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Career & Technical Education* (Provider: Proquest)
Description: Over 460 full-text titles covering technical/vocational topics.

Career Library (Provider: COIN)
Description: Explore college and career options, take practice tests, build a resume, and more.

CollegeSource (Provider: CollegeSource)
Description: Online access to thousands of college catalogs and course descriptions including a search feature by location, degree, tuition, etc.

Professional Development Collection* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: A collection of over 500 journals geared to professional librarians, educators, and education researchers.

Vocational Biographies (Provider: Vocational Biographies)
Description: short bios of people in various careers

Vocational Studies Complete (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: An interdisciplinary database of key journals covering vocational programs including fashion design, health information technology, veterinary assisting, consumer studies, computer science and more.

Article Databases (multiple subjects)

EBSCOhost* (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

JSTOR* (Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.

ProQuest Newspapers (Provider: Proquest)
Description: "offers full-text access to over 850 regional, national, and international newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."

ProQuest* (Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.

Reference Databases (multiple subjects)

Biography Reference Bank (Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic-level, general encyclopedia.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias

Oxford English Dictionary (Provider: Oxford)
Description: definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language

Oxford Reference Online (Provider: Oxford)
Description: contains over 125 reference works published by Oxford University Press

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