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GaleNet	Description: Databases from Thomson Gale: Associations Unlimited International, U.S. National, and Regional, State, and Local; Biography & Genealogy Master Index, and Contemporary Authors. Coverage: Varies by database. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music via Alexander Street Press	Description: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. This release includes 1,209 essays and images from 10 sources and hundreds of audio examples. You can also access The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online through the Music Online interface. Coverage: 1920s to the present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
GenderStats via World Bank Group	Description: GenderStats is an electronic database of gender statistics and indicators offering statistical and other data in modules on several subjects that range from health and education to political participation and poverty. Users have the option of saving the country views into spreadsheet software to customize them for their own reports. Data sources for GenderStats include national statistics, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys. Coverage: 1980-present Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
GenderWatch via ProQuest	Description: GenderWatch is a full text database focusing on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With archival material dating back to 1970 in some cases, it is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports. Coverage: Varies by title; some titles 1970-present. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available, plus Search Tips from http://training.proquest.com/trc/splash/gnw/tips.htm. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
General Science Full Text via WilsonWeb	Description: General Science provides indexing to nearly 300 popular and professional science periodicals, many of them peer-reviewed.. Subjects covered include astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology and zoology. Coverage: 1984-present Full-text: 1995-present Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Geology.com	Description: Geology.com is published by Hobart M. King, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Geology at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. The site contains U.S. and world maps, satellite images, a geologic dictionary, a geologic time scale and geology news. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945 via ProQuest Chadwyk-Healey	Description: The Gerritsen Collection is the greatest single source for study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and 15 languages. Containing more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945, the anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist; many other titles present a purely objective record of the condition of women at a given time. Coverage: 1543-1945 Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Get It Done Online! -- See USA.gov Get It Done Online!
Gilded Age via Alexander Street Press	Description: 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. With this collection, Alexander Street Press brings together 40,000 pages of full text, photographs, 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. The critical documentary essays have been created by leading scholars in the field, including Samuel Thomas of Michigan State University, Christopher Reed of Roosevelt University, Kim Warren of the University of Kansas, and Daniel Thorp of Virginia Tech. The result is a highly visual, annotated record of this critical period in American history. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources via Library of Congress	Description: Digitized versions of Library of Congress international collections. Links, databases, and resources include: Centers for International Research, Portals to the World, About the International Collections, Research Guides and Databases, Featured Presentations, Research Opportunities, International Exhibitions, and International Cybercasts. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: An FAQ is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
GMTODAY.com	Description: Greater Milwaukee Today online newspapers from Freeman Newspapers and Lifestyle Magazines covering Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington Counties. Coverage: Current day's news articles and searchable archives back to January, 2002. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Google	Description: An easy-to-use online search service that scours more than a billion web pages for pertinent information. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available at http://www.google.com/support/?hl=en. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Google Book Search	Description: Google Book Search allows you to search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Google Directory	Description: A directory of Internet sites organized by topic into categories. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Google Explore Shakespeare	Description: Links to all of Shakespeare's plays through Google Book Search. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Google Image Search	Description: Internet image search engine. Coverage: N/A Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Google Maps	Description: Maps and satellite images of North America. Coverage: N/A Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Google News	Description: Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from more than 4,500 English-language news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests. Topics are updated every 15 minutes. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Google Scholar	Description: Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Links to UW Colleges electronic resources and OCLC's WorldCat are included. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Google U.S. Government Search	Description: Google U.S. Government Search offers a single location for searching across U.S. government information, and for keeping up to date on government news. You can choose to search for content located on either U.S. federal, state and local government websites or the entire Web -- from the same search box. Below the search box, the homepage includes government-specific news content from both government agencies and press outlets. You can personalize the page by adding content feeds on government or other topics that you're interested in. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
GPO Access	Description: Website of the U.S. Government Printing Office which disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government. Coverage: Current government information and publications. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Granger's Poetry -- See Columbia Granger's Poetry
Great Lakes Maritime History Project	Description: Digital collection of Wisconsin's maritime history, including Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, the Mississippi River, and other state lakes and rivers. Images are from the collections of the Milwaukee Public Library/Wisconsin Marine Historical Society, Wisconsin Historical Society, UW-La Crosse, UW-Superior, and the Door County Maritime Museum. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Greater Milwaukee Today -- See GMTODAY.com
Green Bay Press-Gazette	Description: Online version of the daily Green Bay 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.
GreenFILE via EbscoHost	Description: GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Open Access full-text for some records. Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Greetings from Milwaukee: Selections from the Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection	Description: The Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection consists of about 12,000 postcards on a broad range of local, regional, national and international subjects. The digital collection consists of selected images from the larger postcard collection, and serves as an introduction to the overall collection. This digital presentation focuses on a portion of those Milwaukee postcards produced primarily by Milwaukee publishers. Coverage: 1945-1998 Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Grove Music Online -- See Oxford Music Online
Guide to Citing World Wide Web Resources	Description: This guide displays the MLA and APA styles for citing material found via the Internet, including both general web pages and full-text articles found in online periodicals databases, as recommended by UW Sheboygan's Jeff Ellair and Amy Mussell. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: N/A Remote access: Yes, via link to left.

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Last updated 11/11/2009. Comments to Mary Rieder.

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