Health Index (HEA) - Indexes articles from over 205 medical journals and consumer health magazines, plus selected articles on health, medicine, and nutrition from 1,500 general magazines published from 1994 onward. The full text of 500 pamphlets, and of articles about health from newspapers and newsletters, are also included in this index.

Company Profiles (COP) - Provides brief information about more than 172,000 U.S. public and private businesses.

	Books In Print (BIP) - Listings by author, title, keywords, and ISBN of books currently, or soon to be, available for purchase in the U.S.
	MULS, a Union List of Serials (MUL) - Indicates which libraries in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota subscribe to a magazine, newspaper, journal, or other daily, weekly, monthly, or annual serial publication (e.g.. World Almanac and Book of Facts).

Periodical indexes currently available to Minnesotans who "Search the Gateway" at MnLINK include::

	InfoTrac OneFile
	General Magazines FullText

	Academic Journals
	General Reference

Computer News and Reviews General Business Health Reference Newspapers FullText Internet Resources

	Electronic Collections Online
	NetFirst

General Information

	U.S. Government Documents
	WorldCat

Index to Journal Locations

	ArticlesFirst
	ContentsFirst
	MULS, MINITEX Union List of Serials
	Union List of Periodicals

The Electronic Library of Minnesota also contracts with database vendors to make the databases listed above, extensions to them, and additional databases, searchable from Minnesota schools, public libraries, academic libraries and state agency libraries, through direct links to the databases from library web pages. With a password, these databases can also be searched at home. These databases include:
 

General Reference Center and Expanded Academic ASAP - Indexes articles from 2,045 general interest and business magazines and journals (with 1200 in full text) and 2,600 academic journals (with 1400 in full text). The General Reference Center includes the full text for the past 2 years of Knight Ridder newspaper articles, and indexes these newspapers: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor. General Reference Center has the full text of over 15 reference books including Information Please Almanac, Information Please Environmental Almanac, Information Please Sports Almanac,  Encyclopedia of American Facts & Dates, Great Thinkers of the Western World, Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography, Presidents and Prime Ministers, Readers Companion to American History, Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys, and Rand McNally maps.

General Business File ASAP - Indexes 1,300 business, management, and international economics journals, trade and industry publications, and business magazines from 1980 to the present - 650 of the magazine and journal titles are in full text. It also indexes the Wall Street Journal, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the business and finance sections of the New York Times for the past three years.

 
   
 
 
 

	Business & Company Resource Center - Provides 50,000 investment reports, profiles over 100,000 companies, and includes the full text of the past 30 days PR Newswires.
	Computer Database - Indexes articles for the last 3 years from 150 consumer and industry publications about computers, telecommunications, and electronics. More than two-thirds of the journals are in full text.
	Health Reference Center Academic - Indexes articles from the current year and the past 4 years from 228 medical journals and consumer health magazines (180 of them in full text), and the full text of 700 pamphlets, articles on health from 1500 general interest magazines, 2,500 overviews from Clinical Reference Systems, and the following reference books: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide, Complete Directory for People With Chronic Illness, Consumer Health Information Source Book, Everything You Need To Know About Medical Tests, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Mosby's Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, PDR Family Guide to Nutrition and Health, and USP DI-Volume II: Advice for the Patient: Drug Information in Lay Language.
	National Newspapers - Indexes five major newspapers from 1986 onward, and provides full text articles, since 1997, from the Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and from the New York Times for the current 90 days.
	Article1st - Indexes articles from nearly 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture from 1990 to the present. None are in full text.
	Contents1st - Tables of contents for the (almost) 12, 500 journals described above.
	ECO, Electronic Collections Online - Indexes a large collection of online journals. Full text is available only if your library already subscribes to the journal and has made arrangements to have the articles available online.

NetFirst - Search, by keyword, for links to high-quality informational web sites.

 

	Union List of Periodicals - Shows which OCLC member libraries have issues of which magazines, newspapers, or journals.
	WorldCat - Check this database of over 41 million to find out which libraries own a specific title.