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General Reference Sources

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Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Britannica Online Full Text
On Campus + Off Campus
Contains the full text of the 32-volume Encyclopedia Britannica (both Micropaedia and Macropaedia), the annual Book of the Year, and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed.), which includes related reference works such as a thesaurus.

Columbia Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost)  Full Text
On Campus + Off Campus
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia contains more than 51,000 entries, addressing current hot topics and providing updated geographical, political, and statistical information. The Encyclopedia encompasses six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics and has more than 84,000 cross-reference links.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost)  EBSCOhost Guide
Full Text
On Campus + Off Campus
Provides over 25,000 informative segments of the encyclopedia. Offers student and adult users abstract information for each topic. In addition, full text for each topic may be accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display.

Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia (1997 ed.) Full Text
CD-ROM
Contains more than 40,000 articles and includes photos, videos, animations, and slide shows.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium
On Campus + Off Campus
Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.  The Premium edition includes the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and essays from the Oxford Companions series.  It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database.

World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia (1997 ed.) Full Text
CD-ROM
Contains 17,000 articles, and 1,700 "Quick Facts" tables, as well as pictures, maps, animation, audio and video.

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Association Directory

Associations Unlimited Full Text
On Campus + Off Campus
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.

Awards Directory

Peterson's Interactive Award Search (1998 edition) Full Text
CD-ROM
Peterson's financial aid file contains essential information about scholarships, prizes, and internships offered by foundations, associations, corporations, and states.

Atlas

Street Atlas USA (1995 edition) Full Text
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 backroads. The database gives instant access to more than 12 million street segments.

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Biographical Information

African American Biographical Database (BadgerLink)
Available to all residents of Wisconsin.
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.

Biographies Plus (WilsonWeb) Full Text  How to Use WilsonWeb
On Campus + Off Campus
Contains almost 40,000 full text biographies of Authors, Artists, Film Directors, Nobel Prize Winners, American reformers, Musicians and Composers.

Biography & Genealogy Master Index
On Campus + Off Campus
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.

Contemporary Authors Full Text
On Campus + Off Campus
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.

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.

Marquis Who's Who-Web Edition
On Campus + Off Campus
(Restricted to 1 user at a time)
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.

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Consumer Information

Consumer Index (FirstSearch : 1986- ). FirstSearch Guide
On Campus + Off Campus
Provides access to evaluations, tests, alerts, warnings, and recalls of specific products, services, and facilities as well as abstracts of articles on all aspects of consumerism and consumer protection.

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Explanation of Symbols/Locations

[More Info] - Information about the database and access notes.
Partial/Full Text - Database is the full text of the resource or contains Partial/Full Text journal articles.
On Campus Only - Database is only available on campus.

On Campus + Off Campus - Database is available On Campus and is available Off Campus to UW-W students and staff.
See Library Services for Off-Campus Users  for more information.

CD-ROM - Database is available from the Reference Desk.
CD-ROM - Database is available on a computer within Andersen Library only.
FREE - Database is available to everyone on the Internet.

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