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ELM resources are licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations to the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Children, Families & Learning.

Minnesota Library Information Network
 

50States.com
Information on states and capitals.  Includes facts and trivia, college links, state songs, flags, and more.

Academic Search Premier - EBSCO
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.


ADS Abstract Service

The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service provides a gateway to the online Astronomy and Physics literature.

 

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural Online Access)
Created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators, AGRICOLA covers materials dating from the 16th century to the present.  The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.      
 

AHSearch - FirstSearch
The AHSearch database contains an Arts and Humanities Citation Index. FirstSearch covers 49 databases ranging in subject areas from Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Conferences & Proceedings, Consumer Affairs & People, Education, Engineering & Technology, General & Reference, General Science, Life Sciences, Medicine & Health Sciences, News & Current Events, Public Affairs & Law, and Social Sciences. 

 

AltPressIndex - FirstSearch
Alternative Press Index - Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.

 

AltPressIndexArchive FirstSearch
Includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals. Provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items.

 

America: History & Life

America: History & Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. The database also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.
 

American Chemistry Society Journals
Provides a comprehensive collection, of high-quality information products and services that advance the practice of the chemical and related sciences

 

Internet Annual Stockholder Reports service.
Annual Stockholder Reports Based on the Fortune 500* list as published in Fortune* Magazine

 

Applied Science & Technology - OmniFile Full Text Mega - Wilson Web 
Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective and Business Periodicals Index Retrospective offer the same content up to 1958. Beyond 1958, the combined database covers applied science periodicals and business periodicals. This database is found under the Wilsonweb OmniFile Fulltext Mega Edition. Select Applied Science & Technology (AST) under "subject area" at the bottom right corner of the page before searching.

 

Art - OmniFile Full Text Mega - Wilson Web 
This database presents the same indexing offered in Art Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles. This database is found under the Wilsonweb OmniFile Fulltext Mega Edition. Select Art under "subject area" at the bottom right corner of the page before searching.

 

Awards & Prizes Online
Awards & Prizes Online is a powerful research tool. Search for authors or illustrators, for book titles or award titles, by keywords or award type, by grade level or age level. This is the ultimate research tool for anyone interested in literature for children or young adults.
***Always remember to logout of this database when finished!!!

 

BasicBiosis - FirstSearch
Basic information about biology and other life sciences.  Covers the basic core of life science journals found in college and university libraries and written for undergraduate non-biology majors.


BioDigest - FirstSearch
Life-science information written in a non-technical style.  Provides detailed abstracts written in a non technical style for students and interested nonscientists.

 

Biological & Agriculture - OmniFile Full Text Mega - Wilson Web 

Offers researchers convenient online access to the core literature of biology and agriculture—much of it from peer-reviewed journals—plus full text. Full text citations also link to PDF page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research. This database is found under the Wilsonweb OmniFile Fulltext Mega Edition. Select Biological & Agriculture (BA) under "subject area" at the bottom right corner of the page before searching.

 

BigCharts
Comprehensive and easy-to-use investment research web site providing access to professional-level research tools like interactive charts, quotes, news, industry analysis and intraday stock screeners.  BigCharts is a FREE service supported entirely by our site sponsors.  For historical stock quotes (back to 1988), go to the "Historical Quotes" section, plug in any NYSE stock (by its stock symbol) and any date after December 31, 1987 and you'll get the high, low and close for the stock on that date -- i.e.. our last 12 years of the stock guide on a web site.
 

Bowker's Books in Print
Professional bibliographic database with 5 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audio book, and video titles.
While other sources of bibliographic information exist primarily to sell books, audios, videos and other products, R.R. Bowker's primary business is to collect, verify and distribute accurate data to the library, bookstore and publishing industries.  Better still, this data is augmented by functionality that simplifies common tasks for librarians, booksellers and publishers. For example, the list feature can be used by librarians to create customized bibliographies for patrons or purchase lists. Booksellers can create lists for interested customers of titles they may be interested in purchasing in the future. The Forthcoming Book Room tells bookstore patrons when they can expect an anticipated title to be on the shelves. The ability to search for award-winning titles (and books that have been nominated for key awards) helps booksellers and librarians ensure that the best titles are on their shelves.

 

BusIndustry - FirstSearch
Business and Industry - Business and industry facts, figures, and key events.  Covers all the primary business information sources--from leading trade magazines, newsletters, and the general business press to international business dailies.

 

Business Full Text - Wilson Web 
Wilson Business Full Text is a full text database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals.
 

Buisiness - OmniFile Full Text Mega - Wilson Web 

A valuable research tool for students, educators, and researchers who need answers from the history of business and industry. This database is found under the Wilsonweb OmniFile Fulltext Mega Edition. Select Business (BUS) under "subject area" at the bottom right corner of the page before searching.

 

Business Source Premier - EBSCO
Business Source Premier, is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/CSA Illumina


Carl UnCover (now Ingenta)
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database providing access to article summaries from over 20,000 publications.  Click on  "Search Options" for a more specific search.

 

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Textis the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. Of those, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing in CINAHL, and of those, more than 230 are not available with full text from any other EBSCO database. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.

 

CINAHL Select
CINAHL Select is a valuable resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database contains more than 170 full text journals with PDF coverage back as far as 1973 including 120 peer-reviewed publications. All journals in this collection are indexed in CINAHL. CINAHL Select is updated on a weekly basis via EBSCOhost.
 

Citing Sources:  Guides Available through the MSUM Library

 

ClasePeriodicals - FirstSearch
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
 

The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information: other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials – all the current evidence in one single environment.  To see a more in-depth description, please visit
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/ProductDescriptions.html

 

ComAbstracts
The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication's field.

 

Comm Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection - CSA

Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,000 articles. It covers such subjects as Journalism, Public Opinion, Political Communication, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Studies / Intercultural Communication, Television / Film Studies, Media Studies, Business Communication, Organizational / Management Communication, Written Communication, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies.

 

Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection - CSA

Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

 

CWI - FirstSearch
Contemporary Women's Issues - Provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries.  Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets.

 

Dialog  
DIALOG is a search engine available to librarians which provides access to more than 450 databases containing over 330 million articles, abstracts, and citations. DIALOG covers an unequaled variety of topics with particular emphasis on news, business, science. (The Library contracts with NDSU for this service, please contact a Reference Librarian at the MSUM Library to arrange assistance). 

Discovering Collection - Gale  
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.

Dissertations - FirstSearch
Dissertation Abstracts Online - Dissertations and theses from institutions in the North America and Europe.  Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.


ECO - FirstSearch
OCLC Electronic Collections Online - An OCLC collection of scholarly journals (Browse Journal Titles).

 

EconLit - FirstSearch
Journals, books, and working papers on economics. Provides citations for dissertations and articles in more than 620 collective volumes per year.

 

 

Education Full Text - Wilson Web 
Education Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere.

 

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection - CSA

Education: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 26 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE and participating societies distinguished by up to 40 years of backfiles, and encompasses over 8,000 articles.

 

Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online (McGraw-Hill)
Provides the finest collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable. We offer easy accessibility to the information you need to make research easy—with access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for the most relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information available. We maintain content of the highest standards, and readers may be assured that our authors are the top experts in the field, including a number of Nobel Prize and Fields Medals winners.

 

Essay Finder - (LitFINDER)

Essay Finder is a unique database of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century which have been analyzed in standard library indexes. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama. The controlled vocabulary subject access provides for precise searching. Full bibliographic information and Library of Congress subject classifications are provided for source books.

 

Encyclopedias/Atlases
There are several multimedia versions available in the Curriculum Materials Center. (Contact the CMC staff for further details).  Some encyclopedias to try include:
 

ERIC Database - CSA
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. The ERIC database corresponds to two printed journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). Both journals provide access to some 14,000 documents and over 20,000 journal articles per year.

 

Evaluating Internet Resources
Check out this web page compiled by our Instruction/Reference Librarian, Brittney Goodman, to locate valuable information on evaluating what you locate on the Internet.  How do you know if it's reliable?  What criteria should you follow?
 

FactSearch - FirstSearch
Facts and statistics on topics of current interest.  Provides critical statistical evidence and date-linked data that can be used to emphasize a point or reinforce an argument.

 

Fargo Forum Index 
7 day archive, 30 day search,  or The Forum Library from The Forum's web site.  Search The Forum's library online free. Downloaded articles are $1.95 each, or purchase a library card for 100 downloads.  To search all the way back to 1879, you must go to NDSU's Fargo Forum index.  MSUM owns The Forum on both microfilm (for older issues back to 1989), and in paper (current issues) at the periodicals desk.
 

Film Literature Index (FLI)
The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. The FLI Online contains citations from 1976 to 2001. As of now, there are no plans to update this online resource. The FLI Online is currently available free-of-charge.
 

FindArticles.com
Most archives of magazine and newspaper content charge for the full text of articles these days. The happy exception is FindArticles, where you can search through a diverse collection of published work from more than 300 magazines, from ArtForum to Rolling Stone, and Writer's Digest, dating all the way back to 1998. When you find the articles you're interested in, you can read them for free. Of course, there are ads next to everything you peruse, but at least it's the advertisers paying, not you.
 

FirstSearch Databases 
FirstSearch covers 49 databases ranging in subject areas from Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Conferences & Proceedings, Consumer Affairs & People, Education, Engineering & Technology, General & Reference, General Science, Life Sciences, Medicine & Health Sciences, News & Current Events, Public Affairs & Law, and Social Sciences.


Gale/IAC Periodical Indexes  
 

Gale InfoTrac

 

Genamics JournalSeek  
Genamics JournalSeek is the largest database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains more than 8500 titles. Journal information includes the aims and scope, journal abbreviations, impact factors, web links, and ISSNs.  Searching this information allows the rapid identification of potential journals to publish your research in, as well as allow you to find new journals of interest to your field. 

 

General Science Full Text - Wilson Web 
General Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals.

 

GEOBASE - FirstSearch
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology.  Covers journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports.

GMID - Global Market Information Database

Euromonitor International’s Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an award-winning online information resource providing business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers.  It offers integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, insightful comment from expert industry and country analysts as well as thousands of sources of further information.  205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.  GMID offers a unique range of international market research.  4 million+ statistics on industries, countries and consumers.  15,000 industry, company, country and consumer reports.  Daily articles offering topical reaction to news events.  25,000 sources of further research information

 

GPO Access (Government Printing Office)  
This gives free access to electronic U.S. government information products. (WWW)

 

HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)

HAPI is your source for over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.  HAPI currently provides over 34,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
 

Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection - CSA

Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  includes the full text of 26 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 7,000 articles. It covers such subjects as nursing, social studies of health, nursing research, health services & administration, community / public health nursing, qualitative research, cultural studies, child psychiatry, transcultural psychiatry, adult health nursing, public health, public policy & public administration, health psychology, aging and gerontology, health communication, family studies, physiology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, pediatrics, holistic nursing, nursing theory, pediatric nursing, autism, mental disorders & learning disability, health education & health promotion, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, psychopathology, health evaluation, research methods & evaluation, dementia, and sociology of the family.

 

Horn Book Guide Online
Provides short reviews of virtually every hardcover book for young people published in the United States since 1989. The reviews include strengths and weaknesses for each title, as well as a rating from 1 (outstanding) to 6 (unacceptable). Search by author, illustrator, title, subject, publication date, rating, etc.

 

Humanities Full Text - Wilson Web 
Humanities Full Text is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals.

 

Informe - Gale
(English) 1994 - current. A collection of hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.

Informe - Gale
(Espaniol | Spanish Interface) 1994 - current. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
 

Ingenta

Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database providing access to article summaries from over 27,000+ publications.


Internet Collegiate Reference Collection
This collection is designed for English-speaking undergraduates, especially those in the U.S.  It consists of free Internet encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks  databases, etc. Many of the catalogs and bibliographies link to full text titles.  It is fully keyword searchable in addition to being displayed by Library of Congress class. More than 650 records have been assigned titles, subject headings, descriptions, provider names, reference categories, and an LC class.
 

Internet Annual Stockholder Reports service
Annual Stockholder Reports Based on the Fortune 500* list as published in Fortune* Magazine

 

Internet Public Library (IPL)  
Provides a ready reference collection as well as newspapers and magazines. (WWW) 

 

Internet Search Engines

Internet Searching II:   Advanced Searching Tutorial  
Requires sound card and speakers.  Internet Searching II: Advanced Searching, is designed to give the Internet user who has mastered the basics of searching more practice, direction, and guidance. You will learn about techniques such as phrase searching, using wildcards and truncation, narrowing your searches, and achieving more focused, on-target results.  
 

jake
Why use jake?  When you run a search in jake on the name of a journal, jake will tell you which databases index that particular journal and even which include the full-text of articles from that journal.  Then you check that journal list against the databases owned by the MSUM library.  jake is a reference source which makes finding, managing, and linking online journals and journal articles easier for students, researchers, and librarians. jake does this by managing metadata about online resources with a database union list, title authority control, and linking tools, as well as making it easy to customize for a specific library's holdings. 

JSTOR Full Text Journals

JSTOR is an electronic database of full-text back issues of 117 academic journals in the subject areas of African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population/Demography, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Sociology, and Statistics.

 

Junior Edition - Gale
A collection of material oriented toward junior high and middle school students. In addition to material from periodicals, the database also includes newspaper articles, an encyclopedia, and a variety of other reference material.  Covered subjects include politics and current events; consumer electronics; arts and entertainment; automobiles; recreation and leisure; crime; personal finances; and food.  Coverage:  Rolling three years  Updated:  Daily.

Junior Reference Collection - Gale
With nearly 12,000 documents, 8,500 photographs and illustrations, 50 video and audio clips, and 3 complete Merriam-Webster's dictionaries (Collegiate, Biographical, and Geographical), the Junior Reference Collection is a complete reference source. The Junior Reference Collection is a comprehensive, cross-curricular research tool that combines U*X*L products into one database that is simple to navigate, easy to comprehend, and supports classroom learning.

 

Kid's Edition - Gale
A collection of full-text material oriented toward primary school students. In addition to material from periodicals, the database also includes newspaper articles, reference material and maps.  Coverage:  Current year to date + the previous three years  Updated:  Daily.

 

Kids InfoBits - Gale
Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
 

KnowledgeRush book directory
Online library of public domain texts and materials. Currently they have about 3000 books online. One of the more interesting things about this site is the fact that they're organizing this information into a Yahoo-type searchable subject.
 

Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL)  
KCDL is a collection of curriculum guides from all over North America, reproduced on microfiche. These guides reflect objectives, programs, and teaching practice for early childhood through secondary level, as well as for adult basic education. The KCDL web site indexes the microfiche collection which is located in the 2nd floor Curriculum Materials Center. (A CD-ROM index is also available on any of the CD-ROM stations in the library and in the LIT Center)

 

Legal - OmniFile Full Text Mega - Wilson Web 
Relied on for over 50 years for complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, Index to Legal Periodicals is now available with full text! Users will appreciate international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. This is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals, and others involved with the law. This database is found under the Wilsonweb OmniFile Fulltext Mega Edition. Select Legal (ILP) under "subject area" at the bottom right corner of the page before searching.

 

Library & Information Science - OmniFile Full Text Mega - Wilson Web 
Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. PDF page images of the full text articles bring researchers charts, graphs, photos, and other valuable graphical information. This database is found under the Wilsonweb OmniFile Fulltext Mega Edition. Select Library & Information Science (LIB) under "subject area" at the bottom right corner of the page before searching.

 

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - (EBSCO)

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

 

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. (WWW)

 

LitFINDER  
 

LitIndex - Gale
Gale's Literary Index is a master index to every literary series published by Gale.   It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names including pseudonyms and variant names and more than 140,000 titles into one source.  It provides quick and easy access to the printed editions of our 43 literary series which contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.   You'll find entries for the author's primary name with listings for any pseudonyms or variant names.  Every name and title is completely cross-referenced for easy and thorough searches.  Once you have located the title or author citations you're looking for, simply print them, or save them in HTML format for fast and easy reference to the printed volumes.

Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes - CSA

Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 38 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 57 years, encompassing over 10,000 articles. It covers such subjects as: Business & Management, Organizations Studies, Management, Strategic Management and Business Policy, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development, , Marketing, Analytical Marketing, Sociology, Sociology of Work, Public Policy and Public Administration, Hospitality, Travel and Tourism Management, Labor Economics, Industrial Relations, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Organizational Communication and Interpersonal Communication.

 

MasterFILE Premier - EBSCO
MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 1,730 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, nearly 500 full text reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 84,774 biographies, 100,554 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal and National Review.

Materials Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection - CSA

Materials Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 15 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 10 years, encompassing over 5,300 articles. It covers such subjects as: high performance polymers; molecular modeling characterization and evaluation of polymers, polymeric drugs and drug design; polymeric functionalization ; natural polymer modification; enzyme modeling by polymers; membranes for biological use ; liposome stabilization and cell modeling.
 

MathSciNet
An electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 80,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification

MEDLINE
MEDLINE is NLM's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences. Journal articles are indexed for MEDLINE, and their citations are searchable, using NLM's controlled vocabulary, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). MEDLINE contains all citations published in Index Medicus, and corresponds in part to the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature.   Citations include the English abstract when published with the article (approximately 76% of the current file).

Mental Measurements Yearbook - (EBSCO)

Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.

Mergent Online

Mergent Online is a source for finding fifteen years' worth of company financial information, personnel information, assets, SEC filings, and histories for more than 10,000 publicly owned companies from around the world. SEC filings are available as far back as 1993. In addition to providing information about companies, Mergent also provides tools for building comparative reports for companies from a variety of industries. SEC filings are updated daily. Summary equity reports are updated weekly. Company annual reports are updated quarterly.
 

Minnesota North Star  
Provides links to resources such as state & local government agencies, libraries, K-12 school districts, institutions of higher learning, travel, and cultural resources in Minnesota. (WWW)

 

MLA International Bibliography
1963 – present. Comprehensive current index to articles and chapters in scholarly collections for literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covers all the world's languages and literature, both contemporary and historical.

 

MLA Directory of Periodicals
The MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

 

MnLink
Search library catalog across Minnesota. Includes many library catalogs not present in PALS.
 

MSUM MnPALS 
Search the holdings of MSUM (and other libraries) for books, videos, government publications, other materials at MSUM.
 

MSUM's A-to-Z, online serials directory - EBSCO
This directory will guide you by title or subject to the library's collection of online journals, and tell you whether or not we subscribe to them in paper, or if they are available electronically online in one of our databases.

 

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS) - CSA
The NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database is published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of over 174,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research. The NCJRS Abstracts Database excludes most legal decisions, opinions, and statutes. The collection has been developed to meet the needs of criminal justice professionals, researchers, policymakers, and technical and legal experts. Unique elements of the collection include agency produced documents and final grant reports of Office of Justice Programs sponsored research. Documents are either written in English or have an English-language summary.  Subject coverage includes:  Alternatives to Incarceration, Community Involvement, Correctional Facility Design, Corrections, Corrections Technology, Crime Mapping, Court Management, Courts, Crime Deterrence and Prevention, Criminal Justice Statistics, Criminology, Defense Technology, Domestic Preparedness, Drug Policy, Forensic Technology, Human Resource Development, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, Police Training, Probation and Parole, Program Evaluation, Policy and Planning, Restorative Justice, Substance Abuse, Terrorism/Counter Terrorism, & Victims of Crime.

 

netLibrary 
MINITEX, our library consortia, has signed an agreement with netLibrary, a major provider of electronic books over the Internet, to provide access to thousands of netLibrary eBooks for students, researchers, and other patrons of Minnesota and South Dakota libraries. The agreement provides access to a "MINITEX core collection" of up to 1500 copyrighted titles and more than 2900 public domain works. The great benefit of netLibrary's eBooks is that the database of books can be searched by author, subject, title, or keyword.

 

Newspapers from ProQuest Newsstand Complete - Proquest
An accessible and thorough Web-based, full-text database of over 350 newspapers that enables users to search the latest news from around the world. Access a wide range of articles, not only top new stories, but arts, sports, and entertainment stories as well. ProQuest Newsstand Complete title list

 

North American Women's Letters & Diaries
When complete, North American Women's Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of 1,500 women to researchers, students, and general readers.  The uses for the collection will be many and varied.

 

North Dakota, State of:
Gives information about all branches of government, plus educational systems in North Dakota. (WWW)
 

Nursing Journals full-text - (ProQuest)

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health SourceTM  provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 700 titles, with over 580 titles in full-text.

 

ODIN
Access to the resources of ODIN Libraries across North Dakota.

 

On-Line Books Page
The On-Line Books Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, He is a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is solely responsible for the content of the site.  The site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library, who provides the server, disk space, and network bandwidth for the site. They also employ the editor, and support him in his various digital library activities (of which this is but one).  The on-line books listed on this page have been authored, placed on-line, and hosted, by a wide variety of individuals and groups throughout the world (and throughout history!). 

 

OmniFile Fulltext Mega - Wilson Web
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content -indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Standard CatalogsEducation Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. 

 

Opposing Viewpoints - Gale

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues featuring viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
 

Oxford English Dictionary- The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume 2nd Edition(1989) including supplements.  Entries offer pronunciation, etymologies, quotations, and date of first known usage.
 

Physical Education Index - CSA
CSA Physical Education Index allows all researchers and professionals in the field to acquire accurate and scholarly information in this comprehensive database. These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Health education and physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more prevalent in our society.  For more information on this database, please go to:  http://md1.csa.com/csa/factsheets/pei.shtml

 

PILOTS Database-CSA

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.

 

Play Finder - (LitFINDER)

Over 1,000 complete plays covering the range of dramatic expression: including one-act plays, puppet plays, Harlinquinades, tragedies, gothic, children's, religious, romantic, historical, children's and comedic plays. The collection includes many nationalities, all in English or English translations. Plays are analyzed for subjects, and also list all characters. This database will continue to grow with periodic updates to the most complete single-source for full-text plays available.
 

Poem Finder - (LitFINDER)

Lit Finder: Poems database is the largest, most comprehensive and most current available. It is international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present. It is a one-stop resource for locating over five million lines of poetry.

 

Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection - CSA

Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 25 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 10,000 articles. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace/Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory/Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.

 

Poem Finder Quickstart Guide
Poem Finder is the most expansive, most currently poetry database available-containing 600,000 indexed poems plus 50,000 full-text poems.  It is constantly updated with more poetry and new features, and includes indexing of more than 600,000 poems from 3,000 anthologies, 4,500 single-author works, and over 5,000 periodical issues.

 

PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas)
A comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Offering key titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), a highly respected database produced by the Latin American Center of the University of California, Los Angeles, PRISMA features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content. 

Professional Collection - Gale
Part of the Gale/IAC databases suite, the Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. It offers balanced coverage for any professional educator in the following areas: arts and humanities; child and adolescent psychology and development; drug and alcohol abuse; health/nutrition/fitness; learning disabilities;
literature; school law; science and technology; social sciences; and sports/athletic training. 
 

Project Muse 
Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and  humanities, social sciences and mathematics. 

 

ProQuest Newsstand Complete - Proquest
An accessible and thorough Web-based, full-text database of over 350 newspapers that enables users to search the latest news from around the world. Access a wide range of articles, not only top new stories, but arts, sports, and entertainment stories as well. ProQuest Newsstand Complete title list

 

PsycARTICLES - CSA
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists.

PsycINFO - CSA
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.  Practitioners, researchers, and students working in all areas of psychology, the behavioral sciences, and other related disciplines. PsycINFO includes psychological research and its applications; the database is of prime relevance to many industries and research establishments worldwide. The sources include over 1,800 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally. Additionally, there are more than 8 million cited references in 185,000 journal articles, books, and book chapters. 

 

PubMed
This vast database by the U.S. National Library of Medicine recently gained a new interface described at the site as "a single search interface with pull-down menus that display search field limits, indexes, your search history, and a clipboard for gathering selected articles."

 

Reader's Guide Full Text - Wilson Web 
Readers' Guide Full Text is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals.
Regional Business News - EBSCO
Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.

 

Resources for College Libraries Web - (Bowker)

Welcome to RCLweb, the online edition of the new Resources for College Libraries brought to you by ACRL's Choice and Bowker. This 2006 edition is the long-awaited successor to Books for College Libraries (BCL3). The core list features 65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects. Titles have been selected for your academic library by more than 300 subject specialists and bibliographers.

 

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - CSA
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (RILM), produced by the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, is a comprehensive international guide to writings about music. Coverage includes all types and aspects of music. Featuring articles written in over 100 languages, RILM includes well over a quarter million entries. All scholarly works are covered, including articles from more than 5200 journals, as well as books, conference proceedings, dissertations, Festschriften, reviews, catalogues, and more.

 

Science Direct  
Collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide  variety of subject areas and disciplines, including: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences. Full-text access to over 687 journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Library.

Scirus

With over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

Shepard's Citations:
This is a CD-ROM collection which provides complete and comprehensive information for citation checking and case finding. Coverage includes Lawyer's Edition of the Supreme Court Reporter (REF. SOFTWARE KF101.A325), U.S. Reports; Federal Statute Citations (REF. SOFTWARE KF101.2.S541), U.S. Statutes, Federal Reporter (REF. SOFTWARE KF110.F43), and Federal Supplement [FRD, Ct. of Claims] (REF. SOFTWARE KF105.S536) (Available for use in the library only.)
 

Social Science Full Text - Wilson Web  
Social Sciences Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals.
 

Social Services Abstracts - CSA
Provided in collaboration with NDSU, CSA Social Services Abstracts provide bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development, and is updated monthly.  Major areas of subject coverage include:  Community development; Crisis intervention; Evaluation research; The family and social welfare; Gerontology; Policy, planning, forecasting; Poverty and homelessness; Professional issues in social work; Social development; Social work education; Support groups/networks; Violence, abuse, neglect; and Welfare services.  Published by Sociological Abstracts, a division of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and covering the dates of 1980 - current.
 

Sociological Abstracts - CSA
Provided in collaboration with NDSU, CSA Sociological Abstracts is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, and is updated monthly.  The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations.  Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.  Major areas of subject coverage include:  Community development; Culture and social structure; Demography and human biology; Environmental interactions; Evaluation research; Family and social welfare; History and theory of sociology; Management and complex organizations; Mass phenomena and political interactions; Methodology and research technology; Policy, planning, forecast and speculation; Radical sociology; Rural and urban sociology; Economic development; Social development; Social differentiation; Social psychology and group interaction; Sociology of the arts, business, education; Health and medicine and law; Religion and science; Studies in violence and power; Welfare services; and Women's studies.  Published by Sociological Abstracts, a division of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and covering the dates of 1963 - current.
 

Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection - CSA

Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 33 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 12,700 articles. It covers such subjects as Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies).

 

Story Finder - (LitFINDER)

Story Finder provides thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more. The database will be updated constantly with classic and contemporary stories.  Current Story Finder features include: Thousands of full-text short stories, Explanations, Biographies, Pictures, Genre Navigator, Just Published Stories Anthology.
The collection includes stories from the classic to the most contemporary. We have even created an anthology within the entire anthology of new stories published in the current year ("Just Published Stories"). A representative list of authors follows: Sherwood Anderson, Conrad Aiken, Gertrude Atherton, Balzac, Djuna Barnes, J.M. Barrie, Ambrose Bierce, Boccaccio, Ivan Bunin, James Branch Cabell, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Wilkie Collins, Alfred Coppard, Stephen Crane, Roald Dahl, Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Ha Gin, David Huddle, Ring Lardner, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, James Joyce, Sinclair Lewis, Katherine Mansfield, Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Herman Melville, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, Katherine Anne Porter, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf.

 

Speech Finder - (LitFINDER)

From antiquity to modern times, these speeches represent the finest examples of recorded oratory. Speechmakers have commented on the milestones of history as well as the minutiae of everyday life. We are collecting the best and the best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years and categorizing them into easily searchable genres.

 

Student Edition - K12 - Gale
A database of material oriented toward secondary school students and their research needs. In addition to material from periodicals, the database also includes newspaper articles, two encyclopedias, and a variety of reference material. Covered subjects include politics and current events; consumer electronics; arts and entertainment; automobiles; recreation and leisure; crime; personal finances; and food.  Coverage:  From 1985 to the present  Updated:  Daily. 
 

Teacher Reference Center - (EBSCO)

Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

 

Telephone/E-Mail directories:

Four11. (Includes white & yellow pages, plus e-mail directory)

Switchboard. (Includes business and residential phone numbers plus e-mail directory)
 

UnionLists - FirstSearch
OCLC Union Lists of Periodicals - List of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries.  Includes information in each record about specific periodicals and the libraries that have them.
 

United Nations
Provides information about the structure and work of the UN. (WWW)

 

Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection - CSA

Includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 2,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Anthropology, Economic Development, Economics, Education, Environmental Science, Planning Pedagogy, Planning Practice, Political Science, Public Administration, Regional Geography, Residential and Community Development, Social, Spatial, and Cultural Dynamics, Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Culture, Urban Geography, Urban Policy, and Welfare Economics.

 

Value Line

The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.

 

MnPALS
 

Wilson Web 
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Standard CatalogsEducation Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.


WorldCat - FirstSearch  
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. 

 


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