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Number of resources that begin with D: 26
Dance Collection Online
The Dance Catalog lists works about all forms of dance, from all cultures, in print and other media. It includes materials in many languages and serves as an index to an international range of dance periodicals.
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Database of African American Poetry Authentication Required
Covers the works of 54 African-American poets writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and, through their writings, provides a unique portrait of early America.
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Database of African Theses and Dissertations Authentication Required
Abstracts for theses and dissertations completed in African universities.
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Database of Recorded American Music Authentication Required
The Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) is a collaboration between New World Records and New York University. DRAM facilitates research in American music by offering on-demand access to audio-streaming files of complete works by American composers. The 7,500 compositions currently in DRAM are drawn from the catalogues of the New World, CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening, and Mutable record labels. Ranging from folk to opera, native American to jazz, 19th-century "classical" to early rock, and musical theater to contemporary, electronic, and more, DRAM's goal is to make available for educational use and scholarly research the widest possible spectrum of recorded American music.

Alongside the high-quality music streams, complete liner notes, scholarly essays, bibliographies, and discographies are available for viewing on the Database. Playlists can be created by faculty to address specific curriculum needs.

Browser Requirements

The Database is designed to be compatible with the following browsers:

  • Internet Explorer 5.2 (Macintosh users) or 6.0 (Windows users) higher
  • Netscape 7.2 (Macintosh) or 8.0 (Windows)
  • Firefox 1.0 or higher (Windows and Macintosh)
  • Safari 1.2.4 (Macintosh only)

Media Player Requirements

QuickTime 6.5.2 or later is the preferred player for DRAM streaming media.

If you do not already have QuickTime installed, you may download it free from Apple. Windows users click here to select the most current version for your operating system.

While you may be able to stream DRAM media using Windows Media Player or Real, display issues and/or performance interruptions may occur if an application other than QuickTime is used to listen to music files. If QuickTime is installed on your system but is not set as the default application handler for files of extension type *.smil and *.sml, you will need to alter your preferences to effect this change.

Windows Users

To set QuickTime as the default handler for smil files, you will need to access the default setting in within your Windows Folder Options (found under Control Panel in Windows XP and/or Settings in earlier iterations of the OS). From the list of extensions, you will need to locate file extensions *.smil and *.sml and specify QuickTime the default application handler for files of that type.


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Datamonitor Company Profiles Authentication Required
Search Business Source Premier Enhanced to quickly find profiles on public companies and selected private firms. Each report covers Company Profiles. Either browse by the name or search Basic to locate profiles, articles, and market research on companies and industries.
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DeGruyter Authentication Required
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty
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DemographicsNOW Authentication Required
DemographicsNow consists of demographic data reports for the United States based on information from the Census Bureau and the Consumer Expenditures Survey. Search by state, cities, counties, or zip codes to find demographics data for populations, consumer expenditures, population, income, race, housing, and employment. Data profiles of consumers are also compiled for marketing to specific kinds of populations.
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Department of Energy "DOE Information Bridge"
DOE Information Bridge provides free, convenient, and quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
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Design and Applied Arts Index Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
DAAI is an international index to design and craft journals. It contains annotated references from more than 450 design and craft journals, and data on nearly 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc. All areas of design and craft are covered, including industrial design, interior design, environmental design, computer aided design, furniture design, ceramics, glass, fashion design, textile design, graphic design, typography, multimedia design, book design, photography, advertising, theatre design, ergonomics, and design management.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online Authentication Required
2008-present. Featuring comprehensive literary biographies written by recognized literary scholars and critics, you'll find profiles of past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works. Additionally, you can search for essays on publishing houses and literary topics.
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Dictionary of Old English Corpus Authentication Required
The Dictionary of Old English electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts.
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Dictionary of Old English Online Authentication Required
Defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language, using today's most advanced technology. The DOE complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period 1100 - 1500 A.D.) and the Oxford English Dictionary (which documents the development of the English language to the present), the three together providing a full description of the vocabulary of English.
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Dictionary of Substances and their Effects (DOSE) Authentication Required
An electronic version of the seven-volume work from the Royal Society of Chemistry, contains approximately 5,300 chemicals and their impact on the environment. Detailed information about the toxicity of the chemicals, physical properties and regulatory requirements is also presented.
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Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages Authentication Required
This dictionary contains more than 20,000 brief biographical entries on women, including thousands of entries on non-U.S. figures.
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Digital Content Library (DCL - CLA) Authentication Required
"The Digital Content Library (DCL) is a combined resource of the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) and the College of Design (CDes). Together, there are almost 200,000 learning objects from many different disciplines in image, video, and audio formats. These objects come from a variety of sources including purchased and licensed, donations, and copystand photography."
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Digital Dissertations Authentication Required
Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities.
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Digital National Security Archive Authentication Required
Access primary documents central to United States foreign and military policy since 1945. Material is arranged by topical collection produced by the National Security Archives at George Washington University. Each collection contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and more.
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Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 : Minnesota Authentication Required
Sanborn fire insurance maps are the most frequently consulted maps in both public and academic libraries. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. This collection covers Minnesota towns and cities from 1867-1970.
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DigiZeitschriften Authentication Required
Digizeitschriften provides access to over 110 core German Research Journals.
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Disclosure Company Reports Authentication Required
Profiles of public companies based on filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Includes financial spreadsheets that can be downloaded. Includes the Worldscope company records of international firms that trade in U.S. markets.
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DiscoveryGate Authentication Required
DiscoveryGate includes Beilstein (physical property and reaction data for more than 10 million organic compounds) and Gmelin (similar types of information for over 2.2 million inorganic and organometallic compounds); PC users will need to download a piece of software to use DiscoveryGate and all users may need to make an exception for blocked pop-up windows. The only browsers supported are Internet Explorer and Safari.
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DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals (OA) Authentication Required
Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals of all subjects and languages. There are 2588 journals in the directory; currently 773 journals are searchable at article level; approximately 127570 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
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DSM IV Authentication Required
The most recent edition of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) is available online as part of the STAT!Ref File.
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Duden-Suche Authentication Required
Contents: Wörterbuch der Abkürzungen -- Das Fremdwörterbuch -- Das grosse Fremdwörterbuch -- Das Synonymwörterbuch -- Deutsches Universalwörterbuch -- Die deutsche Rechtschreibung -- Familiennamen -- Geographische Namen in Deutschland -- Lexikon der Vornamen -- Wörterbuch der New Economy -- Wörterbuch der Szenesprachen.
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Dyabola Authentication Required
DYABOLA literature database contains citations from the subject catalog of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. Click on "With IP-Access" to search Dyabola.
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Dynamic Mechanical Analysis for Plastics Engineering Authentication Required
Describes uses of DMA & gives data for 120 thermoplastics families. Shows how to use DMA data to predict materials' estimated service life and failure potential over temperature. Explains correlation between time and temperature-dependence.
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