General Research Resources Subject Guide

Academic Search Premier via EbscoHost	Description: This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Coverage: 1975-present Full-text: Yes, 1975-present for some titles Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes,via proxy server or through BadgerLink
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.
Auto Repair Reference Center via EbscoHost	Description: Full text repair manuals covering domestic and foreign automobiles from 1945 to the present. Coverage: 1945- Full-text: Yes. Online guide or tutorial: No. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, and Contemporary Authors. Coverage: Varies by database. Full-text: Yes Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
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.
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.
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.
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. PowerPoint tutorial available for download from http://dictionary.oed.com/services/tutorial.html. Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Web of Science via Thomson Reuters	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.
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.
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.

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