Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence (Sage)
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/eoiv

Provides accurate, research-supported information to clarify critical issues and educate the public about different forms of interpersonal violence, their incidence and prevalence, theoretical explanations, public policy initiatives, and prevention and intervention strategies. These two volumes contain more than 500 accessible, jargon-fee entries written by experts and provide cross-references to related entries, as well as suggested readings for further information.

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BuildingGreen Suite
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/buildinggreen

BuildingGreen is "an independent company committed to providing accurate, unbiased, and timely information designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve the environmental performance, and reduce the adverse impacts, of buildings." The goal of its database suite is "to help you design and build construction projects from a whole-systems perspective and take an integrated design approach that minimizes ecological impact and maximizes economic performance."

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Aluka
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/aluka

Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. The Aluka website includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka’s partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides.

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Illustrata - Natural Sciences (CSA)
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/illustrata

Searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature. Search results – the objects – can be viewed in full, in either thumbnail or enhanced format along with the caption, author and source information, and additional index terms that can be used for further searching. A link back to the parent record provides a summary view of all the objects associated with that paper.

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Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index (EBSCO)
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/glahi_ebsco

A resource for access to articles about gardens and plants. Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design & history. Indexed and abstracted are more than 430 core titles, the majority of which are published in English.

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Black Historical Newspapers (Proquest)

• Atlanta Daily World: 1931-2003: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15432
  
• Chicago Defender (1905 - 1975): http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15440
  
• Los Angeles Sentinel: 1934-2005: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15436
  
• New York Amsterdam News: 1922-1993: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15437
  
• Pittsburgh Courier: 1911-2002: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15439
  

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Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/sp_animalconferences

Proceedings from major animal production conferences held in the U.S. and Canada.

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Oxford Scholarship Online - Music Collection
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/osomc

The new music list in Oxford Scholarship Online represents outstanding work across this diversity of music scholarship, covering significant titles in musicology and music history, ethnomusicology, and music theory. Contributions of bright young academics and eminent scholars, classic works and major recent titles, award-winners and fundamental texts, all stand together in this collection.

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