Use any of the following databases to search for magazine, journal, and newspaper articles. These databases are available for both on- and off-campus use. To log-in from off campus, you'll need the barcode number from the back of your North Hennepin Student ID card (begins 20206.........) and your last name.

General Use

EBSCO Academic Search Premier
A database that offers full-text and abstract-level access to more than 8,000 periodicals (magazines and scholarly journals).  

Credo General Reference 

This services feature full-text, aggregated content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject.

Electric Library
Offers full-text access to articles from magazines, newspapers, and various reference publications, as well as television and radio transcripts and photographs.

InfoTrac Professional Collection
Provides full-text access to more than 300 periodicals. Primarily useful in finding information on education and related topics.

JSTOR
Established in 1997, JSTOR's first collection includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also contains titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Overall, there are 119 titles in fifteen disciplines.

ProQuest Newspapers
An index to the articles appearing in more than 400 national and international newspapers, including the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

EBSCO MegaFILE
EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of the complete content and functionality of the following databases: MasterFILE Premier, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier and Regional Business News. When using the database, just remember many of your results will be business-oriented. 

Science/Biology

Elsevier Science Direct (Health and Life Sciences)
Provides full-text access to over 890 high-quality scientific and technical journals, in such areas as nursing, medicine, pharmacology, and the environmental and biological sciences.  

Arguments/Debates/Controversial Issues

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites.

CQ Researcher
Provides in-depth, non-biased coverage of current political and social issues. A great resource for "controversial topics" assignments. 

Literature

EBSCO Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database that combines information from over 1000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works. 

Art

ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is the most comprehensive online reference source for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Oxford Art Online features over 45,000 signed articles, 5,500 images, 40,000 image links, timelines of world art, MoMa lesson plans, as well as access to the full text of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.

Business

ReferenceUSA
Find answers to a wide variety of questions. Common uses are finding businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business and location. Find news articles for research on businesses and perform searches for papers and class projects. Conduct research about industries and companies. Find executives, corporate families and company descriptions. Conduct powerful market research. Select a location and do a radius search to look up the number of similar businesses in the area.

EBSCO Business Source Premier/BSI
Provides access to articles in all areas of business from more than 8,000 publications. Also gives detailed company information for the world’s 10,000 largest corporations.

EBSCO Regional Business News
Incorporates 75 regional business publications covering the larger metropolitan areas in the United States. 

Nursing

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is an expanded version of the original CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) database. It provides authoritative coverage of the full text for more than 560 journals related to nursing and allied health, and it also indexes publications of the American Nurses Association, the National League for Nursing, and selected journals in the areas of consumer health, biomedicine, and health sciences librarianship.

Trial Databases

Access World News

Access World News has 3,900+ sources of news from the U.S. and around the world. We will have access to this database as a trial until December 21st, 2009.Please let us know how you like it!

Access World News with a focus on Minnesota news sources.

Access World News searches most major metropolitian information sources.

Access World News searches more specialized sources such as St. Paul's Pioneer Press or Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper.