Academic Search Premier (accessible via this link if off campus)
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Access to Archival Databases
Access to over 85 million historic electronic records created by more than 30 agencies of the U.S. federal government and from collections of donated historical materials.

African Journal Online (abstracts only-no full articles)
AJOL is a database of journals published in Africa, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The journals selected for inclusion on AJOL are:
• Scholarly in content, and contain original research (in addition to other content)
• Their content is peer reviewed and quality controlled
• They are published within the African continent.

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library has books and articles online related to agriculture.

AIDSinfo
AIDSinfo, a service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, offers information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and research.

ALLDATA (This database is only available on campus.)
ALLDATA provides OE automotive repair information, wiring diagrams, latest Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs), Recalls, comprehensive trouble codes, vehicle specifications, component locations and more.

Almisbah
The Middle East Virtual Library (MENALIB) is an information portal for Middle East and Islamic Studies. It provides access to online information and to digital records of printed and other offline media and thus supports the concept of a hybrid library for Middle East and Islamic Studies.

American Memory
Library of Congress’s American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

American Verse Project
The Project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.

BioMed Central
BioMed Central's portfolio of over 130 journals includes general titles such as Journal of Biology alongside specialist journals (e.g. BMC Bioinformatics, Malaria Journal) that focus on particular disciplines . All the research published by BioMed Central's journals is open access, but BioMed Central also provides access to various additional products and services that require a subscription. For example, certain BioMed Central journals such as Genome Biology publish commissioned review content available only to subscribers.

Business Source Premier (accessible via this link if off campus)
This is the industry's most used business research database, providing the full text for nearly 8,200 serials. Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Civil Engineering Database (CEDB)
The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) is designed to provide easy bibliographic access to all ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) publications. The database covers all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. Journal papers with abstracts go back to 1970. Non-abstract journal records go back to 1958. The book records are complete dating back to the early 1900s. The database is constantly expanded and enriched.

CPANDA (Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive)
CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive, is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. A collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, CPANDA is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts (http://www.pewtrusts.org).

CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a biomedical database system containing information on research projects and programs supported by the Department of Health and Human Services. Most of the research falls within the broad category of extramural projects, grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements conducted primarily by universities, hospitals, and other research institutions; and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government agencies.

CQ Researcher (accessible via this link if off campus)
The award-winning CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science & technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Every 12,000-word report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles - plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts - round out each report. The CQ Researcher Web site offers online access to issues dating back to October 25, 1991. Adobe PDF files are available for full issues dating back to January 1996; for issues published since January 2001, Adobe PDF files are in color.

Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2411 journals in the directory. Currently 708 journals are searchable at article level. As of 10/12/2006, 119608 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

Discovering Collection (accessible via this link if off campus)
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.

Education Open Access journals
Open access journals in the field of education. Includes only links to electronic journals that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

Free Medical Journals
The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet. It contains 1460+ journals sorted by specialty and title, and you can also sign up to receive free e-mail updates for new articles.

Film Literature Index
The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles.

HealthWeb
HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. It provides organized access to evaluated non-commercial, health-related, Internet-accessible resources. The resources include those currently available as well as new resources developed in collaboration with other organizations. The interface integrates educational information so the user has a one-stop entry point to learn skills and use material relevant to their discipline.

HighWire Press life science articles
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, life science peer-reviewed content, with 997 journals and 1,444,714 free, full-text articles online. With our partner publishers we produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals.

¡Informe! (English version) (accessible via this link if off campus)
¡Informe! (Spanish version) (accessible via this link if off campus)
Informe was created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, providing indexing, images, and full-text of popular Hispanic magazines - not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users.

International Monetary Fund publications
The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 184 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty. The site contains searchable statistics, papers, and other documents.

MnPALS Catalog
Look up and find books, videos, and other items in our library or any library in the MnPALS system.

LookSmart’s FindArticles
FindArticles has articles from thousands of resources, with archives dating back to 1984. That means you get to search for exactly what you need, from millions of articles not found on any other search engine.

Making of America
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

MasterFile Premier (accessible via this link if off campus)
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags.

MegaFile (accessible via this link if off campus)
EBSCO MegaFILE is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 12,000 total publications and indexing & abstracting for more than 16,000 publications. Coverage spans every area of academic study and general interest subject area and offers information dating as far back as the 1800s. In addition, the database contains more than 84,000 biographies, 86,000 primary source documents, 10,000 company profiles and an image collection of more than 107,000 photos, maps and flags. MegaFILE is comprised of EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier and Regional Business News databases.

Medline Plus
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

Minnesota Reflections
Minnesota Reflections brings you over 10,000 images and documents shared by over sixty cultural heritage organizations across the state. This site offers a broad view of Minnesota's history for researchers, educators, students, and the public.

Minnesota History
The site for the Minnesota Historical Society has searchable articles and collections pertaining to all aspects of Minnesota history. Minnesota History Magazine Index (search here, then find the issue in our stacks) This is a searchable index to Minnesota History Magazine. Find what issue your subject is in, and then find that issue in our library.

Mitchell1 OnDemand (accessible only on campus)
Mitchell OnDemand has automobile technical repair information, wiring diagrams, a labor and parts time estimator, technical service bulletins, maintenance schedules, and a quote generator.

MNLink/ELM (accessible via this link if off campus)
The Minnesota Library Information Network (MnLINK) is a statewide virtual library that electronically links you to Minnesota's rich library resources. MnLINK has the entire Minnesota state catalog, as well as numerous databases. Click on “Search the MnLINK Gateway” on the left of the screen when you reach the site.

NewsBank (accessible via this link if off campus)
NewsBank has full-text newspaper articles from around the world, as well as transcripts of news programs. Articles are even searchable by country, region, or state.

NLM Gateway
The National Library of Medicine Gateway is a Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases. It is being developed by the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Click here for a full listing of resources searchable under NLM.

OCLC WorldCat (accessible via this link if off campus)
Enables you to search for material in libraries all over the world. A cooperative database of bibliographic records contributed by libraries, making it the world's largest, most complete, and most consulted library union catalog. To make interlibrary loans on anything you see in WorldCat you must use MNLink www.mnlink.org.

Professional Collection (InfoTrac) (access is via this link if off campus)
A custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators, updated daily. Topics include Arts and Humanities, Child and Adolescent Psychology and Development, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Health/Nutrition/Fitness, Learning Disabilities, Literature, School Law, Science and Technology, Social Sciences, and Sports/Athletic Training.

ProQuest Newspapers (accessible via this link if off campus)
Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.

Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. They are complete books, freely available to read online, and fully searchable.

PsycArticles (accessible via this link if off campus)
PsycARTICLES™ is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists.

PubMed
PubMed contains life science, as well as other science articles.. In addition to MEDLINE citations, PubMed also contains:
• OLDMEDLINE for pre-1966 citations.
• Citations to articles that are out-of-scope (e.g., covering plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and general chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE.
• In-process citations which provide a record for an article before it is indexed with MeSH and added to MEDLINE or converted to out-of-scope status.
• Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing (when supplied electronically by the publisher).

Some life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral® and may not have been recommended for inclusion in MEDLINE although they have undergone a review by NLM, and some physics journals that were part of a prototype PubMed in the early to mid-1990's. Other PubMed services include:
• Links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources
• A clinical queries search filter
• Links to see citations to related articles
• Single citation matcher
• The ability to save and automatically update searches
• A spell checker
• Filters to group search results

RCSB Protein Data Bank
The RCSB (Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics) PDB provides a variety of tools and resources for studying the structures of biological macromolecules and their relationships to sequence, function, and disease. The RCSB is a member of the wwPDB (WorldWide Protein Databank) whose mission is to ensure that the PDB archive remains an international resource with uniform data. This site offers tools for browsing, searching, and reporting that utilize the data resulting from ongoing efforts to create a more consistent and comprehensive archive.

Regional Business News (accessible via this link if off campus)
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Sirs Researcher (accessible via this link if off campus)
A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles and graphics are selected from 1,500 domestic and international publications and are indexed primarily according to Library of Congress subject headings. A great place to start for a research paper because of their “Top 10” Pro vs. Con topics, and their “Leading Issues” list that helps you find a research topic.

Toxline
TOXNET®, a collection of toxicology and environmental health databases that includes the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB®), a database of potentially hazardous chemicals, TOXLINE® (containing references to the world's toxicology literature), and ChemIDplus (a chemical dictionary and structure database). TOXMAP (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/) is a web site that uses maps of the United States to show the amount and location of certain toxic chemicals released into the environment. WISER (http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov) is a PDA application designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. Haz-Map® (http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov) links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms. SIS also produces DIRLINE® (http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/), a directory of organizations and other resources in health and biomedicine and Health Hotlines®(http://healthhotlines.nlm.nih.gov/), a database of health-related organizations operating toll-free telephone services.

UNESDOC/UNESBIB
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization documents and publications. UNESCO deploys its action in the fields of Education, Natural Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Culture, Communication and Information.

UniProt (Universal Protein Resource)
UniProt (Universal Protein Resource) is the world's most comprehensive catalog of information on proteins. It is a central repository of protein sequence and function created by joining the information contained in Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, and PIR. UniProt is comprised of three components, each optimized for different uses. The UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB) is the central access point for extensive curated protein information, including function, classification, and cross-reference. The UniProt Reference Clusters (UniRef) databases combine closely related sequences into a single record to speed searches. The UniProt Archive (UniParc) is a comprehensive repository, reflecting the history of all protein sequences. The sequences and information in UniProt are accessible via text search, BLAST similarity search, and FTP.

WDI (World Development Indicators) Data Query
World Development Indicators (WDI) publication is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The WDI includes more than 900 indicators in over 80 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.

World Bank documents
Documents & Reports, previously known as World Development Sources (WDS) contains more than 27,000 World Bank documents. Browsing or searching provides access to the documents in both text and downloadable .pdf format. Most documents are also available in depository libraries around the world. You can browse through the documents by country, type, or sector. The types of documents you will find include:
• Analytical & Advisory Work: These provide in-depth background, strategic priorities, and direction for lending activities.
• Project Documents: When a loan is made, various documents are released to the public according to the stage in the project cycle.
• Publications & Research: Formal publications, working papers & informal series are provided here from departments around the Bank.