ENTO 482 - Career and Professional Development in Entomology
Class Guide
Job HuntingThe Occupational Outlook Handbook provides a generic description of many types of jobs and includes information on the nature of work, job growth projections, and average annual salaries. Some job sites for career/job information: Federal Government jobs USAJOBS, Career information from the US Department of Labor, State of Texas Job Opportunities IBIS World is a collection of Industry Market Research Reports organized by NAICS/Industry Codes. These codes are used to group types of businesses so you can find other like businesses useing these codes. It is possible to search theses code.The reports are useful for understanding the current and expected trends within an industry. Each report provides detailed analysis on major industry players, industry performance, and future outlook. Business Source Complete is an index that includes both articles and company information. Search a company name, then look at "company profiles" and "SWOT Analyses" for an overview of the company. [Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats] You will also see "NAICS/Industry Codes" in the search results if you look at the full entry. For more information go to library home page > Subject Guides > General Business. LexisNexis Academic use the "business" tab to locate company information. Professional Networking: Linkedin.com is a social networking website that connects professionals around the world. Members can obtain industry, company, and employment insight. Cost of living sites: Use Sperling's Best Places then look in "City Overview" for "Cost of living". It may take a couple of clicks but you will find the information. There are many others that can be found with a web search. This one allows you to compare many cities to a US average. |
Finding Articles
Copyright and Plagiarism: Scholarly work acknowledges others work and ideas, that is why you cite. See the library's "Academic Integrity and Plagiarism" tutorial for a quick overview. (Available from the library home page.) SFX: A program that appears as a button with SFX or as "Find Text @ TAMU" which searches for full text available through the libraries. It has a link to request an article using Get it for me if it is not available online. Get if for me: A service provided by TAMU Libraries to copy articles as .pdf files that are not available electronically, and post them for your use. Available from the libraries home page. Indexes: These selectively cite publications on specific subjects. Some general hints on using indexes:
For newspaper articles try either: Custom Newspapers or Proquest Newspapers AGRICOLA : 1970 - current. Concentrates on American agriculture. The libraries subscribe to this version because it is easier to serach. For the free version provided by the National Agricultural Library go to: http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/. You will not have acces to the SFX program using the free version. CAB Abstracts : 1910- current. Produced in England, has more citations. For more index suggestions see the Entomology Subject Guide. Citation Style Guide: Citations allow the reader to find the articles referred to in the publication. Some guides are listed at Help > Help Yourself >Citing Sources on the library home page. The only way to find the preferred style for a particular journal is in the instructions to author/contributors. Published annually, at least, in the print version, it may be necessary to find the journal publisher online to find the instructions. They are rarely published in the online version of the journal itself. EndNote: Citation management software available from CIS. You can import citations from indexes and the program will format the citation for your papers in Microsoft Word. See Research Support> Electronic Resources> EndNote Bibliographic Software for more information. Sample journals: The library subscribes to these for your use. When you leave the university you will probably have to subscribe to them yourself. Journals, either online access or print, are often a part of the membership fee of professional organizations. Annals of the Entomological Society of America electronic v. 93- (2000- ); print v. 1-95, (1908-2002) QL461.E62 West Campus Library Environmental Entomology electronic v.29- (2000- ); print v. 1-31, (1972-2002) SB599.E44 West Campus Library Journal of Economic Entomology electronic v. 93- (2000- ); print v. 1-95, (1908-2002) SB599.J5 West Campus Library Journal of Medical Entomology electronic v. 86- (2000- ); print v. 6-40 (1969-2003) Medical Sciences Library, v. 1-23, 31 (1964/1965-1986, 1994) RA639.5.J6 Evans Library Catalogs: Catalogs are databases that list the items owned by the libraries such at books and journal titles (NOT journal articles). The TAMU Libraries have 2 catalogs LibCat (all but Medical Sciences Library) and Medical Sciences Library Catalog. You may need to search both since many new books (and some older items) are only in MSL. |
