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AASHTO Digital Publications (MnDot employees only on iHUB)

Academic Search™ Premier additional intranet content (available online to Minnesota residents via ELM) (Interactive Tutorial)
Academic Search™ Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Alt HealthWatch additional intranet content (available online to Minnesota residents via ELM)
Alt HealthWatch™ focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full-text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports.

Art in the MnDOT Transportation Building
Index of public art found in the Transportation Building at 395 John Ireland Blvd., St. Paul, Minnesota.

ASCE Library additional intranet content(Including online access to full-text of most recent ASCE journals)
The ASCE Library provides online access to a high-quality collection of civil engineering content. It contains articles from ASCE journals, papers from conference proceedings, and e-books and standards.

AASHTO Product Evaluation List
This site provides a repository consisting of findings from the evaluation and testing of new and/or proprietary, engineered transportation products.

ASTM DOT Compass Portal additional intranet content(Employees only. See Library iHUB.)
The ASTM DOT Compass Portal provides MnDOT employees with a single point of unlimited, department-wide access for online searching of ASTM standards and select AASHTO publications, including specs in the Materials Book.

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Business Source® Premier help icon (available online to Minnesota residents via ELM) (Interactive Learning)
Business Source® Premier, the industry's most popular business research database, features the full text for more than 2,150 journals. Full text is provided back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.

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DAMA-DMBOK: Data Management Body of Knowledge (MnDOT employees only)
This guide provides information on data governance, data architecture, data development, database operations, data security, reference and master data, data warehousing and business intelligence, document and content management, meta data management, data quality and professional development. DAMA-DMBOK2 provides data management and IT professionals, executives, knowledge workers, educators, and researchers with a framework to manage their data and mature their information infrastructure.

Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC®) serves the DoD community as the largest central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today.

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EBSCO MegaFILE additional intranet content (available online to Minnesota residents via ELM)
EBSCO MegaFILE is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text for more than 15,000 total publications and indexing & abstracting for more than 19,000 publications. Coverage spans every area of academic study and general interest subject area and offers information dating as far back as the 1800s. In addition, the database contains more than 84,000 biographies, 83,000 primary source documents, 10,000 company profiles and an image collection of more than 107,000 photos, maps and flags.

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Health Source: Consumer Edition additional intranet content (available online to Minnesota residents via ELM)
Health Source®: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. This database also includes searchable full text for current, health-related pamphlets and nearly 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society.

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Kiplinger Special Service (Business analysis) MnDOT only additional intranet content
Includes an expanded version of the Kiplinger Letter, key economic indicators, business news, in-depth reports and other business resources.

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Library Guides

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Magazines

MasterFILE™ Complete help icon(A service of ELM) (Interactive Tutorial)
MasterFILE™ Complete contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, and multi-cultural issues. This database also contains full text for more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags.

MnDOT Digital Library
This new digital repository contains current and historical MnDOT publications.

MnDOT Research & Innovation
Research reports resulting from research administered by the MnDOT Research & Innovation Office.

MnLINK - Minnesota Library Information Network
MnLINK provides a way to search all participating Minnesota libraries at one time. MnLINK also provides access to online databases with full text articles.

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National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
The National Technical Information Service serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today.

  • National Transportation Library (NTL)
    The National Transportation Library is a repository of materials from public and private organizations around the country. The Library is intended to facilitate the exchange of information related to transportation.
    • ROSA P
      A digital library for transportation research
  • NUsearch
    NUsearch is a comprehensive search of all of Northwestern University Libraries’ vast resources of over 6 million items. This includes all of the Transportation Library’s print (books, journal articles, etc.) and electronic resources, subscription databases, and everything in our collection of over 600,000 items.

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PATH (Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways)
California Partners For Advanced Transit And Highways (PATH) California PATH was established in 1986. It is administered by the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with Caltrans. PATH is a multi-disciplinary program with staff, faculty and students from universities statewide, and cooperative projects with private industry, state and local agencies, and non-profit institutions.

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Regional Business News™ additional intranet content (available online to Minnesota residents via ELM)
Regional Business News provides full text for more than 80 regional US and Canadian business publications (including titles from Crain Communications).

Research In Progress (RiP) - TRB
The TRB RiP database contains about 2,000 records of research projects sponsored by the departments of transportation in the fifty states.

Research Needs Statements (TRB)
An important function of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) is to stimulate research that addresses concerns, issues, or problems facing the transportation community. In support of this function, TRB Technical Activities standing committees identify, develop, and disseminate research need statements (RNS) for use by practitioners, researchers, and others. The RNS on this website have been developed by the technical committees.

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Science.gov: FirstGov for Science
Science.gov is a gateway to government science information and research results. Science.gov provides a search of over 42 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 2000 scientific Websites.

State DOT Library Directory
Compiled by Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT Library

State DOT Search Engine
Uses Google Custom Search to search State DOT Websites.

Star Tribune (1986 to current - text only, available online to Minnesota residents via ELM) (Delayed 1 day)
Full text coverage Star Tribune newspaper from Jan 1, 1986 to current.

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Transport Database additional intranet content(MnDot employees only on iHUB)
Transport Database is a reference citation database of transportation research information. It is produced by the 25-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), headquartered in Paris, together with the United States Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT).

TranStats - The Intermodal Transportation Database
TranStats provides updated data, graphs and charts on nationwide transportation statistics.

TRB Publications Index
The TRB Publications Index contains over 41,000 papers, articles, and reports published by the Transportation Research Board, Highway Research Board, Strategic Highway Research Program, or the Marine Board from 1923 to date.

TRID - The TRIS and IRTD Database
TRID is a newly integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide.

TRR - Transportation Research Record additional intranet content
This database contains the fulltext of papers published by the Transportation Research Board in Transportation Research Record beginning in 1996.

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U.S. Department of Transportation Online Publications
The Database allows customers to access DOT publications that are available online.

USDOT Research Hub
A searchable database of the latest USDOT-sponsored research, development and technology projects.

U.S. Newsstream
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.

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Wall Street Journal (available online to Minnesota residents via ELM)
Searchable database of full text articles from the Wall Street Journal.

WorldCat - Worldwide library catalog
WorldCat is the world's largest and most comprehensive database of library catalog information. WorldCat includes not only the catalog of the MnDOT Library, but most of the important transportation libraries in the U.S., including U.S.DOT, Northwestern University, UC Berkeley and seven other state DOT libraries.

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