ENG 201:

What qualities or abilities do you need to become a …..?

1. Starting points
Occupational Outlook Handbook / http://www.bls.gov/oco/
 O*Net / http://online.onetcenter.org/ matches your skills with occupations
 Career Zone New York / https://www.nycareerzone.org/ Similar to ONET , NY focus
 Career One Stop / http://www.careeronestop.org
 Researching Companies for Jobseekers / http://www.pace.edu/pace/library/help/subject-
research-guides/BUSINESS-MARKETING/Company-Research-for-Jobseekers-PLV-10473/
From the Pace Library homepage, click on Subject Research Guides and then click on
Company Research for Jobseekers (PLV)
 Pace Career & Coop website / http://web.pace.edu/page.cfm?doc_id=6237

Discipline specific reference books:

Encyclopedia of Management / HD30.15 .E49 2000
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance / HF1001 .E467 2001 (2 vols.)
Encyclopedia of Psychology / BF31 .E52 2000 (8 vols.)
Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health / RT21 .G353 2002 (5 vols.)*also available online via
the Gale Virtual Reference Library database
Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance / HF5381 .E52 2003 (4 volumes)

2. Use discipline specific databases: (see second handout)

Click on this icon to find your best options for retrieving the full text article when in
a database w/o full text.

3. The Catalog [locating books] http://innopac.pace.edu

-On the library homepage, click on Catalog: Find Books and Videos
-Search by Keyword for “Vocational Guidance,” to find books with career advice
-Click on CONNECT NY to search for and request books from other academic libraries
Click on to have books sent from other Pace Libraries.

Click on this link in the catalog to find reviews, table of contents, and excerpts from books.

http://www.connectny.info/, request books from 13 other academic libraries using your

Pace library barcode, available at the front desk in the library.

4. Journal Title Search

Use the link from the library homepage for Journal Title search. Change the pull down menu to Title
Contains all words and do a search for your occupation to see the journal titles available in full-text at the
Pace University Library.

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5. Interlibrary Loan / ILLIAD
ILLIAD is a free service available to students at Pace, however it requires that you create an
account with a username and password (be sure to pick something you can remember).
Follow these directions to create an ILLIAD account:
1. Click on Interlibrary loan from the library homepage
2. Select Create a profile
3. Scroll down on the next screen and click on First Time Users Click Here

Interlibrary Loan Directions

Fill in your personal information on the next screen – you must have your library barcode -You can
get a library barcode at the reference or circulation desks in the library.
-Change the notification method to email rather than phone, if you use email more often.
-Change the pickup location from NYC to PLV

Now that you have an ILLIAD account, when you are searching in a database and you find a
citation to an article, click on to open a pop-up window where you can determine
library holdings. If we do not own the item, you may request it by clicking on the GO next to
ILLIAD and typing in your ILLIAD username and password.

5. Multidisciplinary Databases
-Gale Virtual Reference Library [a collection of reference books online]
-Academic Search Premier [newspaper, magazine, & scholarly journal articles]
-Research Library [newspaper, magazine, & scholarly journal articles]
-Omnifile [all full text, includes many articles from social science journals]
-JSTOR www.jstor.org/ [all full text scholarly journal articles]
-Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com [links to some full text, use the local links to find
options for retrieving the full text articles in Pace databases]

6. Find at least one source to help support your argument for your second essay. Cite it below
using a citation style appropriate for your discipline. The following web site has examples of many
citation styles to help you with this: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc

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