General Resources
Number of resources: 70
Academic Search Premier   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. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Book Review Index Online Plus Includes more than five million review citations from over 5,800 books and periodicals, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews; Please note: Our BRI license allows for five (5) U of MN - TC users at a time -- if you are denied access, please wait a few minutes and try again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| British Newspapers 1600-1900 The most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers. New conservation and imaging techniques and a new cross-searchable platform adopted by the British Library offers unparalleled access and discoverability to this valuable historical and cultural archive. In addition one will find specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars intended to help non-specialist users with perspective and analysis. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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. |
| 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Database of African Theses and Dissertations Abstracts for theses and dissertations completed in African universities. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Dyabola DYABOLA literature database contains citations from the subject catalog of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. Click on "With IP-Access" to search Dyabola. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| EBSCO Databases Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty. Links to list of EBSCO databases. Click on EBSCOhost Web to be taken to a full list of available databases. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| EBSCO MegaFILE 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 Save time and search all four EBSCO databases at once. The EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of the complete content and functionality of Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Economist Historical Archive Presents the world's political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments and the connections between them. Includes new full-colour images, exportable financial tables, a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week, supplements, special reports and surveys. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Education Full Text United States: Education Full Text offers full-text access to about half of the 500+ education journals indexed in it. While indexing began in 1983, abstracts were added starting in 1994. Full-text coverage began in January 1996 for selected journals. For more comprehensive research on education topics, both ERIC and Education Full Text should be searched as each includes unique resources. The scope is limited to English language periodicals and yearbooks. Education Full Text is an enhanced version of Education Abstracts. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ERIC (Access via U.S. Dept. of Ed.) This version of the ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database is freely available on the web and provides access to education-related journal and non-journal literature. Sponsored by the US Department of Education, it provides full citations and abstracts and some full-text for journal articles, books, curricula, government documents, dissertations, reports, and other educational materials. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Film and Television Literature Index with Full-Text This database can be used to find research articles on film studies' topics. List of titles included. Aspects covered include theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, reviews (back to 1914) and more. The database allows full searching of more than 270 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Articles are available for more than 80 journals and texts from nearly 50 books. If the article you are interested in is not available online, click the Find It-button to see if the article is available in another library database, or to see if the library has the article in print. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Gale Databases (Thomson Gale Infotrac) Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty. Links to list of Thomson Gale Infotrac databases. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Gallup Brain 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Google Scholar - U of M students, staff and faculty 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:
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| IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature An international, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and up-to-date online periodical database. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| JSTOR Index to JSTOR, full text academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a date defined, on a publisher by publisher basis, by a "moving wall". The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic (Classic) FOR OFF-CAMPUS, WIRELESS, & ON CAMPUS USE LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. (Classical interface) [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Congressional 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Government Periodicals Provides bibliographical information about articles in US government periodicals in all fields, and provides links to the web sites for most of the titles. Check periodical title in MNCAT to locate copies in the Libraries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LGBT Life Full-Text LGBT Life Full-text contains indexing and abstracts for more than 80 GLBT-specific core periodicals; additionally, books as well as newsletters, case studies, dissertations, etc. are represented. Disciplines covered by GLBT Life include civil liberties, culture, employment, family, history, psychology, religion, sociology and more. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Los Angeles Times (access via LexisNexis) Full text available for the previous six months to the present. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Los Angeles Times (access via Proquest Newsstand) 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. Full text from 1988 to the present. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MasterFile Premier 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. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MNMag: Minnesota Magazine Index MNMag is an index of articles on local and statewide politics, news, current events, history and the arts that appear in nine Minnesota magazines: City Pages, Hennepin History, Minneapolis And St. Paul Skyway News, Mpls. St. Paul Magazine, Minnesota History, Minnesota Monthly, Minnesota Law And Politics, Ramsey County History, and the Twin Cities Reader. Index from 1991-2005 by the staff in the History Department at the Minneapolis Public Library. It includes over 25,000 citations. No new citations have been added after 2005 but may be again at some time in the future. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| New York Times (1980 - present, via Proquest) Full text of the New York Times, 1980 - present. See separate link for New York Times Historical Archive. 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers Digital archive of 48 nineteenth century British newspapers. This online collection includes national and regional newspapers including those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also included in the collection. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Nineteenth Century Masterfile Current Contents of 19th Century Masterfile: Series I: Multi-Title Periodical Indexes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Index to Legal Periodical Literature (Jones and Chipman), Catalogue of Scientific Papers, the Religion Index and more. Series II: Indexes to Books ALA Index to General Literature, 19th-century bibliographic database and more. Series III: Indexes to Newspapers New York Times Index, New York Daily Tribune Index, Palmer's Index and more. Series IV: Indexes to Individual Periodicals Harpers Weekly, Atlantic Monthly, North American Reviews (with free links to full text) Series V: US and UK Government Documents Indexes and US Patent Index Congressional Record, Papers of the President, Hansard's Parliamentary Indexes and more. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers Digital archive of 19th century U.S. newspapers (1.7 million pages). Includes digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| OCLC FirstSearch electronic collections online A searchable database of a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas. Searching across multiple journals and browsing within journals is possible. Bibliographic information is available for all journal issues. Full-text articles, including original text and image content, are available for issues included in the institution subscription. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Old Testament Abstracts The product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association, this database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Content from over 450 journals is covered. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more. Print Edition: Wilson Reference BS410 .O42 [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| OxResearch Created by Oxford Analytica, OxResearch provides help to research and analyze the impact of world and regional economic and political developments of major significance. Articles are compiled by an international network of faculty members at Oxford and other leading universities around the world, as well as think-tanks and institutes of international standing. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Patents (United States) The USPTO Web Patent Database offers the full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976 and full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790 through the most recent weekly issue date. Publisher/Producer is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| PolicyFile PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Some well known contributors include: the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Leadership Council, Economic Strategy Institute, Federation of American Scientists, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, National Center for Policy Analysis, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, United States Institute of Peace, and the World Bank. Where available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses and fulltext are made available within individual abstracts. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (via 19th Century Masterfile) A significant resource compiled by William Frederick Poole. A core resource for researching nineteenth-century topics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ProQuest Databases Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ProQuest Newsstand 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. ProQuest Newsstand provides indexing and abstracting for 150 full-text titles, plus another 200 regional news sources. Full-text titles include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Christian, Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other newspapers of record. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Public Documents Masterfile Finding tool for public documents, combining bibliographic and index information from a variety of historic and current tools. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| RAMBI [electronic resource] "RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Articles are in English in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages, and are based scientific research, or contain important information for such research. Coverage is from 1966 to the present. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Readers' Guide Retrospective Provides comprehensive, historic indexing of the most popular general-interest magazines and journals published in the United States during the 20th century in the following subject areas: Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Archeology, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biographies, Business, Children, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Gardening, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Literature, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Popular Culture, Radio, Religion, Science, Sports, Technology, Television, Travel. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Digital archive covering British news media from 1757-1817. The archive contains about 700 newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney. The contents were published mostly in London, and some were published in English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| St. Paul Pioneer Press Full text coverage from 1988 to the present of the daily newspaper for the City of St Paul. Besides articles about the Twin Cities, coverage includes western Wisconsin and the state of Minnesota. Due to recent legal restrictions, free lance authors may not be included in the online version. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Star Tribune (access via LexisNexis) Full text of the Star Tribune 1991 - Current. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Star Tribune (archives via ProQuest Newsstand) 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. Full text available from 1986 - Current. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Star Tribune (archives via publisher website) Access to the archives of articles published in this daily Minneapolis newspaper serving the Twin Cities. Articles less than three weeks old are available for free. Per article fees apply to past articles. The archives do not include photos, graphics and most charts. Only freelance writers who have granted permission for their work to be included are found in the archives. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Stead's Index to Periodicals (via 19th Century Masterfile) An index to British periodicals originally published in thirteen volumes. Stead's Index contains more than 265,000 citations. More than 200 of the periodical titles indexed by Stead are not indexed by Poole. Stead's Index is a subject index, like Poole's, but it contains author entries, subject headings and index to portraits as well. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Television News Archive The Television News Archive available from Vanderbilt University, is an index to more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC (August 1968 - present), and CNN daily news (1995 - present). Also, there are more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since September 1988. University faculty, staff, and students can view online video from the Archive's collection of CNN material; copies or compilations of other site material can be ordered for a cost-recovery fee paid to Vanderbilt. Note: 60 Minutes, 20/20, and other news magazine programs are not included here. To view the CNN content, you will need the free RealOne media player from RealNetworks or Real Alternative. For more information please see the Television News Archive FAQ [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Theses Canada Search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library of Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Times Digital Archive Digital Archive of The Times of London for the years 1785-1985. Full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive presents one of the world's premier contemporary literary reviews in fully searchable image format. Content covers 1902 to 1990. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| TRIS Online TRIS (Transportation Research Information Services) Online contains well over half a million records of references to (and some full-text links to ) books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of transportation. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| U.S. Congressional Serial Set - Digital Edition A rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history, from the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the US Senate and House of Representatives. Additional congresses are added each month. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Wall Street Journal Contains the full-text Wall Street Journal newspaper which has extensive coverage of stock markets, finance, investments and business-oriented news. Database version from Proquest includes business and financial news and analysis, company news, regular columns, special reports, articles on the national and world economy, editorials and opinion, interviews, and Reuters news stories. Excludes charts and free standing tabular data, such as stock tables and other exchange listings. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Washington Post (access via LexisNexis) Full text coverage from 1977 to the present. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Washington Post (access via Proquest Newsstand) 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. Full text coverage 1997 to present. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Washington Post (pre-1997 - access via Proquest Newsstand) 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. Full text coverage from 1987 to 1996. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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