The University of Montana Libraries—Missoula

  • Academic Index   1980-Present   Full-text
    • Multi-disciplinary full text database which indexes nearly 8,050 journals, including more than 4,600 in full text. Over 75% of the journals are scholarly peer-reviewed titles.

  • Academic Search Premier   1975-   Full-text
    • Multidisciplinary database containing full-text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals are also provided. Academic areas covered include: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more.

  • Access NewspaperARCHIVE   1759-1977   Full-text
    • Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. It is your gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world. This database is only available on campus.

  • AccessScience   Latest Edition   Full-text
    • Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online. McGraw Hill’s latest edition. Full-text access to encyclopedia articles, scientists’ biographies, subject bibliographies, relevant recent news articles, definitions for scientific terms, essay topics, an Image Gallery, and related websites. RSS available.

  • ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library   1954-Present   Full-text
    • Full text access to computer science papers and publications from journals, magazines, newsletters and proceedings published, co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers. Table of Contents Alerts available.


  • African American Newspapers: The 19th Century   1827-1898   Full-text
    • A full text collection of 19th century African-American newspapers. Titles include: Freedom's Journal, New York, 1827-March 1829; Colored American, New York, 1837- 1841; The North Star, Rochester, NY, 1847-July 1851; Frederick Douglass Papers (continuation of The North Star), 1851-Dec. 1856; National Era, Washington, DC, 1847- Mar. 1860; Provincial Freeman, Toronto, ON, 1854-Dec. 18, 1855; The Christian Recorder, May 1862-Dec. 1893 (excluding 1892).

  • AgeLine   1978-present  
    • Abstracts of social gerontology and aging-related articles, books, and reports.

  • Agricola   1970-Present  
    • Indexes agriculture, botany, forestry, grazing, range management, research reports by the United States Forest Service.

  • AIP (American Institute of Physics) Journals   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Full text access to the following AIP titles: Journal of Chemical Physics (1933-present), Physics of Fluids (1958-present), Physics of Plasmas (1994-present), and Review of Scientific Instruments (1930-present). RSS Journal feeds available.


  • Alternative Health Database   1980-present   Full-text
    • Full text alternative health articles from magazines, journals, newsletters, newspapers, and reference sources.

  • Alternative Press Index   1991-   Full-text
    • Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Covers international and interdisciplinary issues of cultural, economic, political & social change.


  • America: History and Life   1964-Present  
    • Abstracts to the history and culture of the United States and Canada, including journal articles, book reviews, monographs, and dissertations, covering pre-history-present time. Some full-text.

  • American Chemical Society Publications   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Full-text peer-reviewed eJournals and magazines published by the Publications Division of the ACS. Chemistry and related sciences are covered by 30+ titles, coverage dates vary by title. Alerting and RSS services available. Note: we have access to all publications on the ACS site except "Chemical and Engineering News"



  • American National Biography   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Biographical dictionary of about 17,500 deceased notable American men and women who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.




  • Annual Reviews - Physical Sciences   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Full text access to the contents of Annual Reviews – review articles covering the primary research literature identified to be making key contributions to the field – for multiple areas within the Physical Sciences. Annual Reviews for Biomedical and Social Sciences are also accessible via this link. Alerts available.

  • Annual Reviews - Social Sciences   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Critical reviews of the primary research literature and principal contributions in the fields of Anthropology, Environment and Resources, Psychology, and Sociology.


  • Anthropological Index Online   1957-Present  
    • Indexes standard journals and many titles outside the mainstream in all areas of anthropology and archaeology. Particular strength is represented in sociocultural anthropology, ethnology, and material culture.

  • Anthropological Literature   1984-Present  
    • Index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies.

  • AnthroSource     Full-text
    • Anthrosource is a searchable archive of the American Anthropological Association's current and past publications including peer-reviewed journals, newsletters and bulletin.


  • Applied Science and Technology Full Text   1983-Present   Full-text
    • Indexes over 600 journals covering applications in all scientific and technological fields, from applied mathematics to all forms of engineering and technology; some full text (combined with other Wilson Indexes).

  • APS (American Physical Society) Journals   2003-Present   Full-text
    • Full text access to the following APS titles: Physical Review (A-E), Physical Review Focus, Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, Special Topics – Physics Education Research (2005-present), and Special Topics – Accelerators and Beams (1998-present).


  • Archives and Special Collections    
    • Guide to collections serviced from the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room on Level 4 of the Mansfield Library.

  • Art Full Text   1984-Present   Full-text
    • Indexes key international English-language publications covering the visual and performing arts, including music, dance, theater, film, painting, sculpture, and conceptual art.

  • Art Index Retrospective   1929-1984  
    • Indexes articles and reproductions of works of art in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.


  • ARTbibliographies Modern   Late 1960s-Present  
    • Provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.

  • ARTFL     Full-text
    • A corpus of French, totaling some 150 million words, representing a broad range of written French -- from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics -- stretching from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.

  • ArticleFirst     Full-text
    • Indexes nearly 12,500 journals covering business, science, the humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture.

  • arXive.org   1991 - present   Full-text
    • Electronic archive and distribution server for research papers and preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, and quantitative biology.

  • ATLA Religion   1949-present   Full-text
    • Indexes over 1500 sources of religious and theological literature related to anthropology, business, history, law, medicine, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, and theology.

  • ATLAS   1949-present   Full-text
    • Full text sources of religious and theological literature related to anthropology, business, history, law, medicine, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, and theology.

  • Auto Repair Reference Center   1954-   Full-text
    • Clear, concise auto repair information for professionals and do-it-yourselfers.Covers repair procedures, service bulletins and recalls, wiring diagrams with detailed images and graphics, and labor cost estimates.

  • Bible in English (Literature Online)   990-1970   Full-text
    • Access twenty versions of the Bible: Bible, including twelve complete Bibles, five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale’s New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.

  • Bibliography of Asian Studies   1971-Present  
    • The disciplinary scope covers the humanities, the social sciences, and those natural sciences that have strong human components, such as medicine, public health, geology and the environment.

  • Bibliography of Genetic Variation in Natural Populations   Dates Vary  
    • Indexes the literature of conservation genetics and genetic variation in natural populations of animals, plants, and microbes. There is a taxonomic bias in this bibliography towards fish, especially salmon, trout, and their kin.

  • Bibliography of Native North Americans   1500s-Present  
    • Disciplinary scope covers the humanities, the social sciences, and those natural sciences that have strong human components, such as medicine, public health, geology and the environment.

  • Biography and Genealogy Master Index   Dates Vary  
    • Citations to biographical information on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. Good for research in biography, history, humanities, sciences and social sciences.

  • Biography Resource Center   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 325,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

  • Biological Abstracts   1969-Present  
    • Comprehensive index to the biology, life science, journal literature. Indexes almost 4000 journals.

  • Biological and Agricultural Full Text   1983-Present   Full-text
    • Indexes over 300 journals from popular to professional that pertain to biology and agriculture; some full text (Combined with other Wilson Indexes).


  • BioOne   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Full-text from almost 80 high impact bioscience research Ejournals.

  • Birds of North America   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • The Birds of North America is a comprehensive, multimedia, reference source covering the life histories of North American birds. Detailed scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada is provided.

  • Book Index With Reviews     Full-text
    • Book Index with Reviews (BIR) helps you find information on the books you want and need to read. Complete bibliographic information is presented as well as reviews when available.

  • Book Review Digest Plus   1983-  
    • Provides access to descriptive summaries of books and to published book reviews. Cited summaries and reviews may be published in languages other than English and may be available for books written for all ages (child-adult), in all languages, from all countries.

  • Books in Print   Dates Vary  
    • Provides complete, publisher verified information on all U.S. books in print. (Full-text book reviews not included.)

  • Business and Company ASAP   1982-   Full-text
    • Information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. Provides company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, and chronologies. U.S. and international private and public company listings.

  • Business and Company Resource Center     Full-text
    • Directory listings for more than 300,000 companies covering company profiles, articles, company financials, company and industry rankings, brand information, company performance ratings, investment reports, industry statistics, etc.

  • Business Source Premier   1922-   Full-text
    • Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business: management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.


  • CAB Direct   1900 - present  
    • Covers journal articles, conference proceedings and other materials in agriculture, forestry, animal health, nutrition, recreation and tourism, rural sociology, soils, and veterinary science.

  • Cabell's Business Directories     Full-text
    • These provide information for researchers considering article publication in journals.The descriptions for individual journals include publisher contact information; manuscript guidelines; acceptance rate, review type, process, and time; number of reviewers; journal circulation and price; type of readership.

  • Cabell's Educational Directories   2005 Edition   Full-text
    • These provide information for researchers considering article publication in journals. Mansfield Library access includes the Educational Curriculum & Methods and the Educational Psychology & Administration directories. The descriptions for individual journals include publisher contact information; manuscript guidelines; acceptance rate, review type, process, and time; number of reviewers; journal circulation and price; type of readership.

  • Canadian Encyclopedia   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • The most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on all things Canadian.

  • CBDNet (Commerce Business Daily)   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Database of proposed contract actions and contract awards by U.S. Government agencies and classification codes.

  • CCH Internet Tax Research Network   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Provides documents related to taxation in the United States: federal and state tax information, as well as resources for financial and estate planning, business planning and real estate commentaries.


  • Child Welfare Information Gateway   1960 - present  
    • Over 32,000 abstracts of books, technical reports, fact sheets, journal articles, and other documents related to child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.

  • Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University   Dates Vary  
    • Picture books for children, preschool to grade 3: covers topics, concepts, and skills in Literature, Language and Communication, Mathematics, Health and Medicine, Natural History and Natural Science, Social Studies, and Visual and Performing Arts.

  • Chinese ERIC   1980-  
    • Bi-lingual database specializing in Chinese-oriented educational information resources, drawing primarily from research conducted in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

  • Chmoogle   Dates Vary  
    • Open access chemistry search engine. Search for chemical structures by drawing (i.e., ChemDraw, ChemSketch, ISISDraw, or JME); typing your search in as a SMILES; or using the common chemical name, systematic chemical name, trade name, IUPAC name, or CAS number.

  • Chronicle of Higher Education   1995-   Full-text
    • A key news and information source for the academic community. In addition to articles, the Chronicle includes reports, faculty salary survey data, discussion forums, and academic job advertisements.

  • CINAHL   1982-Present  
    • CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) is one of the best databases for finding citations for articles on topics in nursing and allied health.

  • Classical Music    
    • A guide to finding vocal music and resources and information about vocal music.

  • Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)   1996-present   Full-text
    • Codified general and permanent rules published in the U.S. Federal Register. Search CFR by keyword or a combination of title, part, and page.

  • Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Includes 13,000 poems in full text, and 250,000 poetry citations, in addition to commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, notes on form, and a glossary of prosodic terms.

  • ComAbstracts   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Primary professional literature of the communication(s) field covering human communication studies, speech communication, rhetoric, journalism, mass communication, etc.


  • Computer Database   1980 - Present   Full-text
    • Full text access to articles on the computer, telecommunications and electronic industries. Locate research on industry trends, software and hardware, Internet and the Web, LAN and WAN technology, multimedia and virtual reality; analysis of high tech companies and their products; and reviews on current consumer products.


  • Conference Papers Index   1982-Present  
    • Indexes papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis is the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences.

  • Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Library   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • This database provides access to CQ Researcher back to 1923 and CQ Weekly from 1983 onward. CQ Researcher covers current issues in American Politics and Policy, while CQ Weekly covers current legislative action in the U.S. Congress.

  • Congressional Record   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Official record of the proceedings, debates and voting records of the United States Congress.


  • Cooperative Children's Book Center    
    • Website of the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) School of Education (SoE). Provides online resources and links to online resources concerning children's literature.

  • County Business Patterns   1993-2000   Full-text
    • Access separate reports for each State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and a U.S. summary. Subjects covered are agricultural services, forestry, and fisheries; mining; contract construction; manufacturing; transportation and other public utilities; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services.

  • Credo Reference   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Credo Reference (formerly Xreferplus) is an online reference library that provides access to a selection of reference books. Credo Reference includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

  • Criminology (SAGE Full-Text)   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Includes the full-text of 23 journals, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

  • CSA Biological Sciences   1982-present  
    • Indexes the biology, life science literature. Includes some specialized areas such as aquatic sciences & fisheries abstracts, etc.



  • Dictionary of Occupational Titles   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Career information by occupation. Describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

  • Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970   Dates Vary  
    • Detailed Sanborn fire insurance maps of Montana display 210 towns and cities of Montana. Enter for [Account Name] bitterroot and for [Password] welcome.

  • Directory of Open Access Journals     Full-text
    • This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages.


  • Dissertations, ProQuest Digital   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Indexes doctoral dissertations completed in the U.S. and worldwide at accredited institutions for the last 150 years, with some masters degree theses. Dissertations published since 1997 are available in full-text in PDF format.



  • Early American Fiction 1789-1875     Full-text
    • Early American Fiction 1789–1875 offers the full text of more than 700 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period.

  • Early American Imprints, 1640-1819    
    • In the Mansfield Library, we have the first 70,000 books, pamphlets etc. printed in what is now the USA, including everything from before and during the Revolutionary War. Here's how to use them.

  • Early English Books Online     Full-text
    • From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.

  • Econlit   1969-present   Full-text
    • EconLit, the American Economic Association’s electronic database, is the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 630,000 records covering 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics. EconLit also provides the full-text of JEL book reviews.

  • Economic Census   1992-present  
    • Industry profiles and regional data from US economic census data, conducted every five years. Click on the "Economic Census" link found under the "Businesss" category.

  • Economic Research Guide   2005  
    • Guide to economic research tools available at the Mansfield Library and online

  • EDGAR Database of Corporate Information   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Contains the corporate filings, including 10-K annual reports, of U.S. public domestic companies are required to file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

  • EdResearch Online (Australian)   2000-present   Full-text
    • Records from the Australian Education Index; most major Australian education journals and conferences.


  • Education Full Text   1983-Present   Full-text
    • Identifies literature pertaining to education and published in English-language periodicals, books, and yearbooks.

  • Education Professional Collection   1965-   Full-text
    • Resource designed for professional educators and others interested in the field of education. Access journal articles pertaining to topics in education.


  • Educational Media Reviews Online   1997-   Full-text
    • Database of video, DVD, and CD-ROM reviews on materials from major educational and documentary distributors. Reviews are written primarily by librarians and teaching faculty in US and Canadian institutions. K-12 materials are not a focus.

  • Educational Testing Service (ETS) Test Collection   1990s-present  
    • The Test Collection Database contains descriptions of 20,000+ tests dating from the early 1990s onward. The database may be used to identify tests, find descriptions and reviews of tests, and identify test publisher information. To obtain a specific test described in the database, users will often need to contact the test's publisher. The Collection includes descriptions of tests relevant to both education and other fields.

  • EDUCAUSE Resource Center     Full-text
    • The EDUCAUSE Resource Center is a repository for information concerning use and management of information technology (IT) in higher education. Resources include articles, books, conference sessions, contracts, effective practices, plans, policies, position descriptions and blog content.

  • eHRAF Ethnography   Dates vary  
    • This multi-cultural database provides information on all aspects of humanities and social sciences -- anthropology, social studies, history, sociology, geography, language, multicultural studies, political science, human development, arts, and medicine. A paper copy of the


  • Emerald Fulltext   1994-Present   Full-text
    • Subject coverage spans a spectrum of management disciplines including: management, strategy, leadership, information management, marketing and human resource management, with some applied science and technology titles.

  • Encyclopedia Americana   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Covers all academic fields and curriculum topics. Article-to-article links, internet links, tables, fact boxes, maps, flags, and black-and-white line art and color images.


  • Encyclopedia of Music in Canada   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • The full text of the prestigious Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, with some 4000 articles on all aspects of music in Canada.

  • EndNote Web    
    • EndNote Web is a bibliography manager and database. After signing up for an individual account with your University email account, you can manage your references: import references from online databases, add citations to your papers, and format your bibliography.

  • English Drama (Literature Online)   1280-1949   Full-text
    • English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama of 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.

  • Environment & Energy Daily   1996 - Present   Full-text
    • Environment & Energy Daily is the leading source of information for people who track environmental and energy action in Congress.






  • Essay & General Literature Index   1985-present  
    • This unique reference database offers precise access to nearly 65,000 essays contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections, covering economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.

  • Essay Finder     Full-text
    • Essays published in the 20th century on a variety of topics in literature, history, economics, sociology, art, architecture, philosophy, psychology, science, drama, and biography. Search or browse the collection by title, author, or subject.

  • Ethnic Newswatch   1991-Present   Full-text
    • An interdisciplinary database which offers non-mainstream viewpoints from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

  • Ethnic Newswatch: A History   1960-1989   Full-text
    • An interdisciplinary database which offers non-mainstream viewpoints from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

  • Evaluating Web Pages    
    • This guide explains the different types of web sites and how to select sites that are appropriate for academic research.

  • Factiva   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Provides domestic and international news and business and financial information of publicly and privately held companies, industries, the stock market and the economy. Includes full-text of Wall Street Journal and other Dow Jones publications.

  • Federal Register   1994-present   Full-text
    • The official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.


  • FedStats   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Gateway to statistics from over 70 U.S. Federal agencies. Use the alphabetical index or search the titles or agency to find specific information. The site uses linking and searching capabilities to track economic and population trends, health care costs, foreign trade, energy use, and more.

  • Film & Television Literature Index     Full-text
    • A comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing, including film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.


  • Finding Native American Material in the Mansfield Library    
    • Most items are in the catalog under listings for specific tribes. Those listings are under the name anthropologists call the tribe, not the names that people use. Salish not Flathead, and Siksika not Blackfeet are examples. See the library guide for details.

  • Finding Out-of-Print Books    
    • How to locate used books for purchase, how to find out what a book is worth, why some copies are worth more than others.

  • FirstGov for Science   Dates Vary  
    • A gateway to US government Science information, this website provides content in the areas of health, defense, the environment, and science education; is the work of 12 major science agencies within the government; is hosted by the Department of Energy. Science.gov Alert Service available.


  • Fish & Fisheries Worldwide   1971-Present  
    • Comprehensive index to the fish and fish culture literature including all aspects of ichthyology, fisheries, and related aspects of aquaculture.



  • FRANText Database   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • This collection ranges from classic works of French literature to non-fiction prose to technical writing of the 17th to 20th centuries. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.


  • Gale Virtual Reference Library   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • 17 Reference E-Books: Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America, Biology, Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the United States, Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World, Business Leader Profiles for Students, Contemporary Fashion, Contemporary Novelists, Contemporary Poets, Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, Gale Encyclopedia of Small Business, St. James Encyclopedia of Film & Filmakers, World of Earth Science

  • GenderWatch   1978-Present   Full-text
    • Covers women’s studies and gender studies in the arts, popular culture, media, business, criminology, education, family, health care, politics, pornography, religion, sexuality, sports and leisure, technology, and politics.

  • General Science Full Text   1993-present   Full-text
    • Full Text database that indexes and abstracts articles from popular science magazines, professional journals, and The New York Times Science Section. Abstracting coverage from March 1993-present, full text coverage from January 1995-present (combined with other Wilson Indexes).

  • Genetics Home Reference   Dates vary   Full-text
    • The National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes or chromosomes responsible for those conditions.

  • Geography   1990-Present  
    • Covers the international literature in physical and human geography.


  • GeoRef   1693-Present  
    • Comprehensive index to geology, earth science, hydrology, and paleontology literature.

  • GeoScienceWorld   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Full-text from almost 40 core geology research Ejournals.

  • Geospatial Data   Varies   Full-text
    • A Mansfield Library guide to government geospatial resources.

  • Google Scholar   Dates Vary  
    • Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including peer reviewed articles, theses, and books.

  • Government Documents Index   1976-Present  
    • Index of U.S. government documents, including congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).


  • Government News for Montana   2004-   Full-text
    • A Mansfield Library-designed weblog identifying recently published government materials

  • GPO Access   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Finding aids and other resources for locating federal government information in multiple databases covering congressional publications, laws, regulations, and key statistical and administrative publications.

  • GPO Monthly Catalog   1976-Present  
    • Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).

  • Greenwire   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Greenwire is the leading source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy politics and policy.

  • Grove Art   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Presents authorative entries covering all visual arts. Online images supplement the text.

  • Grove Music   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). Grove Music Online will be updated annually.

  • Health Reference Center   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Indexes health-related topics, including Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. Includes some full text articles and consumer health pamphlets.


  • Hein Online   Varies   Full-text
    • A database of full-text, historic, legal works.

  • Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.

  • Historical Abstracts   1955-  
    • Abstracts to the history and culture of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, including journal articles, book reviews, monographs, and dissertations, covering 1450-present.

  • Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition     Full-text
    • This reference work reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition permits users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.

  • History Cooperative   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • The full text of current issues of the American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Law and History Review, The William and Mary Quarterly, The History Teacher, Western Historical Quarterly, Common-Place, and Labour/Le Travail.


  • History Resource Center: US   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Contains a vast collection of primary sources, magazine and newspaper articles, and reference works covering U.S. history.

  • Horn Book Guide Online   1989-Present   Full-text
    • Access short, critical reviews of virtually every hardcover trade book published in the United States for young people.

  • Household Products Database   Dates vary   Full-text
    • This database links over 5,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). Search by brand name or chemical ingredients.

  • Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective   1907-1984  
    • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals.

  • Humanities Full Text   1984-Present   Full-text
    • References articles about art, history, literature, music, and religion. Includes PDF images of all the graphs, diagrams, charts, and photographs that accompany articles.

  • In the First Person   1930 - present   Full-text
    • Index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.

  • Index Islamicus   1906-present   Full-text
    • Index to journal articles and other literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world including areas of Asia and Africa

  • Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text   1994-   Full-text
    • International coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. Includes full text of nearly 200 select periodicals, as far back as 1994.



  • Infotrac Elementary School Reference   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Subject categories range from animals to transportation. Language and content tailored to comprehension level of elementary school age student. Includes printable teacher worksheets.

  • Infotrac High School Reference   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Coverage of comprehensive range of subjects tailored to research conducted by students at the high school level. Includes the Student Toolbox, a guide to the steps of research.

  • Infotrac Middle School Reference   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Coverage of comprehensive range of subjects. Language and content tailored to comprehension level of middle school age student. Includes the Student Toolbox, a guide to the steps of research.

  • IngentaConnect   Dates Vary  
    • An interdisciplinary, searchable index to over 20,000 journals. Table of contents browsing also available for all journal titles.

  • Institutional Accreditation System   2005-  
    • The database lists approximately 6,900 postsecondary educational institutions and programs, each of which is accredited by an accrediting agency or state approval agency that is recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.

  • International Children's Digital Library   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Digital collection of multicultural materials appropriate for the ages 3-13 years old. Collection’s focus is to reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, lifestyles, and priorities of peoples around the world.


  • International Index to Music Periodicals   1874-Present   Full-text
    • IIMP Full Text enables you to search and browse hundreds of music journals covering a broad scope of research, from performance, theory and composition to music education, jazz and ethnomusicology. It provides indexing, abstracts and selected full text coverage of the most important music journals, both scholarly and popular, covering all aspects of the world of music.


  • International Medieval Bibliography   400-1500   Full-text
    • All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included with an index containing references to personal names, medieval and modern placenames, subjects, texts and manuscripts.


  • Journal Citation Reports   2004-Present  
    • Journal Citation Reports is a unique bibliometric tool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals. It includes international coverage of virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences.

  • Journals@Ovid Full-Text   1996-Present   Full-text
    • Journals@Ovid is a searchable collection of medical and health journals from more than 50 publishers. The collection contains the full-text of more than 140 journals.

  • JSTOR   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • A digital archive collection of over 600 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, business, basic science, life sciences, and physical and applied sciences. Often starts with the first issues (many of which date from the 1800s).


  • L'Annee Philologique   1969-2004  
    • Critical and analytical bibliography of classical literature and information on Ancient Greece and Rome. Topics covered include literature and literary history; linguistics and philology; history and civilization; law and justice; philosophy and the history of ideas; science and technology; and more.

  • Land Letter   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Land Letter provides objective, accurate coverage of natural resource policy issues. From lawsuits over national forest management, to water resource allocation in the West.

  • Language Finger    
    • An index for finding resources written in foreign languages in the Mansfield Library Collection.

  • Latino Literature: Poetry,Drama, and Fiction     Full-text
    • Latino Literature is the most comprehensive collection of Latino Literature yet created. When complete it will include 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry and 450 plays, so representing the Chicano culture and all the different ethnicities of Latin American writers with a Hispanic background working in the United States

  • Legal Trac   1980 - Present   Full-text
    • Use this database to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. Included are articles on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation. Also included are: British Commonwealth, European Union and International Law.

  • Lexis-Nexis Academic   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Covers top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.

  • Lexis-Nexis Congressional   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Provides the tools for searching for current and past bills and laws, committee reports and hearings, and information on Congressional members. Also provides access to the Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Congressional committee schedules.



  • Library Literature & Information Science Full Text   1984-   Full-text
    • Definitive index in the library and information science fields. Search using the Wilson subject thesaurus developed specifically for this database. Provides hotlinks to valuable information on the websites mentioned in articles.

  • Library of Congress   Dates Vary  
    • Search the national library of the United States collections of more than 17 million books, nearly 95 million maps, manuscripts, photographs, films, audio and video recordings, prints and drawings, and other special collections.

  • Library Resources for Communication Studies   2004-  
    • This web site is a springboard that librarians, students, and researchers can use to find information in the area of communication studies. As it was created by librarians from a number of institutions, some suggested information sources may not currently be available at the Mansfield Library.

  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)   1960s-  
    • LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.




  • Literature Cited    
    • Basic information on APA, MLA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles.

  • Literature for Children   Pre-1850 to Post-1950   Full-text
    • Literature for Children is a collection of 550+ digitized works of children's literature, published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950.

  • Literature Online (LION)   600-1997   Full-text
    • Over 260,000 English and American works of poetry, prose and drama with complementary criticism and reference resources, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources.

  • Literature Resource Center   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Delivers biographical and bibliographical information on authors and their works. Covers authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.

  • LitFinder   Antiquity-Present   Full-text
    • Comprehensive and international index of poems, short stories, and essays published in anthologies and literary magazines.



  • Magill on Literature   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • The definitive, online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses. Includes brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature, including all of Masterplots and Masterplots II, Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy as well as World Philosophers and Their Works.

  • Making of America (Cornell)   1840-1900   Full-text
    • Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

  • Making of America (U Michigan)   1850-1877   Full-text
    • Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

  • Management & Organization Studies (SAGE Full-Text)   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Includes the full text of 38 journals. It covers such subjects as: Business & Management, Organizations Studies, Management, Strategic Management and Business Policy, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development, , Marketing, Analytical Marketing, Sociology, Sociology of Work, Public Policy and Public Administration, Hospitality, Travel and Tourism Management, Labor Economics, Industrial Relations, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Organizational Communication and Interpersonal Communication.

  • Maps    
    • Links to major resources for all types of maps, including Montana maps, U.S. maps, international maps, Native American maps, and map data sets.

  • MarketLine Business Information Centre     Full-text
    • Provides analysis and data on 10,000 companies, 2,000 industries, and 50 countries. This database allows you to research markets, companies and industries by country.

  • Materials Science (SAGE Full-Text)   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • This full text collection includes 15 titles (5,300 articles and growing) that cover the following subjects: high performance polymers, molecular modeling characterization and evaluation of polymers, polymeric drugs and drug design, polymeric functionalization, natural polymer modification, enzyme modeling by polymers, membranes for biological use, liposome stabilization and cell modeling. Coverage dates vary by title, from 1994-present to 2004-present. Email Alerts available.

  • Mathematical Reviews Database   1940-  
    • Since its founding in 1940, Mathematical Reviews(MR) has served researchers and scholars in the mathematical sciences by providing timely information on articles and books that contain new contributions to mathematical research.


  • MathSciNet   1940-Present  
    • Comprehensive index to the mathematics and statistics literature produced by the American Mathematical Society. Provides bibliographic data and reviews or summaries of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database, as well as Author and Journal citation searches: 1,800 journals covered.

  • MedlinePlus   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Health information from the worlds largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine, for both health professionals and consumers.


  • MERLOT     Full-text
    • MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.

  • Middle English Compendium   Dates vary.   Full-text
    • Interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.

  • Mineralogical Abstracts   1982-present  
    • Indexes the literature of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, and related topics.


  • Missoula County   Dates vary  
    • Official county website, county departments and services, job openings

  • MLA Directory of Periodicals     Full-text
    • The MLA Directory of Periodicals produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) contains information available on the journals and series that are covered in the MLA International Bibliography database.

  • MLA International Bibliography   1963-present  
    • Indexes critical literary and language scholarship with access to international journals and serials, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.

  • Montana Architectural Drawings    
    • Keyword searchable database of information about architectural drawings for stores, churches, hospitals, parks, private residences and public and fraternal buildings. Most are Montana buildings. Database is hosted by Montana State University.

  • Montana Code Annotated   2003   Full-text
    • All current Montana laws passed before the start of the current legislative session.



  • Montana Library Network   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Includes catalog of Montana public libraries and indexes to Montana magazines

  • Montana Maps    
    • An overview of how to find maps of Montana in the Mansfield Library.

  • Montana The Magazine of Western History - Index   1951-2003  
    • Index to the journal published by the Montana Historical Society since 1951. Montana The Magazine of Western History contains articles that showcase the people, places, and events that shaped the state and the western region.

  • Montana, Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Fire insurance maps of Montana displaying all buildings in built-up areas of 210 towns and cities of Montana from the 1880s -1960s. Account Name: bitterroot Password: welcome

  • Music Index Online   1979-2006  
    • Cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

  • Mutopia   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenberg, but consists of free sheet music. All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute.

  • National Bureau of Economic Research   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Covers issues in economics and management. Provides extensive historical data sets primarily covering the USA but with some coverage of the UK, France and Germany. Also has abstracts of working papers.

  • National Center for Education Statistics     Full-text
    • The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. NCES collects, collates, analyzes, and reports complete statistics on the condition of American education and reviews and reports on education activities internationally.

  • National Center for Health Statistics   2001  
    • National Center for Health Statistics presents national trends in health statistics on such topics as birth and death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, morbidity and health status, risk factors, use of ambulatory care and inpatient care, health personnel and facilities, financing of health care, health insurance and managed care, and other health topics.

  • National Faculty Salary Survey   2003-2004; 2004-2005; 2005-2006; 2006-2007   Full-text
    • This national survey contains salary comparisons for academic disciplines and academic ranks, at US colleges and universities.



  • Natural Standard   Dates vary   Full-text
    • Natural Standard is an international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies. Using a comprehensive methodology and reproducible grading scales, information is created that is evidence-based, consensus-based, and peer-reviewed, tapping into the collective expertise of a multidisciplinary Editorial Board. The mission of this collaboration is to provide objective, reliable information that aids clinicians, patients, and healthcare institutions to make more informed and safer therapeutic decisions. Natural Standard is widely recognized as one of the world’s premier sources of information in this area.

  • NetLibrary   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Searchable collection of over 14,000 scholarly, full text electronic books.

  • New York Times Historical   1851-2003   Full-text
    • Full-text and full-image articles. Includes complete paper, cover-to-cover, with page and article images in downloadable PDF.

  • New York Times Image Edition   2007-present   Full-text
    • The New York Times Image Edition database provides an exact digital reproduction of the printed edition, with keyword searching and the ability to browse the full publication from June 1, 2007 to the present day. Issues are available online before they are printed, including an advance copy of the Sunday issue.

  • Newsbank   1992-Present   Full-text
    • Articles from U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, people, the arts, health, cultural activities, local companies, state industries and science issues and events.


  • Newspapers Database     Full-text
    • News articles covering Arts and Entertainment, Business News, Lifestyle News, Opinion and Editorial, Regional News, and Sports from more than 100 major newspapers from the U.S., Mexico, the United Kingdom and Australia.

  • Northwest Digital Archives    
    • A keyword searchable database of guides (finding aids) to archival collections located in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Includes guides to collections at the Mansfield Library's Archives & Special Collections department.

  • NTIS (National Technical Information Service)   1964-Present  
    • The “preeminent” resource for locating U.S. Government-sponsored research in scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related areas, produced by the National Technical Information Service. Locate unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs, and audiovisual products.

  • Occupational Outlook Handbook   2006 - 2007   Full-text
    • Career information by occupation. Describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

  • OmniFile Full Text Mega     Full-text
    • Multi-disciplinary database provides indexing, abstracts, and full text from six databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

  • Open Access Journals in the Field of Education     Full-text
    • A linked listing of open access e-journals pertaining to education (broadly) and that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text, and accessible without cost. The listing is provided by the American Education Research Association Special Interest Group (AERA SIG) Communication of Research.

  • Opera Source    
    • This resource contains the most recent information available on mainstage, training, educational, management, and competition opportunities from a vast range of organizations.

  • Opposing Viewpoints Reference Center     Full-text
    • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center covers controversial social issues and current events, such as Gun Control, Genetic Engineering, Censorship, Endangered Species, and Terrorism providing full-text

  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography     Full-text
    • Illustrated collection of 55,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past.

  • Oxford English Dictionary   2nd Edition   Full-text
    • Complete text of the 20-volume OED online. Includes terminology from specialist areas such as the arts, science, medicine, history, and the social sciences.

  • Oxford Journals Online   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Access to over 180 Oxford ejournals. These electronic journals are from many disciplines across the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.

  • Oxford Reference Online   Latest Edition   Full-text
    • Oxford Reference Online (Premium Collection) contains more than 100 dictionary, language reference, quotation, and subject reference works from all areas of humanities, social sciences, and science published by Oxford University Press in a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database.

  • PapersFirst   1993-Present  
    • Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences, congresses, symposia, expositions, workshops and meetings added to The British Library Document Supply Center

  • Philosopher’s Index   1940-Present  
    • Covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.



  • PILOTS   1871 - present  
    • Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress (PILOTS), is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.

  • Plant Science   1994-Present  
    • Indexes the literature of general botany & plant science.

  • Play Index   Antiquity-present  
    • Search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present; provides the full publication details needed to locate the play in its published manifestations.


  • Poiesis   1997-   Full-text
    • Search journals published by philosophical societies, departments, university presses, and commercial publishers in several countries.

  • Political Science and International Relations (SAGE Full-Text)   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Includes the full-text of 25 journals. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.



  • Pre-CINAHL   Last Few Months  
    • A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.

  • Predicasts PROMT   Curr. & 3 Prev. years   Full-text
    • Research companies using international and trade journals to locate information about market size and share, industry trends, emerging technologies and competitive opportunities.

  • Proceedings   1993-Present  
    • Indexes the contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

  • Project Muse   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Access literature from the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.


  • ProQuest Digital Dissertations   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Indexes doctoral dissertations completed in the U.S. and worldwide at accredited institutions for the last 150 years, with some masters degree theses. Dissertations published since 1997 are available in full-text in PDF format.

  • PsycArticles   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Full-text from over 50 core psychology peer reviewed research Ejournals.

  • PsycBOOKS   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • PsycBOOKS is the fulltext of more than 700 scholarly books and 12,200 chapters (primarily published by the American Psychological Association). All the content of PsycBOOKS is indexed in PsycINFO.


  • Psychology Information Resources    
    • Library guide to a selection of titles held in the Mansfield Library and also reference to some internet accessible resources.

  • PsycINFO   1887-Present  
    • Comprehensive index to psychology, psychiatry, literature. Also indexes brain research, drug information, laboratory animal, leisure science, primatology literature.


  • PubMed   1951 - Present  
    • Comprehensive index to the health and medical literature. Also indexes dentistry, molecular biology, nursing, parasitology, veterinary medicine literature.

  • Readers Guide Full Text   1994   Full-text
    • A current, cumulative author-subject index to English language periodicals with full-text articles of general interest and current events. The Readers Guide has full-text articles from 1994 to present and indexes articles from 1983 to present. The Readers Guide also indexes articles from the popular press, including The New York Times.

  • Reference USA   1972-  
    • Directory comprised of business information for the United States.

  • RefWorks    
    • RefWorks is a bibliography manager and database. After signing in with an individual account (which is free for all UM members), you can manage your references: import references from online databases, keep track of the research you have done, easily add citations to your papers and format your bibliography.

  • Regional Economic Information System (REIS)   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Provides local area economic data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas for 1969-1999. Statistics in the database include: personal income and earning variables, full and part employment variables, transfer payments variables, and farm income and expenses variables.

  • Research in Dance Education   1926-Present  
    • Created by the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), covers literature (dissertations, theses, and published articles) written between 1926 and the present. Updated monthly.


  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature   1969-present  
    • RILM contains records in over 200 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes.

  • Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Knowledge / Web of Science)   1995-Present  
    • Science Citation Index Expanded fully indexes 5,900 major journals from 150 scientific disciplines; 70% of citations include author abstracts. This multidisciplinary database also provides searchable access to Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. General, Advanced, and Cited References Searches from 1995-present; Citation Alerts available.

  • Science Online   10/06/1995 to present, older access in JSTOR   Full-text
    • Access full text articles from Science, a journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. RSS Feeds and Email Alerts available. For Historical Access to the journals’ articles try searching JSTOR (1880-2000).

  • ScienceDirect   1995-Present   Full-text
    • Full-text access to over 1,800 Elsevier eJournal science, technology, and medicine titles, from 1995-present. Alerting and RSS services available.

  • SciFinder Scholar   1907 - Present  
    • Chemical Abstracts Plus, a comprehensive index to the Chemistry Literature and patent documents from 1907 to the present, is searchable via SciFinder. Database results provide cited-reference tracking. Click on the SciFinder Scholar desktop-icon from a Mansfield Library computer to access this resource, or follow the downloading instructions for your university computer on the following page. Access is for two simultaneous users – if you can’t get in at a given time, try again.

  • Scirus   Dates Vary  
    • Science-specific Web search engine – searches over 250 million science-related web pages.

  • Scopus   1966-Present  
    • Scopus is a unique new database for all Health, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences from Elsevier. It is the world’s biggest abstract database covering 25 million abstracts from over 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers for 1966 forward. Scopus also offers powerful and innovative searching and browsing tools including citing article information, alerts and RSS feeds. Scopus is currently available on trial access to UM users. Your feedback on this database is appreciated.

  • Serial Set, U.S. Congressional   1789-1917   Full-text
    • Digitized version of the Serial Set, which contains historic reports of Congress and federal agencies.

  • Short Story Index   1984-   Full-text
    • Index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals indexed in Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Humanities Index.

  • SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Journals   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Full text database contains 13 SIAM Journals covering: applied dynamical systems, applied mathematics, computing, control and optimization, discrete mathematics, mathematical analysis, matrix analysis and applications, multiscale modeling and simulation, numerical analysis, optimization, scientific computing, and theory of probability and its applications – as well as articles of broad interest offering “integrative and up-to-date perspective on a major topic in applied or computational mathematics or scientific computing.” Notification emails available (of new articles/papers).

  • Social Science Research Network   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks for areas such as Accounting, Economics, Financial Economics, Legal Scholarship, Information Systems, Management, Marketing, and Social Insurance.

  • Social Sciences Full Text   1994-Present   Full-text
    • Covers fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations.

  • Social Services Abstracts   1980-Present  
    • Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic citations to articles, dissertations, and book reviews, focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Over 1,500 journals are indexed.


  • Sociological Abstracts   1963-Present  
    • Index to the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

  • Sociology (SAGE Full-Text)   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Includes the full-text of 33 journals, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 12,700 articles. It covers such subjects as Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies).

  • Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Contains data from more than 100 sources about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are organized into six topical sections and are displayed in over 600 tables.

  • Species Information Library   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Encyclopedic information on North American species (primarily birds & mammals).

  • SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices)   Dates Vary  
    • SPIN provides indexing and abstracting of more than 100 major physics, astronomy, and engineering journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by the American Institute of Physics, its member societies and other affiliated organizations. Research Alerts available.

  • Sport DISCUS   1975-  
    • Comprehensive index for all aspects of sport, physical fitness, recreation, sport science, sports medicine. See this search guide, created by the Sport Information Resource Center (SIRC), for tips.

  • SpringerLink   1997-Present   Full-text
    • Access to 1200 Springer Ejournals




  • StatUSA   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Indexes U.S. government publications in economics, business and international trade. Offers current and historical statistics.

  • Story Finder     Full-text
    • Collection of short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more.



  • Synergy (Blackwell)   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Access to the full-text articles of 781 Blackwell eJournals covering 11 broad subject areas: Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting; Engineering, Computing and Technology; Health Sciences; Humanities; Law; Life and Physical Sciences; Mathematics and Statistics; Medicine; Social and Behavioral Sciences; The Arts; Veterinary Medicine, Animal Sciences, Agriculture and Aquaculture. Alerts available.

  • Taylor & Francis Journals   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Access to over 1,200 Taylor & Francis ejournals. These electronic journals are from many disciplines across the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.

  • Testing & Education Reference Center     Full-text
    • Find information on private high schools and university and college programs. Access test preparation materials and information on sources of financial aid.

  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae    
    • Includes most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453; building a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.

  • THOMAS   Dates vary   Full-text
    • THOMAS provides Congressional information--bills, laws, reports, votes, Congressional Record text, Congressional directories, and some treaties. Extensive bill tracking resource for 1973-present.

  • Tox Map   Dates vary   Full-text
    • A Geographic Information System (GIS) from the National Library of Medicine that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the EPA's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI).

  • Tox Town   Dates vary   Full-text
    • An interactive guide to toxic chemicals and environmental health risks encountered in everyday life, in everyday places.

  • Toxline   1994-Present  
    • Index of toxicology literature: Over 3 million records cover the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.

  • TOXNET   Dates Vary  
    • Web databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases produced by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). ChemIDplus provides searchable chemical dictionary (names, synonyms, structures); structure searching and direct links to many biomedical resources at NLM and on the Internet. Other databases include: Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System (CCRIS), Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology Database (DART), Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER), Toxicology Literature Online (TOXLINE), and more.

  • U.S. Congressional Serial Set   1789-1917   Full-text
    • Digitized version of the Serial Set, which contains historic reports of Congress and federal agencies.

  • Ulrich's Periodicals Directory   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Provides information about periodicals (journals, magazines, newspapers) published worldwide. Find out if a publication is peer-reviewed/refereed/scholarly. Identify periodicals relevant to a specific subject area, such as special education).

  • UM Ingenta Gateway   Dates Vary  
    • An interdisciplinary, searchable index to over 20,000 journals. Table of contents browsing also available for all journal titles.


  • UNESCO Index Translationum   1979 - Present  
    • The Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. The data base contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 and totalling more than one 1,300.000 entries in all disciplines : literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and so forth. It is planned to update the work every quarter.

  • Uniform Crime Reports   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Provides annual data on crime in the U.S. by type, city population groups, and regional variations. Includes a state-by-state breakdown of statistics.


  • United States Census Bureau   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Data on business and manufacturing, retail trade, service industries, construction and housing, population, foreign trade, and much more

  • United States Code   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • General and permanent laws of the United States.

  • United States Government Manual   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies; international organizations in which the United States participates; and boards, commissions, and committees.

  • Urban Studies (SAGE Full-Text)   Varies by title.   Full-text
    • Includes the full text of 12 journals. It covers such subjects as Anthropology, Economic Development, Economics, Education, Environmental Science, Planning Pedagogy, Planning Practice, Planning Theory, Policy Analysis, Political Science, Public Administration, Regional Geography, Regional Science, Residential and Community Development, Social, Spatial, and Cultural Dynamics, Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Culture, Urban Geography, Urban Policy, Urban Politics, and Welfare Economics.

  • USGS Minerals Statistics and Information   Dates Vary   Full-text
    • Statistics and information on the worldwide supply, demand, and flow of minerals and materials essential to the U.S. economy, the national security, and protection of the environment.

  • Valuing Old Newspapers    
    • Which newspapers are valuable, which are not. Includes a list of low-value reprints.

  • Video Librarian     Full-text
    • Video Librarian is the video review magazine for public, school, academic, and special libraries. Written by staff, librarians, teachers, and film critics. Reviews cover 1986-present.

  • Vocal Music    
    • A guide to finding vocal music and resources and information about vocal music.

  • Vocational and Career Collection     Full-text
    • Provides coverage of 400 trade and industry-related periodicals. The collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.

  • Voltaire électronique     Full-text
    • The complete text of Voltaire's literary works, based on the Oxford edition. Includes links to notes and dictionary entries.

  • Water Resources Abstracts   1967-Present  
    • Indexes water related literature covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.

  • Web Japan     Full-text
    • Information on Japan across many different genres including culture, sightseeing, society, history and nature; content is provided primarily in English, but a portion of the site is multilingual.

  • Web of Knowledge / Web of Science   1995-present  
    • Multidisciplinary index of over 8,000 journals covering the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities; with keyword, author, and cited reference search options.

  • Web Search Tools    
    • This guide contains links to major internet search engines, meta-search engines, and subject directories.




  • Wiley InterScience Journals   1996-Present   Full-text
    • Access to the full-text articles of 287 Wiley eJournals covering 14 subject areas: Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine and Healthcare, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and Materials Science, Psychology, Social Sciences.

  • Wilson Business Full Text     Full-text
    • Contains full text articles for over 400 business journals, and provides indexing for an additional 400.

  • World Almanac   1998-Present   Full-text
    • Covers arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes, and much more.

  • World Factbook (CIA)   2004   Full-text
    • Foreign intelligence information searchable by country, field of interest, and reference maps.

  • World Music    
    • A guide to finding vocal music and resources and information about vocal music.

  • WorldCat   Dates Vary  
    • OCLC catalog of materials in libraries worldwide – millions of bibliographic records representing 400 languages cover: articles/chapters/papers, books, computer programs, films and slides, journals and magazines, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes, and websites and internet resources.

  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts   1975-Present  
    • Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.


  • Zoological Record   1864- Present  
    • Indexes animal behavior, taxonomy, zoology literature.

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