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  • Academic Search Premier
[ View Site (Ebsco) ]

is a full-text and bibliographic database with coverage of the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more.

 

  • Agricola
[ View Site (Ebsco) ]

is a bibliographic index for agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.

 

  • Art Abstracts
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bibliographic resource that covers over 300 publications including journals, museum bulletins, and annuals. It covers the broad range of the arts, architecture, and industrial design.

 

  • ArticleFirst
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Indexes over 12,000 periodical articles in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. It includes some brief abstracts but not full text.

 

  • ARTstor
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A growing digital collection; intitial content includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.

 

  • Auto Repair Reference Center
[ View Site (Ebsco) ]

is a full-text database of automotive repair information from Nichols Publishing. It contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles.

About 25,000 vehicles are covered along with 100,000 factory drawings and step-by-step photographs; 60,000 technical service bulletins and recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; wiring diagrams; specifications and maintenance schedules; and a labor time guide and estimator.

 

  • Biography Resource Center
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provides full text biographies of both the living and the dead from all eras and regions. It is a combination of biographies from reference works and related full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.

 

  • Business & Company ASAP
[ View Site (InfoTrac) ]

covers business and management topics with full-text articles, images, and bibliographic citations. It also includes directory listings and profiles of companies. Many of the full-text articles also include images such as tables, charts, and graphs.

 

  • Business & Company Resource Center
[ View Site (InfoTrac) ]

provides information on companies, markets and industries from market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access to business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full-text and images.

 

  • Business Source Premier
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covers business, management, finance, accounting, international business, and econmics topics with full-text articles, images, and bibliographic citations. The emphasis is scholarly journals and peer-reviewed journals in the business, economics, and management fields. Many articles are available in full-text.

 

  • CINAHL with Full-Text
[ View Site (Ebsco) ]

the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature , a comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 580 journals.

 

  • Computer Database
[ View Site (InfoTrac) ]

is a bibliographic and full-text database of computer and electronics trade journals and consumer magazines. It covers computer-related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Full text is included for such titles as Computer Shopper, Government Computer News, Home Office Computing, InfoWorld, LAN Magazine, MacUser, MacWeek, MacWorld, PC Magazine, PC Week, PC World, and Windows Sources.

 

  • CQ Electronic Library
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includes the full-text of the CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, and the CQ Historic Documents Series making it a broad reference resource for research into American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.

The CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of important issues. Each report is on a single topic - more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies. Includes arguments on both sides of an issue.

CQ Weekly covers the U.S. Congress with in-depth reports on upcoming congressional issues, coverage of the previous week's news, and information on the status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering, debates, and all roll-call votes.

CQ Historic Documents Series includes more than 2,500 primary sources covering current events around the world from 1972 to the past year. It includes both governmental and non-governmental documents.

 

  • Dissertation Abstracts
[ View Site (contact library staff for authorization and password) ]

selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.

 

  • Encyclopedia Britannica Online  
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includes the full-text of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Quotations, an atlas, and World Data Analyst Online which has current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world.

 

  • Environment Complete 
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offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

Environment Complete contains more than 1,772,000 records from more than 1,660 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full-text for more than 600 journals.

 

  • ERIC
[ View Site (Education Resources Information Center; through FirstSearch) ]

[ View Site (U.S. Dept of Education) ]

provides citations to and abstracts of educational journal articles and educational documents.

 

  • Expanded Academic ASAP
[ View Site (InfoTrac) ]

general full-text and bibliographic database with coverage of astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences.

 

  • Gale Literary Databases
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include full-text access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select), and the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB). It provides detailed information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with selected critical reactions to their works.

 

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
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a collection of searchable, full-text reference books and encyclopedias.

 

  • General OneFile
[ View Site (InfoTrac) ]

is a general full-text and bibliographic database with coverage of in all subject areas. It includes all the periodicals available in Expanded Academic ASAP, Business and Company ASAP, Health Reference Center, and more.

InfoTrac OneFile includes more than 5,000 full-text periodicals, 89 news wires, and indexing for over 9,000 periodicals. With approximately 30 million database records, it includes citations, abstracts, full text, and images.

 

  • General Reference Center Gold
[ View Site (InfoTrac) ]

bibliographic and full-text database covering general interest, popular, consumer, and some business topics. It is useful for articles from popular magazines, some general reference books, a few newspapers.

 

  • Government Pubs
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bibliographic database of U.S. federal government documents published by the Government Printing Office.

 

  • Great Falls-Bozeman Newspaper Index
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includes citations to Montana-related articles from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and the Great Falls Tribune.

 

  • Health & Wellness Resource Center
[ View Site (InfoTrac) ]

find information on a wide-variety of health topics. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Intended for personal, rather than scholarly or professional, use.

 

  • Health Reference Center
[ View Site (InfoTrac) ]

provides indexing to full-text and citation index of about 300 periodicals including over 40 full-text nursing and allied health journals, six reference books, and over 700 pamphlets. Includes both full-text and citations.

 

  • InfoTrac Custom Newpapers
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is a full-text collection of 160 English-language newspapers from across the United States and around the world including the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Denver Post, Idaho Statesman, Great Falls Tribune, New York Times (1 year's worth only), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Seattle Times.

 

  • JSTOR
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contains the full-text of dozens of core scholarly journals in the humanities. The complete backfiles of these journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. However, it does not include the most recent few years of issues. This is a rolling date range which varies by journal.

 

  • LegalTrac
[ View Site (InfoTrac) ]

indexes legal periodicals such as law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers. It provides indexing for over 1,000 periodicals with full-text from more than 100 and full image from 80+ titles. Subjects covered include federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice, taxation law, and international law.

 

  • Lexis/Nexis Academic
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full-text resource for news, business, health, biographical, and legal topics.

 

  • Medline/PubMed
[ View Site (FirstSearch) ]

[ View Site (National Library of Medicine) ]


the premiere medical abstracts database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Medline is freely available to anyone on the Web via both PubMed and NLM Gateway and is also available on campus with holdings information via FirstSearch.

 

  • MLA [Modern Language Association]
[ View Site ] (Modern Language Association)

international bibliography covers literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, and proceedings. It only includes citations, no abstracts or full-text.

 

  • Montana Topo Maps
[ View Site (library use only; see library staff for login info) ]

 

  • Opposing Viewpoints
[ View Site ]

provides full-text access to opinion writing on both sides of issues. Based on the Opposing Viewpoints series from Greenhaven Press along with sources from other publishers, OVRC includes viewpoint articles; topic overviews; magazine, journal, and newspaper articles; primary source documents; statistics; images; podcasts; and links to Web sites.

 

  • Oxford English Dictionary
[ View Site ]

contains the complete text of the Oxford English Dictionary

 

  • Oxford Music Online
[ View Site ]

includes Grove Music Online, the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music,

 

  • Oxford Reference Online
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provides full-text access to over 100 dictionaries and reference books, including an encyclopedia from Oxford Press, in a single cross-searchable database covering a broad range of subjects.

 

  • PapersFirst
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bibliographic index to conference papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia.

 

  • Regional Business News
[ View Site (Ebsco) ]

a full-text database that includes business newswires from both metropolitan and rural areas of the United States.

 

  • Small Engine Repair Reference Center
[ View Site (Ebsco) ]

contains the full set of small engine repair manuals from Clymer, including thousands of accurate and concise step-by-step maintenance and repair instructions for motorcycles, ATVs, personal water craft, snowmobiles, lawn mowers, tractors, snow blowers, generators, and more.

 

  • Testing & Education Reference Center
[ View Site ]

search thousands of college and graduate school entries, identify scholarships, and take on-line practice tests. The Testing & Education Reference Center also includes Essay Edge and Resume Edge to help users organize and write application essays and resumes.

 

  • World Almanac
[ View Site ]

includes the full-text of The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.

 

  • WorldCat
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OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing more than 40 million records describing items held by hundreds of libraries around the country and some international libraries. Each record contains library holdings. New records are added daily.

 


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