The following is a list of resources to help you find the information you need at Briggs Library. A great place to start is the Library Introduction where you will be invited to explore our Pounce catalog, learn how to find materials in the library, access Your Account, and even use other library catalogs to locate just what you need.
- If you have any questions, please contact instruction coordinator at Briggs Library.
- Library Introduction
- An overview of the Pounce library catalog, how to find library materials, call numbers, Your Account, and other library catalogs such as MN-CAT and WorldCat.
- Building a Search Strategy
- Find out how to generate search terms, use limiters as well as Boolean and other advanced searching techniques in library databases.
- Database Searching Examples (Academic Search Premier, Expanded Academic, and JSTOR)
- Briggs Library subscribes to more than 140 licensed databases. Learn how to search in a few of the most comprehensive ones.
- EndNote Import and Export Instructions (Windows based)
- Learn how to import and export citations in the EndNote software.
- EndNote User’s Guide
- Briggs Library subscribes to a campuswide license for the bibliographic software EndNote. Use it to organize your research sources, create bibliographies and footnotes using thousands of citation styles. Download EndNote »
- Evaluating Sources
- Learn how to tell if sources are valid and reliable.
- Evaluating A Website
- Websites aren’t all the same. Learn how to tell the good ones from the bad, so you can make the right choice on research papers.
- Interlibrary Loan
- If there’s a book, article, or some other item that you need and Briggs Library doesn't have it, don't worry. All you have to do is request the material through interlibrary loan. We can obtain items from all over the world. Learn how you can get what you need fast.
- Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
- Discover the differences between these types of sources and what it means for your research
- Research QuickStart
- Where do you start when the library holds thousands of books and subscribes to thousands of online journals and provides access to hundreds of databases? Research QuickStart. Learn how to make it work for you.
- Scholarly vs. Popular Materials
- How do you tell the difference between a popular magazine and a scholarly journal? It's easier than you think.
- Academic Search Premier
- Offers scholarly and popular articles from thousands of journals and magazines in a wide array of subjects.
- ACS Web Editions
- Provides access to the 34 peer-reviewed publications of the American Chemical Society. Includes more than 750,000 articles spanning 130-plus years. Learn how to search this database.
- America: History and Life
- United States and Canadian history. Includes more than 1,700 indexed journals.
- Anthropology Plus
- Provides indexes and abstracts for anthropology and archaeology. Includes Harvard University's Anthropological Literature database as well as the United Kingdom's Anthropological Index. Limit of one simultaneous user.
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index
- AHSearch indexes more than 5,500 sources for articles and reviews from leading arts and humanities journals.
- Art Full Text
- Provides access to more than 500 journals with nearly 200 available in full text. Find out how to search this database.
- BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
- Provides indexes and abstracts for art books as well as proceedings, exhibitions, dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 4,300 periodicals.
- BioOne
- BioOne is a nonprofit organization offering peer-reviewed full-text journal articles in STM fields.
- BioOne via CSA
- Full-text articles and books in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
- BIOSIS Previews
- Learn how to search this comprehensive source for life sciences and biomedical research content from nearly 6000 journals.
- Communication and Mass Media Complete
- Provides more than 460 journals (350 of them fill text) in the area of mass media and communication.
- ERIC via CSA
- Created and maintained by the United States Department of Education, ERIC provides access to educational literature.
- Iter
- A not-for-profit research project offering resources of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
JSTOR- Provides access to hundreds of scholarly journals all in full text from the late 18th century to the last few years. Learn how to search this archival database.
- Lexis Nexis
- Includes Academic, Congressional, and Statistical. Provides access to newspaper articles, congressional records, statistical tables and court decisions. Learn how to search all three of these LexisNexis databases.
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Produced by the Modern Language Association, MLA International Bibliography includes 1.8 million citations from more than 4,000 journals and book publishers, as well as full-text articles.
- MNCAT
- Includes all of the University of Minnesota library catalogs. Learn how to use this resource.
- New York Times Historical
- Search Current New York Times (1980-Current) and Historical New York Times (Sept. 18, 1851-Dec. 31, 2004).
- Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)
- Contains more than 625,000 records from 1972–present on social science topics such as finance, culture, the environment, government, human rights, and international relations.
- Philosopher’s Index
- Contains more than 436,000 records in the philosophy field from 550 publications.
- Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (PILOTS)
- Provides citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder.
- PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES
- Make these two premier psychology databases work for you.
- PubMed
- Provides access to biomedical journal citations and abstracts, including MEDLINE. Learn how to search this free governmental resource.
- Science Direct
- Offers more than 25 percent of the world's science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information. Find out how you can search it.
- Social Services Abstracts/Sociological Abstracts
- Social Services Abstracts provides current research in social work and the human services. It includes nearly 150,000 records from 1979–present. Sociological Abstracts surveys the sociology literature with more than one million citations going back to 1952.
- United States Government Documents User Guide
- Explains the SuDocs classification system, how to search and locate government documents as well as citation instructions.
- Web of Science
- Includes Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index as well as the Cited Reference Search tool. Learn how to search this database.
- Wiley Interscience
- Provides access to more than three million articles from more than 1,400 science-related journal titles.
- WorldCat
- A global catalog comprised of thousands of libraries. Learn how to search this powerful resource.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Offers abstracts, indexes, and citations from political science serials.
