Useful UMC Databases

 

• Criminal Justice Periodicals - Search a comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. (Partial Full Text)
• Ebsco MegaFile - EBSCO MegaFILE is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 12,000 total publications and indexing & abstracting for more than 16,000 publications. Coverage spans every area of academic study and general interest subject area and offers information dating as far back as the 1800s. (Partial Full Text)
• Education Journals  -  Search the leading full-text journals in education and related fields. (Full Text)
• ERIC - The world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than one million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles, compiled by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). (Partial Full Text)
• Google Scholar (Beta) - A Google search engine which indexes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from a variety of academic publishers and professional societies, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. UMC Library has enabled linking to the full text of articles located in Google Scholar using FindIt the UMC Library Linking service. (Partial Full Text)
• KCDL Online Kraus (PreK-12) Curriculum Development Library is a database of materials on subjects covered in PreK-12 including curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques. The database indexes materials for a print/microfiche collection which can be obtained in print and contains most recent materials as full text documents. (Partial Full Text)
• National Criminal Justice Abstracts Database - The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 150,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. (Partial Full Text)
• Psychology Journals  - Complete full-text coverage from top psychology and related publications, this database meets the needs of both students and mental-health professionals. (Full Text)
• PubMed - Provides access to the more than 10 million citations in Medline and related databases. The PubMed URL (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=mnumclib) found on this page is unique to the UMC Library. Using this URL enables FindIt, the UMC Library Linking service and connects the PubMed citation to the text of the article.

 

 

APA 

 

 

Academic vs. General Magazines 

 

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources

 

 

 

Owen Williams, Director of Library Services, UMC 

willi099@umn.edu

Ellen Orchard [orch0011@umn.edu]

 

 

 

Maintained by Owen Williams- University of Minnesota, Crookston Library Email: wili099@umn.eduUpdated Feb. 12, 2008.