Business & Economics

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Career Education

Career Cruising
An interactive resource for finding the right career, exploring different career options, or planning future education and training.
Experience
Alumni from hundreds of universities and Fortune 500 companies post internships and entry-level and experienced jobs exclusively on Experience.
Minnesota Energy Careers
For students, job seekers, and career explorers looking for pathways in energy. You can research energy careers, learn about energy education options, and find Minnesota energy employers.
MCIS - Minnesota Career Information System
Career exploration program, providing information on occupations, employment, education and training. Includes descriptions of occupations, job search strategies, military careers, education programs and financial aid with emphasis on Minnesota.
Student Paths
This database provides high school students advice on how to prepare for the transition from high school to their future, whether it is the world of work, community college, tech school, college or university. Student Paths also provides schools with a curriculum guide to facilitate discussion on various topics related to a student's transition.

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Education

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English/Language Arts/Literature

Literature Resource Center
More than 371,000 full-text journal articles from more than 230 literary journals, 38,000 critical essays, 4,329 work overviews, plot summaries and explications. More than 5,000 links to authoritative websites, more than 122,000 author biographies and 2,500 author portraits.
Salem Literature - Critical Insights
This multivolume set includes critical literary analysis and insight on the following literary works: Death of a Salesman, The Great Gatsby, The Handmaid's Tale and To Kill a Mockingbird. And Critical Insight on the following Authors: T.S. Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison.
J-STOR
Early Journal Content (1870-1923) covers the arts and humanities, economics and politics, mathematics and other sciences.  It includes nearly 500,000 articles in more than 200 journals which are now freely available on JSTOR!
Academic Search Premier  
This database provides full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Covers nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Coverage dates back to 1975.
MasterFILE Premier  
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications dating back to 1975. Includes more than 350 reference books, 84,000 biographies, 86,132 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
Biography in Context
Award-winning biographies from respected Gale Publishing sources. Includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts.
Discovering Collection
Comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.
Expanded Academic ASAP
More than 4,200 publications are indexed, with more than 2,500 full-text titles, covering a wide variety of disciplines including: social science, humanities, science and technology, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. More than 2,800 journals are refereed, and more than 20 years of backfile coverage are included.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search the full text of any or all of these literature resources and encyclopedias: Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature; Literary Movements for Students; Literary Themes for Students: Race and Prejudice, American Dream, and War and Peace; and the Encyclopedia of World Mythology.
ProQuest Newsstand
Full-text database of over 300 daily newspapers enabling users to search the latest news from around the world. Access a wide range of articles, not only top news stories, but arts, sports, and entertainment stories as well.
Student Resources in Context
Covers all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more. This database includes reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.
Teaching Books - generates enthusiasm for books and reading by providing profiles of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of books, guides to thousands of titles and resources on children's and young adult literature.

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Environmental Studies

EBSCO GreenFile
A Free bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns, on such topics as global warming, natural resources, energy conservation, pollution and more. GreenFILE covers content going back more than 35 years from Bioscience, Journal of Environmental Planning & Management , Journal of Ecology and Conservation Biology.
Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues
4-volume set assembles information relevant to the study of environmental issues, including biology, geology, anthropology, demographics, genetics, and engineering, and explains the interrelationships of these issues in easily understood terms.
GREENR
The Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia.

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Fine & Performing Arts

Baker Encyclopedia of Music
This online Encyclopedia is a good resource for both students and others who wish to brush up on any number of composers, musical terms, performers, and so on.
Biography in Context
The place to go for comprehensive biographical information on actors, musicians, artists, dancers, etc. Also includes full-text articles from hundreds of magazines.
Camio
An online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums.
Encyclopedia Britannica
In-depth, qualitative encyclopedia articles to begin your research. Added features include: Britannica Blog, Timelines, Video clips and extended play videos. Includes an Atlas and the latest headlines from the New York Times.

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Health & Medicine

Alt HealthWatch
This database focuses on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full-text articles for more than 180 international, and peer-reviewed journals and reports.
Health & Wellness Resource Center
A fully integrated, ever-growing electronic resource center for all levels of health research. A specialized reference tool providing authoritative medical information from over 700 health/medical journals, 2200 general interest publications and pamphlets, and several major health encyclopedias.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Indexes over 800 medical journals including 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, with heavy emphasis on nursing and allied health.
Consumer Health Complete
Resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients. Information indexed from 200 health reference books, nearly 600 health related periodicals, videos, medical images and prescription drug information.
Teen Health & Wellness NEW!
a comprehensive research/ report tool and a self-help resource, allowing teens (and those who care about teens) to research health-related issues important to their well-being.  
Science in Context
An in-depth science resource providing information on the Life and Physical Sciences. Incorporates 150 full text academic journals and magazines, NY Times Science section, 9 other newspapers and wire services, Gale reference titles, 8,000 multimedia records and over 500 links to science web sites.
Academic Search Premier
This database provides full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Covers nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Coverage dates back to 1975.
Expanded Academic ASAP
More than 4,200 publications are indexed, with more than 2,500 full-text titles, covering a wide variety of disciplines including: social science, humanities, science and technology, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. More than 2,800 journals are refereed, and more than 20 years of backfile coverage are included.
Psychology and Mental Health
This 5 volume set covers not only the history of the field and the core aspects of behaviorism, cognitive psychology and
psychoanalytic psychology but also diagnoses, disorders, treatments, test, notable people and issues.
Student Resources in Context
Covers all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more. This database includes reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.

Additional Databases

PubMed - a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations and abstracts back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. Full text available via InterLibrary Loan.
CDC- free digital library of scientific publications produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It includes peer-reviewed articles and CDC guidelines and recommendations.
Medline Plus - health encyclopedia, dictionary, generic and brand name drug information, and health news.
PubMed Central - free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
BioMed Search - biomedical search engine that contains NIH/PubMed documents, plus a large collection of theses, dissertations, and other publications not found anywhere else for free.
Neurology Collection from the Lancet
The Neurology Collection provides an entry point to research and review articles from The Lancet. This Specialty Collection of original research, expert comment, and authoritative review is also clustered by topics, such as dementias and multiple sclerosis.
Oncology Collection from the Lancet
The Oncology Collection provides an entry point to research and review articles from The Lancet, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The Lancet Neurology, and The Lancet Oncology. This Specialty Collection of original research, expert comment, and authoritative review is also clustered by topics, such as breast cancer and genitourinary cancer.
OncologySTAT
News, research, education, and analysis from over 100 of Reed Elsevier cancer-related journals from all regions of the world.
Online Books - search the contents of over 2,500 books from National Academies Press emphasizing science and health related materials, including biology, chemistry, food and nutrition, physical sciences, natural resources, medicine, public health, science and ethics.
Medical Encyclopedia - an A to Z Medical Encyclopedia from Medline Plus.

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Psychology & Social Sciences

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Today's hottest topics are explored in a unique pro/con format.  Integrates full text articles, statistics, topic overviews, primary and secondary sources, web sites and images.
Points of View Reference Center
Provides students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Includes 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background information), pro and con perspectives and a Critical Thinking Guide.
Psychology Collection
This database brings together information from over 850 journals, with an emphasis on fulltext titles cited in PsycINFO. Search the thoughts, views, discoveries and reports from more than 3.1 million articles covering various fields of psychology, including: abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology.
Psychology and Mental Health
This 5 volume set covers not only the history of the field and the core aspects of behaviorism, cognitive psychology and psychoanalytic psychology but also diagnoses, disorders, treatments, tests, notable people and issues.
Pros and Cons
Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.