| Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) |
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Most areas of academic study with some information dating back to 1975. Some full text. |
| Atlas of Minnesota, Online Edition |
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"Features social, demographic, and economic data in map form at the county and school district level." From the Center for Rural Policy and Development. |
| Children's Literature Review (Gale) |
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This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Typical entries consist of a listing of major works and awards and criticism from significant reviews and commentaries on the author's or artist's works. |
| CQ Researcher |
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In-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues. |
| CREDO Reference |
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A full-text online reference service. Credo’s collection is integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature. |
| Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) |
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Full-text, scholarly, open-access journals. |
| Discovering Collection (Gale) |
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Reference, images/multimedia, and primary source documents for K-12 curriculum. |
| eBooks (Gale Virtual Reference Library) |
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A selective collection of electronic reference books in a range of subject areas. |
| eBooks (NetLibrary) |
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Collection of over 12,000 copyrighted and public domain eBooks available for patrons of Concordia University in collaboration with CLIC and MINITEX. |
| Educator's Reference Complete (Gale) |
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Provides full-text results for nearly half of the titles found in ERIC, a citation only database, and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college and includes every educational specialty, such as bilingual studies, health, technology and testing. Also included are resources on issues related to administration, funding and policy in education. |
| The Educator's Reference Desk |
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Search the Resource Collection, Lesson Plans, the Question Archive, and the Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM). |
| ERIC |
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"Consists primarily of electronic bibliographic records describing journal and non-journal literature selected by ERIC from 1966 - 2003. In the months and years ahead, the collection will expand to include the full-text of articles along with other electronic resources such as audio and video materials." ERIC Digests can be accessed through this database as well. |
| Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) |
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Interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full-text database of ethnic, minority, and native press publications (Coverage from 1990). |
| Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale) |
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Coverage is available through more than 4,200 indexed and more than 2,500 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library (eBooks) |
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A selective collection of electronic reference books in a range of subject areas. |
| The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) |
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Browse or search for thousands of educational materials. |
| Google Scholar |
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Search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. |
| In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives |
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Allows "users [to] perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases." This resource is updated quarterly and will eventually include citations for resources found within proprietary databases as well. |
| InfoTrac Junior Edition |
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Periodical database designed for junior high/middle school students. |
| InfoTrac Kid's Edition |
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Periodical database designed for elementary school students. |
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InfoTrac Student Edition K12 |
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Periodical database designed for high school students. |
| JSTOR |
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Full text as a digital image in range of disciplines. (Coverage: Begins with first issue. Most recent available issue will be 3-5 years old depending upon publisher contract.) |
| Junior Reference Collection (Gale) |
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Comprehensive, cross-curricular database for schools and libraries. |
| Kids InfoBits (Gale) |
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Meets the research needs of students in kindergarten through grade 5 with a visually graphic interface. |
| Making of America (Cornell University holdings) |
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"...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. For more details about the project, see About MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation." |
| Making of America (University of Michigan holdings) |
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"...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. For more details about the project, see About MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation." |
| MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost) |
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General interest subject areas in the form of full-text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and images. |
| Minnesota Reflections |
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"...the first collection in the Minnesota Digital Library, brings you more than 6,000 digital images of the state's first 50 years." |
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MnLINK |
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Minnesota's web-based virtual library. Search public and academic library catalogs as well as various electronic databases. |
| NetLibrary (eBooks) |
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Collection of over 12,000 copyrighted and public domain eBooks available for patrons of Concordia University in collaboration with CLIC and MINITEX. |
| NYPL Digital Gallery |
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"NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 337,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more." |
| OCLC FirstSearch: WorldCat |
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OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Thomson Gale) |
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"...features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites |
| Oxford Reference Online |
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Database of Oxford-published online reference materials in a range of subject areas. |
| Professional Collection (Gale) |
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More than 300 full-text journals for educators. |
| Project Muse |
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Full text of scholarly journals in a range of subject areas. |
| ProQuest Education Journals |
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Full text of almost 400 education journals (Coverage 1988 - present). |
| Sage Journals Online (formerly Sage Full-Text Collections) |
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Search Sage scholarly journals in the areas of Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Management and Organization Studies, Materials Science, Nursing and Health Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies and Planning. |
| Something About the Author (Gale) |
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Provides illustrated biographical profiles of children's authors and artists. |
| Student Resource Center Gold (Gale) |
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Covering the major subject areas, including history, literature, science, social studies and more, Student Resource Center provides a premium selection of reference, thousands of full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary documents, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. |
| Teacher Reference Center (TRC) (EBSCOhost) |
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"...contains journal information for K-12 teachers and librarians...This bibliographic database provides coverage on topics such as Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedogogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education." |
