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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.

Waukesha Freeman via GMTODAY.com	Description: Online version of the daily Waukesha newspaper. Coverage: Current day's articles only on main pages. Searchable archives and back issues. Full-text: Selected articles only. Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wausau Daily Herald	Description: Onlineversion of the daily Wausau newspaper. Coverage: Current day's articles only on main pages. Searchable archives and back issues. Full-text: Selected articles only. Online guide or tutorial: Online FAQ available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Web of Science via Thomson Reuters	Description: ISI Citation Databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's bibliography, you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work. Includes Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citations Index. Coverage: 1987-present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Tutorial available at http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/wos7/. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Wheeler Report	Description: The online supplement to The Wheeler Report, this site contains links to legislative sites, newspaper editorials and stories, news releases, calendars, and lobbying information about current Wisconsin politics. Coverage: Current news only. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
WhiteHouseTapes.org -- See Miller Center of Public Affairs - Presidential Recordings Program
Who Are My Legislators? Wisconsin Legislature	Description: Find out who your state legislators are using a fill-in form, searching by your address, municipality, or a map. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online FAQs are available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Who2?	Description: Who2 is an encyclopedia of famous people. They research and write profiles of real people, fictional characters, and some figures (like Robin Hood) who may be either. They also profile celebrities who aren't people, like Ham the Chimp and Hal 9000. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: An FAQ is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wikipedia	Description: Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. With rare exceptions, its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this page link. The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Caution: Since the content on this site can be contributed by anyone, this site should not be considered a reliable scholarly resource for research purposes It may contain false information. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated via WilsonWeb	Description: Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains more than 45,000 biographies from articles in more than 100 print volumes of biographical reference books published by H.W. Wilson. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations from H.W. Wilson databases. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, and keyword. Coverage: BC-1998 Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Wilson Business Full Text via WilsonWeb	Description: Wilson Business Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from the leading business magazines and trade and research journals, plust the full text of selected periodicals. Coverage: 1982-present Full-text: 1995-present Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
WilsonWeb	Description: WilsonWeb is a collection of 10 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: Varies by database. Full-text: Varies by database. Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
WISCAT	Description: WISCAT is the statewide bibliographic database of many Wisconsin libraries. Please note that the holdings of the University of Wisconsin System libraries are not available via this free interface, however. Coverage: N/A Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: Online helps is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left or through BadgerLink.
Wisconsin Architecture & History Inventory (AHI)	Description: A search engine that provides historical and architectural information on approximately 120,000 properties in Wisconsin. The AHI contains data on buildings, structures and objects that illustrate Wisconsin's unique history such as round barns, log houses, metal truss bridges, small town commercial buildings, and Queen Anne houses. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wisconsin Electronic Reader	Description: Stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals, and tidbits from Wisconsin history. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wisconsin Foundations -- See Foundations in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience via UWDC	Description: A collection of first person narrative accounts of Wisconsin soldiers and citizens. Through their letters, diaries, poems and other records, we learn about the state's contributions to the Union victory that cost the lives of over 12,000 of the state's men. Many of the included documents are handwritten while others consist of a typed transcription for which originals may or may not be available. In most cases however, an electronic text version is also provided allowing researchers to conduct keyword searching. Coverage: 1861-1866 Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wisconsin Heritage Online	Description: Initiated in 2004 as a collaborative project of Wisconsin cultural heritage institutions, Wisconsin Heritage Online is a digital resource for teachers, students, genealogists, and history buffs. Anyone who values our state and its wealth of resources will find interesting or useful material, including photographs, postcards, newspapers, books, diaries, and audio recordings. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wisconsin Historical Images	Description: Historical images collected by the Wisconsin Historical Society from the 19th and 20th centuries. Images include photographs, paintings, posters, advertising material, ephemera, and political cartoons. Coverage: 1870-1970 Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archives Digital Collections	Description: Digital collections made and hosted by the Wisconsin Historical Society or through projects with partners. In all, more than 100,000 pages from the Society’s books, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, and other primary sources are available here. Coverage: N/A Full-text: In some collections. Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wisconsin Labor Advocate	Description: Digital images of the labor-related newspaper published in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1886-1887 from the UW-La Crosse Archives. The Labor Advocate was unique because its editor and owner, George Edwin Taylor, was an African-American, born in Arkansas in 1857. As a black business owner, he was an anomaly in La Crosse in the 1880s. Taylor got his start in publishing working at other La Crosse newspapers. By 1904 he had left La Crosse and become involved in an all African-American political party called the National Liberty Party, whose nomination as its candidate for U.S. President he accepted that year. In doing so, Taylor was the first candidate of a national African-American party for the U.S. presidency. Coverage: 1886-1887 Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles	Description: A digital collection of 16,000 historical and biographical newspaper articles published on Wisconsin people and communities and preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage: 1860-1940 Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No. Basic instructions are available on each search page. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wisconsin Pioneer Experience via UWDC	Description: A digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. The historic papers included in the Wisconsin Pioneer Experience were drawn from the collections of the Area Research Centers (ARC), as well as the headquarters of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune	Description: Online version of the daily Wisconsin Rapids newspaper. Coverage: Current day's articles only. Full-text: Selected articles only. Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wisconsin State Journal Online	Description: Selected articles from the current issue of the daily Madison newspaper. Coverage: Current day's issue only. Full-text: Selected articles only. Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wisconsin.gov	Description: The official Wisconsin e-government portal site. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
WISinfo	Description: Online access to the Gannett newspapers and magazines published in Wisconsin, including the Appleton Post Crescent, Oshkosh Northwestern, Fond du Lac Reporter, Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter, Marshfield News-Herald, Sheboygan Press, GB Magazine, Oshkosh Magazine, Central Wisconsin Business, and Door County Magazine. Coverage: Current articles and issues only. Full-text: Selected articles. Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 via Alexander Street Press	Description: Intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. Resources include 72 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretie question and provides a collection of documents that address that question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 2,100 documents, approximately 800 images, and over 700 links to other websites. Coverage: 1600-2000 Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Yes Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Women's History Month	Description: The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of women whose commitment to nature and the planet have proved invaluable to society. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes. Online guide or tutorial: N/A Remote access: Yes, via link at left.
Women's-Health.com	Description: One of the largest digital women's health libraries in the world containing over 50 Support Boards and access to the WH Library with articles and streaming video provided by over 20,000 licensed and practicing physicians. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
World History Collection via Ebsco	Description: World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. The collection contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more. Coverage: 1964-present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
WorldCat	Description: WorldCat is a mega-library catalog containing more than 1 billion records contributed by 10,000 libraries around the world. It contains full bibliographic descriptions and cataloging information for the following types of materials: books, serials, manuscripts, sound recordings, audiovisual materials, maps, music scores, and computer-readable files. Coverage: 1100-present Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
WorldCat.Org	Description: WorldCat.Org is the free, open access version of the WorldCat database. Coverage: 1100-present Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wright American Fiction 1851-1875	Description: The Wright American Fiction online collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time. There are currently almost 3,000 volumes included by almost 1,500 authors. Coverage: 1851-1875 Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.

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Last updated 8/26/2009. Comments to Mary Rieder.

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