General Research Resources Subject Guide

Academic Search Elite via EbscoHost	Description: Indexes and abstracts articles from 3,232 journals with full text for 2,037 sources, covering a range of academic areas such as social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more Coverage: 1984-present Full-text: Yes, 1985-present for some titles Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes,via proxy server or through BadgerLink
American Memory	Description: American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library. The original formats include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online FAQs and help are available. Lesson plans, activities, and additional information are available from the American Memory Learning Page. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Associations Unlimited International via Gale	Description: Contains information for approximately 160,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
BadgerCat via OCLC FirstSearch	Description: BadgerCat is a statewide shared library catalog for Wisconsin libraries. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
BadgerLink	Description: BadgerLink is a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning. Its goal is to provide access to quality online information resources for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's public, school, academic, and special libraries and Internet Service Providers. Coverage: Varies by database. Full-text: Some Online guide or tutorial: FAQ is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Bartleby.com	Description: The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Britannica Online	Description: Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition brings together the world-renowned content of the encyclopedia, with the speed and convenience of the Internet. Additional features of the site include World Data, Notable Quotations, and Gateway to the Classics. Coverage: The first issue of Britannica was published in 1768, continuously revised. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Choice Reviews Online	Description: Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and ChoiceReviews.online for collection development and scholarly research. Coverage: 1987-present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
CQ Researcher	Description: In-depth coverage and analysis regarding controversial topics, including health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, environment, technology and the economy. Coverage: 1991-present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)	Description: A directory service providing access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. Coverage: Varies by title. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
EbscoHost	Description: A collection of full-text databases in various subject areas, ranging from general reference collections to subject specific periodical indexes. Coverage: Varies by database. Title lists are available for each database. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online tutorial and search tips are available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink. (Additional databases are available via UW System and UW Colleges licenses which are not available via BadgerLink.)
EbscoHost Electronic Journals Service (EJS)	Description: *Username and password required from off-campus. Please contact your UWC library for that information.* Access to the full text of the online versions of serials subscribed to by the UW Colleges' libraries. Coverage: Varies by library. Full-text: Yes. Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left and passwords assigned by each library.
Find Articles	Description: FindArticles is focused on delivering the best and most essential search results from all of the essential publications covering a wide range of subjects. Publications are continually added to the collection. Publications and subjects are organized by major categories: Arts & Entertainment, Automotive, Business & Finance, Computers & Technology, Health & Fitness, Home & Garden, News & Society, Reference & Education, and Sports. Coverage: 1984-present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Foundation Directory Online Platinum via The Foundation Center	Description: *Username and password required. Please contact your UWC library for that information.* A directory featuring comprehensive data on 80,000 U.S. foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities, plus a database of half a million recently awarded grants. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help and tutorial are available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left with username and password.
Foundations in Wisconsin	Description: Username and password required. Please contact your UWC library for that information. Published annually by Marquette University's Raynor Library, Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory provides searchable profiles of active grantmaking foundations in the state of Wisconsin. For more information about grants available to UW Colleges, contact Eric Smith. Coverage: Most recent year. Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left with username and password.
Full-Text E-Journals	Description: Alphabetical listings of the full-text electronic journals available via UW Colleges, UW System, and BadgerLink subscriptions. Titles are hot-linked to the database in which they are held, and searchable by title and subject (category). Coverage: Coverage dates of individual journal titles are listed in their entries. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Access to the lists via link to left. Access to the full-text journals is available via the proxy server.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia via EbscoHost	Description: Indexes over 25,000 articles from the encyclopedia. Coverage: Updated annually Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
GaleNet	Description: Databases from Thomson Gale: Associations Unlimited International, U.S. National, and Regional, State, and Local; Biography & Genealogy Master Index, Contemporary Authors, and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Coverage: Varies by database. 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.
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 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 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.
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.
IngentaConnect	Description: IngentaConnect is a database of almost 22 million citations from over 30,000 scholarly journals. IngentaConnect contains brief descriptive information for articles and electronic (PDF and/or HTML format) for fax delivery of the full-text of those articles. Use of the database is free, however IngentaConnect charges a fee for article delivery. Coverage: Varies by title Full-text: Articles are deliverable for a fee. Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Internet Archive	Description: The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, providing free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The site archives Web pages, moving images, live music, texts, and audio files. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive	Description: A collection of free movies, films, and videos. This collection contains thousands of videos which range from classic full-length movies, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to user-uploaded videos of every genre. Sub-collections include Animation & Cartoons, Arts & Music, Computers & Technology, Ephemeral Films, Movies, News & Public Affairs, Non-English Videos, Open Source Movies, Prelinger Archives, Sports Videos, Video Games, Vlogs, and Youth Media. Coverage: N/A Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Internet Archive: Open-Access Text Archive	Description: A collection of free, open-access digitized texts. Sub-collections include American Libraries, Canadian Libraries, Universal Library, Open Source Books, Project Gutenberg, the Children's Library, and Arpanet. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
IRIS (Illinois Researchers Information Service) via University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign	Description: The IRIS Database currently contains over 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to funding opportunities for faculty, the IRIS Database also contains fellowships and scholarships for grad students and undergrads. Users can search IRIS by sponsor, deadline date, keyword, and other criteria. The IRIS Database is updated daily. The IRIS Alert Service enables students, staff, and researchers at subscribing institutions to create their own IRIS search profiles. The IRIS Expertise Service enables researchers at subscribing institutions to create detailed electronic CVs ("biosketches") and post them to a Web-accessible database for viewing by colleagues at other institutions, program officers at federal and private funding agencies, and private companies. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: An online FAQ is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
JSTOR	Description: JSTOR is a digitized archive of major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines, many of which date back to the 1800's. JSTOR contains the backfiles of journals; the most recent volumes are two to five years behind the latest issues, depending upon agreements with the journal publishers. UW System has a subscription to the Arts & Sciences I and Arts & Sciences II collections. Coverage: Varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s to five years ago. Full-text: Yes, including full image. Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
LexisNexis via LexisNexis	Description: LexisNexis Academic offers access to more than 5,800 full-text sources, including foreign and U.S. newspapers (among them The New York Times), magazines and trade journals, broadcast transcripts, company financial information, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, medical news and abstracts, and state and country profiles. Coverage: Varies by title. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Library of Congress	Description: The Website of the U.S. Library of Congress. Major collections accessible from this site include Thomas Legislative Information, the American Memory Project, the Global Gateway, Exhibitions, and the LOC online library catalog. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
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.
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.
NetLibrary	Description: NetLibrary provides access to the full text of the over 9,600 electronic books purchased by the Wisconsin NetLibrary Academic and Public Library Consortia, as well as free e-books whose content is in the public domain. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through a personally customizable NetLibrary account.
NYPL Digital Gallery via New York Public Library	Description: NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 520,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
OmniFile Full Text Mega via WilsonWeb	Description: Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition provides electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications. OmniFile contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full text) that is contained in these six Wilson databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Coverage: 1982-present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Open J-Gate	Description: Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from nearly 4,000 open access journals, with links to full text at publisher sites. Searches can be limited to peer-reviewed and professional and industry journals. Journals are available in the broad subject areas Agriculture & Biological Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Basic Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Engineering & Technology (JET), Library & Information Sciences, and Social & Management Sciences. Coverage: Varies by title. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Opposing Viewpoints via Gale	Description: A dynamic online library of current event topics -- the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors. Includes a wealth of contrasting information from objective, subjective, scholarly and general news sources. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Oxford English Dictionary	Description: The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150. Coverage: N/A 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.
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 Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Proquest	Description: A collection of full-text databases in various subject areas. This includes Proquest Newspapers which covers a broad range of domestic titles. Coverage: Varies by Database Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
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.
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.
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.
Scout Report via Internet Scout Project	Description: The Scout Report provides critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists. Coverage: 1994-present Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Scout Report Archives via Internet Scout Project	Description: The Scout Report provides critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists. Coverage: 1994-present Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: "Using the Archives" is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Social Sciences Full Text via WilsonWeb	Description: Social Sciences indexes and abstracts 520 periodicals. Full-text articles for 162 journal titles are available online. Topics include anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, criminal justice and criminology, economics, family studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, women's studies, and related subjects. Coverage: 1983-present Full-text: 1995-present Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Statehealthfacts.org	Description: Statehealthfacts.org is a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and is designed to provide free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states. It also privdes data on more than 500 health topics. Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Tests in Print via EbscoHost	Description: Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Coverage: N/A Full-text: N/A Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
University of California Press eScholarship Editions	Description: The University of California Press eScholarship Editions are made available through a California Digital Library purchase from NetLibrary of electronic book files on behalf of the UC community. eScholarship, which supports experiments in the production and dissemination of scholarly communications, converted the books into fully searchable XML. This link leads to a subject list of the over 500 publicly-accessible titles in the collection. The books may also be browsed by author or title. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections	Description: Dozens of digitized collections from the University of Wisconsin libraries. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference	Description: Searchable database for finding the nutritional value of foods prepared in various ways. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
UW-Madison E-Resource Gateway	Description: Locally digitized collections from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Choose "Guest and Special Borrower Access" from right side of screen, and then "Find Resources." Coverage: N/A Full-text: Some full-text is available. Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Veropedia	Description: Veropedia is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited, The result is a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, and anyone else who is looking for top-notch, reliable information. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes. Online guide or tutorial: An online FAQ is available. Remote access: Yes, via link at left.
Web of Science	Description: ISI Citation Databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's bibliography, you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work. Includes Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citations Index. Coverage: 1987-present Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Tutorial available at http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/wos7/. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Who2?	Description: Who2 is an encyclopedia of famous people. They research and write profiles of real people, fictional characters, and some figures (like Robin Hood) who may be either. They also profile celebrities who aren't people, like Ham the Chimp and Hal 9000. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: An FAQ is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Wikipedia	Description: Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. With rare exceptions, its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this page link. The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Caution: Since the content on this site can be contributed by anyone, this site should not be considered a reliable scholarly resource for research purposes It may contain false information. Coverage: N/A Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
WilsonWeb	Description: WilsonWeb is a collection of 10 full textand citation databases that provide broad subject coverage within specific subject categories such as general science, art, business, etc. Please see individual listings for descriptions. Coverage: Varies by database. Full-text: Varies by database. Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
WISCAT	Description: WISCAT is the statewide bibliographic database of many Wisconsin libraries. Please note that the holdings of the University of Wisconsin System libraries are not available via this free interface, however. Coverage: N/A Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: Online helps is available. Remote access: Yes, via link to left or through BadgerLink.
WorldCat	Description: WorldCat is a mega-library catalog containing more than 1 billion records contributed by 10,000 libraries around the world. It contains full bibliographic descriptions and cataloging information for the following types of materials: books, serials, manuscripts, sound recordings, audiovisual materials, maps, music scores, and computer-readable files. Coverage: 1100-present Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
WorldCat.Org	Description: WorldCat.Org is the free, open access version of the WorldCat database. Coverage: 1100-present Full-text: No Online guide or tutorial: No Remote access: Yes, via link to left.

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