Search Guides
WRIT 310: Writing in Professional Contexts
Subject Guide
Citation Examples & Assistance
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How to Recognize PlagiarismExamples of how to properly paraphrase and cite a source by Indiana University Bloomington, School of Education.
Databases
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowComprehensive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowFull text coverage of general news, business, legal, government and other topics.
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Regional Business News This link opens in a new windowIncorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Online version of the Wall Street Journal available through ProQuest.
Other Relevant Databases
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL.
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Communication Source This link opens in a new windowAn upgraded version of Communication and Mass Media. Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
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Congressional Publications This link opens in a new window
Indexes Congressional publications including Congressional research and hearings from 1789 to the present, linking to full text when available.
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ERIC (via EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), via the Department of Education, is a premier database for educational literature. ERIC provides access to traditional content (e.g, journal articles, books, dissertations, ERIC reports, conference papers, government documents), as well as nontraditional content (e.g., non-profit organizations, commercial publishers, policy organizations, user-submitted material)
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowProvides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) This link opens in a new windowIndexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
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Library Literature & Information Science Full Text This link opens in a new windowProvides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting of over 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals, and full-text coverage of over 170 journals. Coverage reaches as far back as 1980.
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Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new windowJournal article database comprised primarily of peer-reviewed literature from the field of education.
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PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The premier and most expansive database for searching psychological literature. Includes over 4 million records. Provided via the American Psychological Association.
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Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is one of the leading statistics companies on the internet. With a team of over 200 statisticians, database experts, analysts, and editors, Statista provides users with an innovative and intuitive tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information.
This database includes an AI powered tool. For more information see the Statista Research AI information page.
Jobs, Internships, and Company Environment
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GlassdoorA free jobs and career community that offers the world an inside look at jobs and companies
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IndeedIndeed has thousands of company reviews, it is also a job aggregator so you will find job listings from other sites.
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LinkedInProspective employees can use the company search feature to search for information on companies.
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VaultProvides information to prospective employees about jobs and internships, top employers, job search advice, salary listings, and more.
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UM Career CenterProvides access to Vault Career Library, Going Global, and Candid Career. All are great tools to use in your search for that dream job.
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Internships.comProvides a wide variety of interactive tools and services to enable every student, employer and educator to better understand and optimize internship opportunities, enabling businesses to identify the best job candidates and for students to develop the real-world skills they will need upon graduation.