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Academic Search Premier
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The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
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Alternative Press Index
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Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change, mostly alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
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Annual Reviews
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Provides full-text access to 13 of the 29 annual reviews (abstracts only for others) in the biomedical, physical and social sciences
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ArticleFirst
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Index of articles (from tables of contents) for journals in all fields. 1990- .
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Background Notes
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Background Notes (from the U. S. Dept. of State) are factual publications that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations. They include facts on the country's land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and its relations with other countries and the United States.
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Biography Resource Center
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Biography Resource Center includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals, as well as from Gale biographical sources. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
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Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities
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Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Business, Education, and Psychology - This database is a directory of thousands of journals in Business (accounting, economics & finance, management, and marketing), Education (Curriculum & Methods, and Educational Psychology & Administration), and Psychology. Individual journal records (in PDF format) include contact information for each journal; information on the journal’s topical scope, peer review processes, circulation data, and acceptance rate; and manuscript submission guidelines.
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ChoiceReviews Online
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CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
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Published weekly, The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators.
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Consumers Index
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Index of articles providing consumer information. 1989- .
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Contemporary Authors
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Biographical, publication information & references about US & international authors. Current.
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Country Commercial Guides
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Country Commercial Guides: Present a comprehensive look at all aspects of doing business in another country, including the economic, political, social, and legal environment.
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CQ Researcher
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Original in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each 13,000-word CQ Researcher report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist.
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CQ Weekly
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CQ Weekly, Congressional Quarterly's flagship publication was established in 1945 to be the publication of record on Congress . In 2005 it has expanded its editorial horizons to cover not only Congress but all the forces that shape legislation—the White House, federal agencies, business & industry, states, courts and K Street. A new mission evolved — to be the “magazine of government, commerce and politics.”
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Discovering Collection
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Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.
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Dissertations and Theses
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Definitive guide to more than 2 million U.S. doctoral dissertations and master’s theses from 1861 to the present, as well as thousands of international dissertations and theses. For recent publications, the first 24 pages can be viewed freely, and the full text can be purchased online.
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Online version of the respected 10 volume Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Detailed information on people, ideas, and moral questions.
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Ethnic Newswatch
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Full text newspapers, magazines & journals from the ethnic, minority & native press. 1990- .
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Euromonitor Global Market Information Database
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Euromonitor's GMID includes market research on countries, markets, and companies.
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Europa World Plus
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Europa World Plus covers economic and political information in more than 250 countries and territories.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
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Indexing, abstracts (summaries) or full text for articles from a large selection of scholarly & general interest publications. Strongest in humanities, social sciences, non-technical general sciences & current events. 1980- .
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Factiva
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Full text of thousands of business, trade, & news publications; includes Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times. Also includes indexing & abstracts (with some full text) for large collection of general & academic journals. Updates/coverage vary.
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FactSearch
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Facts & statistics on topics of current interest. 1984- .
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Full-text encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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General Reference Center Gold
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Indexes scholarly & general interest material; includes newspaper articles & reference sources. Subjects include politics & current events, consumer electronics, arts & entertainment, crime, personal finances, etc. 1980- .
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GPO Monthly Catalog
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Index to US government publications. 1976- .
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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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Online site for quality reference information on music and musicians, it includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, as well as full-text articles and numerous links to other web information.
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History Cooperative
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The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship. Besides full text, the site also contains collateral content, including multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in the print versions of some articles.
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Industry Sector Analysis Reports
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Industry Sector Analysis Reports: In-depth profiles of a selected industry subsector in various countries.
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Informe
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A collection of hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.
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InfoTrac OneFile
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Humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, etc.; includes some full text. 1980-
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International Marketing Insight Reports
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Short profiles of specific foreign market conditions or opportunities. These reports mainly focus on specific projects, industry profiles, finance and marketing trends, regulation and import changes, trade show opportunities, or government policy updates.
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JSTOR
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The Arts & Sciences collections represent the building blocks of a single interdisciplinary archive of over 300 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. For most titles, coverage is from the first issue of the journal up to the last three to five years.
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LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
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Full text of US & world news, company and financial news & information, industry & market data, state/country profiles, biographical, directory, legislative, legal & medical information. Updates/coverage vary.
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LEXIS-NEXIS Reference
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General reference sources: biographical information, country/state profiles, opinion polls, quotations & the World Almanac.
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Literature Resource Center
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Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
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Masterfile Premier
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This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 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 more than 350 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,132 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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Megafile
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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. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
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Minnesota Fact Book
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Detailed directory information on more than 2,500 of Minnesota's larger public, private, and nonprofit companies, including descriptions, summary financials, company contacts, and recent events. Can search various ways and download data.
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NetLibrary
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Collection of electronic books available to UST. Create an account to "check out" books although books can be previewed without login.
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New York Times (Historical)
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The historical backfile of the New York Times (1851 - 2001) presented in cover-to-cover full page images. The database includes access to the complete newspaper including articles, editorials and reviews, classified and display ads, photographs and other graphics, comics and editorial cartoons.
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OAIster Digital Resources
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Freely available, academically oriented digital resources that include online books, full-text journals, sound files, images, movies and reference texts.
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Origins Plus
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Origins is a documentary service brought to you by CNS - Catholic News Service.
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Oxford English Dictionary
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.
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Oxford Reference Online Premium
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The Oxford Reference Online contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, and Oxford Companions on art, biology, business, classics, computing, environmental science, economics, history, language, law, literature, medicine, physical science, political science, quotations, religion and philosophy, and science.
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Papers First
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Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. 1993- .
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Pioneer Press
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The web site for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Provides access to the daily content of the local newspaper. (Use the Pioneer Press Archives link to get full-text access to the archives.)
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Pioneer Press Archives
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Searchable full-text archives of the Pioneer Press from 1988 to the present. Does not include the current week's articles.
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Project Muse
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Full-text subscription access to over 150 journals; strongest in the humanities.
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Proquest Newsstand Complete
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Full-text access to hundreds of newspapers including The Star Tribune (1986-), The New York Times (1999-), The Wall Street Journal (1984-), and The Washington Post (1987-).
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Regional Business News
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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.
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ScienceDirect
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ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection covering a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines. Over 1,200 journal titles with full text access to the over 600 subscribed to by Minnesota Libraries. Coverage is from 1995 to the present.
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Serials Directory
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The Serials Directory, 14th Edition, provides access to current bibliographic, pricing and contact information for almost 200,000 U.S. and international serials.
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StatUSA
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International & domestic data & statistics from federal agencies; includes National Trade Data Bank, Country Commercial Guides, Economic Bulletin Board (Commerce Business Daily, etc.). Current.
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TableBase
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Tabular data on companies, industries, products, markets; international scope. Data from privately published statistics, trade associations, research groups, government agencies, international organizations, industry reports by investment groups & publications in the Business & Industry database (see). 1998- .
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Washington Post (Historical)
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The historical backfile of the Washington Post (1877 - 1990) presented in cover-to-cover full page images. The database includes access to the complete newspaper including articles, editorials and reviews, classified and display ads, photographs and other graphics, comics and editorial cartoons.
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World Factbook
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The U.S. government’s complete geographical handbook, featuring 268 full-color maps and flags of all nations and geographical entities. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data. From the CIA.
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WorldCat
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World’s largest catalog of books & other materials, in thousands of libraries.
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