environment, including content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and efforts to minimize these effects.
JSTOR
Backfiles of scholarly publications including the full runs of each journal which allows viewing of the articles exactly as they appear in print.
PubMed
A product of the U.S. National Library of Medicine for medical researchers, practitioners, medical school faculty and students, indexing over 3500 journals (most having abstracts available) in all areas of medicine.
Pubmed Central
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
ScienceDirect
An information service for the interdisciplinary research needs of academic, corporate and educational institutions, offering comprehensive coverage of literature across all fields of science.