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Number of resources that begin with C: 98
CAA Reviews ![]() Critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies. Published by the College Art Association. [more information] [ |
CAB Abstracts Plus Full Text Select ![]() CAB Abstracts covers agriculture in its broadest sense, including crop production, forestry, environment, animal health and nutrition, veterinary science, agricultural engineering, biotechnology, soil and water, agricultural economics, recreation and tourism, rural sociology, and human nutrition and health. It provides bibliographic citations with abstracts in English for records of all languages. Indexes journal articles, monographs, conferences, and other primary literature. [more information] [ |
CABI E-Book Collection ![]() CABI E-Books covering the applied life-sciences. The collection contains almost 400 titles. [more information] [ |
Caliber -- University of California Press ![]() Caliber is the online journals hosting service of University of California Press. Designed to meet the research needs of scholars, researchers, and students, Caliber holds the content for most journals published by UC Press. [more information] [ |
Cambridge University Press Journals ![]() Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [more information] [ |
CAMIO ![]() OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online offers art images that are rights-cleared for educational use. CAMIO is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms. Includes about 95,000 art images—photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles and architecture—plus audio, video and mixed media. CAMIO is licensed for use by students, faculty, and researchers at subscribing institutions. Works of art may be used for educational and research purposes during the term of the subscription, if they are properly credited. Images may not be published or otherwise distributed. [more information] [ |
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety: Web Info Service ![]() Access to over 300,000 current, peer-reviewed international health and safety publications. Access to over 160,000 critical toxicological citations drawn form over 2500 sources. Access to over 200,000 material safety data sheets. [more information] [ |
Canadian Mathematical Society ![]() Selected publications of CMS. [more information] [ |
Canadian Research Index ![]() The closest Canadian equivalent to the "Monthly Catalog Of United States Government Publications," subject coverage is comprehensive, corresponding to the political and administrative interests of all levels of the Canadian government. Online file is continuation of a paper index, published 1979-1994, also available in the University Libraries.
National, provincial, and municipal publications, plus selected materials from non-profit, educational, and other research organizations. Includes scientific and technical research papers in the physical, natural and social sciences. It also includes policy papers, important statistical publications, and annual reports. Documents may be in English, in French, or bilingual. |
| CANCERLIT This international bibliographic database pertains to all aspects of cancer therapy, including experimental and clinical cancer therapy; chemical, viral and other cancer causing agents; mechanisms of carcinogenesis; biochemistry, immunology, and physiology of cancer; and mutagen and growth factor studies. Indexes journal articles, letters, meeeting abstracts, government and technical reports, dissertations and monographs. [more information] [ |
Career Information Center ![]() Provides information for job seekers on various career areas. Each profile includes a job summary chart, a job description, and up-to-date salary information. [more information] [ |
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (MarciveWeb Docs) ![]() Catalog of US government publications from 1976 to the present, based on the Government Printing Office's cataloging records. Updated monthly. If you know that you need a U.S. government publication, this database can be easier to use than MNCAT which contains records for publications of all kinds of governments. [more information] [ |
| Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (U.S. GPO) Produced by the Government Printing Office, 1976 to the present, the Catalog of United States Government publications includes print and electronic Government information products created by Federal agencies and is updated daily. [more information] [ |
Catchword ![]() Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [more information] [ |
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index ![]() Covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 380,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. Indexing for CPLI Online corresponds to the print version, The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index, published by the Catholic Library Association and covers content from over 200 periodicals. [more information] [ |
CCINFOWeb ![]() Collection of toxicology-related databases from Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS). Databases include MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) and RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances) [more information] [ |
Cell Press ![]() Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [more information] [ |
Central & Eastern European Online Library ![]() C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 301 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics. [more information] [ |
CEPR Discussion Papers ![]() Discussion Papers disseminate research quickly in order to generate comment and suggestions for revision or improvement. They may have been presented at conferences or workshops already, but will not yet have been published in journals. Over 3000 Discussion Paper Abstracts are currently available online and all Discussion Papers published since the beginning of 1999 are available. [more information] [ |
Chadwyck Literature Online (LION) ![]() 21 literature collections are cross-searchable via the Literature Online interface. [more information] [ |
Chemical Abstracts (via SciFinder Scholar) ![]() SciFinder provides access to CAS databases (Chemical Abstracts and more) via a desktop client/server application for Mac and Windows. To access the database, either:
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Chemical Market Reporter ![]() Weekly newspaper of the chemical process industries, for buyers & sellers of chemicals with limited current pricing information (via the "Miscellaneous Ejournals" option). Fulltext of recent issues is available online through Business Source and MasterFILE Premier (search Publications for list of available issues). Includes comprehensive pricing information in pre-March 28, 2005 issues, with Focus Reports approximately every 3 weeks (in-depth special sections about core industry segments, trends, & markets). [more information] [ |
CHEMnetBASE ![]() CHEMnetBASE is a reference source for locating chemical facts, properties, literature references, and for performing structure searching. All dictionaries are sub-structure searchable as is Properties of Organic Compounds. CHEMnetBASE includes the following: The CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics; Polymers: A Property Database; Properties of Organic Compounds; Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds; Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds; Dictionary of Organic Compounds; Dictionary of Natural Products; and Dictionary of Drugs. [more information] [ |
Chicago Defender (1905 - 1975) ![]() Full-page digital archive of The Chicago Defender, 1905-1975. A leading African-American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago. [more information] [ |
Chicago Manual of Style Online (15th Edition) ![]() The standard work and most comprehensive of the style manuals. All chapters are written for the electronic age, with advice on how to prepare and edit manuscripts online, handle copyright and permissions issues raised by new technologies, use the latest methods of preparing mathematical copy, and cite electronic and online sources. [more information] [ |
Chicago Tribune (1849-1986) ![]() Full-page digital archive of the Chicago Tribune covering 1849 to 1985. Coverage runs from 1849 to 1985 with new content added frequently. Part of Proquest Historical Newspapers. [more information] [ |
Chicano Database ![]() Subjects include Mexican-American and Chicano studies topics. Index to books and articles in English and Spanish languages. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ |
| CHID (Combined Health Information Database) Includes information from 16 different databases created by agencies of the US Federal Government. Specific subjects include AIDS, Alzheimer's, arthritis, cancer, complementary and alternative medicine, deafness, diabetes, digestive diseases, epilepsy, health promotion, kidney diseases, maternal & child health, medical genetics & rare disorders, oral health, prenatal smoking cessation, and weight control. [more information] [ |
China Academic Journals Full-Text 中国学术期刊网 ![]() Chinese Academic Journal Database (CAJ) contains 2424 titles of journals in History/Literature/Philosophy and Education & Social Sciences since 1994. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [more information] [ |
China Data Online ![]() Current and historical statistics on population and economics at the national, provincial and local level. From the China Data Center at the University of Michigan. [more information] [ |
China Industry Reports ![]() Provides industry information on China. IBISWorld analysts use a variety of sources in their research ranging from the National Bureau of Statistics, and industry associations, to company reports, surveys and personal contact. [more information] [ |
| China National Knowledge Infrastructure Databases (CNKI) 中国知网 CNKI comprises four databases including Chinese Academic Journals Database (CAJ), China Core Newspaper Database (CCND), China Dissertations (CDMD), and China Conference Proceedings (CPCD). Searching is freely available online. The China Academic Journals (CAJ) Database puts over 9.5 million full text articles of all academic subjects contributed by over 5,000 serials titles, nearly 2,000 in social sciences and humanities alone, at the fingertips of users. The archive begins with 1994. With an archive beginning in 2000, the China Core Newspaper Database collects full text articles from hundreds of newspapers from every province of China. CDMD compiles full text masters and doctoral dissertations on all subjects from over 250 Chinese universities, colleges and institutes. These include the 211 Project universities selected by the Chinese government to receive special funding to support advanced research in crucial subjects. The China Conference Proceedings Database collects documents and articles from the conferences of over 340 national and international societies and associations holding conferences in China. [more information] [ |
ChinaMaxx 超星中文电子书 ![]() ChinaMaxx contains over 710,000 full-text Chinese e-books from cover to cover on wide range of subject areas. Selected titles also can be found in MNCAT. For accessing the e-books, please follow the brief instructions contained in the login page. ChinaMaxx only works with the Internet Explorer browser. Firefox and Safari are not supported. You will need to install a plug-in to view e-books. [more information] [ |
Choice Reviews ![]() CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. ChoiceReviews is the Internet version of the print magazine CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts. ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE. [more information] [ |
Chronicle of Higher Education ![]() The Chronicle of Higher Education is the number one news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students. [more information] [ |
Chronicle of Philanthropy. The Newspaper of the Nonprofit World. ![]() Use this link to search for article full-text. The Chronicle of Philanthropy's homepage is at www.philanthropy.com. [more information] [ |
CIAO ![]() Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. [more information] [ |
CINAHL ![]() CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health, has a multidisciplinary scope covering nursing, 17 allied health disciplines, biomedicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship and selected standards of professional practice. [more information] [ |
Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, The ![]() Full text of major articles from the Charleston Mercury, the New York Herald and the Richmond Enquirer. [more information] [ |
Clase/Periodica ![]() CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. [more information] [ |
Classical Music Library ![]() Classical Music Library is an extensive collection of recordings with a supplementary reference database that users may search and listen to music delivered to their desktop. Classical Music Library is cross-referenced to a database of supplementary information and features fully licensed recordings, thousands of program notes and composer biographies, advanced searching, and hundreds of recommended play lists themed by genres. Browser RequirementsPC users: IE 6+, Netscape 8+, Firefox 1+, Mozilla 1+Mac users: Netscape 7+, Safari 1+, Firefox 1+, Mozilla 1+ Media player requirmentsPC users: Macromedia Flash Player up to and including version 7.x; Microsoft Windows Media Player up to and including version 10.xMac users:Macromedia Flash Player up to and including version 7.x [more information] [ |
Classical Music Reference Library ![]() Classical Music Reference Library unites in a single on-line database over 30,000 pages of basic reference materials spanning the history of Western classical music. This database makes available for the first time in electronic form such reference titles as Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music. [more information] [ |
Classical Scores Library ![]() Scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. Includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. [more information] [ |
Clinics ![]() The first Clinics of North America were published in the early 20th century by W.B. Saunders Publishing Company in Philadelphia. In 1912, The Surgical Clinics of John B. Murphy and the Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic, known respectively as The Surgical Clinics of North America and Medical Clinics of North America, were launched. Today, there are nearly 60 different Clinics titles, each one covering a distinct area of surgery, medicine, veterinary medicine, nursing, and dentistry. [more information] [ |
Cochrane Library ![]() The Cochrane Library consists of a collection of regularly updated evidence-based health care databases. The Cochrane collection is designed to provide information and evidence to support health care decision-making. The available databases are: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (regularly updated reviews of the effects of health care interventions); Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness: DARE (critical assessments and structured abstracts of good systematic reviews published elsewhere); The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register: CENTRAL (bibliographic information on controlled trials); The Cochrance Database of Methodology Reviews: CDMR (systematic reviews of methodological studies); Health Technology Assessment Database: HTA (information about health technology assessments); NHS Economic Evaluation Database: NHS EED (National Health Service (UK), structured abstracts of articles describing evaluations of health care interventions); browse by Cochrane Collaborative Review Group; and the Cochrane Reviewer's Handbook. [more information] [ |
College Blue Book Online ![]() Guide to thousands of 2- and 4-year schools in the U.S. and Canada. Covers the expected listings and detailed descriptions, degree programs offered, scholarships, and occupational education programs. [more information] [ |
College Source Online (CSO) ![]() College catalogs and course descriptions. Full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools. [more information] [ |
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online ![]() An index to poems in anthologies. It includes 250,000 poetry citations indexed by title, first line, last line, author, subject, and searchable by keyword and by author categories. Also provides biographical entries, bibliographies, anthology descriptors and fulltext versions of poems in the public domain. [more information] [ |
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) ![]() Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. Includes the CIAO Atlas, from the Economist Intelligence Unit, that provides worldwide basic economic information by country, as well as other country briefing information. |
| Columbia World of Quotations A browsable database of 65,000 quotations in 6,500 subject areas, searchable by authors, subjects, words, titles, and dates. [more information] [ |
ComAbstracts ![]() This index provides abstracts to articles from the major journals in the field of communication. A total of 100 journals indexed, with the earliest starting in 1915. List of journals indexed [more information] [ |
Combined Chemical Dictionary ![]() Database of descriptive & numerical data on chemical, physical & biological properties of compounds; systematic & common names; literature references; & structures. Contains all compounds included in: Dictionary of Organic Compounds (255,000 records) Dictionary of Natural Products (170,000) ; Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds (101,000) ; Dictionary of Drugs (40,000+) ; Dictionary of Analytical Reagents (14,000) [more information] [ |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Publishing (CSIRO) ![]() CSIRO PUBLISHING publishes journals presenting the latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists and covering a broad range of subjects. [more information] [ |
Communication and Mass Media Complete ![]() A comprehensive resource for articles relating to various forms of communication, Communication and Mass Media Complete provides journal articles on topics such as mass media, film, television, marketing, business communication, health communication, and more. The database provides full text for more than 285 journals, and indexing or abstracts to nearly 600 journals. [more information] [ |
Company of Biologists ![]() Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [more information] [ |
Comparative guide to American suburbs, The ![]() Focuses on the individual and the suburban communities within each of the 60 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Provides profiles of numerous suburban communities with a 10,000+ population. [more information] [ |
Compendex and Engineering Index ![]() Provides extensive indexing of scholarly and technical periodicals, conference proceedings, and report literature in all engineering disciplines including applied physics, electronics, materials science, and related fields in science and management. Indexes nearly 3000 sources worldwide. [more information] [ |
Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China ![]() Alert: CAC will be unavailable for up to 24 hours starting June 15, 2007 at 5:00 pm Central Daylight Time. The Collection includes all the most important classics of ancient China through the Qing Dynasty. For example: astronomy, geography, history, philosophy, literature, politics, economy, art, education, agriculture, medicine and so on. [more information] [ |
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ![]() Provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented. [more information] [ |
Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III ![]() This work builds on the two previous Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry treatises and covers developments in and applications of organometallic chemistry since 1993. [more information] [ |
Computing Reviews ![]() Computing Reviews selectively reviews articles, books, and proceedings to the current research, theory and applications in computer science and related fields. The reviews are overviews of developments to both specialists and generalists who wish to survey the field. [more information] [ |
Conference Board Business Knowledge Research Collection ![]() The Conference Board Business Knowledge Research Collection is a searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Topics include: business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, customer relationship management and more. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of US and international economic conditions. [more information] [ |
Congressional Research Digital Collection - Prospective Service ![]() The LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) provides full-text access to more than 5,000 Congressional committee prints published from 2004 to present and more than 23,000 Congressional Research Service reports published from 2004-present. The bibliographic records provide controlled-vocabulary indexing, including citations for bills, public laws, and Statutes at Large, and analytical abstracts of the documents. Also includes links to political parties and organizations, news sources, etc. See Overview/Help for useful information on the legislative process. [more information] [ |
Consumer Health Complete ![]() The single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. [more information] [ |
Consumer Law Manuals Companion ![]() Each NCLC companion website contains the appendices of the corresponding print manual plus much additional material, including statutes, regulations, and pleadings. [more information] [ |
Contemporary Authors ![]() A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 100,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world. Please note: our license only allows for one simultaneous user. If you are denied access please try again later. [more information] [ |
Contemporary Women's Issues ![]() Covers subjects such as as sociology, psychology, health, lesbian concerns, education, political science, reproductive and human rights. Provides the full-text of materials from over 1500 publications including journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 4 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ |
Contemporary World Music ![]() Contains 50,000 tracks from genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. [more information] [ |
Corporate Affiliations ![]() The best directory to learn if a company owns other firms or is owned by a parent company. Corporate ownership information on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent international companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions. The database includes major public and private businesses in the United States and throughout the world. Includes historical data for the last 10 years (use "Historical Search"). Records include products, brands, and competitors along with the service agencies such as advertising and accounting. [more information] [ |
CorpTech Online ![]() CorpTech profiles over 95,000+ private and public companies and their business units, as well as units of foreign companies, government labs, and non-profits. CorptTech covers a broad range of industries, including pharmaceutical, medical, biotech or software companies The types of companies included are private, public, partnerships, non-profits, and government laboratories. Beside contact information, the records include sales, number of employees, executives, ownership information, summary descriptions, product codes, SIC and NAIC industry codes, corporate family and history, and executive history. Records can be downloaded into Excel or pdf formats. [more information] [ |
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse ![]() The Humanities Text Initiative intends to develop the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse into an extensive and reliable collection of Middle English electronic texts. HTI wants to include in the corpus all editions of Middle English texts used in the MED, and the more recent scholarly editions which in some cases may have superseded them. Large scale expansion of the Corpus will not take place until the MED and the HyperBibliography are further advanced, but text conversion continues at a modest rate as time and money permit. [more information] [ |
Countries and Consumers ![]() The public version of the Global Market Information Database (GMID). Countries and Consumers provides market research, reports, and statistical data on global consumption and market trends. To access, go to a public (i.e. non-UMN login) library workstation. [more information] [ |
| Countries of the World & Dependencies and Territories & United States: National & State Oceana contains the most complete and up-to-date U.S. constitutions: each of the 50 state constitutions; constitutions of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia; and, the United States Constitution. [more information] [ |
Country Commerce from the Economist Intelligence Unit ![]() Reference guides from the Economist Intellegence Unit to the operating conditions, commercial laws and business regulations in 55 countries. Guidance on obtaining proper permits and registrations, protecting your intellectual property and complying with local tax laws-including e-commerce rules. [more information] [ |
CQ Electronic Library ![]() Provides access to reports and articles from the CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, CQ Public Affairs Collection and the CQ Voting and Elections Collection. The CQ Weekly provides nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill. The CQ Researcher and Public Affairs collections investigate a wide range of current topics, providing the pro's and con's of the issues. [more information] [ |
CQ Global Researcher ![]() CQ Global Researcher provides coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints. Available exclusively online, CQ Global Researcher offers single-topic reports on world issues written by journalists. [more information] [ |
CQ Public Affairs Collection ![]() This database includes historic documents and primary source materials, CQ reports and analyses of public policy issues, bibliographies, chronologies, statistical information, and directory listings for government, nonprofit, and private organizations in major policy areas such as agriculture, business, education, environment, health, international relations, justice, media, national security, and social welfare. [more information] [ |
CQ Researcher ![]() Designed as a starting place for research, 48 reports per year provide background on current topics of widespread interest. The reports define the issues and include a chronology and extensive bibliographies. [more information] [ |
CQ Voting and Elections Collection with Dataset ![]() Integrates data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a powerful research and reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships. [more information] [ |
CQEL Almanac ![]() The definitive annual reference for studying the U.S. Congress. Building on the reporting and analysis done throughout the year by CQ's award-winning news staff, the Almanac offers original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session. Arranged thematically, CQ Almanac organizes, distills, and cross-indexes for permanent reference the full year in Congress and in national politics. [more information] [ |
CQEL Congress Collection ![]() Provides an analytical survey of the history and development; powers; personalities; current developments; and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress. A wealth of data with nonbiased commentary is organized under four sections: Public Policy Legislation, Members of Congress, Floor Votes, and The Legislative Branch. [more information] [ |
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics ![]() Annually published reference source for chemical & physical property data, nomenclature, structure, & composition of substances. Includes physical constants of organic & inorganic compounds, conversion factors, & much more. [more information] [ |
CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook ![]() Covers material structure and composition; phase diagram sources; thermodynamic and kinetic data; thermal, mechanical, electrical, optical, and chemical properties. Has a selection section where materials are compared by property value. [more information] [ |
Criminal Justice Abstracts ![]() Covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, drugs, government, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, law, police, political science, public administration, courts, punishment and sentencing. Information is particularly useful in fields such as criminal justice, sociology, social work, law, and education. Indexes and abstracts the major journals, books, dissertations, government reports and unpublished papers in criminology and related disciplines. [more information] [ |
Crop Protection Compendium ![]() An encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on Crop Production. [more information] [ |
Crystallography Journals -- International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) ![]() The Crystallography journals: 10 of the 12 journals published by IUCr. [more information] [ |
Current Index to Statistics -- Extended Database ![]() Current Index to Statistics Extended Database is the Internet version of Current Index to Statistics, Applications, Methods and Theory, from the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. CIS is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. It includes coverage, in most cases from 1974 (or first issue if later) to the present (currently, volumes published in 1998) from 106 "core journals" (and pre-1974 coverage for a number of them), selected articles since 1974 from about 900 additional journals, and about 8000 books in statistics published since 1974. Each year, the CIS-ED is updated with an additional year of coverage. [more information] [ |
Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus ![]() A carefully-selected database of full-text articles from key publications covering a variety of current social, scientific, health, political, and global issues (~ 20-30 articles per topic). The topics are chosen to make up a well-rounded overview, and are then organized by subtopic for easy access. Topics are selected to suit the needs of school and university researchers, reflecting timely issues and controversies. [more information] [ |
Current Protocols ![]() Series of standard, authoritative guides to research laboratory methods in the life sciences; the U of M subscribes to 9 Current Protocols titles: Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Human Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Protein Science, and Toxicology. [more information] [ |
Current Protocols in Bioinformatics ![]() Compendium of methods in bioinformatics and computational biology. Offers step-by-step instructions for working with hundreds of applications and databases, designed for research biologists. Guidance on selecting software parameters, analyzing data, interpreting results, and generating hypotheses. Includes appendix on user fundamentals and glossary of bioinformatics terms. [more information] [ |
Current Protocols in Cell Biology ![]() Reference source of methods for study of the relationship between specific molecules and genes and their location, function and structure at the cellular level. Includes guidelines for isolating and culturing cells in two- or three-dimensional cultures, analyzing the morphology of the cell, and characterizing the functions of organelles and molecules in the cell and its environment. Includes special appendices on the use of inhibitors and pharmacologic agents, protein motifs, and absorption and emission maxima for common fluorophores. [more information] [ |
Current Protocols in Human Genetics ![]() Guide to designing and running research projects involving large-scale molecular cloning methods, expression analysis, disease study, and clinical genetics. Includes methods in all areas of genetic research, including genetic linkage analysis, bioinformatics and internet tools, gene cloning, cytogenetics, and diagnostics. Offers basic to sophisticated methods, most equally applicable to other eukaryotic organisms, such as the mouse. Provides appendices including "Commonly Used Techniques" (molecular biology and cell culture methods, plus statistics basics), "Chromosome Karyotyping and Idiograms", and "Genetic Linkage Reference Maps." [more information] [ |
Current Protocols in Immunology ![]() "Best-practices" collection of immunological methods. Covers antibody detection and preparation, molecular immunology, innate immunity, tumor immunology, engineering immune molecules and receptors. Includes chapter on sources for isolation and characterization of stem and progenitor cells, as well as animal models for analyses. Reference information including commonly used reagents, equipment and techniques, and the CD system of leukocyte surface molecules. [more information] [ |
Current Protocols in Microbiology ![]() Handbook of methodologies for research in areas such as emerging and neglected infectious diseases, biodefense, microbe-host interactions, and host defense. Provides step-by-step instructions for analyzing bacteria, animal and plant viruses, fungi, protozoans and other microbes. Offers coverage of emerging technologies and concepts, such as biofilms, quorum sensing and quantitative PCR, as well as proteomic and genomic methods. [more information] [ |
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology ![]() Standard compendium of laboratory methods in molecular biology. Offers basic methods for DNA preparation, to advanced procedures for microarray analysis, chromatin assembly, and more. Covers emerging areas, including Drosophila and C. elegans basic techniques, mouse phenotyping, chemical biology, DNA construction by recombination. [more information] [ |
Current Protocols in Neuroscience ![]() Handbook of models and methods for core techniques in all types of neuroscience experiments. Draws from molecular neurobiology, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, and behavioral neuroscience. Includes both in vitro and in vivo models, prepared for neuroscience research. [more information] [ |
Current Protocols in Protein Science ![]() Guide for exploring protein structures and functions. Provides "best-practices" methodologies for expression, characterization, and purification of recombinant proteins, post-translational modification and structural characterization. [more information] [ |
Current Protocols in Toxicology ![]() A "best-practices" collection of lab protocols for assessments of toxicity in whole organisms, organs and tissues, cells, and biochemical pathways. Provides models and methods from molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry, and genetics, plus sophisticated toxicological procedures. Guidelines for evaluating the effects of substances on human physiology and metabolism. Reference information including stock solutions and equipment, commonly used techniques, and using toxicology information. [more information] [ |





