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Number of resources that begin with G: 27
Gale Databases (Thomson Gale Infotrac) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty. Links to list of Thomson Gale Infotrac databases.
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Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America Authentication Required
Essays on 152 culture groups of the U.S., from Acadians to Yupiats, covering their history, acculturation and assimilation, family and community dynamics, language and religion. Each essay is 5,000 to 20,000 words in length and includes black-and-white photographs, usually of people in native dress or engaged in a traditional activity. The information for each ethnic group includes a brief history of the country of origin, immigration statistics and a history of migration to America, and information on traditions and customs, language, religion, political involvement, and employment. Brief biographies of immigrants who have made a contribution to American society are followed by lists of newspapers and radio and TV stations serving the group, organizations, museums and research centers, and a brief bibliography.
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Gale Professional Collection Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
A custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library Authentication Required
Reference titles from various publishers in many subjects, including art, biography, business, cultural studies, education, the environment, history, religion, science, and social science.
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Gallup Brain Authentication Required
The Gallup Brain is a searchable database providing a record of more than 70 years of public opinion information. The Gallup Brain provides full-text answers to more than 125,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935. This poll database also houses current Gallup Poll News Service articles that feature the latest in-depth poll analyses and replicas of news stories and press releases linked to the surveys.
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Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index Authentication Required
A resource for access to articles about gardens and plants. Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design & history. Indexed and abstracted are more than 430 core titles, the majority of which are published in English.
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online Authentication Required
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online contains over 9,000 pages of material, the full text of the 10-volume print encyclopedia (more than 700 articles) with links to associated audio examples, musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings; song texts and score examples; and charts and maps of world regions.
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GenBank
GenBank is the National Institutes of Health genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. Sequence data in GenBank is searchable through sequence similarity algorithms such as NCBI BLAST, and textual annotation of GenBank sequence records is searchable through the NCBI's Entrez Nucleotide search tool.
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GenderWatch Authentication Required
Incorporates Women R, an electronic index formerly accesible on CD-ROM. GenderWatch, a full text index, covers the impact of gender in the following subject areas: Culture and the arts; business and finance; education; feminist teaching; public education; gender discrimination; family; health and healthcare; international issues; physical activity, sports and fitness; politics and issues of public policy; religion and spirituality, including issues of equity in organized religion; and women's and gender studies.
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General Science Collection Authentication Required
A collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.
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Genline Authentication Required
Genline's archive contains church records from the 16th-20th century for research in Swedish genealogy. A helpful guide is found on pages 51-52 and 58-60 in Your Swedish roots: a step by step handbook, by Per Clemensson & Kjell Andersson. (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2004); Wilson Library Reference Quarto CS922 .C57 2004.
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Geobase Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Index to worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology. Provides good coverage of the literature of landscape architecture that deals with restoration and rehabilitation ecology.

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Geological Society of America Authentication Required
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty
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GeoRef Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Index to the worldwide literature of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, paleontology, hydrogeology , hydrology, and mineralogy. Publication types covered include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government publications, theses, reports, and maps. Provides citations, with a small percentage accompanied by abstracts. Produced by the American Geological Institute.
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Global Development Finance Authentication Required
Offers external debt and financial flow data for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The timeseries for 216 indicators run from 1970 to 2006, with contractual obligations data until 2015. The indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections.
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Global Financial Data Authentication Required
The Global Financial Database is a collection of financial and economic data provided in ASCII or Excel format. There are 20,000 historical or current data series which may be downloaded directly from the web site. Global coverage includes stocks, bonds, treasury bills, interest rates, commodity prices, CPI, GDP, exchange rates, indexes, population and more.
Looking for historical stock prices? Look at this short tutorial on using GFD to find historical stock prices.
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Global Health Authentication Required
Global Health brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS. Over 16,000 serial sources from more than 130 countries are scanned regularly for inclusion in the Global Health database, to produce approximately 25,000 new entries per year. Nearly all records have informative English abstracts prepared by scientists and linguists.
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Global Market Information Database (Student and Staff) Authentication Required
The Global Market Information Database (GMID) is an integrated on-line information system providing key business intelligence on countries, companies, markets, and consumers. Statistics and profiles on 205 countries worldwide, lifestyle reports for 52 countries, market size for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, 3,500 market reports offering strategic analysis for consumer, industrial and service sectors, and profiles of 3,000 leading fast-moving consumer goods companies.

Note that this database is contractually restricted by the publisher to University of Minnesota-Twin Cities students and staff only; the public is authorized to use the version of the database called Countries and Consumers.
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Google Scholar - U of M students, staff and faculty Authentication Required
Use Google Scholar through the Libraries' web site, or by setting your Scholar Preferences to the "University of Minnesota (FindIt@U of M Twin Cities) to gain off-campus access to all the articles and journal subscriptions the library has already acquired for you. Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

When using any one of the three access methods below, the text link, "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities", will appear in your Google Scholar search results. Then clicking the "Find It" link will present you with a menu of full-text and related service options for the Scholar search result you followed. To benefit from this service, access Google Scholar via:

  1. any U of M Twin Cities Campus Internet connection,
  2. the "special" link to Google Scholar that the Libraries provide (below or from the Libraries' Google Scholar listing on "Indexes"), or
  3. the regular link to Google Scholar when having set up your Scholar Preferences to the "University of Minnesota (FindIt@U of M Twin Cities)."

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GPO Access - Legislative Resources
GPO Access provides official and free full-text access to a wide variety of congressional publications ranging from the History of Bills to the Congressional Directory. Dates of coverage vary, but generally start in the early to mid-1990s. Indexing of the Congressional Record goes back to the early 1980s.
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Grand Robert Dictionnaire, Le - online Authentication Required
The largest French dictionary available. Contains all the conjugations of all the verbs, feminine and plural forms, etymology, nuances of use, quotations, and more.
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Grand Secretariat Archives 內閣大庫檔案 (中央研究院 歷史語言研究所) Authentication Required
There are approximately 310,000 items in the Grand Secretariat Archives at the Institute of History and Philology. These include imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute documents, examination questions, examination papers, rosters of successful examination candidates, documents from the offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden. Memorials make up the bulk of these documents. The archives contain valuable source materials for institutional, social and economic historians. They record general administrative activities and legal cases, many of which cannot be found in Ch'ing legal compendia.
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Great Debates in American Environmental History Authentication Required
Examines the most important and controversial environmental issues in the history of the United States, from the Colonial period to the present. Describes the issues, the stakeholders of various positions, and both the immediate outcome of the debate, and the long-term consequences of the result.
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GreenFILE Authentication Required
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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Grove Art Online Authentication Required
"The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day." This is the online version of The Dictionary of Art (Grove's). NOTICE: Grove Art Online requires Netscape 4.0 or Internet Explorer 4.0 (or higher) for full functionality. On computers with less powerful web browsers the external images links and maps, charts, and diagrams will not be available.
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Gu jin tu shu ji cheng Authentication Required
The Gu jin tu shu ji cheng (古今圖書集成) is an encyclopedia completed in 1725. To compile this great encyclopedia, the first compiler, renowned scholar, Cheng Menglei cited over 6,000 works from ancient time up to late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The completed work was huge in size, reached to 500,000 pages and over 160 million words. It was said it is four times larger than the Encyclopedia Britannica. The subject coverage is extensive ranged from astrology, geography, politic, economics, military, law, philosophy, literature, engineering, fishing, mining, education, arts, music, dance, medicine, agriculture, and many others. It contains over 6,000 illustrations, also known as /Kangxi Encyclopedia/.
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