22 October 1999 All current MSOE students, faculty, and staff may search the UMI Databases . UMI produces ProQuest Direct , an online computer library database product which enables users to access journals, periodicals, magazines, newspapers, and other information sources for citations, abstracts, and where available, full-text articles.
Some articles provide graphics, including photos, images, graphs, and charts.
There is almost no overlap with the UMI general reference database journals and the journal titles included here. Magazines, journals, and newsletters are included. Indexing for the journals goes back in some cases to the 1980s. Most of the full-text coverage goes back at least to 1996. There is no consistency in date range.