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NOTE: The library catalog shows which books, journals, government documents, videos, etc. are owned by Andersen Library. To find articles in journals, magazines, or newspapers use an index or database designed for articles. Once you have article citation, search the Journal Holdings List for the journal, magazine or newspaper title.

Catalogs of Books

Library Catalog.
Bibliographic records of all materials contained in Andersen Library. Includes records for books, government documents, videorecordings, sound recordings, and more. Students looking for reserve materials should use the Course Reserves search display. Students, faculty and staff who want to borrow materials from other UW system libraries using Universal Borrowing, should use the UB & Other Catalogs option on the toolbar. Students, faculty and staff who want to locate print and online periodical holdings, should use the Journal Holdings List list instead of the Catalog.

netLibrary Full Text
Bibliographic records and the full text of hundreds of books in electronic format covering Social Sciences, Humanities and Sciences. Search for specific titles, or subject areas, then browse or "check out" an etext online.  These books are cataloged in the Library Catalog, or may be searched directly in netLibrary.

Safari Tech Books Online
Online books subscribed to by the Library. Can also be found with library catalog search.

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.

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, videorecordings, and sound recordings.

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eDictionaries

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri & Acronyms
Andersen Library subject directory to free and proprietary reference works.

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 acompletely revised and updated Third Edition.

Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection
Contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving  wide access to a comprehensive information resource.

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eEncyclopedias

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.

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri & Acronyms
Andersen Library subject directory to free and proprietary reference works.

EBSCO Animals (EBSCOhost)
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.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
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.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost)
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.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library delivers great reference resources in a database format. Subject areas include History, Literature, Multicultural Studies, Social Science and Technology. Click on "Show All" in database to view expanded list of titles in each subject area.

Oxford Music Online
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 New Grove Dictionary of Opera.

SAGE eReference
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.

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.

Other Reference eBooks

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.

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.

Biography Ref Bank Select (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.

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.

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. For criticism not available full text in the database, check for the book series title in the library catalog.

Marquis Who's Who-Web Edition
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.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOhost)
Provides test users with descriptive information, references, and critical reviews of tests.

Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection
Contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving  wide access to a comprehensive information resource.

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.

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.

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).

Collections of eBooks

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. 

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 (ProQuest)
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.

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.

Electronic Texts (eTexts) - Andersen Library directory of librarian selected free online text websites.

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater eTheses. List of eTheses in the Library Catalog. Includes links to theses published in PDF format since 2003. Older theses available in print only.

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.

In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal Narratives.
This collection is an in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries. There are over 650,000 pages of full-text by more than 15,000 individuals from all walks of life. Search by keyword, narrator, subject, geographical location, format (full-text, video, audio), date, and dozens of other elements. It also contains pointers to some 3,500 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records.

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.

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 composed 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, many ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.

Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection
Contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving  wide access to a comprehensive information resource.

LitFinder
FREE to Wisconsin Residents
Full text plays, poems, short stories, essays and speeches. Can search by genre, subject, title, author and timeline.

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.

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.

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.

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