Publicly Accessible Databases

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Info	Database Name	Database Description
	Access UN	Indexes documents produced by the United Nations
	AGRICOLA	Index to the agriculture literature
	Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals	A subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations since 1988 and is updated continuously.
	American Factfinder	Data from 1990 and 2000 censuses, American Community Surveys, and Economic Census 1997
	Bibliography of the History of Art	An art bibliography covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present.
	Canadian Music Periodical Index	Index of over 30,000 articles dating from the late-19th century to the present day from Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines.
	Census	Information on how to find data from Census 2000 and earlier censuses
	Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)	Codified version of United States regulatory laws, executive orders and proclamations, and selected presidential documents
	DART-Europe	A single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).
	DATANET (Minnesota)	Statistical data on Minnesota, population, land use, crime, education, health, substance abuse, and retail sales
	Digital Commons Network (bepress)	The Digital Commons Network aggregates full-text open access peer-reviewed content. The types of works include journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
	DOAJ	Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals of all subjects and languages. There are 8,956 journals in the directory. Currently 4,561 journals are searchable at the article level; over 1 million articles are included in the DOAJ service.
	Duluth News Tribune	Text of the Duluth newspaper, indexed
	Economic Report of the President	Economic report of the President
	Entrez	The ENTREZ Cross-Database Search allows you to search simultaneously across multiple biomedical/life science databases.
	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)	Full-text for many ERIC (ED) documents, 1996 - present
	FDsys (formerly GPO Access)	Several databases providing access to major publications of the U.S. government
	Federal Register	Daily official publication of Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and of Executive Orders and other presidential documents
	FEDSTATS	Statistics from over 70 federal agencies on demographics, business, taxation, environment, politics, crime, employment, military, climate, health, and education
	FindLaw	Federal and state legal resources including court decisions and codes
	Google Scholar -- Public Version	Locate and access peer-reviewed journal articles and other scholarly sources. This version ONLY provides full text access to e-journals subscribed to by UMD Library WHEN ON CAMPUS.
	Government Information Resources	Links to federal, state and local government web sites and databases
	Government Publications Catalog	Catalog of federal government publications
	Historical Census Data Browser	Demographic, economic, and social data from the U.S. Census, 1790-1960
	Hoover's Online	News and financials from U.S. public corporations with some industry analysis. Good for finding major competitors.
	Legal Information Institute	Federal and legal resources including court opinions and the U.S. Code
	MEDLINE (see PubMed)	Index to articles on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care
	Minnesota Magazine Index	Index to articles about Minnesota - mainly the Twin Cities metro area
	Minnesota Northstar	Official web site for the state of Minnesota
	NCJRS Abstracts (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)	Indexes articles and book chapters on criminal justice
	OECD	Index to citations and abstracts of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) publications
	Ojibwe People's Dictionary	The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is a searchable, talking Ojibwe-English dictionary that features the voices of Ojibwe speakers.
	Open Access Theses and Dissertations	Open access graduate theses and dissertations from around the world. OATD currently indexes over 1.5 million theses and dissertations.
	Popline	Index with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.
	PubMed -- Public Version	Index to articles on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care.
	PubMed Bookshelf	Access to approximately 60 biomedical texts through NCBI
	Science.gov	Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results.
	Song Index	This database provides access to many of the songs that the UMD Library has in various song anthologies. You will not find the music or the words here, just the call number and book title.
	Star Tribune (recent: Minneapolis)	Index and text of last 3-4 days
	Statistical Abstract of the United States	Statistical tables on United States topics
	Thomas	Access to Congressional publication including bills, laws, and committee reports
	TRAN	Index on transportation and law enforcement topics.
	TRID	TRID combines (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database.
	World Development Indicators	WDI presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.
	World FactBook (CIA)	Foreign countries - demographics, economies, climate, geography, government, military, etc.
	WorldCat.org -- Public Version	U.S. and International library holdings

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