Career & Technical Education Databases: Career & Technical Education

"contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages."
Psychological Abstracts:
* 1927-1947 Microfilm BF1.P65
* 1948-2004 print in remote storage

Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields.

Graduate Schools:
-GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test)
-Graduate School and Scholarship Search
-GRE (Graduate Record Examinations)
-LSAT (Law School Admission Test)
-MCAT (Medical College Admission Test)
-Miller Analogies (MAT)
-PCAT (Pharmacy College Admission Test)

International
- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
- TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication)
- U.S. Citizenship
-IELTS (International English Language Testing System) (Foundation Skills)

Career Tools:
-Accountant/Auditor
-ACT WorkKeys
-American Foreign Service Officer
-Aviation & Transportation
-Career/Vo-Tech School Search
-Clerical
-Cosmetology
-Firefighter
- IT: - Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
-- CompTIA A+
-Journeyman Electrician
-Journeyman Plumber
-Law Enforcement Careers
-Medical: Nursing - Dental - EMT/Paramedic - Massage Therapy - Physician Assistant -
-- Physical Therapy - Radiologic Technologist - Surgical Technician - Veterinary Technician
-Military (ASVAB and AFOQT)
-Postal
-Real Estate
-Resume Writing
-Social Work
-Teacher
-Virtual Career Library

High School Tools:
-Advanced Placement (AP)
-Catholic High School Entrance Exams
-Florida Standards Assessment (FSA)
-High School Equivalency Exams
-Independent/Specialized High School Entrance Exams
-High School Subject Tests
-SHSAT (Specialized High School Admissions Test - New York City)
-State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR)
-STEM Resources
-Texas Success Initiative Assessment 2.0 (TSIA2)

Foundation Skills:
-Basic Skills English/Writing Tutorials
-Basic Skills Math Tutorials
-Basic Skills Question Banks (Math, Reading, Science, Writing)
-Microsoft Office Tutorials
-Math Videos
-Windows 11 Tutorials

College Prep Tools:
-ACCUPLACER
-ACT
-ASSET
-CLEP
-College and Scholarship Search
-DSST (DANTES Subject Standardized Tests)
-PERT (Postsecondary Education Readiness Test - Florida)
-PSAT (Preliminary SAT)
-Resume Writing
-SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test)
-TABE (Test of Adult Basic Education)
-THEA (Texas Higher Education Assessment)

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- Biography
- Business
- Education
- Environment
- General Reference
- History
- Information & Publishing
- Law
- Literature
- Medicine
- Multicultural Studies
- Nation & World
- Religion
- Science
- Social Science

Use Google Scholar as a first step of discovery, but then focus your research by using specific databases relevant to your subject discipline.

The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations.

- Find Occupations - "Use keywords or O*NET-SOC codes, Job Families, High Growth industries, O*NET descriptors, Job Zones, or STEM disciplines."
- Skills Search - "Use a list of your skills to find matching O*NET-SOC occupations."
- Crosswalk Search - "Enter a code or title from the DOT, MOC, RAIS, SOC, or CIP to find matching O*NET-SOC occupations."
- Tools & Technology Search - "Use tools and technology to find In-Demand occupations. Learn about related skills important to employers and educators."

PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.
PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Publishers of journals can submit their citations to NCBI and then provide access to the full-text of articles at journal web sites using LinkOut."

includes the complete series of:
- Little Green Books -- Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
- Little Blue Books -- Qualitative Research Methods

"96% of journals indexed in the database are peer-reviewed. Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education."

Citation Indexes for finding articles that cite a given author or citation.
- Science Citation Index Expanded (1965+)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (1965+)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975+)

Citation Connection is now available. This includes:
- Data Citation Index (1900+)
- Derwent Innovations Index – Patents Database (1963+)
- Book Citation Index: Scholarly Books (2005+)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990+)
- Index Chemicus (IC) (1989+)
- Current Chemical Reactions (1993+)
- Current Contents Connect (1998+)

"Data are tabulated for people 18 years old and over. People are classified according to the highest degree received, field of training, and economic status."

"ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content."

"There are approximately 380,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 260,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility."

Provides access to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses. Also available via WorldCat.org by performing an advanced search and selecting Thesis/dissertation in the content box.