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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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Magill's Medical Guide -- See Salem Health 
Making of America Digital Library (Cornell) Description: The Making of America (MOA) is a digital library project of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles in 955 serial volumes with 19th century imprints.
Coverage: 1800s
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Making of America Digital Library (Michigan) Description: The Making of America (MOA) is a digital library project of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 12,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
Coverage: 1800s
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter via Gannett Newspapers Description: Online version of the daily Manitowoc 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.
Marinette/Menominee Eagle Herald Description: Online version of the Marinette, WI/ Menominee, MI newspaper.
Coverage: Current articles only.
Full-text: Selected articles only.
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Marshfield News-Herald via WISinfo Description: Online version of the daily Marshfield newspaper.
Coverage: Current day's articles only.
Full-text: Selected articles only.
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
MasterFILE Premier via EbscoHost Description: MasterFILE Premier provides full text from over 1,730 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,600 periodicals.
Coverage: 1984-present
Full-text: 1990-present
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society) Description: MathSciNet is a searchable Web database providing access to reviews or summaries of articles and books that contain new contributions to mathematical research from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications (1940 to the present). Over 1,800 current serials and journals are reviewed in whole or in part.
Coverage: 1940-present
Full-text: Full text of reviews and summaries, with some links to original articles available at other sites.
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
MCB University Press Emerald Insight -- See Emerald Insight 
MD Consult via Elsevier Description: MD Consult Core, launched in 1997, now serves over 280,000 primary care physicians and specialist users and is licensed by over 1,700 healthcare organizations world-wide, including nearly 95% of U.S. medical schools. Each month, subscribers conduct more than 1.5 million information searches and view over 8 million pages of clinical content, primarily during daytime practice hours. It contains the full text of electronic journals and books in a variety of medical specialties, as well as data about drugs, clinics, and current practices.
Coverage: Varies by title. Many journal holdings go back to 1996.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Medical Gross Anatomy Learning Resources via University of Michigan Medical School Description: Online research resources in support of the gross anatomy classes at the University of Michigan Medical School including anatomy tables, animations, clinical cases, learning games, medical histories, peer presentations, radiology images, and surgiical videos.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: Yes.
Online guide or tutorial: No.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
MEDLINE via EbscoHost Description: MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by The National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy, and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals, citations from Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, and the Index to Dental Literature.
Coverage: 1966-present
Full-text: No
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
MedlinePlus via National Library of Medicine Description: MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. It brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Mental Measurements Yearbook via EbscoHost Description: Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus Description: Online version of the popular dictionary and thesaurus.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Microbes.info Description: Microbes.info is an Internet web site containing more than 4,000 links designed to bring useful and interesting microbiology informational resources to you.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Milestone Documents in American History -- See Salem History 
Military & Government Collection via EbscoHost Description: Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 270 journals and periodicals, as well as full text for 245 pamphlets, and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 more titles. Some publications covered in this database include Air Force Controller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, Global Security Review, Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Defense, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more.
Coverage: Varies by title.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
Miller Center of Public Affairs - Presidential Recordings Program Description: Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties (Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon) secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations. This site is designed as a service to the research community by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant research materials, so that scholars, teachers, students, and the public can hear and use these remarkable tapes for themselves. All of the content of www.whitehousetapes.org, the Presidential Recordings Program's prior website, is now available here in the Programs section of the Miller Center's website.
Coverage: 1940-1973
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Mills Music Library Special Collections via UWDC Description: Mills Music Library Special Collections provide online access to some of the unique materials found in the Special Collections Department of Mills Music Library, including the Wisconsin Music Archives. Among these online collections you will find thousands of pieces of published sheet music from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, page-by-page access to one of the most important sources of Civil War era band music, discographies of our holdings of recordings by two important Wisconsin recording companies, and an online repository of the Wisconsin ethnic heritage materials collected by Helene Stratman-Thomas.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Mills Music Library: The Americana Sheet Music Collection via UWDC Description: The Americana Collection contains sheet music published in America before 1900. The collection includes principally music from the popular tradition, although that distinction is blurred until ca. 1865. Many compositions are songs for voice and piano, but music for solo piano and other instrumental music is also included. Midwest publishers are well represented as is music by women composers. Although several thousand pieces are individual compositions, the collection includes approximately 100 bound volumes of sheets, compiled by previous owners, many of whose names appear on the covers.
Coverage: 1790-1900
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Mills Music Library: Wisconsin Sheet Music Database via UWDC Description: This is an index of items housed in the sheet music collection of the Wisconsin Music Archives at the Mills Music Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The collection contains music written by Wisconsin composers, published by Wisconsin publishers, and pieces whose subject matter is Wisconsin. The publications date from the late 1850s, extend to the present, and include principally, but not exclusively, popular music traditions. While the majority of pieces are songs, the database also includes music for piano, instrumental music, and choral music. English, of course, predominates, but a significant number of German language items can be found. Currently, the total Wisconsin sheet music collection numbers approximately 3000 items with about 2800 items included in this index.
Coverage: 1850-present
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (JS Online) Description: Online version of the daily Milwaukee newspaper.
Coverage: Current and past several day's articles on main pages. Searchable archives of older articles.
Full-text: Selected articles only.
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Milwaukee Neighborhoods: Photos and Maps 1885-1992 via UW-Milwaukee Description: This digital collection provides a visual documentation of the development of the city of Milwaukee from the mid-1880s to the early 1990s. It includes images of residential and industrial facilities, local businesses, historic buildings, churches, and numerous Milwaukee parks. The photographs were selected from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library and the Archives Department at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Libraries. The image collection is accompanied by 12 maps of Milwaukee from the holdings of the American Geographical Society Library.
Coverage: 1885-1992
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History : Mark Avery Collection, 1977-1994 via UW-Milwaukee Description: A visual chronicle of the artistic productions of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in the years 1977-1994. The collection presents 1,800 images documenting 195 performances selected from the Mark Avery Collection housed at the Archives at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
Coverage: 1977-1994
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
MLA International Bibliography via EbscoHost Description: The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of nearly 2 million citations covering the subjects of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It provides access to scholarly research for more than 4,400 journals, book articles, and dissertations.
Coverage: 1926-present
Full-text: No
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Mosby's Nursing Consult -- See Nursing Consult 
Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page via University of Michigan Museum of Art Description: Hundreds of links to Internet art sites including art history departments, research resources, resources for visual collections, image collections and online art, online exhibitions, fine art schools and departments, art museums, textual and linguistic resources, and new media art and resources.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: No.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Music Online via Alexander Street Press
New Database Listing
Description: Music Online provides cross-searchable access to the Alexander Street Press music databases available to the UW Colleges libraries: African American Music Reference, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online and Jazz Music Library. This comprehensive database contains streaming audio, video, reference and scores.
Coverage: 1920s to the present
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.

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

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