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Electronic
Periodicals Available via BSU
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"Academic Search Premier contains indexing for nearly 8,050 publications, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion and theology, sociology, etc." | considerable |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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A "full text collection of every article published by ACM, including over 50 years of archives." This is the full-text companion to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Guide to Computing Literature, "a bibliographic collection from major publishers in computing with over 945,000 entries." Both can also be accessed via the ACM Portal. | complete | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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ACS Journal Publications |
Search and view the full text of all American Chemical Society journals from 1879 - 1995. BSU students, faculty, and staff also have access to the full publication runs of the following titles:
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yes; requires Adobe Acrobat |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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AGRICOLA |
National Agricultural Library's web gateway to AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access), bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature. | no | Yes. |
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Bibliography of Native North Americans |
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 98,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present |
yes | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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Biological AbstractsNote: Access to this database is limited to only one user at a time. |
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Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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| "BioOne provides a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals, featuring timely content on a wide-array of today’s most pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research, ecological and biodiversity conservation." | yes |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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Books in Print - ProfessionalBooks in Print - Patron View |
Includes US books in print, forthcoming books, books out of print, publisher database, videos and words on cassette. Includes reviews. |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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Business
Source Premier
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"Business Source Premier offers indexing and abstracts for the 350 most important scholarly journals back to 1965 or the first published issue. This database includes searchable references for more than 1,170 journals. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is the database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics and economics." | considerable |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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Catalog of U. S. Government Publications |
Other than using the BSU Library Catalog for identifying U.S. government publications held by the A. C. Clark Library, this "finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online" is the resource to use for searching for publications produced by the U. S. Government Printing Office. | links to may full text online publications | Yes. No authentication is required. |
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Checkpoint |
RIA's tax and accounting research library, which includes "complete tax law, expert RIA analysis, practitioner insights in WG&L treatises and journals, tax-related news, cases, rulings and more." | yes |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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CINAHL Plus |
"CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals indexed in CINAHL. This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index – with no embargo. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature." |
considerable | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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CQ Researcher |
"The CQ Researcher covers a wide range of social, economic, political, and environmental issues. Each report is divided into specific sections to guide research. Students can go directly to the section they need or can read the entire report." | complete | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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CQ Weekly |
"CQ Weekly reports on the world’s most powerful legislative body completely and accurately every week. The CQ news team—by far the largest on Capitol Hill, with more than 100 reporters, editors, and researchers—covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else." | complete | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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Credo Reference |
Includes searchable electronic versions of 100 reputable encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, atlases, and other reference tools from a wide range of disciplines. | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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CSA
Social Sciences Databases |
Select any combination of these bibliographic databases to search simultaneously: PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, ERIC, and the Physical Education Index. |
Includes |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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Current
Newspapers |
A list of links to newspapers available at the A. C. Clark Library in hardcopy and/or electronic format. | considerable | Yes. |
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EBSCO Electronic Journals Service |
Collection of electronic journals to which library subscribes through Ebsco Information Services. [view EJS Quick Reference Guide for Patrons] | considerable |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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Education
Full Text |
"...comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks." Includes indexing, abstracts, and full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of education-related journals. [view Quick Tips for Searching WilsonWeb]
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considerable | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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Educator's Reference Completebrought to you by |
"This powerful database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college and includes every educational specialty, such as bilingual studies, health, technology and testing. Also included are resources on issues related to administration, funding and policy in education. Educator's Reference Complete has more than 1,100 periodicals that cover a wide variety of subjects and 200 reports from the United States Department of Education." | for many articles | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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Electronic Periodicals |
Allows a user to determine if a specific periodical is available in electronic format full text to BSU students, faculty, and staff, for what time period it is available, and in which database it can found. | no, but points to full text periodicals in other databases | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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ERIC |
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. [view CSA fact sheet of database] |
No, but where possible, citations for articles from recent years link to full text articles in other databases. Also links to over 107,000 ERIC ED documents. |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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"This premier database offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration - from advertising and microbiology to history and women's studies... Balanced coverage is available through more than 4,200 indexed and more than 2,500 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. More than 2,800 journals are refereed, and more than 20 years of backfile coverage are included...." |
for many articles | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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FirstSearch (OCLC) |
Databases currently included: Applied Science and Technology Index, Art Index, Arts and Humanities Search, Biological and Agricultural Index, Dissertation Abstracts Online, FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online, General Science Index, GEOBASE, Humanities Index, PAIS International, PapersFirst Database, ProceedingsFirst Database, Social Science Abstracts, WorldCat. | no | authorized students, faculty, and staff only | ||
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The Gale databases that are a part of the Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) include several resources for elementary and secondary school students (the Junior Reference Collection, the Discovering Collection, and the Student Resource Center - Gold) as well as the Professional Collection, Informe, and the Spanish-language resource, Informe Espaniol. | for many articles | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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General Science Collectionbrought to you by |
"General Science Collection consists of over 200 journals encompassing the most popular scientific titles available today. Titles include Scientific American, Archeology, Physics Today, Info Today, Mathematics Magazine and many more. This resource provides researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology." |
for many articles | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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GeoRef |
"The GeoRef database, established by the American Geological Institute (AGI) in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive AGI database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 80,000 references a year. The database contains over 2.6 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses." [view CSA fact sheet for database] |
No, but where possible, citations for articles from recent years link to full text articles in ScienceDirect. |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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"GreenFILE is a resource designed to help individuals and organizations interested in reducing the negative impact and increasing the positive impact they have on the environment. "GreenFILE covers content going back more than 35 years.... The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for certain titles and searchable sited references for more than 200 titles as well." |
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"A bibliographic collection from major publishers in computing with over 945,000 entries." This online index is a companion to the ACM Digital Library, a "full text collection of every article published by ACM, including over 50 years of archives." Both can also be accessed via the ACM Portal. | complete | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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Hoover's Pro |
Hoover's, Inc., delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth. Our database of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises, is at the core of our business tools and services that customers find vital to their business operations. | yes, mostly company data and reports | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information |
"The Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information provides free public access to full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1994 forward and were produced by DOE.... The Information Bridge contains documents and citations in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to DOE's mission." |
many items | Yes. No authentication is required. |
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Infotrieve
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"Access the most powerful Free-To-Search database of scientific, technical, medical, and other scholarly content. Search through 20 million citations and 10 million abstracts from over 30,000 journals...." | NO The library does not acquire articles directly from Infotrieve; however, via Interlibrary Loan BSU students, faculty & staff may use the citation information to request the article. See the PALS Information and Requests page to submit an ILL request to the library. |
Yes. No authentication is required. |
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Ingenta |
More than 12 million article citations from more than 26,000 multidisciplinary journals since Fall 1988 | Full text links for many
articles. The library does not purchase articles directly from Ingenta; however, via Interlibrary Loan BSU students, faculty & staff may use the citation information to request articles. See the Interlibrary Loan Services page for information about how to submit an interlibrary loan request. |
Yes. No authentication is required. |
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"JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines." |
"JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR." | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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LexisNexis Academic |
"This flagship service provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, and legal publications, with a variety of flexible search options." | yes |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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LexisNexis Congressional |
"Explore government in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for Congressional hearings, public issues, legislation, history, and legal research." | yes |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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LexisNexis Statistical |
"Enjoy fast and easy access to statistics produced by federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations with advanced PowerTables functionality." | yes |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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"... a complete literature reference database designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student as well as the sophisticated casual user. Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, the Literature Resource Center is the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more." This resource includes information from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, the Dictionary of Literary Biography series, and a substantial body of journal literature. | considerable | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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MasterFILE Premierbrought to
you by |
"Designed specifically for public libraries and K-12 schools, MasterFILE Premier contains full text for 2,053 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for more than 350 reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,132 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier now offers PDF backfiles (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc." | considerable |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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MathSciNet |
"The Mathematical Reviews Database is the database of bibliographic information and reviews created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society. It continues the tradition and extends the scope of the work begun by the paper publication Mathematical Reviews in 1940. Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are covered. | No, but where possible, citations for articles from recent years link to full text articles in ScienceDirect. | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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MLA Bibliography |
"The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats." | no |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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Morningstar.com(r) |
"Identify stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs that meet your needs... Delve into the data of a stock or mutual fund you're researching... Input two or more stocks and/or mutual funds to see how they work together as a portfolio...." | yes | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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Music Index Online |
"The Music Index Online, produced by Harmonie Park Press, is the single most comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature... The Music Index Online coverage spans from 1975 to the present and contains surveyed data from over 800 music periodicals from over 40 countries, with English translations from 22 languages. Some backfile data from the period 1962-1975 is also included." | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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NCJRS Abstracts Database |
This service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) offers "Access summaries of more than 195,000 justice and substance abuse resources." | Some, primarily reports from the federal government. Focus of database is providing summaries, not full articles or reports. | Yes. No authentication is required. |
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New York Times Archive Search, 1851-1980 |
Search for citations for articles published in the New York Times from 1851 - 1980. To search more recent years, use ProQuest Newsstand Complete | None Articles from 1851 - present are available on microfilm on the library's first floor. ProQuest Newsstand Complete includes full text articles from 1980 - present |
Yes. No authentication is required. |
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Open Access Journals |
Access free online journals at the following sites: HighWire, PubMed Central, Public Library of Science, Directory of Open Access Journals, FindArticles | yes | |||
Physical
Education Index |
"These
abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical
education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage
includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized
fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching
and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and
physical therapy are also covered as they continue to become more
prevalent in our society." |
No, but where possible, citations for articles from recent years link to full text articles in ScienceDirect. |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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yes | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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Professional Collectionbrought to you by |
"The Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. It offers balanced coverage for any professional educator in the following areas: arts and humanities; child and adolescent psychology and development; drug and alcohol abuse; health/nutrition/fitness; learning disabilities; literature; school law; science and technology; social sciences; and sports/athletic training." | yes | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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Project Muse |
"Project MUSE offers full text, affordable access to current content from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals." | yes | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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ProQuest Newsstand Completebrought to you by |
Includes over 350 state, national, and international newspapers with more than 250 containing full text articles. | considerable |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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PsycINFO |
"PsycINFO
provides access to international literature in psychology and related
disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and
respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched
with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology
such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology,
law, linguistics, and social work." |
Includes PsycARTICLES and where possible, citations for articles from recent years link to full text articles in ScienceDirect. |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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PubMed (MEDLINE) |
9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE. Free and unrestricted access to NLM's digital archive of life sciences journals available at PubMed Central. | no | Yes. No authentication is required. |
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Regional Business Newsbrought to you by |
"A supplemental database for customers of Business Source Premier. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full text for more than 60 sources." | considerable |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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SAGE Journals Online
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yes | Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link in left column. |
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ScienceDirect |
Emphasizes scientific, technical, and medical information. "Using ScienceDirect you can access over 1,200 peer reviewed academic journals, search over 30 million abstracts from scientific articles and link out to articles from over 80 other publishers." As of January 2003 this resource includes Academic Press titles formerly found in Academic IDEAL. |
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Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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Social
Services Abstracts |
"CSA
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current
research focused on social work, human services, and related areas,
including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
The database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials publications
and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and
citations to book reviews." [view CSA fact sheet for database] |
No, but where possible, citations for articles from recent years link to full text articles in ScienceDirect. |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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Sociological
Abstracts |
"CSA
Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature
in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral
sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and
citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications,
and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations,
and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and
nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles." [view CSA fact sheet for database] |
No, but where possible, citations for articles from recent years link to full text articles in ScienceDirect. |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
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Star-Tribune
(Minneapolis) |
Contains all articles in all editions of the Star-Tribune since 1986. | yes |
Yes, for BSU faculty, staff, and registered students only. Use link |
The library catalog for Bemidji State University. |
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| The new union catalog for former PALS libraries. | |
Catalog of the libraries of the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. |
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Catalog of the library of the University of Minnesota - Duluth. |
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| The Minnesota Library Information Network. The MnLINK Gateway is a virtual library, providing access to participating Minnesota library catalogs, ELM (Electronic Library for Minnesota) Resources, Proquest Newspapers and internet links. | |
| Catalog of Oak Hills Christian College, Bemidji. Bemidji State University student, faculty, and staff may use this library at no charge upon presenting a valid, barcoded BSU ID card. | |
| The online catalog of the multi-type library network which serves north central Minnesota. Includes Bemidji Public Library. | |
| Academic, public, school, special, and state agency library catalogs throughout North Dakota. | |
| Library catalogs throughout South Dakota. | |
The catalog of the libraries of the University of California System, which includes UC-Berkeley, UC-Santa Cruz, UC-Davis, UCLA, UC-San Diego, and other libraries. |
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"[L]ists over 7700 pages from libraries in 146 countries." Contains catalogs for public, school, state, and academic, and national libraries. |
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"WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services.... WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world." |
Many of the links on this page are to licensed resources. While not all of these licenses are identical, many of them allow the A. C. Clark Library to grant off-campus access only to the faculty, staff, and enrolled students of Bemidji State University. Such resources typically will require a user to provide an active user ID (typically his/her barcode number) and password for use with the proxy server or other authentication system used to verify a user's eligibility for access. The A. C. Clark Library and Bemidji State University make every reasonable effort to abide by these licenses and to manage accordingly users' access to these licensed resources.
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