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Number of resources that begin with R: 26
R2 Library Authentication Required
Electronic book collection covering the health sciences.
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Race Relations Abstracts Authentication Required
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 40,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
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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.
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Readers Guide Retrospective Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
The database allows for searching the records of a century (1890-1982) of popular magazine coverage, reflecting the history of the 20th century America and its evolving attitudes and cultures. Provides comprehensive, historic indexing of the most popular general-interest magazines and journals published in the United States 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.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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.
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Real Estate Database Authentication Required
A comprehensive collection of historical real estate data. Includes Winan’s Real Estate Index of housing prices back to 1830, regional real estate price indices, national and regional new home sales and listings, and more. Choose “Real Estate Market Data” under Data Series Type in the Filter Search.
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ReferenceUSA Authentication Required
Includes access to major directories for residential listings, businesses, and nonprofits. Includes U.S. Businesses a database of 14 million locations and the Canadian Businesses of 1.5 million companies. ReferenceUSA business directories are good for locating smaller businesses and franchise locations. Both business databases include search criteria for locating private and public companies using criteria such as location, size, industry, headquarters, etc. Other directories available include the U.S. Residential database of 210 million households and the Canadian Residential database of 12 million households. The HealthCare database lists 675,000 doctors and 180,000 dentists in the United States.
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RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Regional Business News Authentication Required
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 for regional business publications; Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis
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Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives Authentication Required
Part of the NetAdvantage e-resource from Standard& Poors NetAdvantage choose the Company tab. Directories listings for over 50,000 private and public companies limited to those with more than $1 million in sales or over 100 employees. Advanced criteria available for private company searching. Each entry lists sales, products, directory info, officers, and bank information.
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Religious and Theological Abstracts (online) Authentication Required
Summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals, covering a wide variety of periodical literature including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions. Provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.
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Religious Right: A Reference Handbook, The Authentication Required
Examines the religious right and its influence on our government, citizens, society, and politics. Offers a critical historical survey of the religious right movement, focusing on its increased involvement in the political arena, attempts to forge coalitions, and notable successes and failures. Also includes biographies of the men and women who have advanced the cause.
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RIA Checkpoint--Research Institue of America Tax Research materials Authentication Required
Password required for off site access. For library access, inquire at the U of Minnesota Law Library in Mondale Hall:
http://local.law.umn.edu/library/ERDirectory.html#tax
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Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (via 19th Century Masterfile) Authentication Required
An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899. (ed. Ernest Cushing Richardson). 81,000 citations from 21,000 writers covering 600 periodicals and encyclopedia. Of particular interest are the heading definitions, often with references to encyclopedia articles for continued research.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Effective July 1, 2004, this database is now available via the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts interface
RILM indexes scholarly writings on music and related disciplines, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, music therapy, music librarianship, the physics of music, and other fields as they relate to music.
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Risk Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Experts define risk as a combination of the magnitude and probability of adverse effects. Recently, increasing scientific attention has centered on the identification and alleviation of risk in today's world. And Risk Abstracts provides a comprehensive source for interdisciplinary perspectives in this evolving field. Published in association with the Institute for Risk Research at the University of Waterloo, Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk. The database includes occasional articles on topics of significant interest. The broad, multidisciplinary coverage of risk-related concerns ranges from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects. Professionals involved in risk research studies, environmental science, engineering and design, or any type of industry will find in Risk Abstracts essential information that can help them identify, measure, evaluate, and manage risks of all kinds. 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.
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RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
RISM (the International Inventory of Music Sources) is a database of musical sources, such as manuscripts & printed music, works of music theory, and opera libretti which are preserved in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools, and private collections around the world.
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Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Authentication Required
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research covers politics and government, public institutions, international relations, business, social affairs and consumer behavior and preferences. The file includes sources in opinion polling such as Gallup, Harris, Roper; ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC; Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal. The file is maintained by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, a non-profit education and research organization in the field of public opinion and public policy.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online Authentication Required
The first multi-volume Encyclopedia to be published in the discipline in over thirty years, REP is now regarded as the definitive resource in the field. Features 2,000 original entries from a team of over 1,300 of the world's most respected scholars and philosophers.
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Royal Society Authentication Required
The Royal Society publishes seven, high quality peer-reviewed journals covering: biological and physical sciences; history and philosophy of science; and cross-disciplinary research at the interface between the physical and life sciences.
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Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Authentication Required
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty
Articles published from 1841 to 1996 are available at the RSC Journals Archive.
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Royal Society of Medicine Press Authentication Required
The Royal Society of Medicine's collection made available in digital format.
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Royal Society of New Zealand free (OA) Authentication Required
Current issues of selected titles available. Back issues of all journals from 2003 are freely available in PDF format. Remaining issues to Volume 1 of each journal are being scanned and converted to PDF files progressively.
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Russian National Bibliography [electronic resource] Authentication Required
This electronic resource provides access to all the components of the Russian national bibliography: Knizhnaia letopis? [books], Letopis? gazetnykh statei [newspaper articles], Letopis? zhurnal?nykh statei [journal articles],Letopis? retsenzii [book reviews], Kartograficheskaia letopis?[maps], Notnaia letopis? [scores], Letopis? izoizdanii [pamphlets], and Letopis? avtoreferatov dissertatsii [dissertations]. The Cyrillic-alphabet text can be searched in the roman alphabet by using the Library of Congress transliteration scheme. Access is for 1994 through 2008 only.
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