Online Library Support - E-Resources Subject List

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General

Academic Search Elite via EbscoHost	Description: Indexes and abstracts articles from 3,232 journals with full text for 2,037 sources, covering a range of academic areas such as social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more Coverage: 1984-present Full-text: Yes, 1985-present for some titles Online guide or tutorial: Online help available Remote access: Yes,via proxy server or through BadgerLink
AltPress Index via OCLC FirstSearch	Description: Guide to alternative sources of information. Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Coverage: 1991 - Full-text: No. Online guide or tutorial: N/A Remote access: On-campus access only.
BadgerLink	Description: BadgerLink is a project of the Division for Libraries, Technology,and Community Learning of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Through BadgerLink librariesand the public can access online magazine and newspaper indexes and resources. Coverage: Varies by database. Full-text: Some Online guide or tutorial: N/A Remote access: Yes, via WWW link to left.
Britannica Online	Description: Britannica Online provides access to search the complete 44 million words of the Encyclopaedia Britannica as well as the Britannica Student Encyclopaedia, the Britannica Book of the Year, the Merriam- Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and Britannica's Internet Guide containing more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. Coverage: The first issue of Britannica was published in 1768, continuously revised. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
CQ Researcher	Description: CQ Researcher provides the full-text of summaries, reports and bibliographies regarding controversial topics. Coverage: 1991-present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help available Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)	Description: A directory service providing access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. Coverage: Varies by title. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No. Remote access: Yes, via WWW link to left.
Emerald Insight	Description: A collection of hundreds of full-text electronic journals in the areas of engineering, management, human resources, information management, library and information services, marketing, operations, production, economics, property, quality, and training and education from the MCB University Press out of the United Kingdom. Coverage: 1989-present Full-text: 1994-present online; 1989-1993 via document delivery. Online articles are in PDF or HTML format. Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server.
GaleNet	Description: Databases from the Gale Group: Associations Unlimited International, Biography & Genealogy Master Index, Contemporary Authors, and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
IngentaConnect	Description: IngentaConnect is a database of almost 18 million citations from over 29,000 scholarly journals. IngentaConnect contains brief descriptive information for articles and electronic (PDF and/or HTML format), Ariel or fax delivery of the full-text of those articles. Use of the database is free, however IngentaConnect charges a fee for article delivery. Coverage: Varies by title Full-text: Only for the Duke University Press Package journals subscribed to by UW System. Other articles are deliverable for a fee. Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available Remote access: Yes, via the WWW link to left.
JSTOR	Description: JSTOR is a digitized archive of major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines, many of which date back to the 1800's. JSTOR contains the backfiles of journals; the most recent volumes are two to five years behind the latest issues, depending upon agreements with the journal publishers. Coverage: Varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s to 1995. Full-text: Yes, including full image Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Lexis-Nexis Academic via Lexis-Nexis	Description: Lexis-Nexis offers access (much of it full-text) to over 6,000 newspapers (including foreign sources), magazines, trade journals, transcripts, company information, business news, legal research, medical sources and reference works. It is especially strong in news, business and legal information. Coverage: Depends upon the title indexed Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help from search screens is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
MasterFILE Premier via EbscoHost	Description: MasterFILE Premier provides full text from over 1,830 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,780 periodicals. Coverage: 1984-present Full-text: 1990-present Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
NetLibrary	Description: NetLibrary provides access to the full text of the over 1,500 electronic books purchased so far by the Wisconsin NetLibrary Academic Consortium (42 academic libraries including the entire UW System), as well as an additional 4,000 free eBooks whose content is in the public domain. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through a personally customizable NetLibrary account.
OmniFile Full Text Mega via WilsonWeb	Description: Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition provides electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications. OmniFile contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full text) that is contained in these six Wilson databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Coverage: 1982-present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center via GaleNet	Description: A dynamic online library of current event topics -- the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors. Includes information from secondary sources as well as full-text articles from more than 30 major newspapers and newsmagazines, including The Nation, National Review, Newsweek, The New York Times, and Time. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via the proxy server.
Project Muse	Description: Project Muse offers full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the areas of arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathemetics from ten major university presses: Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Indiana, MIT, Oxford, Penn State, Hawaii, Texas, and Wisconsin. Coverage: 1990-present Full-text: Yes, from 1995-present Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Readers' Guide Full-Text via WilsonWeb	Description: Readers' Guide indexes and abstracts the periodicals most often found in school, public, and college libraries, as well as the New York Times. Coverage: 1983-present Full-text: 1994-present Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
WilsonWeb	Description: WilsonWeb is a collection of 22 full textand citation databases that provide broad subject coverage within specific subject categories such as General Science, Art, Business, etc. Please see individual listings for descriptions. Coverage: See individual listings Full-text: See individual listings Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
WISCAT	Description: WISCAT is the statewide bibliographic database for Wisconsin. UW Colleges' holdings are available via the Z39.50 gateway link. Coverage: N/A Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: Online helps is available. Remote access: Yes. Directly via WWW or through BadgerLink.