Geography
Online Databases & Resources
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GEOBASEInternational index to the literature of geology, geography, urban geography, and ecology. Includes journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports.
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Google Scholar
Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.
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Scopus
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
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Web of Science
Note: The library has begun a subscription to Scopus as a replacement for our Web of Science subscription. Access to Web of Science will end on December 31, 2025.
Indexes information covering disciplines in the sciences, arts and humanities, and social sciences. Includes six citation databases: the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Book Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, and Index Chemicus.
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Academic Search PremierInterdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls.
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BASE
A search engine for academic web resources - includes journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. Many open access resources.
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Google Scholar
Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.
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JSTOR
Large collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.
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Project MUSEAccess to journals in the humanities and social sciences, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
Large collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. Includes full text for most graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997.
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Social Science Open Access RepositoryDatabase of open access journal articles and working papers in the social sciences. Useful for finding scholarship written and published outside of the U.S. Use the Disciplines feature to limit your search to a specific subject area.
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USDA National Agricultural Library
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's search platform for AGRICOLA (the catalog of the National Agricultural Library), PubAg (peer-reviewed journal articles related to agriculture), and the National Agricultural Library Digital Collections.
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Alt HealthWatch
Includes peer reviewed journal articles, reports, pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts in the field of complementary and holistic health care.
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Business Source Premier
Provides articles, industry reports, and more on subject areas related to business, with top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Use the Business Searching Interface to easily browse leading publications and locate company and industry profiles, country reports, and SWOT analyses.
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EconLitCovers a wide range of economic literature including economic theory and application. Includes journals, books, dissertations, collective volumes, and working papers in the field of economics.
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CIAO - Columbia International Affairs OnlineDocuments and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies.
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Harvard Kennedy School Think Tank SearchA Google Custom Search of more than 1200 think tanks and research centers
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Contains scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines as well as the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
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PubMed
Contains publication in the area of health and medicine research. Includes MedLine which records are indexed with NLM's controlled vocabulary, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). Links to full-text online holdings are listed where the citations match Macalester Library e-journal resources.
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Race Relations AbstractsScholarly articles, books and dissertations on national and international race/ethnicity relations, both contemporary and historical.
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Sociological Abstracts
Indexes the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
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Statistical Abstract of the United StatesProduced by the United States Bureau of the Census, covers social, political and economic statistics, abstracted from original sources. Older editions of this are in the main collection of the library. A web version is available, beginning with the year 1878.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides access to journal articles in political science related fields including law, public administration/policy, and international relations.
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Minnesota Historical SocietyThe Gale Family Library provides resources and tools for distance and on-site research
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Mapping PrejudiceMapping Prejudice identifies and maps racial covenants, clauses that were inserted into property deeds to keep people who were not White from buying or occupying homes. From our base in the University of Minnesota Libraries, our interdisciplinary team collaborates with community members to expose the history of structural racism and support the work of reparations.
Newspaper and Legal Resources
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Access World News: Research Collection
International, national, regional, state, and local newspaper articles and video clips. Includes over a thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
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Nexis Uni
Credible source for news, legal, and business sources that is updated daily. Includes access to print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, as well as local, regional, national, and international newspapers, legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, business information on U.S. and international companies and executives. For Business Nexis Uni covers company and industry news, detailed company financial data, and includes major accounting journals. In Law, the database provides texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles.
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US Newsstream (ProQuest)
Current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Current coverage of newspapers, magazines, and journals published by ethnic, minority, and native presses. Also includes more selected historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals going back to 1959. Roughly 25% of the content is in Spanish.
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PressReader Newspapers
Access to thousands of newspapers from over 100 countries and 60 languages. Includes 90 days of back issues and translation in 16 languages. Create a PressReader account in order to save articles, create collections, and read content offline. Must be on campus or connected to the VPN to create an account.
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AfricaBib
A collection of Africana social science titles consisting of 2 bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature.
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African Journals Online (AJOL)The world’s largest online library of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)Indexes Western language literature including books, chapters from books, periodical articles and pamphlets on Asian studies.
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HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)Contains Spanish and English language articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in key national and international social science and humanities journals.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
Index to scholarly journals, books, and conference papers in the social sciences and humanities covering the field of Latin American studies.
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Nexis Uni
Credible source for news, legal, and business sources that is updated daily. Includes access to print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, as well as local, regional, national, and international newspapers, legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, business information on U.S. and international companies and executives. For Business Nexis Uni covers company and industry news, detailed company financial data, and includes major accounting journals. In Law, the database provides texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles.
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HeinOnline
Provides coverage of more than 2,600 law-related periodicals. Contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
Policy
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Harvard Kennedy School Think Tank SearchA Google Custom Search of more than 1200 think tanks and research centers.