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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. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota. 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. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota. Find It full text retrieval enabled 


Indexes & Databases to Articles
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Info Database Name Access Database Description
more  information AGRICOLA access  options Index to the agriculture literature
more  information America: History and Life (EBSCO) access  options Index to articles on United States and Canadian history. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information American Factfinder access  options Data from 1990 and 2000 censuses, American Community Surveys, and Economic Census 1997
more  information BioOne access  options Online access to approximately 72 bioscience research journals
more  information CHEMLIBnetBASE access  options Full text and index of over 250 chemistry and chemical engineering books.
more  information DATANET (Minnesota) access  options Statistical data on Minnesota, population, land use, crime, education, health, substance abuse, and retail sales
more  information Dissertations & Theses access  options Doctoral dissertations, including full-text of Big Ten universities from 1997 to present.
more  information eBooks on EBSCO (formerly NetLibrary) access  options 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.
more  information eHRAF World Cultures access  options Cross-cultural database with full text of books, articles, and dissertations
more  information ENVIROnetBASE access  options Full text and index of over 250 books that deal with various aspects of the environment.
more  information Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management access  options Articles and reports in all areas of terrestrial study, including pollution and ecosystems, industrial hygiene and safety science. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information FDsys (formerly GPO Access) access  options Several databases providing access to major publications of the U.S. government
more  information FEDSTATS access  options Statistics from over 70 federal agencies on demographics, business, taxation, environment, politics, crime, employment, military, climate, health, and education
more  information GeoRef access  options Comprehensive index to articles, reports, and maps in geology. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information GreenFILE access  options Covers aspects of human impact to the environment, including environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information JSTOR access  options Full text and index of over 1200 scholarly journals from various disciplines. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information Knovel Interactive Library access  options Full text and index of over 1000 engineering and science titles. Some databases are included as well as interactive tables and graphs.
more  information PAIS International access  options Indexes articles on public affairs. Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information Popline access  options Index with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.
more  information Population Index on the Web access  options Covers demography from 1986-2000; for 1937-1985, see Population Index available through JSTOR.
more  information Project Muse access  options Arts, humanities. social sciences and mathematics
more  information Science Direct (Elsevier) access  options 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.
more  information Science.gov access  options Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results.
more  information SpringerLink access  options Interdisciplinary, full-text database of Springer and Kluwer journals.
more  information Water Resources Abstracts access  options Index to articles and reports in the hydrological sciences Find It full text retrieval enabled
more  information Web of Science access  options Online versions of ISI's citation indexes--Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Find It full text retrieval enabled This database will not work in Internet Explorer 9. Please us another browser (e.g. Safari, Firefox, Chrome).

 

 

Web Sites

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms in GIS, Cartography, Remote Sensing

AGSL Digital Photo Archive

American Geographical Society

Association of American Geographers

Atlas of Canada

physical and cultural geographic maps, reference maps and archives, in jpeg or pdf.

Atlas of Minnesota

Atlas of Minnesota (via UofM)

Background Notes (countries) - U.S. State Dept.

description of 198 countries (not including U.S.A.)

Bureau of Land Management

California Geographical Survey Electronic Map Library

Cartography

Climate Analysis Branch of the Earth System Research Lab of NOAA

Coordinates (online journal of ALA Map and Geography Round Table)

Current Geographical Publications

Paper Index G 1 .C95x (also on Web)

Directions Magazine (GIS, GPS)

Encyclopedia of Earth

Energy Citations Database

Energy Information Administration

Environmental Protection Agency

Federal Geographic Data Committee

Geodata.gov

Geographic Information Sciences Laboratory

Geographic Names Information System

Geology.com

Geoscience Information Society

GIS graduate programs in US

Global Change Master Directory

Great Lakes Environmental Atlas

Harvard Map Collection

Historical Census Browser

Instantaneous Data Archive (IDA)

Map Collections: 1500-2004 -- Library of Congress - American Memory

Michigan State U. Map Library

National Atlas (U.S.)

Map Maker and Map Layers included for customized mapping

National Historical Geographic Information System

National Park Service Interactive Maps - Intermountain GIS

National Park Service Maps

NationMaster

NOAA's National Weather Service: Storm Prediction Center

North American Cartographic Information Society

Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection - University of Texas

Population Reference Bureau

Statistics Canada

terraserver

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Geological Survey

University of California - Berkeley Earth Sciences & Map Library

University of Connecticut Map and Geographic Information Center

University of Minnesota Borchert Map Library

USGS Water Data for the Nation

Visible Earth

Water Resources of the United States

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Zipskinny (zip code with U.S. Census)

 

Research Help

 

  

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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