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There are 43 "P" indexes and databases.

 
PAIS Archive 1915-1976 Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. 
Coverage: 1915 - 1976
Since its establishment in 1914, PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) has chronicled issues in the public debate through highly selective coverage of a wide variety of sources, including references to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, government documents, policy reports and analytics.
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PAIS International Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: Coverage dates 1972 - present (abstracts from 1985 - present)
Use this index for broad coverage of social science issues worldwide.
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Palgrave Macmillan Authentication Required 
Journals focused in the social sciences and humanities.
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Palmer's Index to the Times (via 19th Century Masterfile) Authentication Required 
Coverage: 1880 - 1890
PAPERCHEM Authentication Required 
Coverage: 1967 - present, updated quarterly.
Indexes publications relating to pulp, paper and allied technologies.
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Past Masters Authentication Required 
This cluster of full-text databases includes works by Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, the Continental Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz), and British philosophers from 1600-1900 (Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, and others).
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Patents (United States)
Coverage: 1790 - present, updated weekly
The USPTO Web Patent Database offers the full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976 and full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790 through the most recent weekly issue date. Publisher/Producer is the U.S.
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Patrologia Latina Authentication Required 
The Patrologia Latina Database contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).
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PCI: Periodicals Contents Index Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. 
Coverage: 18th Century - early 1990s
This title has changed its name to Periodicals Index Online.
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People's Daily - 人民日报 Authentication Required 
Coverage: 1946-
The full-text and full-image database of the Peoples' Daily offers intuitive interface and full-text search and browse functions.
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Periodicals Index Online Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. 
Coverage: 1665 - 1995
PIO is an electronic index to the tables of contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995.
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Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook Authentication Required 
A handy collection of data, units, equations and topic reviews for chemical engineers.
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Peterson's Education Center Authentication Required 
Contains information on thousands of colleges, private secondary schools, day schools, and boarding schools.
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Philosopher's Index Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. 
Coverage: 1940 - present
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 270 journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S.
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Physical Education Index Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: 1970-present
Search PEI for a wide range of Physical Education & Kinesiology topics including physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sports psychology & sociology.
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PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) Authentication Required 
Coverage: 1871-Current
The PILOTS database is sponsored by the US Department of Veterans Affairs; It covers Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
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Pion Authentication Required 
Journals in the areas of geography, physics, and experimental psychology.
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Pioneer Press Authentication Required 
Coverage: 1988-current
Full text coverage from 1988 to the present of the daily newspaper for the City of St Paul.
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Plant Information Online
Coverage: 1982 - present, updated daily.
Includes current sources in North American nurseries for over 70,000 plants; over 200,000 citations to current plant science literature, listings for more than 1300 North American seed and nursery firms, and an evaluative review of 75 CD-ROMs and web sites of plant images.
This resource is free and open to the public.
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Plant Management Network Authentication Required 
A cooperative resource for the applied plant sciences.
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Play Finder Authentication Required 
LitFINDER: Plays provides 1000 plays of many kinds, from all time periods, in English or translated into English.
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Poem Finder Authentication Required 
Covers poetry from antiquity to the present; it contains 500,000 citations for poems by 70,000 authors from 1,800 anthologies, 2,600 single-author collections, and 4,000 periodicals.
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PolicyFile Authentication Required 
Coverage: 1990 - present
PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.
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Polling the Nations Authentication Required 
Coverage: 1986 - present
The online version of the American Public Opinion Index, this database is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries.
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Pollution Abstracts Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: May 1981- present
Combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource.
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Polymer Handbook Authentication Required 
Classic source of property data for "synthetic polymers, poly(saccharides) and derivatives, and oligomers." Primary focus is on "fundamental constants and parameters that refer to the polymer molecule, that describe the solid state of polymer molecules, or that describe polymer solutions" and not spectroscopic, rheological, and mechanical data.
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Polymers: a Property Database Authentication Required 
A user-friendly interface gives access to names, physical property data, supplier information, structures, applications, & manufacturing process.
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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (via 19th Century Masterfile) Authentication Required 
Coverage: 1802 - 1906
A significant resource compiled by William Frederick Poole.
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POPLINE
Coverage: 1970 - present
Covers information family planning, population law and policy, and primary health care, including maternal/child health in developing countries in journal articles, monographs, technical reports, and unpublished works.
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Population Index
Coverage: 1986 - 1999.
Primary reference tool to the world's population literature. Covers books, journal articles, working papers and other documents on population topics.
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Professional Collection
see Gale Professional Collection
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Project Muse Authentication Required 
Index to full-text collection of journals in literary theory, classics, history and cultural studies, philosophy, film, theatre and performing arts, political science, and mathematics.
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Prokaryotes, The Authentication Required 
A reference work on the biology of bacteria.
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ProQuest Databases Authentication Required 
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty.
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ProQuest Newsstand Authentication Required  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: Varies by newspaper
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
ProQuest Newsstand provides indexing and abstracting for 150 full-text titles, plus another 200 regional news sources.
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PsycARTICLES Authentication Required 
PsycARTICLES Database contains the full text of articles from APA (American Psychological Association) journals and selected EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals, most from 1988 to the present.
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PsycCRITIQUES Authentication Required 
Coverage: 2004 - present
PsycCRITIQUES is a searchable database of book reviews in psychology.
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PsycINFO Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.  RefWorks enabled 
Coverage: 1872 - present, updated monthly
Covers all areas of psychology.
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Public Documents Masterfile Authentication Required 
Coverage: 1789 - date
Finding tool for public documents, combining bibliographic and index information from a variety of historic and current tools.
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Public Library of Science (PLoS) (OA) Authentication Required 
PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals.
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Public STINET
Coverage: 1974-present
Public STINET provides access to citations to unclassified documents that have been entered into the Defense Technical Information Center's (DTIC) Technical Reports Collection since December 1974 as well as some full text reports for those citations.
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PubMed - Public Version
Coverage: 1950 to present
Primary source of journal citations for the health sciences - the public version provides only limited full text access to journal articles.
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PubMed - U of M Students, Staff & Faculty Authentication Required  This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service. 
Coverage: 1950 to present
Primary source of journal article access for the health sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all Medline e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries.
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