Indexes and Databases: I
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Number of resources that begin with I: 68
I Libri Database Plus; Le Riviste Database ![]() I Libri Database Plus is an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliographical resource for Italian books relevant to academic libraries published from 1985 to date; in addition, there are over 7000 tables of contents for records, and this number continues to grow. Le Revista Database is the most complete and up-to-date source of information on Italian periodical publications in all subject areas. [more information] [ |
| IBIDS - International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements IBIDS contains bibliographic records, including abstracts published in international scientific journals on the topic of dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbal and botanical supplements from the Office of Dietary Supplements at the NIH. [more information] [ |
IBIS World ![]() IBIS World provides independent, accurate, comprehensive, and up to date research on over 700 industries, including statistics, analysis and forecasts. Includes industry and economic reports, global industry reports and China Industry Reports. Does NOT include company reports. [more information] [ |
IBR: International Bibliography of Book Reviews ![]() International bibliography of book reviews of scholarly literature. [more information] [ |
IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature ![]() An international, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and up-to-date online periodical database. [more information] [ |
ICIS Chemical Business Americas ![]() Source of information on trends and changes in the chemical industry. Provides prices for selected chemicals in "Chemical Market Trends," "Key Chemical Prices," and "Chemical Profile" sections of each weekly issue. Coverage in the different electronic versions varies so it is a good idea to search more than one of them. Example suggested search: pric* AND (acrylonitrile OR ACN) [more information] [ |
IEEE Conference Proceedings ![]() IEEE conferences are available full-text from 1988-present. [more information] [ |
IEEE Xplore ![]() Full-text access to the transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Includes all current IEEE Standards. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [more information] [ |
IFS Online ![]() IFS (International Financial Statistics) Online provides statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance from 1948-. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. A user guide is located at http://courses.lib.umn.edu/page.phtml?page_id=1778. [more information] [ |
IIMP: International Index to Music Periodicals ![]() Covers all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. Articles in over 350 international music journals, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Coverage also includes reviews, letters, and editorials. [more information] [ |
Illustrata - Natural Sciences ![]() Searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature. Search results – the objects – can be viewed in full, in either (thumbnail or enhanced format) along with the caption, author and source information and additional index terms that can be used for further searching. A link back to the parent record provides a summary view of all the objects associated with that paper. [more information] [ |
| IMAGES The IMAGES repository holds descriptions (metadata) about image collections from around the University of Minnesota. The metadata in IMAGES comes from a variety of sources, each collection has its own method of creating or collecting it. This metadata is also shared with the world via the Open Archives Initiative protocol. In most cases, IMAGES also hosts reference versions of the image being described so that users can also see the object. This aggregation of metadata and reference images make this repository a valuable tool for searching across many University of Minnesota image collections. [more information] [ |
images.MD ![]() images.MD compiles over 48,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine's series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text. [more information] [ |
IMB: International Medieval Bibliography ![]() This guide to what has been published about the Middle Ages is interdisciplinary, including conference proceedings, collected essays, and journal articles on philosophy, literature, the arts, etc. in addition to those of historical analysis covering the period between the years 476 and 1500. Covers all aspects of medieval studies for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Citations classified by date, subject and location. This index is available in an electronic edition through the University of Minnesota Libraries Web Page. In addition to English, the IMB indexes articles published in foreign languages with characters not found in English. In order to view and print diacritics the user will need to download the special fonts from the "Select Database" page. [more information] [ |
Index Islamicus ![]() Index Islamicus indexes worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It covers all aspects of Muslim life - history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures. Over 2,500 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. The bibliography covers numerous disciplines such as bibliography, history of the Islamic book, education, religion and theology, philosophy, science and mathematics, architecture, music, theater and drama, geography and ecology, anthropology and sociology, archaeology, cookery, epigraphy, economics, history, political thought, politics and current affairs, and the languages and literatures of countries and regions worldwide.
Periodicals devoted solely to the fields of Islam are indexed completely. Other journals are indexed only for articles on Islamic subjects. |
Index of Christian Art ![]() Early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400. [more information] [ |
| Index to Chiropractic Literature Index to Chiropractic Literature is created by a group of health science librarians working in chiropractic colleges throughout the world. It includes citations to articles in 40 journals, and is searchable by keyword, subject, or author. [more information] [ |
Index to Current Urban Documents ![]() Index to selective reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada. State documents that deal specifically with an eligible city or county may be included. [more information] [ |
Index to Jewish Periodicals ![]() An index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. [more information] [ |
Index to Legal Periodical Literature (via 19th Century Masterfile) ![]() The four volumes of Jones and Chipman contain 98,254 citations from 590 general periodical titles, 236 legal periodical titles and 67 Law Report Titles, covering 11,000 volumes. This important title is of great general reference value for the general reference department, let alone the law library. [more information] [ |
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books ![]() Indexes 800+ legal publications, law reviews, bar association journals and legal newspapers; Accessible from Law Library Lumina terminals and Law School network only. Web version includes some abstracts and full-text articles. [more information] [ |
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective ![]() A bibliographic database consisting of citations from the print editions of Index to Legal Periodicals published between 1918-1981; Accessible from Law Library terminals and Law School network only. Coverage includes over 750 legal periodicals (law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes and government publications) published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. [more information] [ |
Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals ![]() The Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals (AAI) is the only online index to art periodicals that were published in the United States during the 19th century. The journals indexed represent a nearly complete coverage of art journals from this period. 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] [ |
Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series ![]() IPM is a database created to facilitate on-line searching for individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions. IPM will eventually contain detailed information on all music listed in "Collected Editions, Historical Series & Sets & Monuments of Music: A Bibliography," by George R. Hill and Norris L. Stephens. Additional titles will be added, as appropriate. IPM is searchable by composer, title, and series name and number. [more information] [ |
Index To Theses accepted for higher degrees in the universities of Great Britain and Ireland ![]() [more information] [ |
| Index Translationum Bibliographic citations of translated books and book-length translated works published since 1979, according to UNESCO records. [more information] [ |
| IndexCat Digital version of the printed "Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. Includes all five series of the publication. [more information] [ |
Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A) ![]() Includes significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM. [more information] [ |
Industrial Arts Index ![]() Indexes seven decades of articles on important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry (including the complete file of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957), plus historical sources in the applied science and technology field for the 20th Century. Covers more than 2,000 periodicals that include more than 4.5 million articles. An excellent resource for tracking down important studies, exploring historical controversies, finding papers by innovators, researching the development of a particular technology, and more. [more information] [ |
Industrial Solvents Handbook ![]() Provides data on physical properties of most solvents and the solubilities of materials in them. Includes phase diagrams and comparative data for various solvents. [more information] [ |
| INFOMINE INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information. [more information] [ |
| InfoPOEMS (Essential Evidence Plus) January 2008 this resource had a title change to Essential Evidence Plus. [more information] [ |
| Informaworld (Taylor and Francis) Providing cross-searchable access to journals, eBooks, reference works and abstract databases. [more information] [ |
Informe ![]() A collection of hispanic magazines with full text; This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects. Text in Spanish. [more information] [ |
| Informe Design InformeDesign (www.informedesign.umn.edu) is a research and communication tool for designers of the built environment, such as interior designers, architects, landscape architects, and graphic designers. It contains a database of Research Summaries about design and human behavior research, accessible through either a full-text search or by using the topics listed within the three main categories, Space, Issues, or Occupants. Researchers at the University of Minnesota transform findings from refereed journal articles into research-based design criteria in user-friendly language. Approximately 500 Research Summaries are added annually on average 10 per week. Register with this free, totally accessible site to receive automatic email notification of Research Summaries posted to the site on your topics of interest. The site also offers a Calendar of Research Events, a Glossary of Terms, and a monthly newsletter, Implications. This project is funded through 2005 from a $1.18! million grant to the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel from the American Society of Interior Designers. For more information, go to the Web site, or contact Dr. Caren Martin, Director at cmartin@che.umn.edu [more information] [ |
InfoTech Trends ![]() Provides market research statistics on shipments and industry forecasts for electronics, telecommunications, computer hardware, software, and other information technology products and services. [more information] [ |
InfoTrac Junior Edition ![]() Database for junior high and middle school students; This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. 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. Factsheet at: http://www.galegroup.com/pdf/facts/itjr.pdf Coverage: Rolling three years Updated: Daily [more information] [ |
InfoTrac Kid's Edition (Super Tom) ![]() Database for primary school students; This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. In addition to material from periodicals, the database also includes newspaper articles, reference material and maps. Fact sheet at http://www.galegroup.com/pdf/facts/itkid.pdf Coverage: Current year to date + the previous three years Updated: Daily [more information] [ |
InfoTrac Student Edition ![]() Database for secondary school students; This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. 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. http://www.galegroup.com/pdf/facts/itstu.pdf The article coverage is from 1985 - to the present. [more information] [ |
Ingenta ![]() This index provides bibliographic citations derived from tables of contents pages of over 26,000 journals. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [more information] [ |
IngentaConnect ![]() This index provides bibliographic citations for academic and professional research articles online - some 20 million articles from 30,000 publications. Full text of articles is sometimes available for subscribed journals. [more information] [ |
INSPEC ® ![]() Provides comprehensive coverage of scholarly literature in the fields of physics and astrophysics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control, and information technology. Indexed are primarily journal articles and conference papers, with some books,technical reports, and dissertations. The database provides bibliographic citations plus abstracts. [more information] [ |
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) -- Project Euclid ![]() Project Euclid, sponsored by Cornell University Library, is an initiative to advance effective and affordable scholarly communication in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. [more information] [ |
| Inter-Play: An Online Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies and Periodicals Contains citations to plays from the late 19th century through the current year. A valuable source for finding plays, many of which are not included in standard print play indexes. [more information] [ |
| Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science The Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science (INTERS) is a dynamic, on-line only data base, consisting in extensive, updated entries, signed by scholars who are accomplished in both scientific and humanistic research work. The Encyclopedia is intended to provide sound review articles in the rapidly growing international field of Religion and Science [more information] [ |
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text ![]() Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs such as Art and the Performance of Memory, Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, Community Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more. [more information] [ |
International Encyclopedia of Dance Online ![]() With nearly 2,000 articles written by scholars from fifty countries, the Encyclopedia covers the full spectrum of dance: theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers [more information] [ |
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics ![]() The Encyclopedia encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics. Special attention is given to interrelations within these branches of the field and to relations of linguistics with other disciplines. This interdisciplinary focus makes the encyclopedia an invaluable resource not only for linguistics but also for scholars working in the fields of computer science, mathematics, philosophy, the social and behavioral sciences, and literary studies. [more information] [ |
International Financial Statistics ![]() International Financial Statistics (IFS) is the electronic version of the International Monetary Fund's standard source of statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance from more than 200 IMF countries. It contains approximately 32,000 time series of financial and economic data. Topics covered include exchange rates, IMF postion, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, national accounts, and population. The database contains annual, monthly, and quarterly data going back as far as 1945. Data output formats include CSV, Excel. HTML, and TAB delimited. [more information] [ |
International Index of Black Periodicals ![]() Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary--spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline. [more information] [ |
International Law Reports ![]() International Law Reports is wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions of international courts and arbitrators as well as judgments of national courts. The database covers all significant cases of public international law from 1919 to the present day. [more information] [ |
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA via OvidSP) ![]() Provides information on all phases of the development and use of drugs and on professional pharmaceutical practice. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 3 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ |
International Philosophical Bibliography ![]() This online bibliography lists books and articles about philosophy and history of philosophy including: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance to Enlightenment, 19th and 20th Centuries, and Non-Western Traditions. Language scope: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan. The International Philosophical Bibliography covers all issues 1997 to present. The Retrospective file covers selected pre-1996 listings. The starting point of the bibliography changes daily. Check MNCAT for corresponding print version. [more information] [ |
International Tables for Crystallography (Online) ![]() The definitive resource and reference work for crystallography. Each volume in the series contains articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. Emphasis is given to symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals. The data are accompanied by discussions of theory, practical explanations and examples, all of which are useful for teaching. [more information] [ |
International Union of Crystallography ![]() Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty [more information] [ |
International Water Association Publishing - IWAP ![]() The leading journals within the field including Water Research and Water Science and Technology. [more information] [ |
| Internet Public Library The Internet Public Library is a project from the University of Michican School of Information, and offers a staggering amount of well-organized information sources, including reference materials (dictionaries, encyclopedias), subject collections from all areas of knowledge, and special collections (including literary criticism, Presidents of the United States, Native American authors and more). [more information] [ |
Internet Scientific Publications (OA) ![]() Medical Online Publishers. 78 Electronic Journals, 2,944 Published Articles, 942 Editors and Reviewers. [more information] [ |
Interscience (Wiley) ![]() Wiley InterScience features content from more than 2,500 journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library. More than half of Wiley's journals on Wiley InterScience are digitized back to Volume 1, Issue 1 -- initiative to be completed in 2007. Content dating back to 1799 and over 1.5 million articles of scientific and scholarly research. [more information] [ |
Investext ![]() Investext contains research/analyst reports on companies and industries as well as annual statistical reports of industry trade associations. It delivers full-text reports in their original published formats, complete with charts, photographs and graphics. Investext Plus contains full-text analyst reports from 700 of the world's top investment banks, brokerage firms and trade associations. It contains over 700,000 reports, with thousands of new reports added each week. Historical reports are available back to 1996. Investext also gives users the same research and analysis used at top investment banks, consulting firms and law firms to monitor industry trends, track company financials, and research merger and acquisition opportunities. [more information] [ |
IOP (Institute of Physics) ![]() Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty [more information] [ |
IPA Source ![]() International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. [more information] [ |
iPoll ![]() Provides access to individual poll questions and answers, as well as full polling datasets. Includes access to Harris polls. [more information] [ |
IRIS Database ![]() Database for funding opportunities in every field from agriculture to zoology, or view upcoming deadlines in 25 subject areas. IRIS currently contains over 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to funding opportunities for faculty, the IRIS Database also contains fellowships and scholarships for grad students and undergrads. Users can search IRIS by sponsor, deadline date, keyword, and other criteria. Most IRIS records contain live links to sponsor Web sites, electronic forms, or Electronic Research Administration (eRA) portals. The IRIS Database is updated daily. [more information] [ |
ISI Emerging Markets ![]() Full-text business news, and company and financial information from emerging markets in Latin America, Asia and Europe. Includes corporate profiles, financial statements and earnings estimates, industry and analyst reports, capital market quotes and indices, macroeconomic statistics and forecasts, legal and regulatory information, and opinion polls from the following emerging markets: Baltic States (including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (including Slovakia), Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia (including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Turkey, Ukraine, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, China, India, South Korea and Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand). While many documents are in English, some are in their native language. Much of the financial and economic data is downloadable in a spreadsheet-ready format. Dates of coverage vary. News coverage extends back 5 years. Other documents are most recent only. [more information] [ |
ISI Web of Knowledge ![]() The ISI Web of Knowledge provides the Web of Science interface for institutional sitewide access to the ISI Citation products which cover over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Science Citation Index. [more information] [ |
Issues and Controversies@FACTS.com ![]() Intended for the undergraduate researcher, Issues and Controversies@FACTS.com is a reference database that combines objective analysis, and opposing points of view on current and controversial topics. Includes coverage of more than 250 controversial topics in the news. Each report includes chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information. [more information] [ |
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance ![]() Iter is a bibliography of over 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 475 medieval and renaissance journal titles. [more information] [ |





