Suggested Resources for Urban & Regional Studies
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Password protected; ONLY UMD students, faculty and staff both on and off campus. Indexes
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Academic OneFile |  |
Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.  |
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Academic Search Premier | |
Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota. |
Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...
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America: History and Life (EBSCO) | |
Index to articles on United States and Canadian history. |
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American Factfinder |  |
Data from 1990 and 2000 censuses, American Community Surveys, and Economic Census 1997 |
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Census | |
Information on how to find data from Census 2000 and earlier censuses |
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Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) | |
Codified version of United States regulatory laws, executive orders and proclamations, and selected presidential documents |
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DATANET (Minnesota) | |
Statistical data on Minnesota, population, land use, crime, education, health, substance abuse, and retail sales |
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Dissertations & Theses | |
Master and doctoral dissertations, including full-text of any CIC university from 1997 to present. Click here for a list of CIC schools. |
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eBooks on EBSCO (formerly NetLibrary) | |
Full text and index of over 12,000 electronic books covering a wide range of topics and intellectual levels. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
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EconLit | |
EconLit, the American Economic Association’s electronic database, is the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 1,010,900 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics. |
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ENVIROnetBASE | |
Full text and index of over 700 books that deal with various aspects of the environment. |
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Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management | |
Articles and reports in all areas of terrestrial study, including pollution and ecosystems, industrial hygiene and safety science. |
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FDsys (formerly GPO Access) | |
Several databases providing access to major publications of the U.S. government |
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FEDSTATS | |
Statistics from over 70 federal agencies on demographics, business, taxation, environment, politics, crime, employment, military, climate, health, and education |
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JSTOR | |
Full text and index of over 1200 scholarly journals from various disciplines. |
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LexisNexis Academic | |
Business, law, medical, news |
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Minnesota Northstar | |
Official web site for the state of Minnesota |
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PAIS International | |
Indexes articles on public affairs.
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Population Index on the Web | |
Covers demography from 1986-2000; for 1937-1985, see Population Index available through JSTOR. |
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Project Muse | |
Arts, humanities. social sciences and mathematics |
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SAGE Premier | |
Provides access to 485+ SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences, with backfile to 1999. |
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Science Direct (Elsevier) | |
Full text of selected journals and selected reference books published by Elsevier. Full text indexing available for all Elsevier journals from v. 1, issue 1. |
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Sociological Abstracts | |
Indexes articles in sociology and social policy. |
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SpringerLink | |
Interdisciplinary index of Springer and Kluwer journals and books. Includes select full-text. |
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Statistical Abstract of the United States | |
Statistical tables on United States topics |
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TRAN | |
Index on transportation and law enforcement topics. |
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TRID | |
TRID combines (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. |
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Web of Science | |
Online versions of ISI's citation indexes--Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. This database will not work in Internet Explorer 9. Please us another browser (e.g. Safari, Firefox, Chrome). |
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Wiley Online Library | |
Index and select full-text of journals and books published by John Wiley & Sons. |
Web Sites
For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:
Pam Enrici, Reference Librarian Email:penrici@d.umn.edu Phone:218-726-8586 L278 University of Minnesota Duluth Library 416 Library Drive Duluth MN 55812-2495
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