Using a source in an unusual way can be the spark or inspiration for your next great research paper. The Libraries now have access to the Vogue Archive with every story, every dress, every advertisement from 1892 to today.

Vogue magazine? I am not a Design student, so how can I use that in a paper? There are many ways to use an extensive archive like Vogue. A few ideas:

• Interpret the style of a given decade or time period


• Analyze the advertisements from a specific time period like 1920


• Discuss the effect of events like the Great Depression or World War II on mainstream media


• Examine gender stereotypes


• Analyze the style of specific journalists


• Compare and contrast designers


• Critique a marketing campaign for a given product


• Discuss the changes of race in stories or ads


• Assess the effectiveness of public health campaigns

Give it a try today!

Posted by Marlo Welshons at 11:31 AM | Permalink

JAMA & Archives Backfiles
http://www.backfiles.org/index.html

This unusually rich digital archive features landmark articles that played a pivotal role in shaping the last century of medical research, clinical practice, and public health.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 11:28 AM | Permalink

Audit Bureau of Circulations
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/16147

Media audit reports, publisher's statements, and analysis tools.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:26 AM | Permalink

Accounting Research Manager -- add-ons: Internal Controls, Government Accounting Standards
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/accountingresearchmanager

A comprehensive financial reporting knowledge base. Updated daily, it aims to help reduce the amount of time you spend conducting accounting and auditing research while enhancing the quality of your results; find insightful interpretations on GAAP, GAAS and Securities and Exchange Commission rules; keep up-to-date on current accounting, SEC, auditing, and government projects that may affect your company.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:22 AM | Permalink

Royal Society of New Zealand e-journals (selected titles)
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/rsnz

Current issues of selected titles available. Back issues of all journals from 2003 are freely available in PDF format. Remaining issues to Volume 1 of each journal are being scanned and converted to PDF files progressively.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:59 AM | Permalink

Congressional Research Digital Collection - Prospective Service
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/16133

The LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) provides full-text access to more than 5,000 Congressional committee prints published from 2004 to present and more than 23,000 Congressional Research Service reports published from 2004-present. The bibliographic records provide controlled-vocabulary indexing, including citations for bills, public laws, and Statutes at Large, and analytical abstracts of the documents. Also includes links to political parties and organizations, news sources, etc. See Overview/Help for useful information on the legislative process.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:55 AM | Permalink

Gale Virtual Reference Titles
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/11144

Includes: Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary; Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990; Business Plans Handbook; Contemporary Novelists; Contemporary Poets; Dictionary of American History; Encyclopedia of American Industries; Encyclopedia of World Biography; St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture; Ancient Europe - 8000 BC to 1000 AD: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World; Encyclopedia of European Social History; Encyclopedia of Modern Europe - Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction; Europe - 1450 to 1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World; Europe - 1789 to 1914: An Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:35 AM | Permalink

Frost & Sullivan Market Research Reports
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/16100

Frost & Sullivan's 1800 analysts and consultants cover more than 300 markets and 250,000 companies. The Libraries' subscription covers: * Market Engineering * Technical Insights * Economic Research and Analysis * Financial Benchmarking and Analysis * Analyst Briefings * Market Insights. It does not not include Stratecast Research.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 11:41 AM | Permalink

Religious and Theological Abstracts
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15992

Summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals, covering a wide variety of periodical literature including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions. Provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:15 AM | Permalink

JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets Collection
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/participate/other/britishPamphlets.jsp

This project, conceived by the Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and funded by the JISC Digitisation Programme, preserves and provides online access to the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 12:45 PM | Permalink

Electronic Enlightenment
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15964

Major correspondence centred on the "long 18th century," supporting critical apparatus, and additional research carried out by EE.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:08 AM | Permalink

Olms Online Reprints and Messkataloge
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15966

Book-trade catalogues, generally referred to as book fair catalogues, offer a unique overview of German and European book production over a period of nearly 300 years (1594-1860). These are also reprints with new introductions, afterwords, notes or indexes added by the editors. Here you will find some 400 volumes with a focus on German language and literature and on philosophy.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:04 AM | Permalink

JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Collection
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/archives/collections.jsp

JSTOR offers multi-disciplinary and discipline-specific collections that include complete runs of journals as well as select monographs, transactions, and conference proceedings. JSTOR also offers a small set of additional collections providing access to primary and secondary research materials including: pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, oral histories, government documents, images, 3-D models, and more.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:54 AM | Permalink

Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Elsevier)
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15874

A comprehensive resource on the essence, complexity, diversity and importance of the inland waters (lakes, ponds, rivers, streams and wetlands) of the Earth. This major reference work summarizes current knowledge and captures the excitement of the subject, from the distribution of water on Earth to properties of water, from the hydrologic cycle to the physics of water movement in lakes and rivers, from the aesthetic values to the problems of water-borne disease, from metabolism of aquatic ecosystems to behavior of aquatic organisms, from pollution to conservation, from diversity of organisms to diversity and cycling of chemicals, and so forth.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:27 AM | Permalink

Jazz Music Library
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15849

Jazz Music Library includes such major labels as Verve, Impulse, Jazzology, Black Swan, Circle Records, Paramount, Concord, Fantasy, Milestone, Monterey Jazz Festival Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, Peak, Prestige, Riverside, Stretch Records, and Original Jazz Classics.* The list of artists ranges from Buddy Guy, Charlie Parker, Chuck Mangione, Dinah Washington, Diana Krall, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Grover Washington, Jr., Les Paul, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, and Peggy Lee, to Quincy Jones, Ramsey Lewis, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Billie Holliday, Thelonius Monk, Tony Bennett, and many others.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:26 AM | Permalink

U.S. University Science Indicators
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15853

Summary publication and citation statistics during the years 1981-2004 that reflect research performance by 112 Institutions or 295 institutions. Includes 24 broad fields in the sciences and social sciences and 96 narrower fields in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities corresponding to ISI Current Contents categories. Individual papers were divided into fields on the basis of the journal in which the paper appeared. Papers appearing in the multidisciplinary science journals Science, Nature, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) were reassigned to specific categories.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:24 AM | Permalink

College Source Online
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15867

College catalogs and course descriptions. Full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:55 AM | Permalink

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.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 1:27 PM | Permalink

Dictionary of Literary Biography
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15807

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online brings you complete online access to all volumes of Gale's award-wining reference set, Dictionary of Literary Biography, the main series, as well as Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series and Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series. Featuring comprehensive literary biographies written by recognized literary scholars and critics, you'll find profiles of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works. Additionally, you can search for essays on publishing houses and literary topics. Handy features include the ability to print, e-mail, download and access content by "Inside this Entry" and "Inside this Volume." Focusing on a particular literary period, movement or genre, each volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series concentrates on major literary figures with in-depth essays and related images such as manuscript pages and revised galley proofs, title pages, dust jackets and pictures from the authors' lives. The Documentary series allows for further study of major literary figures through critical and biographical source materials. The Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series is annual compendium which includes original material covering a given year's literary highlights, including obituaries and tributes. The Yearbook provides signed essays summarizing the year in poetry, fiction, biography, drama and children's books we well as scholarly articles, interviews, biographies and critical studies covering events, organizations, works, writers and the business of literature.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 1:25 PM | Permalink

Slack e-journals
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15808

Journal titles: Journal of Nursing Education, Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, Journal of Gerontological Nursing, Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, and Mental Health Services

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 12:43 PM | Permalink

Oxford Classical Dictionary
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15798

A reference work on all aspects of the Graeco-Roman world. It provides both scholars and non-specialists with a comprehensive source of reference which aims to answer all their questions about the classical world. Written by the very best of classical scholars from all over the world, the Dictionary provides coverage of Greek and Roman history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, art and archaeology, and topics in near eastern studies and late antiquity. The approach is interdisciplinary: all areas, regions, and cultures are represented beyond the core areas of Greece and Rome. As well as providing factual information, the Dictionary contains many thematic entries on subjects relevant to the 21st century such as nationalism, race, and ecology. The text is written in an accessible style and all Latin and Greek words have been translated.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 12:41 PM | Permalink

Literature Criticism Online Digital Archive
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15772

This product includes ten core literature reference series (Contemporary Literary Criticism, 20th Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Mediaeval Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Children's Literature Review). Each CIC institution holds print copies of most of these series, and most libraries hold annual subscriptions allowing electronic access to newly published material. The content is targeted to support undergraduates, and the CIC agreement includes access for the campuses in Duluth, Morris, and Crookston.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 12:39 PM | Permalink

JapanKnowledge
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15809

A portal to Japanese encyclopedias, dictionaries, and databases.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 12:36 PM | Permalink

Classical Scores Library
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15782

Scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. Includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 11:01 AM | Permalink

Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15727

Journal titles:
- Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
- Treatment Guidelines
- Adverse Drug Interactions Program
- Handbook of Antimicrobial Therapy

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 12:57 PM | Permalink

Footnote
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15660

Footnote is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a unique experience involving the stories of the past. The collections feature documents, most never before available before on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, US Presidents, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and more.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 12:54 PM | Permalink

American Society for Horticultural Science e-journals
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15623

Consists of: HortScience, HortTech, and Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 1:36 PM | Permalink

College Art Association (CAA) Reviews
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/15615

Critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies. Published by the College Art Association.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:41 AM | Permalink

SDC Platinum
• https://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/ejpass.phtml?id=sdcplatinum

SDC Platinum is a collection of several financial databases. The University of Minnesota Libraries subscribe to: VentureXpert, Securities Trading, Global Public Finance, Global New Issues, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Restructurings. In order to use the SDC Platinum databases from off campus, you must first start a VPN connection to the U of MN network, then install the SDC Platinum software on your desktop. Click the link below for instructions on how to download and install the SDC software.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 1:12 PM | Permalink

SAE Digital Library
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/saedigitallibrary

IMPORTANT NOTE: This resource currently only works with Internet Explorer on the Windows platform. Library staff are working on a solution for Macintosh users. The Standards portion of the SAE Digital Library references thousands of SAE standards. SAE publishes many new, revised, and reaffirmed standards each year in three categories: Ground Vehicle Standards (J-Reports); Aerospace Standards; and Aerospace Material Specifications (AMS). The Technical papers portion of the SAE Digital Library references thousands of SAE Technical Papers covering the latest advances and research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. Sample coverage includes fuels and lubricants, emissions, electronics, brakes, restraint systems, noise, engines, materials, lighting, and more.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 11:51 AM | Permalink

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2d edition
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/npdoe2

Contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 11:47 AM | Permalink

CEPR Discussion Papers
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/ceprdiscussionpapers

Discussion Papers disseminate research quickly in order to generate comment and suggestions for revision or improvement. They may have been presented at conferences or workshops already, but will not yet have been published in journals. Over 3000 Discussion Paper Abstracts are currently available online and all Discussion Papers published since the beginning of 1999 are available.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 11:44 AM | Permalink

KA Arabic e-Library
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/kaarabic

A wide range of Arabic content ranging from contemporary novels to national heritage scientific treatises. If you are having trouble with the Arabic font, visit the company's help page to find how to install the font on your computer.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:07 AM | Permalink

eStatement Studies
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/estatement

The online version of the RMA Annual Statement Studies. The Annual Statement Studies are a source of composite performance metrics derived directly from the financial statements of financial institutions’ borrowers and prospects. These financial statements come directly to RMA from its member institutions, which get their data straight from their customers. Includes Financial Ratio Benchmarks, Industry Default Probabilities and Cash Flow Measures, and individual NAICS downloads to Excel®.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:04 AM | Permalink

China Industry Reports
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/ibisworld

Provides industry information on China. IBISWorld analysts use a variety of sources in their research ranging from the National Bureau of Statistics, and industry associations, to company reports, surveys and personal contact.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:01 AM | Permalink

Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
• URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/eoappphys
• Location: WALTER Sci/Eng Reference QC5 .E543 1991

Provides the basic principles and in-depth coverage of all technically pertinent areas of modern-day physics, coupled with technological applications from real life. Key subject areas covered include the basics, methods, and applications—as well as all the neighboring fields of physics and engineering. The encyclopedia comprehensively covers such specific topics as: optics, laser physics, solid state and semiconductor physics, atom and nuclear physics, and biophysics.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:53 AM | Permalink

ORBIS (2 interfaces)
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/orbis and http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/orbis_mint

A global product that integrates information held across BvDEP's company information product range. ORBIS includes full searching facilities and global standard report format for in-depth international searching and analysis. ORBIS has information on over 43 million companies:

• about 50,000 publicly quoted companies worldwide
  
• nearly 30,000 banks and over 8,000 insurance companies
  
• over 19 million European companies from 46 countries
  
• over 15.5 million US and Canadian companies
  
• over 6.5 million South and Central American companies
  
• over 1.3 million Japanese companies and 300,000 Chinese companies
  
• over 220,000 African companies.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 11:18 AM | Permalink

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.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:59 AM | Permalink

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."

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:56 AM | Permalink

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.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:52 AM | Permalink

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.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:34 AM | Permalink

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.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:31 AM | Permalink

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
  

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:24 AM | Permalink

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.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 11:35 AM | Permalink

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.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 11:32 AM | Permalink

Accounting Research Manager
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/accountingresearchmanager

Accounting Research Manager is a comprehensive financial reporting knowledge base. Updated daily, it aims to help reduce the amount of time you spend conducting accounting and auditing research while enhancing the quality of your results; find insightful interpretations on GAAP, GAAS and Securities and Exchange Commission rules; keep up-to-date on current accounting, SEC, auditing, and government projects that may affect your company.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 9:34 AM | Permalink

Sage: Sourcebook of Modern Biomedical Devices
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/ssombdbmitge

This e-resource presents unique quantitative data and brief comparative analysis of the commercial performance of more than 180 types of biomedical devices. Covers devices from practically all major therapeutic areas of application, such as orthopedic devices, cardiovascular devices, gastrointestinal devices, cancer treatment devices, imaging devices, and spinal implants, as well as emerging markets for cardiac surgery devices. Offers global analysis of markets per device per therapeutic area, including North America, the Pacific Rim, and Europe.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 3:01 PM | Permalink

Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/eophil

Described by Booklist as "the best and most comprehensive English-language reference source for philosophy."

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 2:57 PM | Permalink

Encyclopedia of American Industries
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/eoai

This e-resource provides detailed, comprehensive information on a wide range of industries in every realm of American business.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 2:51 PM | Permalink

Check out this new e-resource available to U of M students, faculty, and staff through the Libraries.

Berghahn e-journals (selected titles)
• http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/index.php

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 2:29 PM | Permalink

International Energy Agency data, via SourceOECD
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/oecd.cgi

SourceOECD is the online publications portal of the 30-country Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It contains the full text of all OECD publications and statistical databases. Statistics generally cover 1960 - present; some earlier years may be available. Statistics also focus primarily on member countries. See Getting Started With SourceOECD for help using SourceOECD.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:10 AM | Permalink

Global Development Finance
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/gdf

This e-resource offers external debt and financial flow data for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The timeseries for 216 indicators run from 1970 to 2006, with contractual obligations data until 2015. The indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:06 AM | Permalink

Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, via Gale
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/eobaf

Designed for the nonspecialist, the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance is a 2-vol. complete reference covering five general areas: finance and banking; accounting; marketing; management; and information systems. Drawing on practical professional expertise as well as that of noted scholars, the contributors include executives, government administrators and scholars from leading business programs from around the United States.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 2:53 PM | Permalink

Check out this e-resource now available to U of M students, faculty, and staff through the Libraries.

American Academy of Pediatrics e-journals, via Highwire Press (selected titles)
• http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 2:49 PM | Permalink

Check out this e-resource now available to U of M students, faculty, and staff through the Libraries.

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15283

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:43 AM | Permalink

Check out this e-resource now available to U of M students, faculty, and staff through the Libraries.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Popular Music
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15289

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:41 AM | Permalink

Check out this e-resource now available to U of M students, faculty, and staff through the Libraries.

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15282

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:37 AM | Permalink

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Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (e-EROS)
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15286

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 10:32 AM | Permalink

These e-resources are now available to U of M students, faculty, and staff through the University Libraries!

All Americas Barometer Survey
http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15174

Minnesota Grantmakers Online Deluxe
http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15173

Note: EBSCO will be coming out with a new interface in July. Many interesting options worth a peek (e.g. ability to preview images or abstracts from a results list; a date slide limiter; etc.). A list of new features, with a self-paced demo, is available at: http://ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=969

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 11:46 AM | Permalink

These e-resources are now available to U of M students, faculty, and staff through the University Libraries!

DemographicsNOW
http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15132

Dyabola
http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15127

Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society
http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=15128

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=1733

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 1:48 PM | Permalink

These e-resources are now available to U of M students, faculty, and staff through the University Libraries!

Morningstar Library Edition
http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14878

National Association of Social Workers e-journals
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nasw

Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide
http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=3757

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 8:28 AM | Permalink

John Dewey: Collected Works & Correspondence: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pastm.cgi

This new e-resource at the University Libraries is an addition to the Past Masters platform access.

The database is based on the 37-volume printed edition The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953, published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1967-1990 (edited by Jo Ann Boydston).
The Correspondence of John Dewey is a comprehensive electronic edition of letters to, from, and about John Dewey.

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 3:25 PM | Permalink

These e-resources are now available to all U of M students, faculty, and staff through the University Libraries!

CIS Congressional Hearings Digital Collection Retrospective A (added to LexisNexis Congressional)

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=2363

Gale - newspaper archives

• 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14822
  
• 19 Century British Library Newspapers: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14823
  
• British Newspapers 1600-1900: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14827
  
• 19th Century US Newspapers: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14825
  
• The Times: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14826
  
• The Economist: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14824

Waterloo Directory of of English Newspapers and Periodicals

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14845

Posted by Timothy Cronin at 2:30 PM | Permalink

All U of M students, faculty, and staff now have access to these electronic resources at the University Libraries!

China Data Online

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14813

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14764

History Cooperative journals (selected titles)

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14018

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf - additional titles

• http://www.oxford-digitalreference.com/title_list
  
• Encyclopedia of Global Change
  
• International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
  
• Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
  
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
  
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the U.S.
  
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

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Check out these additional electronic resources now available at the University Libraries!

Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14773

Chicago Manual of Style Online

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=5227

Inderscience e-journals

• http://www.inderscience.com/

Nelson Marketplace Web

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14792

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All U of M students, faculty, and staff now have access to these electronic resources at the University Libraries!

Oxford Language Dictionaries

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14717

PsychiatryOnline (core textbooks and journals)

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/psychiatryonline

Resources for College Libraries

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14730

Weather Almanac (Gale)

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=5136

Wiley e-journal backfiles

• Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics
  
• Polymer
  
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wil.cgi

Wiley reference sources

• Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
  
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14720
  
• Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry
  
• http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/moreinfo.phtml?id=14722

Sage complete journal package

• http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/sagecomplete

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Check out these new electronic resources in the arts and humanities, all brought to you by the University of Minnesota Libraries:

• Film and Television Literature Index
  
• International Encyclopedia of Dance
  
• Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive

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Check out these new e-resources in finance and economics, all brought to you by the University of Minnesota Libraries:

• USA Trade Online, with export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities
• Global Financial Data, a collection of economic data covering stocks, bonds, treasury bills, interest rates, and more
• Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, a collection of core economics journals. Top titles include Economics Letters, the European Economic Review, and the Journal of International Economics
• Foundation Directory Online, offering full-text search capability across an array of documents about U.S. grantmaking
• ISI Emerging Markets, with full-text business news and financial information from emerging markets in Latin America, Asia, and Europe
• UN COMTRADE, with international trade statistics from over 140 countries

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My Health Minnesota → Go Local, a new, free, web-based resource, makes it possible for every Minnesotan to connect with health services—hospitals, care providers, nursing homes, support groups, and more—within their local communities.

There's a lot of health information on the internet, but not all of it's good. For years, consumers have been able to access trustworthy information about health conditions through websites like the MedlinePlus consumer website of the National Library of Medicine. But access to local health resources and treatment options has been hard to find online. My Health Minnesota → Go Local builds on the MedlinePlus site by providing information on health services in consumers' local communities.

Watch a video about My Health Minnesota → Go Local.

My Health Minnesota → Go Local is a joint project of the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries, the Mayo Clinic Libraries, the MINITEX Library Information Network, the Minnesota Department of Health, and United Way 2-1-1. It is made possible with funding from the Minnesota Department of Education; State Library Services, through a Library Services and Technology Act grant and with the support of Health Science Libraries of Minnesota.

The launch event is cosponsored by the Friends of the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Learn more about My Health Minnesota → Go Local

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Check out these new e-resources in the sciences, all brought to you by the University Libraries:

-The Plant Cell (American Society of Plant Biologists)
-Agricultural and Biological Sciences backfiles
-Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics
-Environmental Impact Statements: Full-text and digests
-Aerospace and High Tech Database
-Materials Research Database with Metadex
-Wiley e-journal backfile collections

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The ultimate resource on inorganic chemistry re-emerges with a new and completely revised edition, 10 years after publication of the first edition.

The first edition of the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry treated the elements of the periodic system in alphabetical order, with multiple entries for key elements. The articles from the first edition were written more than 10 years ago and all areas of inorganic chemistry have seen such a vigorous development that it was necessary to update most articles and to add a considerable number of new articles. The result of this major effort is the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry Second Edition.

This updated edition, with 30% more content than the previous edition, covers the following areas of inorganic chemistry: main group elements; transition metals and coordination chemistry; organometallic chemistry; bioinorganic chemistry; solid state, materials, nonmaterials, and catalysis; and general inorganic chemistry.

Users can browse articles by title or subject.

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Author Deborah Tannen wrote that "Communication is a continual balancing act." She's probably right. Fortunately, now you can access Communication and Mass Media Complete, a comprehensive resource for communication-related articles of all types. The database provides full text for more than 285 journals covering mass media, film, television, marketing, business communication, health communication, and more.

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Faculty of 1000 Biology can deliver you from the doldrums. Based on recommendations from more than a thousand leading biologists, this revolutionary new online research service highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences.

Faculty of 1000 Biology highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than the journal in which they appear, offering a consensus of recommendations from top researchers. The site systematically organizes and evaluates scientific literature with an immediate rating of individual papers by the authors' peers.

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Expanding on the original Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1974), edited by Philip Wiener, the New Dictionary has a broader scope introducing global- and gender-neutral perspectives not present in the earlier print edition. In 700 accessible articles, alphabetically arranged, a distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/ndhi.cgi

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Medieval and Early Modern Studies Online provides a large and growing resource of essential medieval and early modern sources online. MEMSO is a library of books concerning the study of medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/slog.phtml?url=http://sources.tannerritchie.com/

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This online bibliography lists books and articles about philosophy and history of philosophy including: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance to Enlightenment, 19th and 20th Centuries, and Non-Western Traditions. Language scope: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan.

The International Philosophical Bibliography covers all issues 1997 to present. The Retrospective file covers selected pre-1996 listings. The starting point of the bibliography changes daily.

Check MNCAT for corresponding print version.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/ipb.cgi

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Contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs such as Art and the Performance of Memory, Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, Community Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more.

Coverage: 1984 - present

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/ibtd.cgi

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An index to poems in anthologies. It includes 250,000 poetry citations indexed by title, first line, last line, author, subject, and searchable by keyword and by author categories. Also provides biographical entries, bibliographies, anthology descriptors and fulltext versions of poems in the public domain.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wpo.cgi

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Science of Synthesis is an electronic version of the reference work by the same name; it also provides access to Houben-Weyl (Methods of Organic Chemistry) which includes references back to 1835. Science of Synthesis covers both organic and organometallic synthetic methods. The methods are evaluated and include full experimental details. The content is full-text, structure, and reaction searchable. It works best with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher, and pop-up blockers should be disabled.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/sos.cgi

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This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education

Save time and search all four EBSCO databases at once. The EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of the complete content and functionality of Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/emf.cgi

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Produced by Vanderbilt University, this database is "the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news." The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC (August 1968 - present), and CNN daily news (1995 - present). Also, there are more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since September 1988. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the Gulf War, and 9/11. University faculty, staff, and students can view online video from the Archive's collection of CNN material; copies or compilations of other site material can be ordered for a cost-recovery fee paid to Vanderbilt. Note: 60 Minutes, 20/20, and other news magazine programs are not included here.

To view the CNN content, you will need the free RealOne media player from RealNetworks.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/tna.cgi

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InfoPOEMs consists of two products -- InfoRetriever and the Daily InfoPOEMs. InfoRetriever provides filtered, graded, summarized evidence and clinical tools for use in the office or at the bedside. Daily InfoPOEMs provides a complete clinical awareness system for knowledge management.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/inpo.cgi

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Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including local newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs. Provides company information including market data and competitors. Includes full-text of the Wall Street Journal.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/factiva.cgi

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Books24x7 is a web-based, searchable, e-book site that provides users access to the complete contents of nearly 3,000 titles covering a broad range of technology topics. Contributing publishers include: Cambridge University Press, The MIT Press, IEEE Press, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, Microsoft Press, Sybex, Wrox Press and many others.

URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/btfs.cgi

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Effective January 1, 2006, the University Libraries will be canceling its subscription to the Current Contents database.

Why the change?
All of the data in Current Contents is available in another database from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), Web of Science, to which the Libraries already subscribe. Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. The cost for what is essentially a duplicate subscription can no longer be justified; the Libraries will be applying the annual subscription cost of $19,952 toward other databases, such as the Chronicle of Higher Education and ISI’s Essential Science Indicators (an analytical tool that offers data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals).

What will happen to the regular email alert I get with new Current Contents citations?
The Web of Science database offers a similar alerting service. If you have an existing alert profile, you can set up your own new alert in Web of Science, or a librarian can help you set up a new profile. Library patrons with Current Content AutoAlerts or saved searches will want to move them to the ISI Web of Science system before January 1. ISI calls their weekly updates ALERTS. Current Contents alert recipients will be contacted directly with more detailed information on this conversion process.

Please note that email alerts set up on other BioMedSearch databases, such as Biosis, Cinahl, and Medline, will continue without interruption.

Where can I go for more help?

• Setting up an alert in Web of Science
  or
• Ask Us!

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As part of the biennial budget appropriation, the University administration has approved a major new investment in the University Libraries and its collections. $2 million of new, recurring funds have been allocated to the Libraries’ base budget!

This commitment will enable the Libraries to significantly build on the goal of targeting specific teaching and research needs of individual departments and classes as well as overall campus information needs. In addition to maintaining and adding to journal subscriptions and purchasing more books across many subject areas, the following new electronic resources are now available; more resources will be coming later in the Fall as publisher licenses are negotiated.

For a list of new books and indexes purchased through this appropriation please see New Investment in the University Libraries.

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