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Academic Search Premier
Full text for thousands of scholarly publications across all academic
disciplines. Updated daily.
Alt Health Watch
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated
approaches to health care and wellness. Offers full-text articles for more than
180 international journals and reports plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets,
special reports, original research, and book excerpts.
ArchiveGrid
Provides access to nearly a million descriptions of detailed archival
collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and
archives worldwide.
Britannica Online Academic
Edition
Rich encyclopedia content plus news headlines, safe websites, engaging
multimedia, and a customizable workspace.
Britannica Online Public
Library Edition
Offers separate home pages for adults and children, providing age-appropriate
encyclopedia content for everyone.
Britannica Online School
Edition
Provides access to four encyclopedias that ensure consistency with classroom
topics and age-appropriate language. Designed for all levels of learning K-12.
For PreK-12, look for the Britannica Learning Zone.
Business Source Premier
Full text for scholarly journals and trade publications across all business
subject areas. Includes detailed company profiles, industry, market research,
country economic reports, and much more. Includes the Harvard Business
Review, Forbes, Fortune, and thousands of other titles.
Updated daily.
CAMIO
OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online is a collection documenting
works of art from around the world, representing the collections of 24
prominent museums including The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art
Center.
Consumer Health Complete
Designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall
understanding of health-related topics from mainstream medicine to the many
perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.
Discovering Collection
Designed for students in grades 8-12, this database includes literary
criticisms, timelines, primary source documents, audio and video clips, maps,
images, flags, and more.
EBSCO MegaFILE
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.
Educator's Reference Complete
Specialized collection for professional educators, researchers, and librarians.
More than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports covering multiple aspects of
education from preschool to college and every educational specialty—such as
technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing.
ERIC (EBSCO)
ERIC®, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to
education literature and resources. ERIC contains more than 1,282,000
records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents.
ERIC (OCLC)
ERIC®, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to
education literature and resources. ERIC contains more than 1,282,000
records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Comprised of more than 3,500 indexed and full-text titles in all disciplines
including social sciences, humanities, education, science, and technology.
General Science Collection
Contains over 200 journals covering the latest scientific developments in
particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds
of other areas.
GPO Monthly Catalog
Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports,
hearings, debates and records, judiciary materials, and documents issued by
executive departments.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Collection of consumer health information providing access to nearly 80 full-text,
consumer health magazines, pamphlets, 130+ health reference books, 5,100
Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish), Lexi-PAL Drug
Guide and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition
Provides access to nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many
medical disciplines, including strong coverage of nursing and allied health.
The Historical Minneapolis Tribune
Contains full-text and article images from the Minneapolis Tribune
(1867-1908) and the Minneapolis Morning Tribune (1909-1922).
InfoTrac Junior Edition
Designed for middle school students, this database has full-text articles from
magazines, newspapers, and reference books in just about every subject area.
InfoTrac Student Edition
Designed for high school students, this database has full-text articles from
magazines, newspapers, and reference books. Historical images and maps
included. Covers a wide variety of subjects.
Junior Reference Collection
Designed for students grades 6-8, this database has information from reference
books about people, places, history, science, and more. Includes photos and
maps.
Kids InfoBits
Designed for elementary school students grades K-5, this database has articles
from magazines, newspapers, and reference books on animals, famous people,
science, countries and states, and more.
Kids Search
Helps elementary and middle school students find magazine and reference content
from the Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, and Science Reference Center databases. In addition to periodicals covering numerous topics, these databases contain
the full text of the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Funk &
Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, and the EBSCO Encyclopedia of Animals.
Intended for grades 2-8.
MAS UltraSchool Edition
Specifically for high school students, contains full text for popular, high
school magazines, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and
flags, and reference books. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level
indicator (Lexiles).
MasterFILE Premier
Full text for popular magazines in all subject areas. Includes reference books,
book reviews, biographies, primary source documents, and images. Excellent
coverage of consumer information, education, health, science, social science,
arts, current events, and more. Includes Consumer Reports, Parenting,
Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, People,
and thousands of other titles. Updated daily.
MEDLINE
Index of thousands of records covering all areas of medicine, public health,
nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences.
Middle Search Plus
Contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines,
biographies and historical essays, primary source documents, and reference
books. An image collection of over 400,000 photos, maps, and flags is also
included.
OAIster
Union catalog of digital resources, including descriptive information about
each resource.
OCLC ArticleFirst
Describes items listed on the table of contents pages of individual issues of
over 12,000 journals. Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or
other item from a journal.
OCLC Electronic Books
Includes an index of records for more than 665,000 eBooks that have been
cataloged by OCLC member libraries, including titles available from NetLibrary
and other providers.
OCLC Electronic Collections Online
A&I
Provides bibliographic information for more than 5,000 electronic journals from
over 70 publishers in a wide range of subject areas.
OCLC PapersFirst
An OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
OCLC ProceedingsFirst
An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings. Contains in each record a
list of the papers presented at each conference.
OCLC WorldCat Dissertations and Theses
Provides access to records of the dissertations and theses available in OCLC
member libraries.
Points of View Reference Center
Full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that
present multiple sides of over 250 current issues.
Primary Search
Full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines, as well as
encyclopedias and dictionaries written for kids, plus an image collection of
photos, maps, and flags. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator
(Lexiles).
Professional Development Collection
Specialized collection for professional educators, researchers, and librarians.
Covers children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and
practice. Includes full text of nearly 520 education journals and more than 200
educational reports.
ProQuest Newsstand Complete
Full text for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sioux Falls Argus
Leader, St. Cloud Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington
Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Barron's,
USA Today, and hundreds of other newspapers.
Regional Business News
Full text for business journals, newspapers, and newswires from metropolitan
and rural areas across the U.S. Updated daily.
Science Reference Center
Full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals,
and other sources covering the areas of biology, chemistry, environmental and
life sciences, and more. Each article is correlated to state and national
curriculum standards.
Searchasaurus
Helps students in grades K-3 to browse and search for content from the Primary
Search database, which includes the full-text of the American Heritage
Children's Dictionary, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the EBSCO
Encyclopedia of Animals, and dozens of kid-friendly magazines.
Student Research Center
Helps middle and high school students find magazine and journal articles,
reference materials, and multimedia files covering all topics. Contains the
following databases: Health Source-Consumer Edition; MAS Ultra-School Edition;
Middle Search Plus; and Science Reference Center. Intended for grades 6-12.
Student Resources In Context
Designed for use by high school students for both homework and in-depth
research assignments. Contains reference works, biographies, essays, overviews,
primary works, images, and periodical articles.
World Almanac / Book of Facts
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. Includes
biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics.
WorldCat
Online catalog of books and other materials in 400 languages held in libraries
worldwide. Updated daily.
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