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LegalTrac

LegalTrac indexes over 800 major legal titles including law reviews, legal newspapers, law specialty publications, bar association journals and international legal journals. It also contains law-related articles from 1,000 other business and general-interest publications.
 
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe

Lexis-Nexis Universe provides general U.S. and international news, company news and financial information, industry and market data, state and country profiles, biographical and directory information, and legal and medical information. Updates and coverage vary.
 
LEXIS-NEXIS Business

Retrieve general business news, company and industry profiles, financial statements and ratios, SEC filings, and more. Accounting Literature section allows searching of specialized journals, handbooks, and regulatory information.
 
LEXIS-NEXIS Congressional

LexisNexis® Congressional provides the user with access to a comprehensive collection of congressional publications: Committee Hearings, Committee Prints, Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports, House and Senate Documents & Reports, Senate Executive Reports, Senate Executive Treaty Documents, Legislative Histories, Serial Set Maps, and Serial Sets.
 
LEXIS-NEXIS Legal Research

Search full text federal, state & international legal materials including case law, statutes and regulations, legal news and law reviews. Updates and coverage vary.
 
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA)

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
 
Literature Criticism Online

Centuries of analysis - scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.
 
Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
 
Logos Bible Software

Available on CD-Rom in the Ireland Library. Bible electronic library that integrates several English translations and Greek, Hebrew, and Latin versions. Also includes Bible commentaries, dictionaries, concordances, grammars and lexical aids, all searchable and linked to scriptural texts.
 
Making Of America (Cornell)

The Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
 
Making Of America (Michigan)

Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The journal collection currently contains approximately 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
 
Making Of Modern Law

"The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926" provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.
 
Market Share Reporter

Market share data on companies, products, and services worldwide; with information on the original sources of the data.
 
Masterfile Premier

MasterFILE Premier provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2,700 titles. This database also includes: book reviews, reference and travel books, biographies, primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, an image collection, maps and flags.
 
Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts

Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the serials literature in mechanical and transportation engineering and their complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics.
 
Mediamark

Mediamark offers comprehensive audience measurement survey data - demographics, lifestyle, product usage and exposure to advertising media. This data may be used for consumer targeting, determining consumer brand loyalty, and identifying promotional and trade marketing opportunities for use in advertising and marketing. Mediamark conducts over 26,000 personal interviews annually throughout the United States to produce these syndicated reports and data for electronic access. NOTE: Only UST faculty, students, and staff can use. Walk-in users are not permitted. No ILL. Each UST user must set up their own account using the stthomas.edu domain. Each user has to agree to a license that governs their own use, on top of the institutional license. Mediamark is for educational use - ONLY IN THE ORDINARY COURSE SOLELY FOR ACADEMIC TEACHING AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES.
 
Medline

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
 
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. In addition, the database contains more than 84,000 biographies, 86,000 primary source documents, 10,000 company profiles and an image collection of more than 107,000 photos, maps and flags. MegaFILE is comprised of EBSCO's Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier and Regional Business News databases. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
 
Mental Measurements Yearbook

Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2000 commercially available standardized English-language tests: educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement, and intelligence. Includes the text of the Ninth through the Sixteenth Buros Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Updated every six months. 1985- .
 
Mergent Online

U.S. and international company information (active and defunct companies), including SEC/EDGAR filings for over 10,000 U.S. public companies, international company data, and industry reports. Updates and coverage vary.
 
Microbiology Journals, American Society Of

The American Society of Microbiology’s 11 journals cover the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology.
 
Minneapolis Tribune (Historic) 1867 – 1922

A digital version of the Minneapolis Tribune newspaper. Started out as the Minneapolis Tribune, from 1867-1922, and then became the Minneapolis Morning Tribune from 1909-1922.
 
MLA

Gives researchers in literature, languages and linguistics access to more than 1.4 million bibliographic citations from 1963 to the present alongside tens of thousands of author biographies, critical essays and journal articles in every literary genre.
 
MNJobSource

Tools and resources for your job search, from the Ramsey County Workforce Center and the James J. Hill Reference Library.
 
Music Index Online

Index to periodicals on all aspects of music, classical & popular; international scope.
 
National Bureau Of Economic Research Working Papers

NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals.
 
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of the more than 200,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection. This database is sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy and includes information on resources published by these agencies.
 
NetLibrary

Netlibrary is a collection of ebooks purchased by the state (these titles are found in all Minnesota libraries) and purchased specifically for UST's community. All titles - state-wide purchases and UST-only purchases - are in CLICnet. In order to use a UST-only Netlibrary book, you must register for a free account using this link. If you do not register using this link, you will not be able to get the UST-only ebooks. You will only get the state-wide purchased books. Once you've registered, you can use the ebook, create a bookshelf by favoriting a title, or take notes.  For more help, go to Netlibrary's help page.
 
New Catholic Encyclopedia

This 15-vol. work on every aspect of Catholicism has been a mainstay since its 1967 publication. This 2003 version updated many articles but the majority of entries retained in the new edition were unchanged. The 1967 print edition remains invaluable (IRL Ref BX841 .N44 15 vols)
 
New Testament Abstracts

Advanced tool. Abstracts (short summaries) from over 500 academic journals about field of New Testament studies; international scope. Also abstracts books on related topics. Limited subject and/or citation searching.
 
New York Times (Historical)

The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, the definitive voice of American journalism since 1851. It offers complete coverage from 1851-2006.
 
Old Testament Abstracts

Advanced tool. Abstracts (short summaries) from over 500 academic journals about field of Old Testament studies; international scope. Also abstracts books on related topics. Limited subject and/or citation searching.
 
Opposing Viewpoints

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
 
Origins Plus

Origins is the official newsletter and documentary service of the United States Bishops. This online version goes back to 1994. The print edition (at OSF and Ireland Reference) began in 1976.
 
Osservatore Romano, L'

CD-ROM, annual compilation from 1997 on. In Ireland Library Reference Room. L'Osservatore Romano is the official newspaper of the Vatican, daily in Italian, weekly English published since 1968. CD-ROM contains all versions in pdf format with limited searching capability. See Microfilm for earlier years of the English weekly.
 
Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. Includes extensive image archives from several major North American museums.
 
Oxford Dictionary Of Byzantium

With more than 5,000 entries by an international group of eminent historians, this is the standard research tool on 1,100 years of Byzantine history. Exhaustive in its coverage, entries on patriarchy and emperors coexist with entries on surgery, musical instruments, and the baking of bread, bringing to life this vastly important culture and empire, from the 4th century to the 15th.
 
Oxford Dictionary Of The Christian Church

This is the unabridged e-version of the authoritative one-volume reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church, over 6000 entries: theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; the Bible; church calendar and organization; popes; archbishops; saints; and mystics, etc.
 
Oxford Encyclopedia Of Latinos And Latinas In The United States

Offers comprehensive, reliable, and accessible information about the fastest growing minority population in the United States. Draws together the historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas.
 
Oxford Encyclopedia Of Rhetoric

The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric is a comprehensive survey of one of the Western world's oldest disciplines. Its 150 entries, written by leading scholars, bring together expertise in classical studies, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech, and communications in a comprehensive treatment of the art of persuasion. The Encyclopedia is the most wide-ranging reference work of its kind, combining theory, history, and practice, with a special emphasis on public speaking, performance, and communication.
 
Oxford Encyclopedia Of The Enlightenment

Covering the “long” Enlightenment, from the rise of Descartes' disciples in 1670 to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815, these 700 articles by leading scholars range from discussions of mercantilism and democracy to the battlefield to the dissemination of ideas in salons and coffeehouses.
 
Oxford Encyclopedia Of The Reformation

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation is the definitive source for information about the entire range of religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century.
 
Oxford Encyclopedia Of Women In World History

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History is a comprehensive online source that covers the role women have played throughout world history. This includes significant research from women’s scholars from the past thirty years, and presents the experiences and contributions of women in the West and across the globe. The source illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by historical, social, and demographic changes. The Encyclopedia contains over 1,300 signed articles. Entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the Egyptian Uprising, and the Paris Commune; women’s and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease.
 
Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
 
Oxford Islamic Studies

Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information on Islam.
 
Oxford Language Dictionaries

Language dictionary, currently offers 6 languages French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and Italian. Covers over 1.2 million words and phrases, and over 2 million translations. It includes usage examples and illustrative phrases, grammar guidance, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, help with spelling and punctuation, templates including sample letters, emails, and CVs and résumés to provide practical help with writing in each language.
 
Oxford Music Online

Oxford Music Online is the gateway to three core music reference resources: Grove Music Online includes the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. It includes 50,000 signed articles and 28,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world. The Oxford Companion to Music offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres. The Oxford Dictionary of Music supplements Grove's more extensive coverage with content geared toward undergraduates and general users.
 
Oxford Reference Online Premium

The Oxford Reference Online contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, and Oxford Companions on art, biology, business, classics, computing, environmental science, economics, history, language, law, literature, medicine, physical science, political science, quotations, religion and philosophy, and science.
 
Oxford Reference Online: Bilingual Dictionaries

Collection of bilingual dictionaries: French, Spanish, Irish, Italian, Latin. It includes bilingual business dictionaries in French and Spanish.
 
Oxford Reference Online: Biological Dictionaries

Dictionaries and encyclopedias from Oxford University Press covering: animal behaviour, biochemistry, biology, molecular biology, birds, ecology, genetics, plant sciences, physiology, and underwater life.
 
 
Oxford Reports on International Law

ORIL (Formerly International Law In Domestic Courts) brings you a regularly updated repository of domestic cases in international law from over 60 jurisdictions. The cases are selected by local reporters in conjunction with our editorial board and feature expert commentary, full texts of judgments in their original language and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English.