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ABSEES Online Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Principal record on North American research on Russia & Eastern Europe.
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Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: Coverage varies, some starting with 1975 - present, updated continuously.
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.
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Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals Authentication Required
Access offers indexing for approximately 85 unique popular periodicals that may not be indexed elsewhere.
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AccessUN Authentication Required
Coverage: 1946-
AccessUN provides access to bibliographic citations of current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications including:

  • the UN collections of the Government Publications Library
  • articles appearing in UN periodicals
  • the bilateral and multilateral treaties in the UN Treaty Series
  • full text documents from the:
    • General Assembly - resolutions from 1981-
    • Security Council - resolutions from 1974-
    • Economic and Social Council - resolutions from 1982-

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AccessUNDP Authentication Required
Coverage: 1972-1998
Indexes United Nations Development Programme Project Reports issued and held by UN headquarters between the years 1972-1998.
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African American Newspapers Authentication Required
Coverage: 1827 - 1902
This collection of African-American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s.
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AgeLine Database
Coverage: 1978 - present
AgeLine, produced by AARP, abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences.
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Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
Coverage: 1990 - present, updated quarterly.
Indexes articles, news items, and editorials in approximately 80 English language military and aeronautical periodicals.
(See also printed version, for earlier years...WILSON Quarto TL501 .A5571x)
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Alternative Press Index Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1991 - present, updated quarterly.
Indexes articles, editorials, reviews, interviews, obituaries, speeches, fiction, songs, recipes, regular columns from 250 publications.
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America: History and Life Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1964 - present
This index provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
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Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Coverage: 1957-present
The Libraries will no longer subscribe to this resource effective October 1, 2007.
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Anthropology Plus Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: Late 19th century - present, updated quarterly.
Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK.
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Bibliografia Mesoamericana
"A joint project of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies and the Library of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."
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Bibliography of Asian Studies Authentication Required
Coverage: 1971-
The online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
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Bibliography of Native North Americans Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: 16th Century - present.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index Authentication Required
A comprehensive index to more than 12 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering over 4 million contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
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Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources Authentication Required RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1948 - 1986
The Kaiser Index to Black Resources is drawn from the handwritten notes of the staff of the Schomburg Center at New York Public Library.
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British Newspapers 1600-1900 Authentication Required
Coverage: 1600-1900
The most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers.
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British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS)
Coverage: 1688-1983
BOPCRIS currently contains 18,279 citations to key British Official Publications 1688-1800 and 1833-1983.
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Central & Eastern European Online Library Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: 1970 - Present
C.E.E.O.L.
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Chicano Database Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1967 - present
Subjects include Mexican-American and Chicano studies topics.
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Child Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1965 - present, updated annually. (formerly Child Abuse and Neglect)
Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption is intended for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and administrators working to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect.
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China Academic Journals Full-Text 中国学术期刊网 Authentication Required
CAJ is the most comprehensive, full-text database of Chinese journals in the world.
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China National Knowledge Infrastructure Databases (CNKI) 中国知网
Coverage: 1994-

CNKI comprises five databases including Academic Journals (CAJ), China Core Newspapers (CCND), China Dissertations (CDMD), China Conference Proceedings (CPCD) and, finally, China Academic Journals Bibliography which is freely available without a subscription fee.
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Choice Reviews Authentication Required
Coverage: 1988-present
CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education.
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CIAO Authentication Required
Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
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Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, The Authentication Required
Coverage: November 1860 - April 1865
Full text of major articles from the Charleston Mercury, the New York Herald and the Richmond Enquirer.
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ComAbstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: Varies by title, but generally 1982 - present
This index provides abstracts to articles from the major journals in the field of communication.
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Communication and Mass Media Complete Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
A comprehensive resource for articles relating to various forms of communication, Communication and Mass Media Complete provides journal articles on topics such as mass media, film, television, marketing, business communication, health communication, and more.
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Contemporary Women's Issues Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1992 - present, updated weekly
Covers subjects such as as sociology, psychology, health, lesbian concerns, education, political science, reproductive and human rights.
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CQ Public Affairs Collection Authentication Required
Coverage: 1972 - present
This database includes historic documents and primary source materials, CQ reports and analyses of public policy issues, bibliographies, chronologies, statistical information, and directory listings for government, nonprofit, and private organizations in major policy areas such as agriculture, business, education, environment, health, international relations, justice, media, national security, and social welfare.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1968 - present, updated quarterly
Covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, drugs, government, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, law, police, political science, public administration, courts, punishment and sentencing.
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Current Index to Statistics -- Extended Database Authentication Required
Coverage: 1974-present
Current Index to Statistics Extended Database is the Internet version of Current Index to Statistics, Applications, Methods and Theory, from the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
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Digital Dissertations Authentication Required
Coverage: 1861 - present (Doctoral dissertations); 1962 - present (Masters theses).
Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities.
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Digital National Security Archive Authentication Required
Access primary documents central to United States foreign and military policy since 1945.
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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment Authentication Required
A machine-readable full-text database with SGML coding which contains approximately 100,000 pages of books, journals, maps and drawings describing the exploration of North America.
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EconLit Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: January 1969 - present, updated quarterly.
Contains bibliographic citations and selected abstracts to the professional and scholarly literature in the field of economics and allied disciplines, including journals, books, chapters in books, conference proceedings and dissertations.
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Economist Historical Archive Authentication Required
Coverage: 1843-2003
Presents the world's political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments and the connections between them.
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EdResearch Online
Coverage: Varies
Australia and Other Countries: For Australian Education Journals and Conferences: EdResearch Online is a freely available database offered by the Cunningham Library, Australian Council for Educational Research.
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Education Full Text Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1983-present
United States: Education Full Text offers full-text access to about half of the 500+ education journals indexed in it.
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Education Index Retrospective Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: 1929 - 1983
Indexes nearly 600 education journals as far back as 1929.
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eHRAF World Cultures Authentication Required
Coverage: Varies by source.
Contains FULL-TEXT information on over 360 cultures of the world, past and present.
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EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Includes abstracts of the hundreds of environmental impact statements issued by the federal government each year, indexed for easy reference.
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Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1967 - present
This database provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of the environmental sciences.
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ERIC (Access via CSA) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1966 - present
United States and Other Countries: For Education Topics use ERIC CSA for Find It access to U of MN e-journals; ERIC is the Education Resources Information Center.
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ERIC (Access via U.S. Dept. of Ed.)
Coverage: 1966 - present
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.
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Essay and General Literature Index Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1985 to present
Find contents in collected works focusing on humanities and social sciences.

The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 4 users at any one time.
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Essay Finder
LitFINDER: Essays provides the full texts of 2800 essays on many subjects, including essays on architecture, art, drama, economics, history, literature, psychology, science, sociology, and other subjects.
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Ethnic Newswatch Authentication Required
Coverage: 1990 - present.
FULL TEXT articles from over 125 American ethnic and minority newspapers, magazines and journals.
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Family & Society Studies Worldwide On CD-ROM Format Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1970 - present, updated monthly.
Search here to find citations and abstracts to articles and book chapters on family dynamics, marriage and family therapy, the family in society, and child development.
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FRANCIS Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1984 - present, updated monthly.
Emphasis on French research covering a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary articles, books, etc.
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Gale Professional Collection Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: Dates vary
A custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily.
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Gallup Brain Authentication Required
The Gallup Brain is a searchable database providing a record of more than 70 years of public opinion information.
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GenderWatch Authentication Required
Coverage: 1970's - present.
Incorporates Women R, an electronic index formerly accesible on CD-ROM.
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Geobase Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1980 - present, updated monthly.
Index to worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) On CD-ROM Format This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: 1936 - present; 1936 - 1994 available in CD-ROM in Wilson 180E (ask at Ref. Desk)
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.
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Health Economic Evaluations Database Authentication Required
Coverage: 1967-Present
The Health Economic Evaluations Database (HEED) covers worldwide bibliographic citations and economic evaluations of medicines, medical interventions and other treatments as well as studies on the cost of illness.
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Hispanic American Periodicals Index Authentication Required
Coverage: 1970 - present, updated annually.
Covers topics related to Latin America in the areas of humanities and social sciences, including business and industry; the United States and Mexico border region; Hispanic groups in the United States.
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Historical Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1954 - present.
Covers the world's scholarship in history from 1450 to the present.
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HRAF Collection of Ethnography Authentication Required
Please see eHRAF Collection of Ethnography.
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Human Population and Natural Resource Management Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. RefWorks enabled
This database explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management.
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Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective Authentication Required
Coverage: 1906 - 1983
Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective searches nearly 1200 of the most important journals in these subject areas.
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IBR: International Bibliography of Book Reviews Authentication Required
Coverage: 1985 - present, updated bi-annually.
International bibliography of book reviews of scholarly literature.
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IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical Literature Authentication Required
Coverage: 1983 - present, updated monthly.
An international, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and up-to-date online periodical database.
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IMB: International Medieval Bibliography Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: 1967-present
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.
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Index Islamicus Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: 1906 - present
Index Islamicus indexes worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world.
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Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Authentication Required
Coverage: Web: 1980 - present, updated quarterly. Print: 1908 - present.
Indexes 800+ legal publications, law reviews, bar association journals and legal newspapers; Accessible from Law Library Lumina terminals and Law School network only.
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IngentaConnect Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Coverage: October 1988 - present, updated daily
This index provides bibliographic citations for academic and professional research articles online - some 20 million articles from 30,000 publications.
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Inside Information Plus RefWorks enabled
Coverage: 1996 - present, updated weekly.
Inside Information Plus will not be available after June 30, 2007.
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International Index of Black Periodicals Authentication Required
Coverage: dates vary
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.
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Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissan