Guides: Department Guides: Higher Education & Workforce Development

Library Resources for Higher Education & Workforce Development

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Off the Shelf

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Articles, eBooks, and periodicals covering a variety of disciplines.

Articles, eBooks, theses, and more covering agricultural, behavioral, biological, environmental, and health sciences.

Access Video on Demand
Stream thousands of documentaries and instructional videos on a variety of topics.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides Topic Pages, which offer background information on a particular topic that can give you an easy starting point and pathways for further research.
JSTOR
Journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines in the arts and sciences.
Libby|Overdrive
Access audiobooks and eBooks through your browser or the Libby app.
Access audiobooks and eBooks through your browser.

Reference Solutions
A directory to millions of US businesses and residents which can be exported to Excel.

Social Explorer
Create maps and tables from a variety of current and historical data at the national, state and local levels.

Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
ERIC indexes a wide variety of free, peer-reviewed, full-text education materials that can help support the work of academics, researchers, educators, policymakers, and the general public.
Missouri Government Publications
Search or browse the digital collection of state agency publications in Internet Archive. View Department of Higher Education publications here and Workforce Development here.
State Agency Databases
Links to publicly searchable databases produced by agencies of the 50 state governments of the United States plus the District of Columbia.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Find dissertations and theses made available in ProQuest.
MOspace (University of Missouri)
The MOspace Institutional Repository is a digital repository for creative and scholarly works and other resources created by faculty, students, and staff at the University of Missouri--Columbia and the University of Missouri--Kansas City.

Tip: Many colleges & universities have online repositories which provide access to recently published scholarly work like theses and dissertations.

Theses and dissertations not found online may be borrowed through an interlibrary loan request.

For more Open Access education and economics journals, search the Directory of Open Access Journals.

Missouri

United States

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These titles and more in the Leadership Library Collection.

State employees can give us the details, and we will try to locate the material. Use our interlibrary loan form or contact us.

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Kelly Moore
Reference Librarian
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Kelly.Moore@sos.mo.gov

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