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Electronic Resources and Online Databases |
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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.
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.
| Pandora |
Description: A database created by the Music Genome Project, Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help users find and enjoy music that they'll love. The collection consists of music analysis of over 20,000 different artists, ranging from popular to obscure, which has reviewed the melody, harmony and rhythm, instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, and lyrics hundreds of thousands of songs. Coverage: Approximately 1900-present Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: Online FAQ is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Pathweb Virtual Pathology Museum via University of Connecticut |
Description: Detailed descriptions of anatomical parts and the medical conditions associated with them. Covers the cardio vascular, respiratory, gastro intestinal, renal urinary, reporductive, endocrine, and nervous systems. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: N/A Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Philosopher's Index via Ebsco |
Description: The Philosophers Index, produced by the Philosophers Information Center, is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. It is considered to be the most thorough index of journal literature on the subject, features author-written abstracts covering scholarly research published in journals and books, including contributions to anthologies and book reviews. The database covers the fifteen fields of philosophy: aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. The Philosopher's Index contains research published since 1940 including nearly 570 journals from 43 countries with content representing a variety of languages. Coverage: 1940-present Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| Picturing Golda Meir: Photographs from the Collection at UWM Libraries via UW-Milwaukee |
Description: A collection of images documenting the life of Golda Meir from childhood in Pinsk, Russia, through her school years in Milwaukee, her pioneer years in Palestine in the 1920s, to the peak of her political career as Prime Minister of Israel (1969 - 1974). The 160 images presented in this digital collection were selected from The Golda Meir Collection, 1904-1987 housed in the Archives Department of the UW-Milwaukee Libraries. Coverage: 1904-1987 Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Poetry Criticism (PC) -- See Literature Criticism Online | |
| Points of View Reference Center via EbscoHost |
Description: Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 255 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. It contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 1,143 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. The database also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers. Additionally, this database contains the Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century, providing students with a searchable collection of some of the most important social, political, and cultural moments of the 20th century. Coverage: Varies by title, but some are as far back as 1980. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| PortalWisconsin |
Description: PortalWisconsin is a non-profit Website created by the partners of the Cultural Coalition of Wisconsin to support the state's culture, arts, humanities and history. Comprehensive listings of events, classes and organizations relating to culture, dance, literature, media arts, music, visual arts, theater, history, environment, and for kids are included. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Presidential Recordings Program -- See Miller Center of Public Affairs - Presidential Recordings Program | |
| Prints and Photographs Online Catalog via Library of Congress |
Description: The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to about 50% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about one million digital images in all. Not all images displayed in this catalog are in the public domain. The Library offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship. It is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library's collections. Coverage: Includes descriptions of selected single images cataloged since 1984 and groups of images cataloged since 1945. Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: An "Ask a Librarian" link is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Professional Development Collection via EbscoHost |
Description: A collection of 520 full text education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Indexing and abstracts are provided for nearly 700 more journals. Titles offered include: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. Coverage: 1965-present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink. |
| Project Gutenberg |
Description: A huge repository of 20,000 public domain electronic texts begun in 1971 by Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books. Texts are available in dozens of languages as well as in audio format. Some recorded and sheet music, as well as moving and still pictures are also included. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help and FAQs are available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Project Muse |
Description: Project Muse offers full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the areas of arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathemetics from ten major university presses: Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Indiana, MIT, Oxford, Penn State, Hawaii, Texas, and Wisconsin. Coverage: 1990-present Full-text: Yes, from 1995-present Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Instructional vodcasts available from http://muse.jhu.edu/about/resources/vodcasts.html. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| Project Vote Smart |
Description: Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense System to provide you with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information. As a national library of factual information, Project Vote Smart covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Site Help/FAQ is available, as is an interactive tour of the site. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians via WOI Radio, Iowa State University |
Description: Prepared primarily for the announcing staff of WOI Radio, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, the dictionary is freely available. Although far from complete, the dictionary, with its 30,000 entries, is the most extensive of its type now available. See the http://woi.org/dictionary/preface.asp Preface and Pronunciation Conventions for more information. The dictionary includes a file for each letter of the alphabet. The files can be accessed individually online in PDF format. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Proquest |
Description: A collection of full-text databases in various subject areas. Coverage: Varies by Database Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| PsycARTICLES via EbscoHost |
Description: The full-text companion database to PsycINFO from the American Psychological Association contains the full text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology as well as specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research. Coverage: 1894-present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online search guides are available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| PsycINFO via EbscoHost |
Description: PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Coverage: 1872-present Full-text: No, but links to some full-text available. Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available Remote access: Yes, via proxy server. |
| PubChem via National Library of Medicine |
Description: PubChem provides inforamtion on the biological activities of small molecules. It is organized as three linked databases: PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay. PubChem also provides a fast chemical structure similarity search tool. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
Description: The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. Current or forthcoming PLoS journals include PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens, PLoS Clinical Trials, PLoS One, and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Coverage: Varies by title. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| PubList.com |
Description: A free searchable database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters & other periodicals from around the world, representing thousands of topics. Coverage: N/A Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| PubMed via National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health |
Description: PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. Coverage: 1953-present Full-text: Some Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
| PubMed Central via National Institutes of Health |
Description: PubMed Central is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Coverage: Varies by title. Some go back as far as 1908. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left. |
Last updated 10/19/2009.
Comments to Mary Rieder.
