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Selected Resources for: Management of Technology

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Article Databases and Indexes


Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes

Business Source Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. Link to mobile version of resource.
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.
Use this popular research database to find business articles from 2100 journals and magazines in marketing, management, information technology, operations, human resources, accounting, finance and economics dating back to 1965. Additional company and industry profiles from Datamonitor are included along with country analysis the Economist Intelligence Unit, Business Monitor International, CountryWatch, Icon Group, PRS and other publishers.
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Compendex Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Provides extensive indexing of scholarly and technical periodicals, conference proceedings, and report literature in all engineering disciplines including applied physics, electronics, materials science, and related fields in science and management. Indexes nearly 3000 sources worldwide.
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EconLit Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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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Web of Science (ISI) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. Link to mobile version of resource.
Indexes over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk(*).
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Catalogs & Indexes to Government Publications

OECD iLibrary Authentication Required
OECD iLibrary is the online publications portal of the 33-country Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. OECD iLibrary is OECD’s Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It replaces SourceOECD, and hosts all content so users can find - and cite - tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles

Factiva Authentication Required
Large database of newspapers, newswires, business magazines and journals, transcripts, press photographs, and web content from media outlets. Worldwide coverage of 9000 sources in 22 languages. Includes financial information for publicly traded companies, stocks, funds, currencies, and common market indexes. Limited to 7 simultaneous users.

Due to licensing restrictions, not all of the publications in Factiva are available for academic libraries. See this demo: How to Identify Blocked Titles in Factiva Or contact Factiva technical support at 1-800-889-3358 or tsupport@proquest.com if you have questions. If you are interested in setting up a weekly or monthly alert on a topic, please contact the Journalism Librarian.
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LexisNexis Academic Authentication Required
LexisNexis Academic is a full text databases for news, business, and legal research. It includes sources for researching accounting, environmental studies, health and medical care, government and politics, people, consumer information, and countries worldwide. Locate company information, including the Hoovers Company Profiles.
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ProQuest Newspapers 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.
ProQuest Newspapers 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.
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General Reference Sources


Directories

Million Dollar Database (Dun & Bradstreet) Authentication Required
A directory from Dun & Bradstreet to private and public companies in the United States with 20+ employees or sales above one million dollars. Also includes international firms for most foreign countries with more than 100 employees. Use this directory to learn if a company is private or public and information about sales, number of employees, executives, and subsidiaries.

To create lists of companies by industry or business descriptions along and other criteria such as location or size, see Finding Companies By Industry in Million Dollar Database
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Encyclopedias

AccessScience Authentication Required
The online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Contains more than 8,000 articles written by the leading figures in their fields.
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Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Authentication Required
Written by prominent scholars from industry, academia, and research institutions, the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology presents a wide scope of articles on chemical substances including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Additionally, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed.
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Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Authentication Required
"The worlds's largest technical encyclopedia," this is also a very trusted source of information on a wide variety of fields that involve chemistry.
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General Reference Works

ENGnetBASE Authentication Required
ENGnetBASE is an online reference source providing access to over 600 handbooks published by CRC Press. The handbooks include a wide variety of titles on engineering specialties, including Civil Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, HVAC, Nanotechnology, and more. Users can either browse the table of contents of each individual handbook or use keyword searching to retrieve and display related full-text information. Full- text results are displayed in .pdf format.
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions


Electronic Journal Collections

ACM Digital Library Authentication Required
Full text of most ACM journals and proceedings since 1950; also includes publications of affiliated organization.
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IEEE Xplore Authentication Required Link to mobile version of resource.
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
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PICMET
PICMET (Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology) has conference proceedings technology management through an international conference.
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Journal Titles







R & D Management
Scholarly journal on R & D and innovation management covering design and innovation, and related strategic and human resource issues.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides


Bibliography Software




RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. Link to mobile version of resource.
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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University of Minnesota


Related U of M Web Sites

Business Library Website
Links to business databases available from the University Libraries with specialized guides for researching business topics.
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Library Information


Primary Subject Location

Science and Engineering Library
Chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology and geophysics, physics, astronomy, general science, history of science and technology.
Campus: East Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: Walter Library
Telephone: Circulation: (612) 624-3366; Reference: (612) 624-0224
Main URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/walter
Reference URL: http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu/staff.phtml
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/WaLib/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/scieng/hours


Secondary Subject Location(s)

Business & Government Publications

Campus: West Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: Basement Wilson Library
Telephone: 612-624-5073
Main URL: http://govpubs.lib.umn.edu/
Reference URL:
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/OMWL/index.html
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Related Page(s)

Information Technology Industry


Related Subject(s)

Business

 

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