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Alt HealthWatch (Ebsco)

  - 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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

ArchiveGrid (OCLC)

  - provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions such as historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

ArticleFirst (OCLC)

  - index of articles from the contents pages of over 16,000 journals.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Audio Books - downloadable

  download books to listen to on your home computer, CD, or MP3 player

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Auto Repair Reference Center (Ebsco)

  Contains information on every major manufacturer of domestic and imported vehicles with repair manuals for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Biography Resource Center

  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.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Britannica Online Academic Edition

  - online Encyclopedia Britannica articles plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, video clips, images, references from magazines and journals and selected websites.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Britannica Online Kids Edition

  - 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 advertising-free environment . Step-by-step research and study guides. Thousands of images, videos, and statistics.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Britannica Online Public Library edition

  - multimedia reference source on a wide range of topics

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Business & Company Resources (GALE)

  Includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, industry news, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Business Source Premier (EBSCO)

  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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Camio (OCLC)

  - 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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Chapter A Day - Nonfiction


  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.
    

Chronicling America


  Search and read newspapers from 1900 - 1910 and find information about newspapers published from 1690 to present
    

Clase?Periodica

  - Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

ClicNet Libraries - Twin Cities private college libraries


  Seach library holdings at MN private college libraries
    

Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO)

  - 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, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Consumer Health Internet Sites

   - consumer health resources selected by College of Dupage Library's Health Science Librarian

    

Discovering Collection

  Over 61,000 biographies, criticisms, essays and overviews on popular authors, history and science topics.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Dissertations and Theses (OCLC Worldcat)

  - over 8 million dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC members, including all subjects.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Educator's Reference Complete

  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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network

Electronic collections online (OCLC)

  - 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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

ELM - Electronic Library for Minnesota

  Search ELM for magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, eBooks, and information from reference sourcesýavailable to all Minnesota residents at no charge!

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Encyclopedia Online (Grolier)

  Access Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, Lands and Peoples and America the Beautiful publications. Especially useful for K-12 students. Rochester Public Library card started with 11018 is required to use this resource.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Friends of the Rochester Public Library.

ERIC Educational Database

  Search through more than 1.3 million educational documents and journal articles.

     Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Expanded Academic ASAP *

  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 and others.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network

General Science Collection

  Provides articles from over 200 science journals and includes such topics as latest scientific developments, particle physics, advanced mathematics and nanotechnology.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to MINITEX Library Information Network

Google Documents


  A free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program. Create a user account with Google to create/save and retrieve online documents.
    

GPO Monthly Catalog

  - 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.).

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Health Source: Consumer edition (EBSCO)

  - 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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic edition (EBSCO)

  - 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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Healthy Roads Media

   - quality health information in many languages and multiple formats such as audio, video

    

Heritage Quest Online

  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 1790-1930 can be browsed, or searched by name for selected years. Revolutionary War pension file documents can also be viewed.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Friends of the Rochester Public Library.

History Center of Olmsted County - Indexes


  Search indexes for obituaries, weddings, probate records, census information, military history of persons in Olmsted County
    

Homework Help

  Online trained tutors will be available on demand, every day from 4 to 10 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.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

How to do it Index


  Search magazines from 1963-1999 for how to do it project information
    

Informe (English)

  created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, providing indexing, images, and full text of popular Hispanic magazines—not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Informe (Spanish)

  Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

InfoTrac Junior Collection

  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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Junior Reference Collection

  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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network

Kids Infobits

  Find articles, maps, charts, images in reference books, magazines and news. For students K-5.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Learn A Test (Learning Express Library)

  Interactive online practice tests. Includes ACT, ASVAB, GED, GMAT, GRE, SAT, Citizenship and many more.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Learn Spanish Online

  Interactive lessons and exercises in learning the Spanish language.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Library of Congress Catalog


  Search holdings at the Library of Congress.
    

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

  Index to more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings covering the field of information science. Coverage extends back to the mid-1960's.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network

Magazines - Academic Index (Ebsco)

  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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Magazines - General Index (Ebsco)

  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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Magazines - MegaFile (Ebsco)

  Search general, academic and business magazines and journals at one time.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Magazines - Professional Collection (education)

  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, social sciences, sports and athletic training.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Magazines - Regional Business Index (Ebsco)

  Full-text coverage for over 75 regional business publication around the US.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network

Mango Language Program

  Self-directed online lessons for travelers to learn Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, and English for Polish, Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese speakers

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes

MAS - Ultra School Edition

  - 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 Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), an Image Collection of over 440,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Mayo Clinic

   - More than 3,300 physicians, scientists and researchers from Mayo Clinic share their expertise on diseases, drugs, supplements, tests, lifestyle and first aid.

    

Medline Plus


  health articles for consumers created by the National Library of Medicine and the NIH
    

Middle Search Plus

  - 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, and an Image Collection of over 400,000 photos, maps and flags.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1922)

  - historical articles from the Minneapolis Tribune newspaper

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Minnesota Help


  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.
    

Minnesota Reflections

   - images and documents from cultural heritage organizations around the state of Minnesota

    

MN Birth Index


  - index to MN births from 1900-1929
    Funded by the State of Minnesota.

MN Death Certificate Search


  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
    Funded by the State of Minnesota.

MN Help


  Seach for health, human services, and local organizations in Minnesota.
    

MNLINK - Minnesota Library Information Network*


  Search other library holdings in Minnesota and place interlibrary loan requests
    

Morningstar Investment Research Center

  nformation for researching stocks and mutual funds, as well as tools for building, monitoring, and improving your portfolios

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Netlibrary

  Over 15,000 books are available to view electronically.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

New York Times Historical Database 1851-2006

  Searchable pdf articles of entire newspaper from 1851-2006

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Newspaper Index (Proquest)

  Full-text articles of over 150 US newspapers

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Non-English Language Instruction materials

  - lists of materials available at the Rochester Public Library for learning non-English languages such as French, German, Italian, Russian and others.

    

Novelist Plus

  Guide to materials about fiction and nonfiction works, such as reviews, annotations, author read-alikes, book discussion guides, book talks and feature articles.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes

OAIster

  - 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 reports, research papers, image collections.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Olmsted County Property Search


  Seach the Olmsted County records for property owners, taxes paid.
    

PALS - State University System Catalog


  Search the library catalogs of the State University schools.
    

Papers First (OCLC)

  - 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.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Points of View Reference Center

  - 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 (opposing argument).

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Post Bulletin - Back Issues from 1989-


  In library use only.
    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Primary Search

  - 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 World Encyclopedia, which provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. This database also provides the American Heritage? Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 400,972 photos, maps and flags.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Proceedings First (OCLC)

  - index of worldwide conference proceedings from 1993 to present

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Professional Development Collection

  - 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 contains more than 200 educational reports.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

RCTC - Goddard Library Catalog


  Search the library catalog at the Rochester Community & Technical College.
    

Reference USA Business Directory

  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.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Rochester City Hall


  Official website of the City of Rochester.
    

School Board Minutes - Rochester ISD 535


  School board minutes, policies and procedures for District 535 (Rochester)
    

Science Reference Center

  - full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

SELCO catalog


  Search library catalogs in SE MN
    

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader (Newspaper)

  - daily newspaper from Sioux Falls, South Dakota

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

St. Cloud Times (Newspaper)

  - fulltext articles from the daily St. Cloud newspaper

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

St. Paul Public Library


  Search holdings at the St. Paul Public Library.
    

Star Tribune - Back Issues

  Search older issues of the Minneapolis/St Paul Local newspaper

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Star Tribune - Current Issue


  View current issues of the Minneapolis/St Paul Local newspaper
    

Student Resource Center Gold

  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 podcasts.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Teacher Reference Center

  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 Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.

    Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.

Traverse des Sioux Library System


  Search the holdings of the TDS, (south central MN) library system
    

University of Minnesota Catalog


  Seach library holdings at the University of Minnesota.
    

Volunteer Center - Olmsted County


   - search for volunteer opportunities in Olmsted County
    

Web MD

   - health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information.

    

World Almanac Book of Facts

  - Political, economical, scientific, and educational statistics and information.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.

Worldcat

  Search library holdings worldwide.

    Subscription purchased by Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) with a state appropriation to the MINITEX Library Information Network.