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Clips and full length documentaries, award-winning educational films in streaming video, Subjects include: Social Sciences, Math, Health & Wellness, Newsreels.
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- full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
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- provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions such as historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world.
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- index of articles from the contents pages of over 16,000 journals.
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download books to listen to on your home computer, CD, or MP3 player
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Contains information on every major manufacturer of domestic and imported vehicles with repair manuals for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954.
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Full-text biographical articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
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Search library holdings at St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges
- online Encyclopedia Britannica articles plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, video clips, images, references from magazines and journals and selected websites.
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Designed for children 8-15 years old. Age-appropriate encyclopedia articles, online dictionary, thesaurus and world atlas. Grade-specific interactive learning activities for English & Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Sciences ?? all in an a
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- multimedia reference source on a wide range of topics
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Includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, industry news, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
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Full-text coverage for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources. Provides pdfs for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating back as far as 1992.
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online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. Includes prints, photographs, sculpture, paintings, drawings, costumes, jewelry, textiles, architecture.
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- Career guidance and planning system with tools to find the right career, explore education and training options, and build a portfolio.
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Sign up to receive a daily e-mail containing part of a chapter from a book. The e-mails take about 5 minutes to read. After you've been sent two or three chapters, a new book is started.
Search and read U.S.newspapers from 1880 - 1922 and find information about newspapers published from 1690 to present
Homepage for City of Rochester, MN. Council minutes, department contacts, ordinances, employment opportunities.
- Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities
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Seach library holdings at MN private college libraries
- provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitn
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- consumer health resources selected by College of Dupage Library's Health Science Librarian
- provides ratings and reviews, recommendations, and buying advice on cars, appliances, electronics, money, food, and health products and services.
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Over 61,000 biographies, criticisms, essays and overviews on popular authors, history and science topics.
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- over 8 million dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC members, including all subjects.
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- Access to magazine indexes through mobile devices
Formerly Netlibrary books. Over 15,000 books to view electronically. Many available for download.
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Covers multiple levels of education from Preschool to college and includes every educational specialty, such as bilingual studies, health, technology and testing. Over 1,100 periodicals are indexes as well as reports from US Dept. of Education.
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- a bibliographic index to articles in nearly 6,000 electronic journals. It includes titles from more than 40 publishers, on a wide range of subjects.
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Search ELM for magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, eBooks, and information from reference sources²available to all Minnesota residents at no charge!
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Access Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, Lands and Peoples and America the Beautiful publications. Especially useful for K-12 students.
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Search through more than 1.3 million educational documents and journal articles.
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- 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 an
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Provides articles from over 200 science journals and includes such topics as latest scientific developments, particle physics, advanced mathematics and nanotechnology.
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A free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program. Create a user account with Google to create/save and retrieve online documents.
- 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.).
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- provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines. Also includes searchable full text for current, health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books and drug education sheets.
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- provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
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- quality health information in many languages and multiple formats such as audio, video
Search for items in the Hennepin County Library system
Over 25,000 family and local history books can be viewed online, and are searchable by every word in the text. Persi, the periodical source index, gives a subject index to over 6,500 genealogy & local history periodicals. Complete US census images from 17
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Search indexes for obituaries, weddings, probate records, census information, military history of persons in Olmsted County
- links to primary and secondary online resources for doing history day research
Online trained tutors will be available on demand, every day from 2 to 11 p.m. for one-to-one help with everything from homework to skills building and test prep. Need a Rochester Public Library card number to use. For grades K-early college.
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Search magazines from 1963-1999 for how to do it project information
created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, providing indexing, images, and full text of popular Hispanic magazinesùnot just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users.
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Una colecci=n de revistas hispßnicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnologfa, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
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Search magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health people, government, history, sports and more. Designed for students in Jr High & Middle School.
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Designed for high school students with full-text access to a variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Search magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health people, government, history, sports and more. Designed for students in Jr High & Middle School.
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Find articles, maps, charts, images in reference books, magazines and news. For students K-5.
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Interactive online practice tests. Includes ACT, ASVAB, GED, GMAT, GRE, SAT, Citizenship and many more.
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Interactive lessons and exercises in learning the Spanish language.
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Search holdings at the Library of Congress.
Index to more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings since the mid 60's for the field of information science.
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Full-text coverage for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 36,000 peer-reviewed journals. Spans every area of academic study and offers information dating back to 1975.
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Full-text coverage for nearly 2,050 general reference publications with information dating back to 1975. Also includes reference books, biographies, primary source documents and image collection.
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Search general, academic and business magazines and journals at one time.
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Full-text journal articles for educators. Coverage includes arts and humanities, child and adolescent psychology and development, drug and alcohol abuse, health, nutrition, fitness, learning disabiltiies, literature, school law, science and technology, so
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Full-text coverage for over 75 regional business publication around the US.
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full text archives of magazines such as Life, 1953-1972, Popular Science, Jet
Mango is a self-paced online language-learning system that teaches *actual conversation skills*. Choose from 48 different language courses including English.
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- contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. Full text is also available for 85,670 biographies and 105,786 primary source documents. Also contains more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World
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- More than 3,300 physicians, scientists and researchers from Mayo Clinic share their expertise on diseases, drugs, supplements, tests, lifestyle and first aid.
- Provides citations (but not full text) to all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing
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health articles for consumers created by the National Library of Medicine and the NIH
- contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines, primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary.
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- chronicles the history of the labor movement in the Twin Cities and working families’. Search for individuals or businesses.
- historical articles from the Minneapolis Tribune newspaper
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Information on the community services individuals and communities need to sustain and improve their daily lives--healthcare and childcare, job training, education and recreation, retirement, disability and social service information.
- published quarterly with more than 150 years worth of information about MN topics and events
- images and documents from cultural heritage organizations around the state of Minnesota
- index to MN births from 1900-1934
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MN Historical Society's index to Minnesota death records. Currently, this database indexes the death cards from 1904 to 1907 and the death certificates from 1908 to 2001.
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Seach for health, human services, and local organizations in Minnesota.
Programs from the tpt archives: classic interviews and performances from Nighttimes Variety, Newsnight Minnesota and Almanac as well as a broad cross-section of tpt documentaries.
Search other library holdings in Minnesota and place interlibrary loan requests
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Search the library catalogs of the State University schools.
Information for researching stocks and mutual funds, as well as tools for building, monitoring, and improving your portfolios
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Name has been changed to Ebscohost Ebooks. Over 15,000 books are available to view electronically. Many available for download.
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View and search recent issues of the New York Times newspaper
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Searchable pdf articles of entire newspaper from 1851-2006
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Full text articles in over 150 US newspapers
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- lists of materials available at the Rochester Public Library for learning non-English languages such as French, German, Italian, Russian and others.
Guide to materials about fiction and nonfiction works, such as reviews, annotations, author read-alikes, book discussion guides, book talks and feature articles.
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- Contains digital resources from open archive collections. Represents multidisciplinary resources from more than 1000 contributors worldwide. Digital resources including: texts, audio, images, movies, datasets. Collections include: theses, technical rep
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- Olmsted County departments and resources
Seach the Olmsted County records for property owners, taxes paid.
- Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide since 1993. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
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- full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Provides over 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (affirmative argument), and counterpoint (o
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View current articles in local Rochester newspaper. Outside the library go directly to www.postbulletin.com
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Search for articles and personals from History Center of Olmsted County and RPL indexes
- contains full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals?, and features the Funk & Wagnalls New W
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- index of worldwide conference proceedings from 1993 to present
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Full-text journal articles for educators. Coverage includes arts and humanities, child and adolescent psychology and development, drug and alcohol abuse, health, nutrition, fitness, learning disabiltiies, literature, school law, science and technology, so
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- includes full text for Chronicle of Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Theory Into Practice, and nearly 520 high quality education journals. This database also c
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large collection of free electronic books (ebooks) mostly pre-1923. Includes classic American texts, the Bible, works of Shakespeare, historic documents.
Search the library catalog at the Rochester Community & Technical College.
Search over 210 million residential listings. Can limit by name, state, city.
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Detailed information on more than 12 million US businesses; 102 million US residents. Can be searched by various criteria such as address, phone number, volume of sales, number of employees, city, state, and zip code.
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Full-text coverage for over 75 regional business publication around the US.
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Official website of the City of Rochester.
- digital (PDF) copies of Rochester City directories for 1873, 1891, 1896, 1900, 1904, 1909-1929. Various other publications on Rochester history, events, businesses.
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School board minutes, policies and procedures for District 535 (Rochester)
- biographies of inventors, articles on the 1950's and 1960's and milestone documents (primary sources) in American history.
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School board minutes, policies and procedures for District 535 (Rochester)
- full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.
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Designed specifically for the young researcher, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines.
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Search other library holdings in SE Minnesota.
- daily newspaper from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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- fulltext articles from the daily St. Cloud newspaper
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Search holdings at the St. Paul Public Library.
Search older issues of the Minneapolis/St Paul Local newspaper
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View current issues of the Minneapolis/St Paul Local newspaper
- seach and view back issues of the Star Tribune newspaper from January 2008 - about 2 months prior to current date
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Covering the major subject areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, SRC provides a selection of reference, full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary documents, creative works, and multimedia, including video and audio clips and photos.
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Study guides for American literature—including colonial literature, early American literature, romanticism and transcendentalism, realism and regionalism, American modernism, postwar literature, and contemporary literature. Each of the study guides examines a particular work, author, movement, or theme.
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Bibliographic database provides coverage on topics such as Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standar
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Search holdings at the TDS, (south central MN), library system
Local and state community and social services information at United Way's 211 information database.
Seach library holdings at the University of Minnesota.
Provides investment research on stocks, mutual funds, options and convertibles, and offers a family of no-load mutual funds.
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- search for volunteer opportunities in Olmsted County
View and search recent issues of the Wall Street Journal
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- health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information.
- Full text Winona newspapers from 1855 to 1976
- Political, economical, scientific, and educational statistics and information.
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Search library holdings worldwide.
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