Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for over 4,650 periodicals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, etc.

Agricola
Covers U.S. agricultural and life sciences information. Compiled by the U.S. National Agricultural Library, it consists of over 3,300,000 citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents and software related to agriculture.

Alt HealthWatch
Provides full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports covering complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

America: History & Life (AHL)
Database of bibliographic citations and article abstracts on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to present. It cites articles that were published in 1964 or later and that come from more than 2,000 journals published in more than 40 languages.

Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Database provided by the Yale Law School provides full text access to documents in law, history, and diplomacy from the pre-18th century through today.

Background Notes
U.S. Dept. of State prepared background on countries of the world. Including, people, history, economy, flags, maps, government, etc. Archived older editions. Indexes articles in biology, natural resources, and agricultural sciences.

BioOne
Provides access to about 100 full text bioscience research journals.

Booklist Online
Over 8,000 reviews of books, audiobooks, reference sources, video, and DVD titles annually.

Books in Print
Complete bibliographic, book ordering and subject classification information for over 3.4 million books, along some full text reviews of many of these books. Includes scholarly, popular, adult, juvenile, reprint and all other types of books published or distributed in the U.S.

Business & Company Resource Center
Provides business and industry information via articles, investment reports, chronologies and company histories, brand and product information, rankings and more.

Business Source Premier
Provides full text for nearly 8,350 business journals and other sources,including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications.

CAMIO (OCLC)
OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.

Choice Reviews Online
Provides access to all the Choice book reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Full text of the daily newspaper of higher education.

Chronicling America
Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Provides indexing for 3,001 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937.

Company Profiles (LexisNexis)
Information on public and private companies.

Computer Database
Provides access to articles on computers, software, semiconductors, communications, and telecommunications.

Consumer Health Complete
CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. Provides full text for more than 200 health reference books and encyclopedias.

Country Profiles (LexisNexis)
Country specific information on more than 100 countries.

Country Studies
Presents a description and analysis for over 100 countries, including history, culture, social aspects, economics, and politics.

CountryWatch
Includes Country Reviews for each of 192 countries comprise a 50-100 page report covering the demographic, historical, political, economic, business and environmental background and contemporary issues facing each country.

CQ Researcher
Search for current, controversial topics of national and international interest is areas such as health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Find full-text issues (each issue approximately 24 printed pages) written in layman's language, that includes pros/cons, background info, the current situation, and references to other information sources.

CultureGrams
Cultural reference for 190 countries, U.S. states, and Canadian provinces.

Daily Life Online   
Full text articles and books, primary documents, maps, images, folk and fairy tales.

Discovering Collection
Contains thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources, creative works and multimedia elements...in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.

EBSCO MegaFile
MegaFILE is comprised of EBSCO's Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier, and Regional Business News databases. Full text is available for nearly 12,000 publications.

EBSCOHost Databases
List of all Ebsco Publishing databases Normandale CC Library subscribes to.

Education Full Text
Indexes articles on all aspects of education.

Educator's Reference Complete
A selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.

The Educator's Reference Desk
Access to over 40,000 educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites.

eLibrary
Articles on many subjects.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online - Academic Edition
The standard general encyclopedia. A good place to get an overview of your topic and begin your bibliography.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
A national database of education literature, including reports and journal articles. Includes access to the ERIC Thesaurus.

ERIC (CSA)
Index to educational documents and articles.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents.

ERIC (Access via Wilson)
ERIC is the primary database supporting research in all areas of education, including psychology, administration, and library science. It provides access to education-related journal and non-journal literature. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, it provides full citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, curricula, government documents, dissertations, reports, and other educational materials.

Ethnic NewsWatch
More than 240 full-text publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Searchable in English or Spanish.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Database indexes almost 2,000 magazines and scholarly journals in all subjects.

Federal and State Codes (LexisNexis)
Federal and state codes and regulations.

FedStats
Official statistical information from the federal government, including economic and population trends, foreign trade, energy use, and farm production.

FindLaw
Federal and state legal resources including court decisions and codes.

FRASER - Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
An important resource on current and historical economic research and legislative activity for researchers interested in the U.S. economy. You will find links to historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.

Gale Group Databases
List of all Gale Group databases Normandale CC Library subscribes to.

Gallup Brain
Public opinion polls from Gallup Report.

General Business File ASAP
Business articles.

General OneFile
Provides access to articles on all subjects.

General Reference Center Gold
Covers general interest, popular culture and current events, business and industry.

General Science Collection (Gale)
A collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments.

Health and Wellness Resource Center
Provides access to medical, allied health, and consumer health journals.

Health Reference Center Academic
Contains nursing, medical, allied health, and consumer health journals.

Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
The full text of 26 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Subjects covered include nursing, social studies of health, health services & administration, community/public health nursing, aging and gerontology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, mental disorders & learning disabilities, health education & health promotion.

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines covering health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition
Provides access to nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

HighWire Press: Free Online Full-Text Articles
Free full-text access to over 1 million articles in over 300 journals in bioscience and related subject areas.

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada).

The Historical Minneapolis Tribune 
Full pages and article images displayed in PDF format.

In the First Person
A collection of 4,000 oral histories in English, most in full-text online, from around the world.

Informe! (English version) (Gale)
A collection of Hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.

InfoTrac Junior Edition
Includes over 300 full-text general interest and curriculum-related magazines, over 150 with images, 30 indexed titles, thousands of full-text newspaper articles from USA Today, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, and United Press International, 6 full-text ready-reference books, over 100,000 podcasts and/or broadcast transcripts from National Public Radio, NASA, U.S. Census Bureau, and more.

InfoTrac Student Edition
Provides access to over 1000 full-text curriculum-related and general interest magazines; over 700 with images; 130 indexed titles, 17 full-text ready reference books, historical images and 300+ full-color Rand McNally maps, thousands of newspaper articles from USA Today, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service (the source used by newspapers nationwide), United Press International newswire, U.S. Newswire and more, over 100,000 podcasts and/or broadcast transcripts from National Public Radio, NASA, U.S. Census Bureau, and more.

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
Online version of JAMA.

JSTOR
Contains (EXCEPT for the latest five years) core scholarly journals in sociology, history, economics, political science, mathematics, African-American studies, Asian studies, and biological, health & general sciences.

Junior Reference Collection
Covers biographies, literature, science, the arts, culture, and general reference works.

LegalTrac
Index to legal articles.

LexisNexis Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.

LexisNexis - Legal Research
Legal news and law reviews, case law, codes and regulations, international legal materials, patent research, and career information.

LexisNexis Academic- News
Full text from a wide range of newspapers, wire services, and transcripts

Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
Search more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on Library and Information Science.

Library of Congress
Contains approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials.

Lion's Roar
Independent student newspaper of Normandale Community College.

Literary Index
Master index to major literature reference books, such as Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Authors, Poetry Criticism, etc.

Literature Resource Center
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

LitFinder
Search all of the LitFinder collections by genre or format.

Making of America Project (Cornell University)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction (19th century imprints). Focuses more on journal articles.

Making of America Project (University of Michigan)
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction (19th century imprints). Focuses more on books.

MAS Ultra-School Edition
Contains full text for more than 500 popular high school magazines, more than 360 full text reference books, 85,000 biographies, 105,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

MasterFILE Premier
Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications.

MEDLINE/PubMed
The premier database of world biomedical literature on clinical medicine and preclinical research. PubMed provides more updated content.

MedlinePlus
A large, encyclopedia-like database with excellent patient information on diseases, conditions, clinical trials, hospitals, and other areas of medicine and dentistry.

Merck Index Online
Full text encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biological substances. 14th ed.

Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,000 biographies, 105,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps and flags.

Minneapolis Star Tribune (Newsbank)
Complete full text of local and regional news.

Minneapolis Star Tribune - StarTribune.com
Full text of current day's edition; some earlier articles available.

Minnesota Daily
Independent student newspaper of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Minnesota Datanet
Minnesota Planning department provides access to statistics about social, economic and demographic conditions in Minnesota.

Minnesota History Magazine Index
Minnesota History magazine is published quarterly by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Each issue offers a variety of topics drawn from more than 150 years of state and regional history.
Most index entries link to full-text files. These links lead to the beginning of the relevant file. Enter your index term into the "Find" box at the top of the screen or scroll to the page given in the original index entry.
Magazine articles published within the last five years are not available online. NCC Library subscribes to Minnesota History so you can ask at the circulation desk for a copy of the issue you need.

Minnesota Newspapers Directory
Links to Minnesota newspaper websites, including local, special interest, and college and university papers.

Minnesota Place Names
Online encyclopedia of place-name information on Minnesota cities, towns, townships, counties, lakes, and streams.

Minnesota State Legislature
Full text of bills, laws, statutes, including House and Senate legislative activity and membership directories.

MinnPost.com
MinnPost.com provides news and analysis Monday through Friday, based on reporting by professional journalists, most of whom have decades of experience in the Twin Cities media. The site features high-quality video and audio, as well as written stories. It also includes commentary pieces from the community, and comments from readers on individual stories. The site will not endorse candidates for office or publish unsigned editorials representing an institutional position. We encourage broad-ranging, civil discussion from many points of view.

MNMag: Minnesota Magazine Index
Index to articles in nine Minnesota magazines.

The Music Index Online
Citations to more than 1 Million articles from over 800 International Music Periodicals.

Natural Standard
Evidence-based information on dietary supplements (including herbs, vitamins, and minerals), functional foods, diets, complementary practices (modalities), exercises, and medical conditions.

Naxos Music Library
Classical music sound files online. More than 140,000 musical tracks available.

Naxos Music Library Jazz
Jazz music sound files online. More than 20,000 musical tracks available.

NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
Indexes articles and book chapters in criminal justice.

NetLibrary
A collection of full text e-books covering a variety of topics. The collection is available 24/7, allowing access to the online version of many popular books.

New England Journal of Medicine
Online version of the weekly general medical journal. Full text from 1993 - current.

New York Public Library Digital Library Collection
The Digital Library Collections provide the public with digital versions of books, manuscripts and photographs, representing a growing body of primary source material.

New York Times (LexisNexis)
Final New York City Edition. Abstracts from Jan. 1969-May 1980; full text from June 1980 to the present. Historical articles available in New York Times Historical Archive.

New York Times Historical Archive
Full pages and article images displayed in PDF format. Searchable full text back to the first issue.

1851
to 3 yrs ago

North Star
Portal into Minnesota State Government sites, services, and information.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
In depth coverage on a wide range of social issues.

Oxford Music Online
Gateway to music research and access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference subscriptions and products. Excellent introductions to and overviews of musicians, compositions, styles and other topics in music .Currently allows cross-searching of: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
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Oxford Reference Online - Premium
Search over 100 reference titles from Oxford University Press.

PNAS Online
Access to PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States). Abstracts only 1990-1996.

Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Presidential papers including official communications such as inaugural addresses, annual addresses, messages to Congress, proclamations, veto messages, etc.

Play Index
Index to plays.

Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including over 1,000 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.

Primary Search
Provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Professional Collection
A custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators.

Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

Project Muse
Full text of scholarly articles from over 100 online journals covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

ProQuest Newspapers
Includes coverage of over 300 major U.S. and international newspapers, such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Full text articles from over 550 nursing and allied health publications.

PsycARTICLES
Source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals.

Regional Business News
Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Contains 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format.

Salem Health
Online version of Magill's Medical Guide. This authoritative reference source helps bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for professionals and popular self-help guides. It is an up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information suitable for student research as well as use by general readers, including patients and caregivers. The Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.

Salem History
Online database that accompanies printed version of The Decades, Great Events from History, Milestone Documents series, and Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. The Decades series include the complete contents of the printed versions of The Fifties in America, The Sixties in America, The Seventies in America, The Eighties, and Nineties in America. In Great Events from History you can access the Great Events from History: The 20th Century, 1941-1970 and 1970-2000.

Science
Online version of the journal Science published by the AAAS.

ScienceDirect Physical Sciences - College Edition
Indexes articles from over 2,000 Elsevier journals.

Science.gov
Gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database 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.

Social Services Abstracts
Indexes articles in social work, human resources, and social welfare.

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

St. Paul Pioneer Press (Newsbank)
Full text of local and regional news.

St. Paul Pioneer Press
Full text of current day's edition; some earlier articles available.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Statistical tables on U.S. population, economics, vital statistics, education, energy, criminal justice, etc.

Student Resource Center - Gold
Covering history, literature, science, social studies, this database provides reference material, full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.

Tales Online
Folktales, fairytales, legends, myths, sagas, and fables of world cultures.

Teacher Reference Center
Articles, abstracts and book chapters for K-12 teachers and librarians.

U. S. Patents Database
Patents available full text from 1976; full page images from 1790.

Water Resources of the United States
Links to water-related publications and maps of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

WorldCat
Search a database of almost 1 billion books and other materials physically held in libraries worldwide.