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Indexes
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Good places to start your research ...
| Info | Database Name | Access | Database Description |
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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 ...
| Info | Database Name | Access | Database Description |
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| AGRICOLA | Index to the agriculture literature | ||
| America: History and Life (EBSCO) | Index to articles on United States and Canadian history. ![]() | ||
| American Factfinder | Data from 1990 and 2000 censuses, American Community Surveys, and Economic Census 1997 | ||
| BioOne | Online access to approximately 72 bioscience research journals | ||
| CHEMLIBnetBASE | Full text and index of over 250 chemistry and chemical engineering books. | ||
| DATANET (Minnesota) | Statistical data on Minnesota, population, land use, crime, education, health, substance abuse, and retail sales | ||
| Dissertations & Theses | Doctoral dissertations, including full-text of Big Ten universities from 1997 to present. | ||
| 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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| eHRAF World Cultures | Cross-cultural database with full text of books, articles, and dissertations | ||
| ENVIROnetBASE | Full text and index of over 250 books that deal with various aspects of the environment. | ||
| Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management | Articles and reports in all areas of terrestrial study, including pollution and ecosystems, industrial hygiene and safety science. ![]() | ||
| FDsys (formerly GPO Access) | Several databases providing access to major publications of the U.S. government | ||
| FEDSTATS | Statistics from over 70 federal agencies on demographics, business, taxation, environment, politics, crime, employment, military, climate, health, and education | ||
| GeoRef | Comprehensive index to articles, reports, and maps in geology. ![]() | ||
| GreenFILE | Covers aspects of human impact to the environment, including environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments. ![]() | ||
| JSTOR | Full text and index of over 1200 scholarly journals from various disciplines. ![]() | ||
| Knovel Interactive Library | Full text and index of over 1000 engineering and science titles. Some databases are included as well as interactive tables and graphs. | ||
| PAIS International | Indexes articles on public affairs.
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| Popline | Index with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. | ||
| Population Index on the Web | Covers demography from 1986-2000; for 1937-1985, see Population Index available through JSTOR. | ||
| Project Muse | Arts, humanities. social sciences and mathematics | ||
| 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. | ||
| Science.gov | 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. | ||
| SpringerLink | Interdisciplinary, full-text database of Springer and Kluwer journals. | ||
| Water Resources Abstracts | Index to articles and reports in the hydrological sciences
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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). |
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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