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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- provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions such as historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world.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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- 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 advertising-free environment . Step-by-step research and study guides. Thousands of images, videos, and statistics.
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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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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 newspapers from 1900 - 1910 and find information about newspapers published from 1690 to present
- 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, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.
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- consumer health resources selected by College of Dupage Library's Health Science Librarian
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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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 sourcesýavailable 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. Rochester Public Library card started with 11018 is required to use this resource.
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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 and others.
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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
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.
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Search indexes for obituaries, weddings, probate records, census information, military history of persons in Olmsted County
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.
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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 magazines—not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users.
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Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, 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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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 covering the field of information science. Coverage extends back to the mid-1960's.
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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, social sciences, sports and athletic training.
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Full-text coverage for over 75 regional business publication around the US.
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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
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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 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.
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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.
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, and an Image Collection of over 400,000 photos, maps and flags.
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- 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.
- images and documents from cultural heritage organizations around the state of Minnesota
- index to MN births from 1900-1929
Funded by the State of Minnesota.
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.
Search other library holdings in Minnesota and place interlibrary loan requests
nformation for researching stocks and mutual funds, as well as tools for building, monitoring, and improving your portfolios
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Over 15,000 books are available to view electronically.
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Searchable pdf articles of entire newspaper from 1851-2006
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Full-text articles of 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 reports, research papers, image collections.
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Seach the Olmsted County records for property owners, taxes paid.
Search the library catalogs of the State University schools.
- 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 (opposing argument).
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In library use only.
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- 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.
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- index of worldwide conference proceedings from 1993 to present
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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 contains more than 200 educational reports.
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Search the library catalog at the Rochester Community & Technical College.
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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Official website of the City of Rochester.
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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Search library catalogs in SE MN
- 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
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.
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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 Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
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Search the holdings of the TDS, (south central MN) library system
Seach library holdings at the University of Minnesota.
- search for volunteer opportunities in Olmsted County
- health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information.
- Political, economical, scientific, and educational statistics and information.
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Search library holdings worldwide.
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