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Electronic Resources and Online Databases |
Britannica Online - CQ Researcher - EbscoHost - Full-Text E-Journals - JSTOR - LexisNexis - Opposing Viewpoints - Project Muse - Proquest - WilsonWeb
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If you have a journal or book citation and would like to see if the full-text for it is available online, select Citation Linker and enter the information you have. If it is available, you will be presented with a menu of full-text options. If it is not available online, you will be given options to either find it in the UW Colleges library catalog or request it on interlibrary loan via ILLiad.
Most of the databases listed below have been purchased by UW System or UW Colleges and therefore are legally bound by software licenses, copyright restrictions and other contractual agreements which require access to them to be restricted to UW Colleges students, faculty and staff. Please contact your UW Colleges campus library for further information regarding accessing these resources via proxy server or for instruction on how to use these databases.
| A+ Research & Writing via Internet Public Library |
Description: Provides a step-by-step guide to researching and writing a paper, tips in finding information in cyberspace and in your library, and links to great online resources for research and writing. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link at left. |
| ABI/Inform Global via ProQuest |
Description: Indexes and abstracts articles from over 1,800 titles with full text, full page images from over 600 sources, including the Wall Street Journal. ABI Inform focuses on issues in business and management. Expanded international coverage. Coverage: 1971-present Full-text: Yes, 1992-present Online guide or tutorial: Online help and search guides are available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server |
| 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 is available. Remote access: Yes,via proxy server or through BadgerLink |
| Academic Universe -- See Lexis-Nexis Academic | |
| Access NewspaperARCHIVE |
Description: Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. It is your gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the world's largest archive of online newspapers, is providing this valuable research tool. Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world. Coverage: Varies by title Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink. |
| Afghanistan : The Harrison Forman Collection |
Description: The online collection Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection documents the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s, several years before the civil unrest of the 1970s and 80s, the Soviet invasion, and the Taliban rule. The photographs, taken by Harrison Forman in 1969, portray the daily life of Afghanis, capture the beauty of the land, and document historic sites, including the great Buddhas of Bamiyan destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. The online collection consists of 195 images selected from a set of 733 slides of Afghanistan in the Harrison Forman Photographic Collection housed in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries' American Geographical Society (AGS) Library. Coverage: 1969 Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| African American Biographical Database |
Description: The African American Biographical Database (AABD) contains the biographies of thousands of African Americans, assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources. The collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. Its initial content comes from Chadwyck-Healey’s Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950. Coverage: 1790-1950 Full-text: Yes. Adobe Acrobat Reader software required (which can be downloaded from the AABD page). Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link at left or through BadgerLink. |
| African American Music Reference via Alexander Street Press |
Description: African American Music Reference brings together 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. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. As the database grows, it will be supplemented with other noted reference titles covering the histories of jazz, blues, bebop, hip hop, ragtime, gospel, and rhythm and blues, as well as a detailed chronology of African American events in music, links to web resources, searchable sheet music, and new reference titles. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes. Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| Algoma Record-Herald -- See Kewaunee County Newspapers | |
| America: History & Life via EbscoHost |
Description: America: History & Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. This database includes indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, as well as citations and links to book and media reviews, and abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages. In 2006, America: History and Life began adding retrospective coverage for the most important historical journals in JSTOR. By project's end, coverage for these journals will extend back to the late-19th century. Coverage: 1964-present Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications |
Description: ACS provides the complete full text of over 30 journals it publishes, with an author/title search engine available. Archival access is available for all titles back to the start date of the publication, some back as far as the 1800s. Coverage: Varies by title. See http://pubs.acs.org/about.html Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online Search Tips are available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| American Indian History Online via Facts on File |
Description: The American Indian History Online database offers access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history through event and topic entries, biographies, images, maps and charts, primary sources, and timeline entries. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online FAQ is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement |
Description: American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Coverage: 1000-1900 Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| American Memory |
Description: American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library. The original formats include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online FAQs and help are available. Lesson plans, activities, and additional information are available from the American Memory Learning Page. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| America's Story |
Description: Fun and interesting stories of American history from the Library of Congress. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online helps is available. Lesson plans, activities, and additional information are available from the American Memory Learning Page. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Annenberg Media Learner.Org |
Description: Annenberg Media uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This Web page assists with that mandate by distributing educational video programs for the professional development of K-12 teachers. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: An FAQ is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Appleton Post Crescent |
Description: Online version of the daily Appleton newspaper. Coverage: Current day's articles only. Full-text: Selected articles only. Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Applied Science & Technology Full Text via WilsonWeb |
Description: Indexing and abstracts from more than 485 English-language science and technology publications including engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, and waste management. Coverage: 1983-present Full-text: 1997-present Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| Art Full Text via WilsonWeb |
Description: Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals covering Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Coverage: 1984-present Full-text: 1997-present Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| Art History Resources on the Web via Sweet Briar College, Virginia |
Description: Links to thousands of Internet sites on art history, ranging from prehistoric art to contemporary art, as well as research resources and museums and galleries. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Art Images for College Teaching |
Description: A CHOICE recommended site, Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator, Allan T. Kohl. AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature. Coverage: Images of art and architecture from pre-historic through modern times. Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index -- See Web of Science | |
| ARTstor |
Description: The ARTstor Digital Library is comprised of digital images and related data and the tools to make active use of those images. ARTstor's "Charter Collection" contains approximately 500,000 digital images of visual material in art, architecture, and archeology from different cultures and disciplines. It seeks to offer sufficient breadth and depth to support a wide range of non-commercial educational and scholarly activities. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: An online tutorial is available. See "Using ARTstor." Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| Associations Unlimited International via Gale |
Description: Contains information for approximately 160,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
Last updated 8/26/2008.
Comments to Mary Rieder.
