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SAE Digital Library  IMPORTANT NOTE: This resource does not work well with the Safari browser on Macs. Firefox works fine on the Macintosh platform. The Standards portion of the SAE Digital Library references thousands of SAE standards. SAE publishes many new, revised, and reaffirmed standards each year in three categories: Ground Vehicle Standards (J-Reports); Aerospace Standards; and Aerospace Material Specifications (AMS). his Technical papers portion of the SAE Digital Library references thousands of SAE Technical Papers covering the latest advances and research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. Sample coverage includes fuels and lubricants, emissions, electronics, brakes, restraint systems, noise, engines, materials, lighting, and more. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| SAE International Use this site to search for SAE technical papers, standards, conferences, and more. The Science & Engineering Library has the SAE technical papers available in print from 1948-2001 on level S, under call number TL1 .S552. SAE transactions (which contain select SAE technical papers) are also available from 1917-1965 on level S, call number TL1.S6. If you wish to access a technical paper published after 2001, please contact Interlibrary Loan, ILL. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Safari Tech Books Online A collection of IT-related electronic books from several publishers, most notably O'Reilly. The Libraries has licensed 320 titles from among Safari's offering. This content covers Database, Java, Linux/Unix, Networking, Perl, Programming, and Web technologies generally. The titles we have licensed are all listed in MnCat. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sage Complete Journal Package Complete title listing of all Sage journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Sage Full-Text Collection for Education  Full-text access to a small core collection of education journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sage Reference Online Encyclopedias covering a wide range of subjects in the social sciences. Includes titles up to and including 2008. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sage Sourcebook of Modern Biomedical Devices: Business Markets in the Global Environment Presents unique quantitative data and brief comparative analysis of the commercial performance of more than 180 types of biomedical devices. Covers devices from practically all major therapeutic areas of application, such as orthopedic devices, cardiovascular devices, gastrointestinal devices, cancer treatment devices, imaging devices, and spinal implants, as well as emerging markets for cardiac surgery devices. Offers global analysis of markets per device per therapeutic area, including North America, the Pacific Rim, and Europe. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps See Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 : Minnesota [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans Online Provides sources of scholarships, fellowships, loans, internships, work study, and other education-related financial aid at all levels of study. Includes a summary of programs sponsored by the federal government. Also includes a state-by-state listing of agencies that users can contact in their home state. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SciELO The Scientific Electronic Library Online is an electronic library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Science The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI) Covers the most of the sciences, including veterinary medicine and zoology. Provides bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts "for approximately 70% of the articles in the database." Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. Indexes articles, reviews, letters, etc. from over "5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. Impact factors for many journals is also available. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database Indexes over 60,000 books and articles about science fiction, fantasy, and related fields, from both professional publications and fanzines. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Science of Synthesis Science of Synthesis is an electronic version of the reference work by the same name; it also provides access to Houben-Weyl (Methods of Organic Chemistry) which includes references back to 1835; requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, and pop-up blockers should be disabled. Science of Synthesis covers both organic and organometallic synthetic methods. The methods are evaluated and include full experimental details. The content is full-text, structure, and reaction searchable. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Science Reference Center Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ScienceCareers.org Produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ScienceCareers.org (formerly NextWave) is a career guide for scientists. It includes salary surveys, job listings, and articles of interest to the job seeker in a broad range of scientific disciplines. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Search the abstracts or titles of 1800 scientific and social science journals from Elsevier Science. Access to the full text of articles is available for those journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Scientific American Archive Access to the entire editorial content of Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, and all special issues from January 1993 to the present. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SciFinder Scholar SciFinder Scholar is the best database for chemistry-related topics; Access it online, download software to use it on your home or office computer, access it from public computers in Walter, BioMedical, or Magrath Libraries by clicking on the SciFinder desktop icon (note: access contractually restricted to current U of MN faculty, students and staff). SciFinder Scholar includes journal and patent literature with references as far back as 1907 as well as information on chemical regulatory data, suppliers, reactions, and substances. You will need to download and log in to VPN before you can access SciFinder from off-campus. Non-affiliates should see this guide for options. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SciFinder Scholar Web Version SciFinder Scholar is the best database for chemistry-related topics (note: access contractually restricted to current U of MN faculty, students and staff). SciFinder Scholar includes journal and patent literature with references as far back as 1907 as well as information on chemical regulatory data, suppliers, reactions, and substances. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SCIPIO Art and Rare Books Sales Catalogs 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Scripta Sinica 漢籍電子文獻資料庫 (中央研究院 歷史語言研究所) "Han ji dian zi wen xian zi liao ku" developed and maintained by the Academia Sinica since 2000. This database contains over 441 Chinese classic titles such as 《明史》、《明實錄》、《明經世文編》、《清史稿》、《清朝文獻通考》、《清朝續文獻通考》、《清實錄》等。 [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SDC Platinum SDC Platinum is a collection of several financial databases. The University of Minnesota Libraries subscribe to: VentureXpert, Securities Trading, Global Public Finance, Global New Issues, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Restructurings. In order to use the SDC Platinum databases from off campus, you must first start a VPN connection to the U of MN network, then install the SDC Platinum software on your desktop. Click the link below for instructions on how to download and install the SDC software. Find the SDC Platinum User Guide [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences Proceedings from major animal production conferences held in the U.S. and Canada. [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!] |
| SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Siku Quanshu 四庫全書 Please note: Requires Internet Explorer (IE) 5.0 or above. This resource does not work with Firefox, Safari, or other browsers. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Simmons Choices 3 National survey data to locate consumers of products and brands along with their media usage, hobbies, and other demographics. Data is available at a single workstation at the Wilson Reference Desk and at the Sevareid Journalism Library. Use these tutorials: Online Tutorial to Simmons Choices Guide to Using Simmons Choices CDROM slide show. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sixties, The: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Spanning 1960 to 1974, The Sixties is centered on key themes that provide insight into the issues that shaped America and that still resonate in today’s debates: Arts, Music, and Leisure; Civil Rights; Counter-Culture; Environmental Movement; Gay and Lesbian Rights; Law and Government; Mass Media; New Left and Emerging Neo-Conservative Movement; Science and Technology; Student Activism; Vietnam War; and Women’s Movement. When complete, the collection will contain over 150,000 pages of fully searchable text and associated audio and video material. These materials are frequently rare and hard to find; they include diaries, letters, and oral and written histories from both newsmakers and ordinary citizens caught up in the times; government documents, hearings, and other official papers; and papers and histories from radical and other organizations and groups; plus songs, photographs, ephemera, and more. To supplement the primary material and to facilitate the teaching of research using primary sources at the university level, The Sixties at completion also includes a collection of critical documentary essays (forthcoming). Compiled by leading scholars in the field and assembled around a major theme or research question, each critical documentary essay consists of annotated primary-source documents, linked by an original interpretive essay that provides historical context and insight into the sources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Slack e-journals Journal titles: Journal of Nursing Education Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing Journal of Gerontological Nursing Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Smithsonian Global Sounds Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Explorer Created by Queens College, City University of New York, and partnering with the University of Minnesota's own National Historical Geographic Information System, this subscription edition of Social Explorer offers the ability to create customized maps and reports of demographic, housing, and employment patterns throughout the United States using data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Data are available by decade between 1940 and 2000 for a variety of geographical entities that are as small as the census tract for certain areas. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Science Encyclopedia General encyclopedia of the social sciences. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Science Research Network Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 197,700 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 159,700 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Sciences Citation Index (included in Web of Science) Covers the social sciences, including anthropology, history, industrial relations, information science and library science, law, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, political science, public health, social issues, social work, sociology, substance abuse, urban studies, and women's studies. Provides bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts "for approximately 60% of the articles in the database." Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. Indexes articles, reviews, letters, etc. from over "1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals." [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Sciences in Forestry Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and government documents. Database produced by the U of Minn Forestry Library. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Services Abstracts CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Work Abstracts Abstracts of articles from social work and related journals. Includes register of clinical social workers. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 8 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Society of American Foresters Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sociological Abstracts Updated bimonthly, this core database for the field of sociology contins information on sociology and social policy worldwide. All citations and abstracts are in English. The database officially covers 1963 to the present, but includes many citations from the 1950s as well as key Web sites linked by topic. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Socrates Socrates provides ratings on corporate social and environmental responsibility in the forms of statistics, data, and reports. It covers more than 4,000 companies in over 50 global markets. Among other things, this database can reveal if any of the companies on the Fortune 500 list have serious human rights violations. More information is available on KLD's website. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SourceOECD SourceOECD is the online publications portal of the 30-country Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It contains the full text of all OECD publications and statistical databases. Statistics generally cover 1960 - present; some earlier years may be available. Statistics also focus primarily on member countries. See Getting Started With SourceOECD for help using SourceOECD. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| South and Southeast Asian Literature In English This is a machine-readable full-text database with SGML coding which contains approximately 100,000 pages of the writings from 1825 to the present, written by authors from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Fiji, including fiction, short fiction, poems, interviews, and manuscript materials. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SpecialIssues.com SpecialIssues.com indexes industrial and trade magazine special issues. Examples of special issues include: industry outlooks, overviews, or surveys; statistical issues; company ranking lists; buyers guides; salary surveys; product/industry focus issues; membership directories; who's who registers; tradeshow specials; etc. Many special issues are available on the Internet and are designed to be interactive/searchable and provide greater content than the printed versions. When possible, Special Issues.com tracks the special issue, how long has the special issue has been produced and content of the issue. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SPIN - Sponsored Programs Information Network Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN) is a computer database with detailed information about thousands of federal, nonfederal, and international funding opportunities. There is no charge to University of Minnesota faculty and staff for using the system. SPIN requires users to have a University of Minnesota IP address. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SPORT Discus The world's most comprehensive bibliographic resources for all aspects of sport and fitness. Includes Internet sites, conference papers, journal articles, unpublished papers and theses. Includes Full-text access to over 350 journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sports Business Research Network Contains research data on the entire sports market including, consumer expenditures, brand share, participation, attendance and statistics about sport facilities, TV viewership, directories and full text articles from specialized sports industry magazines. See the [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Springer Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Springer E-Books Over 25,000 electronic books covering a wide range of disciplines. Some of the publishers include the following: Apress, Birkhauser, Copernicus Books, Humana, Physica-Verlag, Plenum US, Praxis, Springer, Springer-Verlag, Steinkopff, and TELOS. [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!] |
| Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage This Standard and Poors database includes overviews from the Industry Surveys tracking trends and leading companies in 52 industries. Company profiles in the Stock Reports with key financial data on public companies including peer group analysis and performance ratings from Standard Poors. Directory listings from the Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives listing sales, products, other brief information for 55,000 public and private companies along with names of top executives. Watch this short guide for information on finding the Industry Surveys in this database. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A "dynamic" reference work, with each entry maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. Includes articles on individual philosophers, schools, and concepts. The SEP is an open-access resource supported by the University of Minnesota Libraries and Department of Philosophy. [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!] |
| STAT!Ref Provides keyword searchable access to the full text of more than thirty medical and drug textbooks. 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Stat-USA Internet STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the US Department of Commerce, is a single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government. [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!] |
| Story Finder LitFINDER: Stories provides the full texts of nearly 5000 stories, from all periods and all nationalities, in English translation. For some additional stories, it provides the citation to a book or periodical in which you can read the story. You can search by author, by title of story, by nationality, by period, or by subject. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Student Resource Center Gold Offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sustainability Abstracts Explores the management of human use and conservation of the natural resource base, ensuring the attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs in the present as well as maintaining the potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals, material from conference proceedings, and hard-to-find gray literature. 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] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science More information about the Synthesis Library can be found here: About the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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