Careers Guidance and Counselling

Faculty Information Adviser: Pat England

email : LLRhsc@lsbu.ac.uk

Information Skills Adviser for student enquiries:
Catherine Jacob 020 7815 6648
email:

LLRhsc@lsbu.ac.uk


Core Bibliographic E-resources

ASSIA [electronic resource].
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts). Covers English language journals in applied social sciences. Includes health, economics, social issues & social policy, organisational behaviour and communication.

British Education Index [electronic resource].
Covers education and training mainly in the UK.

Education Research Complete [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Education Research Complete is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,730 journals, as well as full text for nearly 830 journals. This database also includes full text for 67 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

ERIC via Dialog Datastar [electronic resource].
Via Dialog Datastar. Consists of journal articles and reports from the US government funded resource. Has 1 current file and 2 archive files. Use Thesaurus for best results. Updated quarterly.

ERIC via CSA [electronic resource].
ERIC via CSA. Consists of journal articles and reports from the US government funded resource. Has 1 current file and 2 archive files. Use Thesaurus for best results. Updated quarterly.

ERIC via EBSCO [electronic resource].
ERIC via EBSCO. Consists of journal articles and reports from the US government funded resource. Has 1 current file and 2 archive files. Use Thesaurus for best results. Updated quarterly.

Psycarticles [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 134,000 articles from 63 journals - 50 published by the APA and its imprint, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF) - and 13 from allied organisations. It includes all journal articles and book reviews. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

Psycinfo [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. From 1974. Includes details of articles with abstracts from over 1300 psychology journals, from 1974.

Background Bibliographic E-resources

CIPD: Case Studies Club [electronic resource].
Case studies in Human Resources, covering core personnel and development, core management, employee development, employee relations, employee resourcing, employee reward and specialist electives.

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), Arts and Humanities Citation Index, BIDS-ISI [electronic resource].
References,citations, selected abstracts. Includes Science Citation Index expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present. Covers over 9000 scholarly research journals and is updated weekly. Includes:
SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX:
Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

RefWorks [electronic resource].
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

E-Books

Books@Ovid [electronic resource].
Books@Ovid platform with Made Incredibly Easy! which contains 38 e-books titles and Oxford Handbooks which contains 10 e-book titles.

 

 

Journal Collections and Newspapers

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

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Selected Websites for this area

BUBL Careers
Catlogue of internet resources on "careers" : professional associations, awarding bodies, course information, etc.

CEDEFOP (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training)
European agency that helps promote and develop vocational education and training in the European Union (EU).  It is the EU's reference centre for vocational education and training. Information on and analyses of vocational education and training systems, policies, research and practice.

Connexions
The government's support service for all young people aged 13 to 19 in England.  .

Department for Education and Skills (DfES)


European Training Foundation
Details of training organisations and long-term planning for a wider Europe

Hobsons
Extensive information on education and careers at all levels. Links to Springboard Student Services and Graduate Employment and Training (GET)

Institute of Career Guidance

International Centre for Guidance Studies
The ICGS holds over 10,000 books, journals, published reports and a variety of unpublished materials on the subject of guidance within the United Kingdom, supplemented with examples of guidance research and practice from around the world.

Prospects Web
Higher education careers service information, access to Prospects direct, course surveys and links to various careers services.

LSBU Careers and Student Employment Unit (CaSEU)
The LSBU Careers centre site also provides useful information on our in-house services and an extensive list of external sites.

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