MicroBiology 350
Dr. Kathryn Wise

Stacy L. Voeller
Electronic Resources Librarian
Library 119
477-2348
voeller@mnstate.edu

Accessing databases from home with LibProxy
MSUM Library's Web Page

Book materials:

WebPALS Library Catalog includes MSUM, other MnSCU institutions, and the University of Minnesota.  Also visit WebPALS to submit an InterLibrary Loan request for materials our library doesn't own.

MSUM's A-to-Z, online serials directory (through EBSCO)
This directory will guide you by title or subject to the library's collection of online journals, and tell you whether or not we subscribe to them in paper, or if they are available electronically online in one of our databases.
Off-Campus Access

Journal Indexes and Abstracts:

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers.  The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including:  Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences. 
Off-Campus Access

PubMed  
Via the National Library of Medicine. PubMed provides access to 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating online journals), and other related databases. 

CINAHL
Designed specifically for nursing programs in academic institutions as well as hospital libraries, CINAHL PlusText covers a wide range of topics, including nursing, allied health, alternative therapies, biomedicine, consumer health, and health administration. This database offers over 1,200 titles (with more than 260 in full text) and coverage from 1982 to the present. 
Off-Campus Access

Ingenta
A database of current article information taken from well over 25,000 multidisciplinary journals, which contains brief descriptive information for over 7,000,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988. Provides access to table of contents of journals via keyword, author or journal title. 

Gale - Professional Collection

Part of the Gale/IAC databases suite, the Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. It offers balanced coverage for any professional educator in the following areas: arts and humanities; child and adolescent psychology and development; drug and alcohol abuse; health/nutrition/fitness; learning disabilities; literature; school law; science and technology; social sciences; and sports/athletic training. 
Off-Campus Access
 

EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
This resource contains full text for nearly 3,400 scholarly publications. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Off-Campus Access

EBSCO - MasterFILE Premier
Provides full text for 1,830 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and a wide variety of general interest topics.
Off-Campus Access

BasicBiosis
Basic information about biology and other life sciences.  Covers the basic core of life science journals found in college and university libraries and written for undergraduate non-biology majors.
Off-Campus Access


BioDigest
Life-science information written in a non-technical style.  Provides detailed abstracts written in a non technical style for students and interested nonscientists.
Off-Campus Access

Wilson Web OmniFile Full Text
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
Off-Campus Access

AGRICOLA    
Created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators, AGRICOLA covers materials dating from the 16th century to the present. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of 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. Organized into two bibliographic data sets, which must be searched separately, one data set is the Online Public Access Catalog, known as "Books, etc.," that contains citations for books, audiovisual materials, serial publications, and other NAL and cooperator holdings. The other data set is the Journal Article Citation Index, known as "Articles, etc." It includes citations for journal articles, book chapters, reports, and reprints, selected primarily from the materials cataloged in Books, etc. Both data sets are updated daily with newly cataloged and indexed materials.

ProQuest Newsstand Complete 
An accessible and thorough Web-based, full-text database of over 350 newspapers that enables users to search the latest news from around the world. Access a wide range of articles, not only top new stories, but arts, sports, and entertainment stories as well. ProQuest Newsstand Complete title list
Off-Campus Access

Web sites:

Citing Sources:  Guides Available through the MSUM Library

Internet Health Library  http://www.health-library.com/
"Rated as top 5%, this non-commercial site contains comprehensive and valuable medical and health information. It also features a very powerful search engine for health resource on the net. If you are seeking health information, we suggest you start from this site."

National Immunization Program from the Centers for Disease Control  http://www.cdc.gov/nip/

MedWeb  http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/
"Founded by a physician in 1992, Medweb provides state-of-the-art distributed telemedicine solutions. With over six years of high-technology medical and PACS product development experience, Medweb is a technology leader in the delivery of web-based solutions."

The Immunology Link Home Page http://www.immunologylink.com/

The Journal of Immunology  http://www.jimmunol.org/  Library owns 1971-current

Journal of Bacteriology  http://jb.asm.org/  Library owns 1966-1997

Microbiology/Bacteriology/Virology  http://biology.about.com/science/biology/msubmicro.htm

All the Virology on the WWW  http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html

Access Excellence Resource Center:  Virology Websites  http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/virology.html

Yahoo!  http://www.yahoo.com

Metacrawler  http://www.metacrawler.com

Google  http://www.google.com

Search Engine Comparison Chart  http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/handouts/searcheng.html

Search Engine Features For Searchers  http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/ataglance.html

 

Created and maintained by Stacy L. Voeller


voeller@mnstate.edu

Last updated 10/30/2007