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Alphabetical List of Resources

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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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Handbook of Latin American Studies Description: The Handbook is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. The print edition, published by the University of Texas Press, includes over 5,000 bibliographic entries each year. More than 130 leading scholars from throughout the world choose and annotate these items. Continuously published since 1935, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: No
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Health Source: Consumer Edition via EbscoHost Description: Provides access to more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets, 130 health reference books, more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports, Clinical Pharmacology, and the Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
Coverage: Varies by title, 1985-present.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition via EbscoHost Description: Access to nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines, particularly nursing and allied health. It also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals, and Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutrional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.
Coverage: 1975-present
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
Historical Census Browser via University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center Description: This site allows you to examine state and county topics for individual census years, examine multiple topics within a census year, produce tables of data by state or county, sort data by selected categories, create ratios between any two data categories, examine state and county topics over time, and generate maps of selected data. The data and terminology presented in the Historical Census Browser are drawn directly from historical volumes of the U.S. Census of Population and Housing.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
History Channel Description: The online counterpart to cable's History Channel. Features "This Day in History," military and war, mysteries of history, U.S. history, culture, world history, and political and historical figures.
Coverage: All periods of history.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
History Reference Center via EbscoHost Description: History Reference Center offers full text from more than 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for nearly 170 leading history periodicals, more than 112,000 historical documents, 113,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 112,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Coverage: Back to 1917 for some titles.
Full-text: Yes.
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
Hoover's Company Records via ProQuest Description: Profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives, Hoover's Company Records provides easy access to the most thorough and up-to-date business information available. This comprehensive database gives users the whole picture, including company overview and history, officers and board members, competitors, products and operations, auditors, rankings, related industry information, and historical financials.
Coverage: Current year entries.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online search tips are available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Humanities Full Text via WilsonWeb Description: Full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. This database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.
Coverage: 1984-present
Full-text: 1994-present
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Humanities International Complete via EbscoHost Description: Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
Coverage: 1942-present for some titles.
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 10/19/2009. Comments to
Mary Rieder.

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