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Social Sciences Citation Index
Academic Search Premier
  • Description: Provides coverage from over 8,500 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. Many subjects represented. 1975-Current. EBSCO
  • Search with your mobile device »
Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Access UN
  • Description: Index to United Nations documents. Included is the full-text of several thousand UN documents. 1956-Current. Readex
Green Society
  • SAGE Reference Online Titles
ACM Digital Library
  • Description: Provides bibliographic information, abstracts, index terms, reviews,and the full-text for ACM conference proceedings. 1954-Current. Association for Computing Machinary
ADS: Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service
  • Description: A search interface into the scientific and technical literature covering astronomy, planetary science, physics, and the arXiv e-prints. Abstracts only. 1975-Current. NASA
ACS Web Editions/Archive
  • Description: ACS Web Editions provides abstracts and full text for journals and magazines from the American Chemical Society and its Archives. All available dates. American Chemical Society
AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural Economics
  • Description: AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics. 1993-Current. University of Minnesota
AGRICOLA
Alt HealthWatch
  • Description: Offers complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness through full-text articles in more than 180 journals and reports. EBSCO
  • Search with your mobile device »
Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
American Poetry Database
  • Description:  Features the work of more than 200 American poets from the colonial period to the early twentieth century. Chadwyck-Healey
Ancestry
  • Description: Contains billions of census data, vital records, directories, images and more. 1300-Current. ProQuest
Annual Reviews
  • Description: Critical reviews of primary research in the life, physical, social science and biomedical disciplines. Vol. 1 of each title-current. Annual Reviews
Anthropology Plus
  • Description: Offers indexing of journal articles in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology and folklore. OCLC
ArchiveGrid
  • Description: Search historical document descriptions held in archives around the world. OCLC
Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Art Full Text
  • Description: Full text articles from more than 270 periodicals as far back as 1997. Indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals as far back as 1984. EBSCO
    • Also available: Print (Art Index), 1941-1997, NX1.A12 REF COLL
           
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
arXiv.org e-Print archive
  • Description: Open access to 712,212 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics back. 1980-Current. Cornell University
BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
  • Description: Includes citations and abstracts from over 1,200 art journals. Content includes records from RILA. 1975-2007. J. Paul Getty Trust
Biological Abstracts
  • Description: Coverage of meetings and conferences, literature reviews, books and U.S. patents in the biological disciplines. 1980-Current. Thomson
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BioOne
  • Description: Access to more than 240 bioscience journals. 1994-Current. BioOne
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes
  • Description: Searchable collection of abstracts from 82 bioscience research journals. 1998-Current. ProQuest
BIOSIS Previews
  • Description: Abstract coverage of over 5,500 life science journals as well as 1,500 items from meetings, books review articles and patents. BIOSIS: 1993 - present, Bio. Abst: 1980 - present. Thomson.
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Books In Print
  • Description: Books in Print offers bibliographic information on over 7.5 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming book, e-book, audio, and video titles. R. R. Bowker
  • See also: UMM Bookstore
Business Source Premier
  • Description: Business Source Complete provides  full-text business journals and hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects of business marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. EBSCO, 1965-,
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Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Book Review Index
  • Print, 1965-2002, Z1035.A1B6 REF COLL
Britannica Online Academic Edition
  • Description: The authoritative encyclopedia of world knowledge. Britannica
Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
America: History and Life
  • Description: Index covering history of the U.S. and Canada from pre-history to the present through 1,700 journals. EBSCO, 1964-Current
  • Search with your mobile device »
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
WorldCat Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
World Shakespeare Bibliography
World Almanac Book of Facts Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Women's Studies Abstracts
  • Print, 1975-, Z 7962 .W66 REF COLL
Wiley Online Library
Standard & Poors NetAdvantage
Wikipedia
Web of Science
Web of Knowledge
UMM Digital Collections
  • Historical and current images of the University of Minnesota Morris
TRID (the TRIS & ITRD Database)
  • Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.  Description: TRID is a newly integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre&rsquos International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide.
Transportation Research Record
  • Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
  • Description »
Times Digital Archive
Teacher Reference Center
Student Resources in Context Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Statistical Theory & Method Abstracts
  • Print, 1966-, Z 7551 .S78 REF COLL
StarTribune Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
CAMIO
  • Description: Offers art museum images that are rights-cleared for educational use.  OCLC
Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Chicago Manual of Style Online
  • Description: The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition online. University of Chicago Press
St. Cloud Times
  • ProQuest
Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Children's Literature Review
  • Print, 1976-, Z 1037 .C45 REF COLL
SPORTDiscus
  • EBSCO. Description: Bibliographic coverage of sports-related subjects. Includes 1.7 million records going back to 1800.
Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Description: Presents news, information, articles and jobs for university professionals.  Chronicle of Higher Education
CIA World Factbook
SpringerLink
CIS Congressional Universe
SPIN
ClasePeriodica Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Sociological Abstracts
Columbia Granger World of Poetry
CommSearch 3rd Ed.
  • CD-ROM Workstation
Social Services Abstracts
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Computer Database
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection
Consumer Health Complete Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Social Sciences Full Text
Contemporary Women Issues
Scirus
Countrywatch
CQ Weekly
Science Reference Center Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Current Biography Yearbook
  • Print, 1941-, CT 100 .C8 REF COLL
EBSCOhost
Science Citation Index Expanded
SciTopics
SciFinder Scholar
ScienceXpress
Science Direct
  • Description: Offers science, medical, technical as well as social science and humanities journal and ebook chapter content.  Elsevier 1998-
Science
Royal Society of Chemistry Journals
Repositories of Primary Resources
  • University of Idaho
Regional Business News Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
  • Print, 1890-, Ref AI 3 .R48
PubMed
PLoS (Public Library of Science)
Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800)
PubChem
PsycINFO
PsycARTICLES
Database of African-American Poetry
PROLA
Dictionaries:
Dictionary of Old English
Directory of Periodicals
Discovering Collection Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Project MUSE
Dissertations & Theses
Professional Development Collection Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
EBSCO MegaFILE Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Professional Collection
  • A daily-updated custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators offers coverage in arts and humanities child and adolescent psychology and development drug/alcohol abuse health and fitness learning disabilities literature school law science and technology social sciences and sports/athletic training. Gale.
Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
EconLit
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
ProceedingsFirst
Economist Historical Archive
  • Description: Digitized archive (1843-2007) of the weekly economic newspaper. Gale
  • Description »
Primary Search Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Points of View Reference Center Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Plant Management Network
Education Full Text
  • Description:
    • Full text of articles from over 350 journals as far back as 1996
    • Indexing of over 770 periodicals dating back to 1983
    • More than 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests
    EBSCO
Educator
  • Description: Includes over 1,100 education periodicals with many full-text articles.  Gale
Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Plant Information Online
EEBO: Early English Books Online
  • Description: Contains more than 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection.  ProQuest, 1475-1700
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
PILOTS
Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Philosopher's Index
Electronic Text Research Center
  • University of Minnesota: University Libraries
Patrologia Latina Database
Emerald
Patents
Encyclopedia: Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
PAIS International
EndNote
English Short Title Catalogue
Oxford Music Online
English Poetry Database
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Bibliographies Online
English Verse Drama
Open Access Text Archive
Online Books Page
Environment Complete
OAISter Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
New York Times
Historical New York Times
ProQuest Newspapers
  • Contains over 350 state, national, and international newspaper archives. ProQuest.
Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
EBSCO eBook Collection Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service
NBER
Nature
  • (Includes over 80 publications, including Nature) Nature, 5 June 1997-
  • Description »
National Historical Geographic Information System
Music Online Reference
MUSE
MLA International Bibliography
  • Description: MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. EBSCO, 1963- Print, 1969-1996, Z 7006 .M64
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Minnesota Magazine Index
Minneapolis StarTribune Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Middle Search Plus
Middle English Compendium
  • University of Michigan, Middle English Dictionary & other resources
Merriam-Webster Online
  • Merriam-Webster, dictionary and thesaurus
ERIC Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
UMM Digital Well
  • Repository of scholarly and creative works at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
MEDLINE: PubMed
MEDLINE: MedLine Plus
MEDLINE Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
MathSciNet
MasterFILE Premier Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
MAS Ultra - School Edition Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Making of America: Making of America at University of Michigan
Making of America: Making of America at Cornell University
Literature Criticism Online
Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Junior Reference Collection
  • Gale Group
Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
JSTOR
  • Description: Includes the collections of Arts and Science, Biology, Business and General Science. Content from late 18th Century to the last few years. All full text. JSTOR.
Journal of Chemical Education
Iter
International African Bibliography
  • Print, 1979-, Z 3501 .I54 REF COLL
IngentaConnect
InfoTrac
  • Description: Search up to 11 Gale databases all at once including Expanded Academic, Computer Database and Informe. GaleGroup 1980-
Informe Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Index to Legal Periodicals
  • Print, 1967-1995, K9.N321
IEEE Xplore
ICPSR
IBA
  • (International Bibliography of Art) ProQuest, 2008-Present
  • Description »
Historical Statistics of the United States
Historical Abstracts
Higher Education Abstracts
  • Print, 1984-, Z 5814 .P8 C661 REF COLL
HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Health Source: Consumer Edition
HealthFinder
Health and Physical Activity Reference Database
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Grove Music Online
  • (See Oxford Music Online)
GreenFILE
GPO Monthly Catalog Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Google Scholar
  • Google Note:  For Blackwell Synergy items choose the Group of... link.
  • Description »
GeoScienceWorld
GeoRef
General Science Collection Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
General BusinessFile ASAP
GenderWatch
Gallup Brain
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
  • Description: A free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. Alexander Street
Footnote
First Monday
FirstSearch
Expanded Academic ASAP Electronic Libraries of Minnesota
Ethnic Newswatch
Essay & General Literature Index
  • Print, 1900-1997, AI3.E752 REF COLL
Hathi Trust Digital Library
  • Includes nearly 10 million digitized volumes of which over a million are in the public domain. 
  • Description »
Google Books
  • Includes access to millions scanned ebooks, snippets and previews.  Google.
  • Description »
Internet Archive Text Archive
  • Download free ebooks and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.Contains nearly 3 million items.  Internet Archive
  • Description »
Academic Complete (ebrary)
  • Description: Provides access to 52,000 scholarly ebooks in a variety of subjects.  ProQuest
ProQuest Databases
  • Description: Portal to the suite of ProQuest databases including PyscINFO, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, International Bibliography of Art and Dissertations & Theses. ProQuest
Brill ebooks
  • Search and browse hundreds of ebooks in subjects such as Asian Studies, Classical Studies, European History, Islamic Studies, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences.
North American Indian Thought & Culture
  • Description: Full text biographical information with 100,000 pages of content on indigenous peoples of North America. Alexander Street Press
Bibliography of Native North Americans
  • Description: Contains over 141,000 citations for books and journal articles from the U.S. and Canada covering Native American culture and history.  EBSCO
OAPEN Online Library
  • Description: OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic ebooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
European Views of the Americas
Scopus
  • Description: Over 4.6 million science anstracts and social science citations from journal and conference proceedings. Social science and humanities titles also included.  Elsevier
SciVal Funding
  • Description: SciVal Funding lists thousands of grant funding opportunities from around the world in the government, corporate and private sectors.  Elsevier
Pivot
  • Description: Pivot gives Research Administrators, Research Development Professionals, and their institutions the edge to bring together the right research opportunities, funding, and people quickly and easily.  ProQuest