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Charles "T." Jones Leadership Library: Research Help and Tutorials
Home page for Central Penn's LibGuides.
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Databases
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Online ResourcesNot sure how to use one of the databases? This guide provides tips, and can help you navigate each resource.
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Business Insights: Global Your business intelligence resource containing case studies, statistical data sources, news articles, academic journals, and other material organized by country, company and industry.
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CINAHL with Full Text CINAHL® with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 610 journals indexed in CINAHL®. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. Full-text coverage dates back to 1981.
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Credo Reference A great place to start your research. Credo provides 24/7 access to general reference works (dictionaries & encyclopedias) as well as charts and images. Among other tools there are thousands of topic pages to assist research by highlighting additional resources provided by the library.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text™ contains more than 400,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Subject areas covered include: criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.
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Ebook Central Ebook Central offers full-text access to thousands of books. In your personal bookshelf, you may customize your content by adding notes and highlighting text. Use your Blackboard account information to log into your personal bookshelf.
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EBSCOhost Our most powerful periodicals database, offering the most full text access to scholarly journal, magazines, news articles and e-books through EBSCOhost Web.
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Films On Demand Films On Demand is a Web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere, 24/7! Choose from thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas.
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Gale Databases This collection of databases contains extensive coverage in business, physical sciences, information science and technology, medicine, terrorism, criminal justice and much more.
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Kanopy Kanopy is a streaming video provider. There are over 28,000 documentaries, classic feature films, and other videos from about 1,000 producers available in this database.
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Medcom Trainex Award winning videos for online health care education. Log in with your Student ID as your User ID number and contact library@centralpenn.edu for the password.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context This database provides viewpoint essays, reference sources, statistics, magazine and newspaper articles, primary documents and recommended websites and images to present various sides of an issue.
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The Leadership Quarterly This journal covers the broad range of leadership topics and research worldwide.
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Westlaw Westlaw is the premiere online legal research service. It provides quick, easy access to a vast collection of statutes, case law materials, public records and other legal resources, along with current news articles and business information.
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