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Indexes & Databases to Articles
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Info Database Name Access Database Description
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information Academic OneFile  Access  options  Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Find It full text retrieval enabled  
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information Academic Search Premier  Access  options  Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Find It full text retrieval enabled  
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information Informe  Access  options  A collection of Spanish language magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects. 
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information LexisNexis Academic  Access  options  This database compiles, among other things, the full text of hundreds of foreign language newspapers and magazines. Go to "News," select "Non-English Language News," select the language you're working in and then do your search using non-english keywords. 
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information MLA International Bibliography (Proquest CSA)  Access  options  Index to articles on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Find It full text retrieval enabled 


Indexes & Databases to Articles
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Info Database Name Access Database Description
more  information Art Full Text access  options Indexes and provides abstracts for articles in a wide range of journals in fine arts, art history, architecture, graphic design, photography, and other art-related fields. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information Arts and Humanities Citation Index access  options Index to articles in arts and humanities fields. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information ARTstor access  options ARTstor contains curated collections of art images and associated data. There are approximately 300,000 images in the database at the present time. Special features include the ability to create sets of images and contextual information to use and share and access to a special off-line image viewer/organizer.
more  information Contemporary Authors access  options Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 100,000 U.S. and international authors
more  information Dictionary of Literary Biography access  options Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
more  information Discovering Authors access  options Biographical and bibliographical information and references on 380 authors in North American curricula, including international authors.
more  information Grove Art Online access  options Encyclopedia of visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present
more  information Grove Music Online access  options Scholarly encyclopedia of over 29,000 articles about music and musicians
more  information Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) access  options Index to articles on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada). Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information IIMP access  options IIMP is an index to articles about music, covering 1874 to the present and covering a range of popular magazines and scholarly journals. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information International Index to the Performing Arts access  options Index to articles covering dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast arts, and more. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information ITER Bibliography access  options Index to articles, monographs, essays, and dissertations on the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
more  information ITER Italicum access  options Finding list of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world.
more  information JSTOR access  options Full text of over 100 periodicals from first issue. A tutorial is available
more  information LLBA (Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts) access  options Index to citations and abstracts about the nature and use of language. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information Naxos Music Library access  options Over 5000 cds are available. By using Windows Media Player, you can access any of the recordings. Mostly classical music is available but there is a substantial collection of jazz and world music as well.
more  information OECD Publications (also known as SourceOECD) access  options Online full-text of all publications and serials from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) from 1998 to present; also contains a large collection of data sets
more  information PAIS International access  options Public affairs, political science, international studies, economics, and many related fields.
more  information Patrologia Latina Online access  options Texts on Medieval philosophy, theology, history, and literature
more  information Political Science Abstracts (Worldwide) access  options Index to articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/ policy Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information Project Muse access  options Covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
more  information RefWorks access  options An online bibliographic management tool
more  information Russian/NIT Publications Online access  options 30 Russian newspapers accessible for browsing, searching and analyzing
more  information WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty access  options U.S. and International library holdings

 

 

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For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:


Rory Litwin, Reference Librarian
Email:rlitwin@d.umn.edu
Phone:218 726-7896
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