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Glickman Library - Portland Branch

Maine

Indexes & Databases

    • America: History and Life
    Coverage: From 1954
    Licensed Number of Users: 6
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Index to research on the history of the United States and Canada, from prehistoric times to the present. Includes references to journal articles, books and book reviews, dissertations, and collective works.

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    • Archives (Maine Collections)
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    The Archives database is a catalog of three prominent archival collections on Maine and the Canadian Maritime Provinces: the Maine Folklife Center and Special Collections at Fogler Library located at the University of Maine, Orono, and the Acadian Archives/Archives Acadiennes located on the Fort Kent campus. Cataloging is incomplete for all three Archives.

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    • Maine Census Population Totals
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1790
    Numeric data base of U.S. Census population totals for Maine minor civil Divisions (cities, towns) and counties, from each decennial census, 1790 to present. Special search keys provided include: county/year; town/year; population threshold (maximum or minimum); population trend (increasing or decreasing); and master list of towns. Some annotation is included for boundary changes of minor civil divisions.

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    • Maine News Index Online
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Created by the Portland Public Library, the Maine News Index Online is a database of Maine newspaper and magazine citations and abstracts. The library's Portland Room, which houses special collections, maintains a web page listing titles indexed at http://www.portlandlibrary.com/locations/portlandroom.htm#newsindex

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    • Maine Newsstand
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Index to and full text coverage of four Maine newspapers. Database includes comprehensive coverage of the Bangor Daily News (12/3/92-present) and the Portland Press Herald (10/30/95-present). Selected business coverage of the Central Maine Morning Sentinel (8/12/93-8/27/97) and Maine Times (2/4/95-present). Updated regularly.

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    • Maine Revised Statutes
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: Current to the [Session Number] Legislature
    Maine Revised Statutes current to the [Session Number] Legislature

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    • Maine Superior Court Decisions
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: January 2000 through present
    Full text PDF documents received by the University of Maine School of Law Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library from the clerks of various courts dating from January 2000 through present. Decisions cross referenced by Plaintiff, Defendant, Judge and County. Includes citations and references.

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    • MEMAP (Maine Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Index)
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    This index lists long-term projects and programs that are systematically monitoring or assessing environmental factors in Maine, from breeding amphibians to ozone, weather and water quality. It includes information about each project such as the resource being monitored, the watershed in which monitoring occurs, the geographic scope of the project, the year it was started, monitoring objectives, basic sampling plan, whether or not volunteers participate, and who to contact for data, findings, or more information.

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    • PEARL (Public Education Access to Environmental Information in Maine)
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    PEARL is designed to improve access to information on over 5700 Maine lakes. It is a cooperative effort initiated, coordinated, and maintained at the University of Maine by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research ( GMC ) and the UMaine Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering ( SIE ).

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    • Windows on Maine
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Windows on Maine is a searchable Web database of video programs and clips, and other primary and secondary digital resources, from distinguished Maine collections, made freely available via broadband and wireless connections. It features a searchable database of complete programs and video clips from Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s award-winning historical series, Home: The Story of Maine, and its signature science series, QUEST: Investigating Our World. Windows on Maine explores the promise of video on-demand: streaming media and its potential to be a force in evolving a new educational paradigm. Multimedia resources have been selected from the collections of Fogler Library’s Special Collections and the Maine Folk Life Center at the University of Maine, Northeast Historic Film, the Maine State Archives, the Maine Historical; Society, and the Web for their importance in enriching the broad themes that portray Maine’s history and the Gulf of Maine science: forestry and lumbering,; fishing and fishermen, hunting, trading, fur trading; shipping and ship building. A special focus has been given to the selection of resources that support the study of Native Americans in Maine (LD 291), and their history, cultural and economic systems, government and politics, and tribal territories.

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    • WorldCat
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Bibliographic records for more than 36 million items held at OCLC member libraries throughout the world. Includes all types of information resources. Updated daily.

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Library Liaison

Phone: 780-4272
E-mail: evelyng@usm.maine.edu
Glickman Library, Portland

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Subject Guides:
American & New England Studies

Course Guides:
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