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Adult Education Center from Tutor.com

The Adult Education Center's Live Tutor service is open from noon to midnight, seven days a week, and offers one-on-one, online tutoring in English and en Español. Available topics for tutoring include GED Preparation and Citizenship Testing. Students can also upload a document for review and proofreading by a tutor. In addition, the Skills Center is open 24/7 and offers thousands of worksheets, tutorials, study guides, practice tests, and more.

Adult Education Center is available on iOS.

Career Center from Tutor.com

The Adult Career Center's Live Tutor service is open from noon to midnight, seven days a week, and offers one-on-one, online assistance in English and en Español. Available topics for assistance are Resume Help, GED Preparation, Citizenship, and Back to School. Users can also upload a document, such as a resume, for review and proofreading by a tutor. In addition, the Skills Center is open 24/7 and offers thousands of sample resumes and cover letters, worksheets, tutorials, study guides, practice tests, and more.

Career Center is available on iOS.

Career Transitions

Career Transitions is a complete, self-paced application that walks job seekers through the entire process of assessing strengths and interests, exploring different career paths, compiling a resume, and searching job listings. Using Career Transitions can improve your chances of landing a job.

Career Transitions is available on Android and iOS.

College Center from Tutor.com

The College Center's Live Tutor service is open from noon to midnight, seven days a week, and offers one-on-one, online tutoring in English and en Español. Available topics for tutoring are Math, Science, English, and Social Studies, along with Resume Help and GED Preparation. Students can also upload a document for review and proofreading by a tutor. In addition, the Skills Center is open 24/7 and offers thousands of worksheets, tutorials, study guides, practice tests, and more.

College Center is available on iOS.

ed2go

ed2go offers a wide range of highly interactive courses that you can take entirely over the Internet. All of the courses are free and led by expert instructors, many of whom are nationally-known authors. Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month.

Education Index Retrospective

Education Index Retrospective indexes articles from 1929-1983. Subjects covered include adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods, and more.

Please note: This database has a simultaneous user limit. If you are unable to access it, please try again later. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Educator's Reference Complete

Educator's Reference Complete contains more than eleven hundred periodicals and two hundred reports from the US Department of Education. This resource is for any educator, from school teachers and administrators to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. It provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC. Although the majority of the content in this database is available through the Academic OneFile and/or General OneFile databases, there is some original subject-specific content as well.

Educator's Reference Complete is available on Android and iOS.

ERIC

Research educational issues in areas such as teaching, teacher education, assessment, counseling, disabilities, gifted education, higher education, information and technology, early childhood education, and more.

ERIC is available on Android and iOS.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

Whether you're changing careers or choosing a career for the first time, get an inside look at today's most exciting jobs. You will find a description, job duties, salary range, employment prospects, education and training requirements, tips for getting the job, and more.

Information Science and Library Issues Collection

The Information Science and Library Issues Collection includes articles from 1980 to the present. Although the content in this database is also available through the Academic OneFile and/or General OneFile databases, this collection limits your search to publications specific to this topic.

Information Science and Library Issues Collection is available on Android and iOS.

LearningExpress Library

LearningExpress Library provides interactive online practice tests and a tutorial course series designed to help users succeed on academic and licensing tests. It offers immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of results. Registration by the user is required to allow the software to record the progress of the user and to allow the user to stop a particular test or lesson and continue at a later time.

Library Literature & Information Science Full Text

Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, and library school theses, plus over three hundred books per year. This resource delivers full-text articles from over a hundred select publications. Indexing begins in 1984 and full-text articles begin in 1994.

Please note: This database has a simultaneous user limit. If you are unable to access it, please try again later. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Library Literature & Information Science Full Text is available on Android and iOS.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

This world-class bibliographic database covers librarianship, classification, information management, and more and indexes nearly six hundred periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts is available on Android and iOS.

Professional Development Collection

Professional Development Collection includes full-text for nearly five hundred twenty high-quality education journals.

Professional Development Collection is available on Android and iOS.

ProofPoint Writing Center from Tutor.com

The ProofPoint Writing Center's Live Tutor service is open from noon to midnight, seven days a week, and offers one-on-one online assistance in English and en Español. Students can get real-time help on reports, essays, and papers. Adults get real-time help with writing resumes and cover letters, polishing business letters and proposals, and proofreading papers and essays. Tutors explain the writing and proofreading process.

ProofPoint Writing Center is available on iOS.  

Teacher Reference Center

Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for articles on topics such as assessment, best practices, continuing education, curriculum development, elementary education, higher education, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, school administration, science and mathematics, and teacher education.

Teacher Reference Center is available on Android and iOS.

Testing & Education Reference Center

Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet your financial needs. Take online practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.

Testing & Education Reference Center is available on Android and iOS.

Vocations and Careers Collection

The Vocations and Careers Collection includes articles from 1980 to the present. Although the content in this database is also available through the Academic OneFile and/or General OneFile databases, this collection limits your search to publications specific to this topic.

Vocations and Careers Collection is available on Android and iOS.

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