Holyoke Community College: Campus Resources: Library

Library Resources for Careers

Library resources by Subject Course / Discipline Name

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center: Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills.
InfoTrac Vocation & Careers eCollection: Provding content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
O*NET Online (Occupational Information Network): Contains occupational information containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors (job titles), an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations, and a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers. (Sponsored by the US Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration)
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Provides the following information for each job: the training and education needed; earnings; expected job prospects; what workers do on the job; and working conditions.

Academic OneFile: Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's English language journals and reference sources. It has extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, & millions of full text articles available in both PDF and HTML.
Academic Search Premier: mobile version. The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Massachusetts Career Information System (MassCIS): The Commonwealth's career information delivery system (CIDS) provided free to all Massachusetts residents. MassCIS combines a wealth of occupational, labor market, and educational information into one comprehensive, easy-to-use- career exploration tool.

Reference Books Online: Complete list of online Reference Books (specialized books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.).

If you have any problems with accessing these databases, please contact the Circulation Desk at (413) 552-2372.

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Last updated on : January 20, 2010