Suggested Resources for Advocacy and Political Leadership (MAPL)

Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Political Science Abstracts (Worldwide)		Index to articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/ policy.

Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Alternative Press Index		Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
	Alternative Press Watch		Full text from alternative and independent publications.
	Business Source Premier		Provides full text for scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting and international business. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	CQ Researcher		CQ Research report offers in-depth non-biased coverage of political and social issues.
	CQ Weekly Archive (1983-2009)		CQ weekly reports nonpartisan news and analysis from Congress for the years 1983-2009.
	DATANET (Minnesota)		Statistical data on Minnesota, population, land use, crime, education, health, substance abuse, and retail sales
	Duluth News Tribune		Text of the Duluth newspaper, indexed
	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.
	FDsys (formerly GPO Access)		Several databases providing access to major publications of the U.S. government
	Government Information Resources		Links to federal, state and local government web sites and databases
	Historical New York Times Digital Archive		Full page images of the New York Times, from its first issue in 1851 to 2000. Includes digital images of every page from every issue, cover to cover, including the New York Times Book Review.
	ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)		Data sets for social sciences.
	LexisNexis Academic		Business, law, medical, news
	LexisNexis Law Reviews & Journals		Searches more than 200 law reviews and law journals concentrating on national and state issues of legal significance. Law Reviews is part of Legal Research database
	LexisNexis Legal Research		The complete combination of Federal and State caselaw provides all available caselaw in one stop, with the ability to search other legal source.
	Minneapolis Tribune (Historical Online Archive)		The Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1922) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	New York Times (NewsStand)		Access articles from the New York Times, 1999 - present. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	NewsStand		Online access to over 250 national and international newspapers. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	PAIS International		Indexes articles on public affairs.
	Proquest Congressional Publications		Guide to locating congressional publications, bills, testimony, etc
	Reference Universe		A database that searches articles in subject encyclopedias and other reference works in a wide variety of subject areas. Provides links to articles available online and library location information for those in print.
	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.
	Social Sciences Subject Search (CSA Databases)		Searches across the social science based databases UMD subscribes to through CSA.
	St. Paul Pioneer Press (Newsstand)		Articles from the St. Paul Pioneer Press. From 2010 to current. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Star Tribune (NewsStand)		Access Star Tribune articles from 1986 - present. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Statistical Abstract of the United States		Statistical tables on United States topics
	TRAN		Index on transportation and law enforcement topics.
	Wall Street Journal (NewsStand)		Access articles from the WSJ (1984 - present). Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Web of Knowledge		You can search all three of the following databases at one time: "Web of Science", "Biological Abstracts" and "BIOSIS Previews". This database will not work in Internet Explorer 9. Please us another browser (e.g. Safari, Firefox, Chrome).
	Women's Studies International		Provides access to Women's Studies core disciplines and to the latest studies in feminist research.
	WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		U.S. and International library holdings
	WorldCat.org -- Public Version		U.S. and International library holdings

 

 

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

Jodi Carlson Grebinoski, Reference Librarian

Email:jlcarlso@d.umn.edu

Phone:218-726-7880

L274

University of Minnesota

416 Library Drive

Duluth MN 55812-2495