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Electronic Resources and Online Databases


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Britannica Online - CQ Researcher - EbscoHost - Full-Text E-Journals - JSTOR - LexisNexis - Points of View Reference Center - Project Muse - Proquest - WilsonWeb

Alphabetical List Subject List Trials Citation Linker Proxy Server

Alphabetical List of Resources

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z


FindIt! Button If you see this icon in your search results, click on it to either be taken to the full-text of the article you are looking for, or to fill out an interlibrary loan request for the article.

Citation Linker

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.


Accessing Licensed Electronic Resources From Off-Campus Via the Proxy Server

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.


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Find Articles Description: FindArticles is focused on delivering the best and most essential search results from all of the essential publications covering a wide range of subjects. Publications are continually added to the collection. Publications and subjects are organized by major categories: Arts & Entertainment, Automotive, Business & Finance, Computers & Technology, Health & Fitness, Home & Garden, News & Society, Reference & Education, and Sports.
Coverage: 1984-present
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
FirstGov -- See USA.gov 
FirstSearch -- See BadgerCat 
Flash Animations for Physics via University of Toronto Description: A CHOICE recommended resource, this site provides more than 80 Flash animations from different areas of physics. Topics covered are typical of a one-year course in physics in high school or college. Some of the categories are classical mechanics, optics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, and sound.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: A tutorial on using Flash to do Physical animations is included.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Fond du Lac Reporter Description: Online version of the daily Fond du Lac newspaper.
Coverage: Current day's articles only.
Full-text: Selected articles only.
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Foundations in Wisconsin Description: Username and password required. Please contact your UWC library for that information. Published annually by Marquette University's Raynor Library, Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory provides searchable profiles of active grantmaking foundations in the state of Wisconsin. For more information about grants available to UW Colleges, contact Eric Smith.
Coverage: Most recent year.
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left with username and password.
FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence Description: FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources in the broad subject areas of Arts & Music, Health & Physical Education, History & Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, Science, and Special Collections are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Free Patents Online Description: FreePatentsOnline.com provides fast, free patent searching, with powerful features such as PDF downloading, search management functions, collaborative document folders, and more.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: An FAQ is available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Full-Text E-Journals Description: Alphabetical listings of the full-text electronic journals available via UW Colleges, UW System, and BadgerLink subscriptions. Titles are hot-linked to the database in which they are held, and searchable by title and subject (category).
Coverage: Coverage dates of individual journal titles are listed in their entries.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Access to the lists via link to left. Access to the full-text journals is available via the proxy server.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia via EbscoHost Description: Indexes over 25,000 articles from the encyclopedia.
Coverage: Updated annually
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.

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Last updated 3/6/2009. Comments to
Mary Rieder.

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