Alphabetical List of Indexes and Databases
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Indexes & Databases by Subject
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NOTE: These resources are restricted to UW-W students, faculty & staff unless otherwise noted. Please refer to the Off-Campus Users Guide for information about using Library resources remotely.
ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest: 1971- ) ![]()
Covers a wide range of popular and scholarly publications in accounting, finance, marketing, management, international business, real estate, and taxation. It provides abstracting and indexing from 1971 forward for over 1,300 titles, including 200 English-language foreign publications. Also included is Partial/Full Text for over 600 journals from 1992 forward.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
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Multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more thatn 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over 100 journals and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery: 1985- )
Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985 are available in the library together with works published by affiliated organizations.
Advertising Redbooks
Restricted to 1 user at a time
Comprehensive information on the advertising industry including directories of 20,000 U.S. and 10,000 international corporate advertisers, 9,700 U.S. and 3,700 international advertising agencies and detailed information on each advertising firm, including annual billings, clients and specialties.
African American Biographical Database
FREE to all residents of Wisconsin via BadgerLink
Biographical information on African Americans 1790-1950. AABD draws its initial content from Chadwyck-Healey's acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950. Biographical portraits from newly uncovered dictionaries as well as from other published reference sources, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites, etc. will be added as the database expands.
African American Music Reference
American Music Reference provides access to text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music.
AGRICOLA
FREE
Produced by the National Agricultural Library, indexes journal articles and other literature covering every major agricultural subject beginning in 1970. (Alternate address if you can't access Agricola through the above site http://agricola.cos.com/)
Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch: 1991- ) ![]()
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Also includes selected abstracts from research journals. LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.
America: History and Life (EBSCOhost);
America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. This extensive database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.
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Partial/Full Text and images of the 35 journals published by the American Chemical Society.
Anthropological Index Online
FREE
The Anthropological Index is a regionally arranged subject and author index to periodical articles in all areas of anthropology. It is produced by the Museum of Mankind Library.
AnthroSource
American Anthropological Society's portal to its peer-reviewed journals, newsletters, and bulletins.
Applied Science Full Text (WilsonWeb: 1983- ) ![]()
Covers 411 core English-language scientific and technical publications. Topics include engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management. Includes abstracts from March 1993 and indexing from October 1983.
Art Full Text (WilsonWeb: 1984- ) ![]()
Provides abstracting and indexing for 313 leading international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Broad coverage of art topics, including advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture, and art history. Coverage includes abstracts from Spring 1994 and indexing from September 1984.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science: 1987- )
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6800 major science and social science journals.
Associations Unlimited
This full-text database describes more than 80,000 national, international, regional, state, and local associations. In addition to basic address listings, information is supplied on membership, publications, and conference dates. Formerly Encyclopedia of Associations.
Astrophysical Data System (ADS)
FREE
ADS is a bibliographic database maintained by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) and NASA and contains over 6.7 million records in the areas of astronomy, astrophysics and physics.
BadgerCat (FirstSearch)
BadgerCat is a special presentation of OCLC WorldCat that creates a Wisconsin view of WorldCat with the holdings of nearly 500 Wisconsin libraries.
BadgerLink
Full text resources restricted to Wisconsin residents only.
BadgerLink is a program supported and funded through the Department of Public Instruction - Division of Libraries, Technology and Community Learning. Its goal is to provide increased access to information for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's library community. Access to both the EBSCOHost periodical databases and ProQuest newspaper databases are provided to all Wisconsin's citizens within the state.
Beilstein and Gmelin Chemistry Reference Databases
Beilstein (organic) and Gmelin (inorganic/organometallic) are essential reference datatabases for chemists. The databases are searchable with the Crossfire Commander client interface or DiscoveryGate web interface, developed by MDL Information Systems, Inc. Both databases document the preparations, reactions and properties of chemical substances and are organized around the data for individual compounds. They are searchable in multiple ways including chemical structure, formula, physical property parameters, chemical reaction, as well as bibliographic data. Beilstein's content also includes pharmacological, ecotoxicological and bioactivity data.
Biographies Plus Illustrated (WilsonWeb) ![]()
Restricted to 12 users at a time
Contains almost 40,000 full text biographies of authors, artists, film directors, Nobel Prize winners, American reformers, musicians and composers.
Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
Biological Abstracts (Institute for Scientific Information)
Indexing and abstracts of journals in the biological sciences.
Biological and Agricultural Index (WilsonWeb: 1983- ) ![]()
Covers 258 periodicals in the core literature of biology and agriculture.
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic (EBSCOhost)
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Designed for doctors, research scientist, students and clinical specialists, this database provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. All titles included in the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition are indexed in MEDLINE.
BioOne
Aggregation of high impact bioscience research journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
Black Drama - 1850 to Present
Black Drama integrates approximately 1,200 rare and hard-to-find plays written from the 1850s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African Diaspora countries. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Zora Neale Hurston, Femi Euba, Randolph Edmonds, and others.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
The largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it offers the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women and will eventually include approximately 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from the 1500 to 1900. The collection represents all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.
Business Full Text (WilsonWeb: 1982- ) ![]()
Included in the OmniFile Full Text: Mega Edition database. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 345 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals, plus the partial/full text of over 160 of those periodicals. Partial/full text coverage begins in January 1995.
Business & Industry (FirstSearch: 1994- ) ![]()
Contains important facts, figures and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, products and markets for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. B&I focuses on a body of literature that includes leading trade magazines, newsletters, the general business press and international business dailies. LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.
Business Dateline (FirstSearch: 1985- ) ![]()
Regional business activities and trends are covered in this file with particular emphasis on economic conditions in selected cities, states, or regions, as well as mergers, acquisitions, company executives, new products, and competitive intelligence. Contains fully searchable full text articles from more than 450 North American business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, and news wire services. LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
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Provides comprehensive access to abstracts and indexing for over 1500 titles, plus searchable partial/full text for more than 750 business periodicals.
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Accounting
Online version of Cabell’s Print Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Accounting which provides updated current information on the addresses, phone, e-mail and websites for a large number of journals. The company aims to provide information on publication guidelines and review information.
Campus Research (Westlaw)
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Campus Research is an online legal research tool designed and built especially for undergraduates and other non-law students. It is an abridged version of Westlaw and allows retrieval of cases and legal documents from both federal and state sources. Campus Research also includes law review and legal journal articles.
Career Services Resources
The Richard L. Bailey Memorial Career Information Center Online allows access to career databases. The Vault Career Library, Going Global Career Guides, and Career Search Employer Database can be accessed with UWW Net ID login.
Catalog of United States Government Publications
FREE
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. This is also known as the National Bibliography of U.S. Government. The CGP contains descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. The CGP is the online counterpart of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications.
CCH Accounting Research Manager ![]()
Restricted to 1 user at a time
CCH Accounting Research Manager bring together the standards and interpretations released by the major governing bodies for the profession into one resource. The subscription also includes the Audit Private and Internal Controls add-on modules. Access is provided by the Accounting Department.
CCH Health and Human Resources
Covers human resource management, personnel practices, compensation, Equal Employment Opportunity, employment relations and OSHA compliance.
CCH Internet Tax Research NetWork
Conduct tax research on federal, state or international tax law.
Chemical Safety Resources (UW-System)
Access to MSDS; CHEMINFO; HSELINE; OSHLINE(tm) with NIOSHTIC(r); RTECS; CHEMINDEX; and INCHEM.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
CLCD is a complete source of information about children's books and a tool for leading you to the best books. There are more than 150,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 27 sources of reviews including The Cooperative Children's Book Center [CCBC] which originates in Madison.
ChoiceReviews Online
Restricted to 1 user at a time
ChoiceReviews.Online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE.
Chronicle of Higher Education Online
The Chronicle of Higher Education is a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and administration in the United States, Canada, and abroad.
CINAHL PLUS with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,001 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL Plus with Full Text covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for 336 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.
CJA Criminal Justice Abstracts (CSA)
Covers a wide range of popular and scholarly publications in criminal justice, security issues, policing, organized crime, juvenile justice and law enforcement.
ComDisDOME (1997- )
ComDisDOME is a continuously updated information service developed by Communication Sciences and Disorders educators and professionals for educators, clinicians, researchers and students in the fields of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. It contains over 130,000 citations from over 125 journals in the field and searches multiple content sources, including books and dissertations.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) (EBSCOhost) ![]()
This database was created by combining the extensive coverage of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Both of these two resources have been greatly expanded upon (both in terms of content and scope) to create CMMC. In addition, Communication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered.
Compact D
CD-ROM on workstation S4
A fully searchable compilation of business and financial information for over 12,000 companies trading on major U.S. stock exchanges. An online version is also available - ask at the Reference Desk.
Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia (1997 ed.)
CD-ROM on workstation S8
Contains more than 40,000 articles and includes photos, videos, animations, and slide shows.
Contemporary Authors
Offers biographical and bibliographical information on nearly 100,000 modern authors, including novelists, poets, screenwriters, journalists and other nonfiction writers. The database contains the full-text of the following series: Contemporary Authors Vol. 1-140, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series Vol. 1-41, and Contemporary Authors Permanent Series Vol. 1-2.
Corporate Affiliations ![]()
This resource provides instant insight into more than 174,000 parents companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions - all the way down to the seventh level of reporting relationships. All domestic and foreign subsidiaries are included.
Corporate ResourceNet (EBSCOhost) ![]()
This database contains full text articles from nearly 1,350 quality magazines and journals. The database includes full text sources ranging from general publications such as Fortune and Money to trade publications such as American Demographics, Chemical Week, Electronic Business and Restaurant Hospitality. The collection of titles includes top management journals such as Academy of Management Executive, California Management Review, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. In addition, this database also includes detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.
CQ Congress Collection
Contains in-depth research on historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest groups, and their interactions in crafting public policy.
CQ Electronic Library
Created and hosted by CQ Press, the CQ Electronic Library (CQEL) is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. A wealth of CQ Press resources and years of journalistic and editorial expertise are combined in CQEL (pronounced SEE´quell). It also offers a range of tools for discovering, understanding, and making use of its authoritative content.
CQ Public Affairs Collection
Includes CQ's primary source documents, statistical overviews, contact information, and in-depth reporting on current affairs.
CQ Researcher
Full text CQ Researcher (1991 - ). Contains in-depth research on current topics with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues and bibliographies for further information.
CQ Voting and Elections Collection
CQ Voting and Elections Collection includes data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide information on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.
CQ Weekly
CQ Weekly covers the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The goal is to cover all subjects and languages. There are currently 691 journals in the directory.
Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch: 1861- ) ![]()
The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions. Indexing began in 1861, abstracts of dissertations in 1980, and abstracts of theses in 1988. LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.
DSM-IV
CD-ROM
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is an authoritative and comprehensive manual devoted to the classification of psychiatric illness. It precisely defines the differences between similar disorders and gives guidelines for making diagnoses.
Early Canadiana Online
FREE
A full text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment
A collection assembled from hundreds of sources, Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment documents the relationships among peoples and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women.
Early English Books Online (Chadwyck-Healy)
Contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised edition. This collection can fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of scholars in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.
EBSCO Animals (EBSCOhost)
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EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and partial/full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the partial/full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic.
EBSCOhost
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Provides access to a variety of databases including Academic Search Premier, ERIC, Business Source Elite and others.
Ecology and Natural Resources Collection (UW Digital Collections)
The Ecology and Natural Resources Collection brings together in digital form two categories of primary and secondary publications: writings about research in ecology and natural resources conducted by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable titles in these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries. The collection contains materials in a variety of formats including electronic facsimiles of books, manuscripts, and serial titles.
EconLit (FirstSearch: 1969- ) ![]()
Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers. Produced by the Journal of Economic Literature. LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.
Education Full Text (WilsonWeb: 1983- ) ![]()
Covers 423 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues. Includes abstracts from January 1994 and indexing from June 1983. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
Education Research Complete (EBSCOhost)
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Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals, and includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and for numerous education-related conference papers.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
The Eighteenth Century Collections Online has access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
Emerald Library (MCB University Press)
The Electronic Management Research Library Database provides access to over 130 journals by MCB University Press. Journals such as the European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Personnel Review, The TQM Magazine and Library Management, are included. Articles from 1994 on are readily available online.
Encyclopedia Britannica
The complete encyclopedia, with related Internet sites and more.
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
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The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. University Library owns the microfiche set of the ERIC ED documents plus they are starting to be available partial/full text on the Internet (see ERIC ED documents entry).
ERIC ![]()
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The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Andersen Library owns the microfiche set of the ERIC ED documents plus they are starting to be available Partial/Full Text on the Internet (see ERIC ED documents entry).
Ethnic NewsWatch (Proquest)
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
FirstSearch ![]()
FirstSearch is a collection of online databases on various disciplines assembled by OCLC. LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.
FirstSearch (Librarian Mediated) ![]()
On Campus
This link requires an id and password to log on. Please inquire at Reference Desk.
FirstSearch is a collection of online databases on various disciplines assembled by OCLC.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost)
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Provides over 25,000 informative segments of the encyclopedia. Offers student and adult users abstract information for each topic. In addition, Partial/Full Text for each topic may be accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display.
GDCS U.S. Documents List (1976- )
CD-ROM
Indexes publications produced by the Government Printing Office. Commercial version of the GPO Monthly Catalog.
GenderWatch (ProQuest)
GenderWatch is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.
General Science Full Text (WilsonWeb: 1984- ) ![]()
Included in the OmniFile Full Text: Mega Edition database. Indexes and abstracts over 140 English language periodicals in the physical, life, and health sciences plus the Partial/Full Text of over 35 of those periodicals. Includes feature articles, biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, selected letters to the editor, and supplements to journals. Indexing begins in 1984 and abstracting in March 1993. Partial/full text coverage begins in January 1995.
GEOBASE (FirstSearch: 1980- ) ![]()
Interdisciplinary database covering physical and human geography, geology, ecology, and Third World studies. LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.
GeoRef (Ovid: 1785- )
Restricted to 1 user at a time
The database of the American Geological Institute (AGI). Covers worldwide technical literature on geology and geophysics. Organizes and indexes papers from over 4,500 serials and other publications representative of the interests of the 20 professional geological and earth science societies that are members of the AGI. Covers North America since 1785 and other areas since 1933.
Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online, 1543-1945
The Gerritsen Collection delivers two million page images of original printed works, spanning 4 centuries and 15 languages. The collection includes periodicals, books and pamphlets.
Gilded Age
Immigration and migration, racism and civil rights, labor and industry, women and universal suffrage, American Indians, and the environment are just a few of the issues that came to the fore during the Gilded Age. This collection from Alexander Street Press brings together 40,000 pages of full text, photographs, and songs for listening online, and other primary materials, along with video interviews and twenty-five critical documentary essays. Each documentary essay poses an interpretive question and then illuminates it with dozens of annotated primary documents, introductions, and essays.
Global Market Information Database (includes Market Research Monitor)
Global Market Information Database provides access to over three million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for over two hundred countries back from 1977, as well as country profiles and consumer market sizes for many products across over fifty countries. This database also includes Market Research Monitor, which offers over 2,200 top-line market research reports on international consumer, industrial and service markets. Reports offer up to date market size data, company shares, brand shares and forecasts.
Google Scholar
FREE
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. More information about Google Scholar is available at http://www.uww.edu/library/news/jan06.htm#goos.
Grove Music Online
Restricted to 3 users at a time
Universally acknowledged as the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music. This great work is widely used throughout the academic and professional community, and revered by music-lovers worldwide includes the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,2nd Edtion (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera(1992),and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001,as well as all subsequent updates.
GPO (FirstSearch 1976 - ) ![]()
Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
FREE
The Handbook is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. It is edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and has been continuously published since 1935. Works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities.
Health Sciences Collection (ScienceDirect College Edition)
Includes Full Text access to peer reviewed journals in Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Health Professions, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Pharmaceutical Science, Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCOhost)
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With Health Source: Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 160 journals including the British Medical Journal and The Lancet, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 170 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 550 journals.
History Cooperative
History Cooperative is nonprofit humanities resource offering top-level online history scholarship. It offers full text and contains collateral content, including multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in the print versions of some articles.
Hoover's Company Records (ProQuest)
Hoover's Company Records provides information about companies, industries, and the people who lead them. Content in Hoover's Company Records covers more than 40,000 companies, 225,000 key executives, and more than 600 industries, delivering up-to-date business information.
Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb: 1984- ) ![]()
Included in the OmniFile Full Text: Mega Edition database. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 350 English-language periodicals, plus the partial/full text of over 95 of those periodicals. It covers the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995.
Humanities International Index (EBSCOhost)
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Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing, Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.
IngentaConnect
IngentaConnect provides access to full text aricles from many publishers in many disciplines. More than 90 of our electronic journal subscriptions at UW-Whitewater are provided through IngentaConnect. Students, faculty and staff have access to email alerting service and RSS feeds.
Institute of Physics Electronic Journals
Full text of all 33 of the Institute of Physics journals. off campus users can use the site but do not have access to the full text of articles. Searching across the contents of the journals is possible. References with each article include links to available IOP articles as well as to INSPEC abstracts.
International Index to Music Periodicals (Chadwyck-Healy: 1996- )
Restricted to 1 user at a time
IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. More than 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
International Index to the Performing Arts (Chadwyck-Healy)
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IIPA Full Text draws its current content from more than 200 international performing arts periodicals and also indexes performing arts related articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. IIPA Full Text covers nearly all aspects of performing arts, from scholarly studies to snapshots of popular culture.
International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
The International Medieval Bibliography is the major index to medieval studies (c. 400-1500). It includes citations to articles in approximately 4500 journals and "miscellany" volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften).
In the First Person
FREE
In the First Person (Alexander Street Press) is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world including citations to interviews, letters, diaries, oral histories, links to full text, audio, and/or video files.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II & III Collection
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JSTOR is an electronic journal archival project which provides full-text access to complete runs of back issues of scholarly journal titles in 10-15 fields. The Arts & Sciences I Collection currently offers access to about 117 journals in these disciplines: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology. The Arts & Sciences II Collection is a multi-disciplinary collection containing journals and disciplines that complement those in the Arts & Sciences I Collection. It includes 122 journals, in disciplines such as History, Economics, Asian Studies, Classics, Archaeology, and African, Latin American, Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies. The Arts & Sciences III Collection focuses on the arts and humanities and contains 150 titles. The collection makes available additional journals in language and literature, as well as important titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion, and the history and study of art and architecture.
Knovel Scientific and Engineering Online References
The Knovel database contains some of the leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings. A few of the subject areas covered are: chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, concrete, asphalt, mechanical engineering, semiconductors, electronics, and surface engineering. Some of the standard reference texts included are Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, and the Machinery's Handbook. The content of more than 200 books is interactive and cross-searchable. Many titles have hyperlinked indexes.
Kraus Curriculum Development Library
A searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education.
LexisNexis Academic ![]()
Access to a wide range of full-text news, company information, business news, legal research and reference information.
LexisNexis Congressional
Includes legislative histories for public laws and testimony from congressional hearings. Track bills and search the Congressional Record and Federal Register, and locate information about congressional members and committees.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCOhost) ![]()
This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Life Sciences Collection (ScienceDirect College Edition)
Includes Full Text access to peer reviewed journals in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Environmental Science, Immunology, Microbiology and Neuroscience.
Literary Index
FREE
Literary Index is a master index to the printed editions of the 43 literary series published by Gale. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.
Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
Provides full text access to complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings from several of the major Gale series of criticism included in Literary Index. Full text coverage begins November 2008. For older criticism use Literary Index to find the print volumes containing relevant criticism.
LitFinder
Full text plays, poems, short stories, essays and speeches. Can search by genre, subject, title, author and timeline. There is also a section focusing on children's material. From Badgerlink.
MagillOnLiterature (EBSCOhost) ![]()
The definitive online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. This database, which is compiled by Salem Press, contains all of Masterplots and Masterplots II, Cyclopedia of World Authors, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, and Magill's Literary Annual.
Marquis Who's Who - Web Edition
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A searchable database featuring over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. The database may be searched by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and offers comprehensive biographical coverage.
MAS Ultra-School Edition (EBSCOhost)
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Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for nearly 550 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 237 full text reference books, 91,600 biographies, 75,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. It is updated daily.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost)
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Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 periodicals, plus searchable Partial/Full Text for more than 1,500 active periodicals. Subjects covered include general reference, business, health, multi-cultural and more. Total coverage includes over 4 million articles.
MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society: 1940- )
Searchable Web database providing access to over 59 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical publications.
McClatchy-Tribune Collection (EBSCOhost)
The McClatchy-Tribune collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McCatchy-Tribune Information Services. The data is updated daily.
MD Consult Core Service
Available via UW-Madison
MD Consult is a clinically-based tool that provides online access to books, journals, drug information, MEDLINE, clinical practice guidelines, clinical updates, and patient education handouts.
Mediamark Reporter (MRI)
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Restricted to academic use only
This resource provides access to data about consumers and their purchasing decisions. Find demographic information about people and the products that they buy, as well as their media (magazine, television, radio and internet) habits. You must sign up for a free account using your UWW e-mail address in order to utilize our subscription to Mediamark Reporter. Please contact Kyle Naff (naffk@uww.edu) if you have any questions.
Medline (EBSCOhost)
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Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline covers all aspects of biomedicine including nursing, dentistry and veterinary medicine. It contains citations and abstracts, beginning in 1966, from over 3,800 journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.
Medline (PubMed)
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Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline covers all aspects of biomedicine including nursing, dentistry and veterinary medicine. It contains citations and abstracts, beginning in 1966, from over 3,800 journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOhost)
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Provides test users with descriptive information, references, and critical reviews of tests.
Middle Search Plus (EBSCOhost)
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Middle Search Plus provides abstracts and indexing for over 170 magazines, and searchable partial/full text for over 52 of the most frequently used magazines in middle school libraries, including 115 pamphlets, and also offers Essential Documents of American History. This database is specially designed for middle schools, K-8 and large elementary schools, and covers the majority of a middle school library's periodical collection.
Military & Government Collection (EBSCOhost) ![]()
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government and provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 titles. Some publications covered in this database include are Air Force Controller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, Global Security Review, Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Defense, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Military Library FullTEXT provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 350 periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for over 380 magazines.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1990-1998) ![]()
CD-ROM on workstation S4
Indexes the Partial/Full Text of the daily newspaper. Updated monthly. More current issues (starting in 1997) are available through ProQuest Newspapers.
MINDS@UW
MINDS@UW is designed to store, index, distribute, and preserve the digital materials of the University of Wisconsin. Content, which is deposited directly by UW faculty and staff, may include research papers, pre-prints, datasets, photographs, videos, learning objects, theses, student projects, conference papers, or other intellectual property in digital form. The content is then distributed through a searchable Web interface.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) ![]()
MLA bibliography is the largest and most comprehensive database covering scholarship in the modern languages, linguistics, literature, folklore, and drama, including film, opera, radio, television and theater. Literary criticism and literary theory are covered extensively. Approximately 4,000 journals and series are screened, and entries for books are included. Entries appear both for collections of essays and for their contents.
Morningstar Library Edition ![]()
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Morningstar contains reports on more than 8,000 stocks and 12,000 mutual funds, Analyst Reports on 1,000 stocks and 2,000 mutual funds and Morningstar ratings for stocks and funds. Morningstar contains both stock and fund screeners and a portfolio X-ray tool that helps you look for strengths and weaknesses in a portfolio.
Mosby's Nursing Consult
Available until July 2008 via UW-Madison
Mosby's Nursing Consult is a comprehensive online resource designed to help nurses provide better patient care. It consolidates the profession's leading books and journals, drug information, patient handouts, news and evidence-based articles into a single service.
Nature
This site is a gateway to all Nature-titled journals and sites for all levels of visitors. It provides full text services to the weekly printed edition of Nature, and an extensive range of content and other services are available.
NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers (Ovid) ![]()
The current edition of the NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work. It is an important resource for identifying social workers who are qualified providers of mental health services. Like its predecessors, this edition aims to advance sound professional practice standards by providing a uniform method to identify qualified clinical social work practitioners.
NCJRS Abstracts Database
FREE
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 140,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. The time period covered is from the early 1970's to the present.
NFPA Codes Online
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The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), based in Quincy, Massachusetts, is an international, nonprofit membership organization. Its mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life. The NFPA develops, publishes, and disseminates timely consensus codes and standards intended to minimize the possibility and effects of fire and other risks.
NetLibrary ![]()
Hundreds of books in electronic format covering Social Sciences, Humanities and Sciences. Search for specific titles, or subject areas, and browse or "check out" an e-text.
New York Times Book Review
FREE WITH REGISTRATION
Includes the complete Sunday Book Review, daily book related news and reviews, a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews, bestseller lists, and more.
New York Times Historical Newspapers (1851-2005) (Proquest) ![]()
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times. It offers complete coverage from 1851-2005. The database delivers every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. And the database just keeps growing, with a new year's content added annually.
Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost)
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Newspaper Source provides selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. This database is updated daily.
North American Immigrant Letters and Diaries and Oral Histories: 1800-1850
This collection includes 71 authors and approximately 10,000 pages of information which provides a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. It is composeded of letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews and other personal narratives.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950
This collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Basic Edition (EBSCOhost) ![]()
Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 100 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. All full text titles included in Nursing & Allied Health: Basic Edition are indexed in CINAHL.
OmniFile Full Text: Mega Edition (WilsonWeb: 1982- ) Partial/Full Text ![]()
Wilson OmniFile Full Text: Mega Edition is a database that contains indexing and abstracting of approximately 1,644 periodicals with more than 545 titles available in Partial/Full Text. Databases included in this file are: Business Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, and Social Sciences Full Text. Indexing coverage begins in 1983, abstracting in 1984, and partial/full text in 1995.
OSHA CD-ROM
CD-ROM
Includes the Partial/Full Text of regulations, documents, and technical information issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Oxford Companion to Music
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Embracing the world of music in all its variety - including jazz, popular music, and dance - the Companion offers a concentrated focus on the Western classic tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The more than 8,000 articles cover a range of subjects including composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres.
Oxford Dictionary of Music
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Containing 5,000 entries on composers, conductors, performers, directors, critics, producers and designers of international repute, writers and scholars.
Oxford English Dictionary
Contains the complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series draft material from the current OED project, representing the latest progress towards a completely revised and updated Third Edition.
Oxford Music Online
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Oxford Music Online is the gateway that offers the ability to access and cross-search the resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. This subscription includes access to The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Oxford Reference Online: Premium
Restricted to 1 user at a time
The Premium Collection enhances the coverage of the Oxford Reference Online Core Collection. It contains over100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection also includes over 50,000 in-depth scholarly articles from titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series and all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving wide access to a comprehensive information resource.
Peterson's Interactive Award Search (1998 edition)
CD-ROM
Peterson's financial aid file contains essential information about scholarships, prizes, and internships offered by foundations, associations, corporations, and states.
Physical Sciences and Engineering Collection (ScienceDirect College Edition)
Includes Full Text access to peer reviewed journals in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Energy, Engineering, Materials Science, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy.
PILOTS Database (CSA)
Bibliographic database covering post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events from 1871 to current date.
Polling the Nations
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Compiled from more than 12,000 surveys conducted since 1986 in the United States and 70 other countries, the 300,000 questions and responses in Polling the Nations are the most comprehensive collection of polling data anywhere. Examples of some of the 3500 topics include AIDS, the death penalty, marriage, racism, and unemployment.
Primary Search (EBSCOhost)
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Primary Search Plus is designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms. Updated monthly, this database provides the Full Text of over 40 magazines for young readers and abstracts and indexing for over 120 magazines. With 109 full text pamphlets, this database provides wonderful opportunities for children to research information quickly and easily, and to acquire searching skills at an early age. It also includes three Funk & Wagnalls publications, the New World Encyclopedia, the World Almanac for Kids and the World Almanac of the USA.
ProceedingsFirst (First Search: 1993- ) ![]()
Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library. LIMITED SEARCHING: The Library is charged per search for this database. Please contact B. Bren (brenb@uww.edu or 262-472-5521) before beginning large research projects requiring many searches.
Professional Development Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of over 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 800 journals. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information dates as far back as 1965.
Project Muse
Provides access to the full text of over 120 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
ProQuest ![]()
Provides access to a number of databases including ABI/Inform and ProQuest Newspapers.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2005) ![]()
ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ – The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times. It offers complete coverage from 1851-2005. The database delivers every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. And the database just keeps growing, with a new year's content added annually.
ProQuest Newspapers (ProQuest) ![]()
This database contains "National Newspapers Complete", "ProQuest Newsstand Wisconsin" and Minneapolis Star Tribune.
PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)
Provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1988 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Includes PsycLit database.
PubMed
FREE
PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine, and includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. PubMed contains access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles are indexed for MEDLINE, citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing, as well as some additional life science journals that submit full text to PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
PubMedCentral
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PubMedCentral is a repository for life sciences journals, sponsored by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Readers' Guide Full Text (WilsonWeb: 1983- ) ![]()
Included in the OmniFile Full Text: Mega Edition database. Contains comprehensive indexing and abstracting of more than 240 of the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of over 120 of those periodicals. It covers news, current events, and all subject areas, including business, fashion, politics, crafts, food, education, sports, history, and science. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.
Reference Universe
Reference Universe searches the complete indexes of reference titles. Use Reference Universe to find articles to begin your research and build a bibliography.
Regional Business News (EBSCOhost)
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (EBSCOhost)
Restricted to 1 user at a time
RILM Abstracts of Music, contains records in over 200 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. The majority of citations include abstracts. Over 500 scholarly journals are represented. Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, ethnographic recordings, Festschriften, films, iconographies, and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals are indexed if they are of scholarly interest.
Royal Purple Index
The Royal Purple has been the official student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater since 1901. This online index is searchable by title/subject/issue and author/photographer. Issues of the Royal Purple are available in print and microform in the University Library. Check the library catalog for locations.
Safari Tech Books Online
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Safari Tech Books Online is an e-reference library where students can search across thousands of programming and IT books simultaneously to pinpoint exactly the chapter, section and code example needed in a matter of seconds. Safari Tech Books is joint venture of O'Reilly Media and the Pearson Technology Group.
A small authoritative collection of SAGE's encyclopedias online accessed through SAGE eReference. SAGE eReference supports simple searches for any word or phrase in the encyclopedia as well as Fielded Boolean searches.
Sage Premier Journals Online
SAGE Premier provides electronic access to 408 peer-reviewed, full-text journals Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. (94,000+ articles).
Science Online ![]()
Access to the full text of Science from 1997 to present.
Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science: 1987- )
Multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. All cited references captured.
ScienceDirect College Edition
Extensive Full Text access to 3 Elsevier journal collections: Social & Behavioral Sciences (350 peer reviewed journals), Health & Life Sciences (890 peer reviewed journals) and Physical Sciences (600 peer reviewed journals).
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (SWRP) contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars.
Social Sciences Full Text (WilsonWeb: 1983- ) ![]()
Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 415 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of over 500 of those periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Partial/Full Text coverage begins in January 1995.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science: 1987- )
Multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1725 journals spanning 50 disciplines as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Social Sciences and Humanities Collection (ScienceDirect College Edition)
Includes Full Text access to peer reviewed journals in Arts and Humanities, Business, Management, Accounting, Decision Sciences, Economics, Econometrics, Finance, Psychology and Social Sciences.
Social Work Abstracts Plus (EBSCOhost: 1977- )
Restricted to 4 users at a time
The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 35,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.
Sociological Abstracts (CSA) ![]()
Contains records from 3,000 journals covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences.
SPORT Discus (EBSCOhost) ![]()
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Offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 600,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800.
SRDS Media Solutions
The SRDS database of media rates and information is the largest and most comprehensive in the world—cataloging more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties delivering accurate, up-to-date media information -including detailed ad rates, dates and contact data for Direct Marketing, Business Publication, Consumer Magazine, Newspaper Advertising, Radio and TV and Cable Advertising.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering access to Standard & Poor's research products such as Industry Surveys and Stock and Bond Reports.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, is a dynamic reference work where each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. The Abridged Table of Contents lists entries that are assigned and/or published. The Unabridged Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.
State of Wisconsin Collection (UW Ditigal Collections)
The collection includes published material as well as archival materials. The materials were digitized from a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps and other resources deemed important to the study and teaching of the State of Wisconsin.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
FREE
This database is a summary of statistics on the social, cultural, political, and economic organization of the United States. It includes a selection of data from many sources including the Census Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and other Federal agencies and private organizations.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
CD-ROM
This database is a summary of statistics on the social, cultural, political, and economic organization of the United States. It includes a selection of data from many statistical publications, both government and private.
Stat-USA
Comprehensive library of international trade resources from 40 U.S. government agencies compiled by the Department of Commerce includes: Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Information (news releases and data files from BEA's national regional, and international product accounts); the Electronic Bulletin Board (news releases and analyses of markets, products, and economic trends); and National Trade Data Bank (country commercial guides, market research reports, and extensive import and export statistics.
Street Atlas USA (1995 edition)
CD-ROM
Features a complete road map of the entire United States on a single CD-ROM. Zoom in on every city, town, or rural area in the country - right down to the tiniest back roads. The database gives instant access to more than 12 million street segments.
SuperSearch
SuperSearch allows user to search multiple databases from different vendors in a single search. Choose from 12 Quick Sets or select and create your own.
Tablebase (RDS) ![]()
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TableBase is a database comprised of tabular information of a strategic nature. The tables provide information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics. Tables are drawn from the more than 1000 sources that go into the Business & Industry database and from statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade association reports, and governmental reports.
TeachingBooks
TeachingBooks offers original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature. From Badgerlink.
Tests in Print (EBSCOhost)
Tests in Print (TIP) is produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska and is a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
ThomasNet
Search 155,000 companies, 60,000 product and service classification headings and 124,000 brand names. Business information organized by Products and Services, Company Profiles, Brand Names and a Catalog Index. Formerly Thomas Register.
Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex and the Family
The twentieth century was a time of rapid and drastic change in values and behaviors held and practiced in American life. The goal of Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family is to provide researchers and students with a highly visual and fully searchable archive illustrating how Americans grappled with these changes, and how their day-to-day life, attitudes, mores, and behaviors changed over time. To that end, the collection offers 150,000 pages of handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books describing American attitudes towards family dynamics, gender roles, sexual relationships, and race relations. This content is often heavily illustrated, and the database presents it visually, conveying the feeling of the time and allowing users to see and read the material just as its original audience did.
Ulrichsweb
Comprehensive and authoritative information on 250,000 serials published worldwide. Provides purchasing and contact information on regularly published and irregularly issued serials, journals and magazines.
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (UWDC) was created in the summer of 2001. The Council of Wisconsin libraries and UW System's Office of Learning & Information Technology established the UWDC to provide quality digital resources from its academic libraries to UW faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state, and scholars at large.
USA Trade Online (Librarian Mediated)
In Library Only
Restricted to 2 users at a time
This link requires an id and password to log on, please inquire at Reference Desk. USA Trade Online is a service of STAT-USA and the Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. Census Bureau. It provides monthly information on U.S. imports and exports on more than 18,000 commodities
Value Line Investment Survey
An independent investment information resource, Value Line Investment Survey provides overall views on the economy and stock market as well as descriptive information and performance projections for 1,700 stocks.
Web of Science (Institute for Scientific Information: 1987- )
Multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. The information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
Westlaw
(Campus Research) Westlaw (Campus Research) is an online legal research tool designed and built especially for undergraduates and other non-law students. It is an abridged version and allows retrieval of cases and legal documents from both federal and state sources.
Who's Who - Web Edition (Marquis)
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A searchable database featuring over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. The database may be searched by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and offers comprehensive biographical coverage.
WilsonWeb ![]()
Provides access to a variety of databases including Education Abstracts, and OmniFile Full Text: Mega Edition (which includes Readers' Guide Abstracts, Business Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, and Social Sciences Abstracts).
WISCAT
FREE
Statewide bibliographic database for Wisconsin. It contains 5.6 million bibliographic records with local holdings statements for 1125 libraries of all types throughout Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Heritage Online (WHO)
The Wisconsin Heritage Online is an expanding digital collection, featuring documentary sources and material culture from Wisconsin libraries, archives, and museums. The collections in this exhibition project are contributed by cultural heritage organizations throughout Wisconsin
Wisconsin Pioneer Experience (UW Digital Collections)
The Wisconsin Pioneer Experience is a digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. The project has been made available through the partnership of the Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries (CUWL) and the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS).
WisLaw Wisconsin Statutes
CD-ROM
Contains the partial/full text of Wisconsin Acts, the official statutes, Attorney General opinions, Wisconsin Supreme Court rules, and other materials. Dates of coverage vary.
Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000
Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. The resource, which examines perspectives on women's social movements from Colonial times to the present, is updated on a quarterly basis by adding new document projects, book and website reviews, related teaching tools, and more documents.
Women's Studies International (EBSCOhost: 1972- )
Women's Resources International is a combination of nine contributing databases covering women's studies, women's issues, and gender-focused scholarship from throughout the world. Databases include: Women's Studies Abstracts (1984-); New Books on Women & Feminism (1987-); Women of Color and Southern Women 1975-1988, and annual supplements (1989-); and other databases and print publications.
World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia (1997 ed.)
CD-ROM
Contains 17,000 articles, and 1,700 "Quick Facts" tables, as well as pictures, maps, animation, audio and video.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Over 40 million bibliographic records of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century, books, government documents, video recordings, and sound recordings.
WorldCat.org
FREE
WorldCat.org is a permanent Web page dedicated solely to searching WorldCat libraries. Information seekers can regionally search the WorldCat database from this site by entering location information such as postal code, state, province or country.


