Media Center

ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER
Full text for thousands of scholarly publications across all academic disciplines. Updated daily.

ADVANCED PLACEMENT SOURCES
With more than 5,400 full-text academic journals and magazines, and over 592,000 photos, maps and flags.

ALTERNATE HEALTH WATCH
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Full-text articles for international journals and reports, plus pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
Provides a complete, multifaceted examination of the foundations of our government and political system that supports any curriculum or research project focused on the government of the United States.

AMERICAN HISTORY
Collection of databases present history and culture of African Americans, U.S. Latinos, and American Indians.

BRITANNICA ONLINE ACADEMIC EDITION
Rich encyclopedia content plus news headlines, safe websites, engaging multimedia and a customizable workspace.

BRITANNICA ONLINE SCHOOL EDITION
Provides access to four encyclopedias that ensure consistency with classroom topics and age-appropriate language. Designed for K-12.

BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER
Full text coverage in disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics, company profiles, industry, country economic reports.

CHRONICLING AMERICA HISTORIC AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

CONSUMER HEALTH COMPLETE
Designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.

DAILY LIFE THROUGH HISTORY
Students and researchers can discover details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful from their modern-day perspectives.

DATA.CENSUS.GOV
Formerly American Fact Finder, Data.census.gov is the new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau. The vision for data dissemination through data.census.gov is to improve the customer experience by making data available from one centralized place so that data users spend less time searching for data content and more time using it.

Search and view the full text of eBooks through EBSCO.

EBOOKS MINNESOTA
A collection of Ebooks free for all Minnesotans to use- No checkouts, no return dates, free to all!

ERIC EDUCATION RESOURCE INFORMATION CENTER
Education literature and resources.

EXPLORA TEENS
Explora Teens is an interface that provides a single search to Middle Search Plus, MAS Ultra – School Edition, Consumer Health Complete, Health Source – Consumer Edition, and Science Reference Center databases. These databases contain middle and high school-appropriate magazine, journal, and encyclopedia articles and also includes primary source documents, reference books, and multimedia.

FIRST SEARCH FOR E-RESOURCES
Connecting you to information in a wide range of subjects in 12 databases.

GALE ACADEMIC ONEFILE SELECT
Covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences. This resource for academic research integrates the full text of publications from across the disciplines and includes vocational/technical titles used by community college students, filling a specific need for curriculum-oriented collection.

Gale eBooks is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

GALE IN CONTEXT: MIDDLE SCHOOL 

Combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Students will find outstanding support to complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history.

Access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for middle- and high-school students to use for classroom assignments. Learners can research magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a range of subjects—from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.

GALE ONFEFILE: INFORME ACADEMICO
Provides quality reference material on an interface configured for Spanish speakers, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish.

Access to authoritative periodical content covering such topics as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more.

Provides information on the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology. Updated daily, Science has articles to satisfy almost every scientific inquiry and keep researchers current. Key subjects include the biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology

Explore collections from around the world with Google Arts & Culture, created by Google Cultural Institute.

HEALTH SOURCE: CONSUMER EDITION
Collection of consumer health information including full-text, consumer health magazines, pamphlets, health reference books, Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish), Lexi-PAL Drug Guide and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.

HEALTH SOURCE: NURSING / ACADEMIC EDITION
Scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, including strong coverage of nursing and allied health.

HISTORY REFERENCE CENTER
Features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books from leading history publishers and more than 150 leading history periodicals.

ISSUES: UNDERSTANDING CONTROVERSY AND SOCIETY
This database helps students develop an in-depth understanding of how society shapes and is shaped by controversy, providing authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources on today's most important issues.

LIBRARY, INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTS
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

MAS ULTRA - SCHOOL EDITION
This database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

MASTERFILE PREMIER
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.

MEGAFILE
Coverage spans every area of academic study and general interest subject area and offers information dating as far back as the 1800s. EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and Regional Business News databases.

METROPOLITAN COUNCIL
Access key information and trends about the Twin Cities region or any city, county or township, including charts and data on population, employment, income and poverty, housing, commuting, land use and development.

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 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags

MINNESOTA CAREER INFORMATION SYSTEM (MCIS)
A comprehensive career information system designed to support lifelong career planning. Includes Career Assessment tools, career information, college planning, financial aid, resume creation, military careers, and standardized test preparation.

MINNESOTA HISTORIC SOCIETY
The Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub is a searchable website from the Minnesota Historical Society that makes millions of pages of Minnesota newspapers available online. The Hub contains geographically and culturally diverse newspapers published between 1849 and today.

OECD ILIBRARY
The online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data.

OYEZ
The Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. The Project also provides authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual reality tour of portions of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of some of the justices.

POINTS OF VIEW REFERENCE CENTER
Full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of over 250 current issues.

PROS & CONS OF CURRENT ISSUES
A nonprofit with the expressed purpose “to provide resources for critical thinking and to educate without bias.” The organization accomplishes its mission by researching and presenting a balanced, comprehensive, straightforward, and primarily pro-con format on controversial and important issues. The issues include an unmoderated comment section using Facebook software. An advisory states that comments written on ProCon may appear on the person’s Facebook site.

PROQUEST GLOBAL NEWSSTAND
Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.

REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS
Full text for business journals, newspapers, and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas across the U.S. Updated daily.

SCIENCE REFERENCE CENTER
Full text of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources covering biology, chemistry, environmental and life sciences, and more. Article is correlate to state and national curriculum standards.

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