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Database Finder: A list of all the databases UMD has organized by type, subject, or alphabetical. Check out the subject listings for Librarian picked top databases by field!
Reload Button: Refreshes websites through UMD's proxies and will prompt you to login with your UMD credentials. If you find your resources outside of the Libraries webpages, use this to ensure UMD access.
Interlibrary Loan: Use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to request materials UMD does not subscribe to or own. Great for requesting articles and book chapters!
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Multi-disciplinary database providing information for nearly every area of academic study. Includes an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, as well as additional journals, magazines, newspapers and books. Multidisciplinary subjects including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, ethnic studies. 1965- present.
An asterisk (*) stands in for any group of letters
SEARCHING: librar*
FINDS: library, libraries, librarian
Quotation marks keep words together, and in order
“this is a phrase” this is not
'AND' narrows your search and 'OR' broadens your search (see below)
“global warming” “climate change” “global warming” “global warming”
AND OR
“climate change” "climate change”
(fewer results) (more results)
