Academic Search Premier (dates vary, some as far back as 1975 - present). Contains indexing for over 8,300 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion and theology, sociology, etc. Updated daily. Includes Fire Engineering in full-text from 1/1/1995-present and Emergency Medicine full-text from 3/1/1999-present.

Business Source Premier (dates vary, some as far back as 1965 or the first published issue - present). Full-text of more than 3,800 scholarly business journals. Includes indexing, abstracts and PDF full text for 350 top scholarly journals back to 1965 or the first published issue. Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics and economics. Updated daily. Includes Fire Chief full-text from 1/1/2003 to present and Fire Safety Engineering full-text from 5/1/2002 to present.

Expanded Academic ASAP (dates vary, some back to 1980 - present). Contains indexing for over 4,300 titles, with full-text of more than 2,500 of them. More than 3,000 scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals are indexed. Covers a wide variety of subjects including humanities, social sciences, science, technology, newsletters, general interest magazines and national and global news sources (The Atlantic, Newsweek, New York Times). Some articles in PDF, others in HTML, and some in HTML with graphics.

WorldCat (The OCLC Online Union Catalog). (Approx. 2100 B.C; Updated daily) The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 107 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages. Includes holdings information from 69,000 libraries in 112 countries across the world. Now includes the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Bibliographic information only Use this database to find out which library has a certain book or journal.

MasterFILE Premier Multidisciplinary database designed for public libraries. Contains full text for 1.750 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for more than 495 reference books, 86,017 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps & flags. Also has PDF backfiles (as far back as 1975) for publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc. Includes Fire Engineering full-text from 1/1/1995-present and Minnesota Fire Chief full-text from 5/1/2004 to present.

EBSCO MegaFILE Multidisciplinary database comprised of the complete content of Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier, and Regional Business News. Search all four databases at the same time! Updated daily.

Regional Business News This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of over 50 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Educators Reference Complete (Gale) More than 1,100 periodicals as well as over 200 reports form the U.S. Department of Education. Also includes full text for nearly half of the titles found in ERIC Covers from preschool through college.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCO) For professional educators, librarians, and education researchers; includes full text of over 500 education journals (including The Chronicle of Higher Education) and over 200 educational reports.

ERIC (from EBSCO) indexes education literature and resources. Contains more thatn 1.2 million records, including links to over 314,00 full text documents. ERIC in the FirstSearch/OCLC interface is also available. Also see the free interface (in Free Databases, below.)

Britannica Online Academic Edition Online edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Includes Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. 4-page PDF guide to the resource available here . Other versions ( public library , kids , school ) are available.

World Almanac World Almanac and Book of Facts; World Almanac of the U.S.A.; World Almanac of U.S. Politics; World Almanac for Kids; Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. Biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics. Over 32,000 records from 1998 to present. Updated annually.

General Science Collection (Gale) Indexes close to 300 titles, including peer reviewed scholarly journals, newsletters, and magazines, some with full-text (InformationWeek, National Geographic, Nature). Includes periodicals related to mathematics, computing and engineering as well as physical and biological sciences. Includes full-text of Journal of Fire Protection Engineering from 2/2005 through 8/2008 and Journal of Fire Sciences from 1/2005 through 9/2008.

Science Reference Center (EBSCO) Contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Indexes over 800 titles, including full-text for over 500 (over 400 are peer reviewed scholarly journals). Strong focus on nursing and allied health. Includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which has generic drug patient education sheets and brand names. Also includes Merriam-Webster’s Medical Desk Dictionary.

Consumer Health Complete Covers health and wellness areas from mainstream, complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine; includes full text of over 550 consumer health periodicals, over 200 reference books, as well as health reports, patient drug information, videos, and pamphlets.

Health Source – Consumer Edition Indexes 80 full-text consumer health magazines with topics such as fitness, nutrition, pregnancy, AIDS, cancer, diabetes, aging, etc. More than 5,100 Clinical Reference Systems reports, the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, the Merriam Webster Medical Desk Dictionary, current health related pamphlets and 130 full-text reference books.

Alt HealthWatch Focus is on complementary, alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness; includes full text of over 180 international and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. Look here for aromatherapy, acupuncture, cross cultural therapies, chiropractic, homeopathy, osteopathy.

Medline Indexes records covering all areas of medicine; includes dentistry and nursing. Use PubMed for the free version, which does have links out to some free full text articles.

CAMIO Catalog of Art Museum Images Online Provides high quality art images for education, research, and enjoyment. All content is rights-cleared for educational use. Includes about 95,000 images, including photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings, watercolors, jewelry, costumes, textiles, architecture, plus some audio, video and mixed media. Images are JPEG format. Includes some images from the Minneapolis Instutite of Art and the Walker Art Center.

Historical Minneapolis Tribune Coverage from 1867 -1922. Images are scanned PDFs, some of difficult-to-read quality. Most citations also show a PDF of the whole page (Page Map) where the article occurs.

OAIster Catalog of digital resources. Citations will link out to some resoruces. Includes a wide variety of types of items.

GPO Monthly Catalog Covers all types of U.S. Government documents, including Congressional reports and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments. Click within individual records to see if they link out to full text documents.

ArchiveGrid Use this database if you are looking to find which museum, library, historical society, or archives has the archival records of a particular person or organization. Includes descriptions of the archives.

Additional EBSCO databases: Click here to get a list of most of the 18 EBSCO databases, and then chose which to search. Databases not previously listed in this chart include MAS Ultra-School Edition (grades 9-12), Middle Search Plus (grades 6-8), and Primary Search (grades K-5), as well as Points of View Reference Center, which provides full text essays and articles arguing multiple sides of an issue.

Additional Gale databases: Click here to get a list of all the Gale resources, and then chose which to search. Databases not previously listed in this chart include Discovering Collection (Grades 6-12), InfoTrac Junior Edition (grades 6-8), Junior Reference Collection (grades 6-8), Kids InfoBits (grades K-5), Student Resource Center Gold (grades 9-12), InfoTrac Student Edition (grades 9-12), and Informe! (full text of 50 of the most popular Spanish language and bilingual periodicals, available in both a Spanish and an English interface).

Additional FirstSearch/OCLC databases: Databases not previously listed in this chart include Clase/Periodica (indexes contents but does not have full text of Latin American and Caribbean journals), and several subsets of WorldCat. If you search OCLC PapersFirst, OCLC ProceedingsFirst, OCLC WorldCat Dissertations and Theses, you will find descriptions of which libraries own particular papers, proceedings or disseratations. OCLC ArticleFirst provides tables of contents to periodicals, but no full text. OCLC Electronic Collections Online gives information, about electronic journals, but again has no full text.

ERIC 1966 - present. The ERIC database, the world's largest source of education information, contains more than 1.2 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. More than 200,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1966-2004), previously available through fee-based services only are now available for free. Full-text reports from the What Works Clearinghouse are also included. By searching this web-based version of the ERIC Database, you can access the ERIC abstracts which are also found in the counterparts, Resources in Education (RIE) (ERIC documents) and Current Index To Journals in Education(CIJE) (indexes contents of journals).

Teacher Reference Center (TRC) This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians. Citations only; not full text. www.TeacherReference.com

LISTA From EBSCO. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science . Citations and abstracts only. http:// www.libraryresearch.com

PILOTS Database An Electronic Index to the Traumatic Stress Literature. The PILOTS database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. It is produced by the National Center for PTSD, and is electronically available to the public. There is no charge for using the database, and no account or password is required. Although it is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the PILOTS database is not limited to literature on PTSD among veterans . The database includes mostly citations to articles, book chapters, and other materials. Some records do provide links to full-text

PubMed . PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to some full text articles and other related resources.

My Health Minnesota - Go Local .A joint project of the National Library of Medicine and the Health Sciences Libraries of the University of Minnesota , the Mayo Clinic Libraries , and the MINITEX Library Information Network. My Health Minnesota → Go Local is a free, online directory of health care services and providers throughout Minnesota, including clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, health screening programs, and more. All 87 counties in Minnesota are covered. Please click here for a handout about how to use this resource.
My Health Minnesota → Go Local is complemented by MedlinePlus , a website from the National Library of Medicine that provides authoritative and trusted health information. 

GreenFILE™ From EBSCO. A research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. GreenFILE’s initial release will include abstracting and indexing for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage – from to volume 1, issue 1 to present – for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles. http://www.greeninfoonline.com/

Datanet From the Minnesota Department. of Administration / Office of Geographic and Demographic Analysis / Land Management Information Center. Datanet is an online system consisting of summarized statistical information designed to serve Minnesota's governments, businesses, schools, nonprofit agencies and citizens. The system contains statistics about social, economic and demographic conditions in Minnesota. http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/datanetweb/index.html
Also see the Land Management Information Center http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/