Magazines
Magazines the Library Receives
The library receives over 500 magazines and journals: (See Full Text Magazine Databases below for electronic access to more journals.)
- All Periodicals By Title
- All Periodicals By Subject
- All Periodicals By Issuing Agency
- State Agency Periodicals By Title**
- State Agency Periodicals By Issuing Agency**
**The Library maintains a list of periodicals published for external distribution by Minnesota state agencies and received by the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. Contact information is provided and updated regularly.
Full Text Magazine Databases:
Some of these databases are provided through the Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM), a state funded, Minitex administered program.
- General
- Academic Search Premier* - Find articles in this multi-disciplinary, full text database covering nearly all academic areas of study.
- ArticleFirst* - An index of articles from the contents pages of journals from OCLC.
- EBSCO MegaFILE* - Find articles in this multidisciplinary database combining EBSCO's Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier, and Regional Business News databases.
- ECO (Electronic Collections Online)* - An index to scholarly journals from OCLC.
- Expanded Academic Index - Gale's academic database with over 17 million articles.
- JSTOR* - Find older articles in this digital archive of articles in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. JSTOR is not available in all legislative offices--contact the Library if you do not have access.
- MasterFILE Premier* - Find articles on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, health, consumer, and multicultural issues.
- Points of View* - Understand the full scope of controversial subjects.
- Business
- Business Source Premier* - Full text articles from nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources.
- Business Searching Interface* - Full text articles from nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources.
- Regional Business News* - Coverage of 75 regional business journals, newspapers, and newswires from throughout the US.
- Education
- Educators Reference Complete*
- ERIC - Use ERIC straight from its source, Education Resources Information Center, or use another interface to the same database:
- Professional Development Collection* - A comprehensive collection of full-text education journals.
- Health
- Alt HealthWatch* - Full text articles, reports, and excerpts from books on complementary and integrated approaches to health.
- Consumer Health Complete* - Consumer health information from reports, and reference sources.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition* - Consumer health information from 80 journals.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition* - Indexes 550 full-text journals focusing on medical disciplines.
- PubMed (MEDLINE) - search the free medical database from the National Institute of Health. Or try searching the same database through another source:
- Additional Magazine Indexes
- EBSCO databases* - A link to all the EBSCO databases including those geared for students.
- Gale databases* - A link to all the Gale databases including InfoTrac Junior Edition* and other databases for students.
- MnLINK. Use the "Current Profile" drop down box to select the Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) databases.
- Minnesota History - Search the full text of the quarterly publication of the Minnesota Historical Society.
- Minnesota Legal Periodical Index - The Minnesota State Law Library's index to Minnesota legal publications since 1984.
- Minnesota Magazine Index - Search Hennepin County Library System's index to nine local periodicals.
- OCLC FirstSearch.*
- Other databases from OCLC include OCLC PapersFirst, OCLC ProceedingsFirst, OCLC WorldCat Dissertations and Theses and ArchiveGrid.
- OCLC FirstSearch.* - Call the Library at 296-8338 for the authorization and password to additional FirstSearch databases including ABI Inform, Agricola, EconLit, and WilsonSelectPlus .
- Interlibrary Loan - Legislative Library staff can obtain materials through interlibrary loan for legislators and legislative staff from libraries throughout Minnesota and the country. Call 296-8338 or email us to request an item.
* Restricted to legislators and legislative staff.