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Alphabetical List Subject List Trials Citation Linker Proxy Server

Alphabetical List of Resources

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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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Racine Journal Times Description: Online version of the Racine Journal Times newspaper.
Coverage: Current day's news articles.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Readers' Guide Full Text via WilsonWeb Description: Readers' Guide indexes and abstracts the periodicals most often found in school, public, and college libraries, as well as the New York Times.
Coverage: 1983-present
Full-text: 1994-present
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
REALIA Project Description: The REALIA project (Rich Electronic Archive for Language Instruction Anywhere) publishes faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures. Faculty and students at all levels are encouraged to contribute materials to their searchable, online database. The focus of the REALIA Project is realia: Materials which convey the everyday life of different cultures.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: Search tips are available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Refdesk.com Description: This reference super site contains organized links to thousands of Internet reference resources.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: A hierarchical site map shows in detail the layout of the resource lists.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Regional Business News via EbscoHost Description: Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Coverage: Varies by title.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Research Starters - Sociology via EbscoHost Description: Free trial through 6/30/2010. Research Starters - Sociology provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies. Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Rice Lake Chronotype Description: Online version of Rice Lake news.
Coverage: Articles from the past month.
Full-text: Selected articles only.
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journals Archive Description: Full-text archival access to the journals of the RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry), the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. When searching, be sure to restrict your search to the archive.
Coverage: 1841-2004
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Limited help is available online.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.

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Last updated 10/19/2009. Comments to
Mary Rieder.

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