| ABI/Inform Business Articles |
Description: Indexes and abstracts over 1300 scholarly and trade business journals. Popular magazines such as Fortune, Forbes and Time are included. Full-text articles for over 600 journal titles are available online.
Coverage: 1971 - present
Vendor: ProQuest
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Description: Gain access to information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, and education. The upgrade from Academic Search Elite to Academic Search Complete has been partially funded in 2007-08 by the UW Oshkosh Student Technology Fund.
Coverage: (Full text) 1975 - present
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 |
Description: Part of the Readex America’s Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 was created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the United States–those of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress. Beginning with Freedom’s Journal (NY), the first African American newspaper published in the United States, the titles in this resource include The Colored Citizen (OH), Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, Virginia Journal and Alexandria Advertiser, Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The Appeal (MN) and hundreds of others from every region of the U.S. - from the publisher.
Coverage:
Vendor:
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| African American Periodicals 1825 - 1995 |
Description: African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Comprised of publications from 26 states, this collection includes academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organization bulletins, annual reports and other genres. Beyond offering opinions on issues and events of the day, the rare titles in African American Periodicals capture the voice of African American society and culture. The publications brought together here—many short-lived and not available in most libraries. – from the publisher.
Coverage: 1825 - 1995
Vendor: Newsbank
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Alt-Healthwatch |
Description: This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
Coverage: Indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990
Vendor: Ebsco
Full Text? Yes |
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| America: History and Life |
Description: America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries, providing an incomparable research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history.
Coverage: 1964 - present
Vendor: Ebsco
Full Text? No |
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| American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals |
Description: The ACS Online Journals package provides the full text of over 30 peer reviewed
journals and magazines published by the American Chemical Society. The articles are fully searchable and are available in full text in pdf format. The ACS Journal Archives extends the online full text of ACS publications back to their inaugural issues, over 120 years of content.
Coverage: Variable by journal.
Vendor: American Chemical Society
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| American Society for Microbiology Online Journals |
Description: The Society's 11 journals cover the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology.
Coverage: Variable by journal.
Vendor: American Society for Microbiology
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Ancestry.com |
Description: Genealogical research search tool that allows you to search census records, birth, marriage and death records, military and court records and much more.
Coverage: Variable
Vendor: Gale
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Armed Conflict Database |
Description: Seeks to cover international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism. It provides an interactive source of information on 70 armed conflicts including terrorism, refugees/ and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs, historical backgrounds, annual updates and timelines.
Coverage: 1997 - present.
Vendor: International Institute for Strategic Studies
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| ArtStor |
Description:The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. The community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.
Coverage: Current
Vendor: ArtStor
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) |
Description: Search for references and cited references in Arts & Humanities Citations Index.
Coverage: 1987 - present
Vendor: ISI. Check out the tutorial here - Web of Science Online Tutorial
Full Text? No |
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| Associations Unlimited |
Description: Contains information for approximately 144,000 international and US national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. Features full contact information, SIC codes, meetings and publications information.
Coverage: Current
Vendor: GaleNet
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| ATLA Religion Database |
Description: Covers journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and multimedia sources in all fields of religion and theology. Produced by the American Theological Library Association.
Coverage: Indexing from 1949 to present
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Biography & Genealogy Master Index |
Description: Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
Coverage: 1946 - present
Vendor: GaleNet
Full Text? No |
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| Biological Abstracts |
Description: Provides indexing for over 5 million records in life sciences journals. Biological Abstracts monitors around 4,000 international journals to ensure that virtually every life science topic is covered, including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, the environment, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, public health and toxicology.
Coverage: 1994 - present
Vendor: ISI
Full Text? No |
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| BioOne |
Description: BioOne is a unique aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of these titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form.
Coverage: 2000 - present (for most journals)
Vendor: BioOne
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Black Drama: 1850 - Present |
Description: This edition of Black Drama contains 502 plays by 125 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Books in Print |
Description: Records of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American publishers. Polk Library does not necessarily own all of the items you will find in this database.
Coverage: Current.
Vendor: Bowker
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Brill E-Books |
Description: Over 1,400 titles. Many specialized books in a variety of fields in the social sciences and humanities. Most books in PDF format.
Coverage: Current.
Vendor: Brill
Full Text? Yes |
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| British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries |
Description: British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of more than 1,000 women to researchers, students, and general readers. It's a work in progress.
Coverage: 1500 - 1900
Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Business Source Premier |
Description: Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
Coverage: 1886 - present
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities - Business |
Description: Searchable directory of journals in Accounting, Economics, Finance/Management & Marketing for selecting journals most likely to publish your manuscript
Coverage: Current
Vendor: Cabell's
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Children's Literature Comprehensive Database |
Description: The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), your resource for an extensive array of information about children's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, and other children-focused media. The database contains more than 130,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books, ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults, and an average of more than 1500 new reviews are added to the database monthly. This database also lists awards, honors and prizes that books have won.
Coverage: Variable.
Vendor: CLCD, Inc
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text book reviews. |
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| Choice Book Reviews Online |
Description:CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts. ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988.
Coverage: The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE.
Vendor: Choice
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online |
Description: Source for theory and research in international affairs. Includes working papers, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. It is also a source for teaching materials including original case studies, coursepacks of background readings, and more.
Coverage: Varies by journal.
Vendor: Columbia International Affairs
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| CINAHL Nursing Index |
Description: CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, as well as Evidence-Based Care Sheet. Searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals are also included. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text 337 of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.
Coverage: Indexing from 1937 - present
Vendor: Ebsco
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews |
Description: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviewscontains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually. (from the Ebsco website)
Coverage: Current
Vendor: Ebsco
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Communication & Mass Media Complete |
Description: Communication & Mass Media Complete provides research in areas related to communication and mass media.
Coverage: Varies
Vendor: Ebsco
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Contemporary Authors |
Description: A bio-biographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the US and around the world.
Coverage: Current
Vendor: GaleNet
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| CQ Researcher |
Description: The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.
Coverage: 1991-present
Vendor: Congressional Quarterly
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Criminal Justice Periodicals Index |
Description: ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals IndexT is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The database includes abstract and indexing for 245 titles, with more than 90 available in full-text. ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index titles include:
- American Journal of Criminal Justice
- FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
- Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Women Police
Coverage: 1981 - current
Vendor: Proquest
Full Text? Yes, some |
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| Dissertations & Theses Full Text |
Description: Millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, ProQuest provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
Coverage: Full text 1997 to present. Indexing since 1861.
Vendor: ProQuest
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Early American Newspapers Series 1 - 7, 1690-1922 |
Description: America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
America's Historical Newspapers enables researchers to explore virtually every aspect of America during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
Coverage: 1690 - 1922
Vendor: Newsbank
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Early Encounters in North America |
Description: Documents the relationships among peoples and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. It focuses on personal accounts and provides wide range of perspectives. Includes both published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters.
Coverage: 1534-1850
Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Early English Books Online |
Description: From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised edition. This collection fulfills research requirements of graduate scholars in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.
Coverage: 1475-1700
Vendor: ProQuest Direct
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Ebrary |
Description:Provides access to a large collection of eBooks on a wide variety of topics.
Coverage: Variable
Vendor: Ebrary
Full Text? Yes |
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| Ebsco E-Books |
Description: Provides access to electronic books (e- books) and information. The collection is composed of reference, scholarly, and professional e-books.
Coverage: various publication dates
Vendor:Ebsco
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Econlit |
Description: The American Economic Association's electronic database is a source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 1,010,900 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
Coverage: 1969 - present.
Vendor: Ebsco
Full Text? No, but it links to full text from other Ebsco databases. |
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| Education Research Complete |
Description: Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 3,000 journals back to 1881, as well as full text for more than 2,000 journals back to 1936, and includes full text for numerous education-related conference papers and more than 500 books and monographs back to 1972.
Coverage: 1881 - present
Vendor: Ebsco
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Educational Administration Abstracts |
Description: Includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 66,000 records.
Coverage: Variable
Vendor: Ebsco
Full Text? No |
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| Eighteenth Century Collections Online |
Description: This database is provided courtesy of UW Madison. Access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
Coverage: 1701 -1800
Vendor: Gale
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition K12 |
Description: Different versions for different audiences: Elementary, Middle School, High School, Learning Materials & Enciclopedia Juvenil. Provided by Badgerlink.
Britannica Online School Edition K12 offers encyclopedias, dictionary, thesaurus, illustrations, maps, biographies, educational activities, exercises, study guides, and related material for students and teachers (Kindergarten through 12 th grade). Included are the Wisconsin state curriculum standards with links to supporting articles and learning materials. There are separate interfaces for elementary, middle, and high school, as well as for teachers. Enciclopedia Juvenil is a Spanish language student encyclopedia with articles, images, videos, and learning materials specifically designed for students.
Coverage: Current
Vendor: Britannica
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Environment Complete |
Description: This multidisciplinary database provides coverage of environmental sciences, environmental law, public policy, and more. Includes abstracts from over 1,600 domestic and international journals and full text from over 600 journals and 100 monographs.
Coverage: 1950s - present
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| ERIC |
Description: Contains citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center.
Coverage: 1967 - present
Vendor: Cambridge Science Abstracts & EBSCOhost
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Ethnic Newswatch |
Description: Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories. The database is searchable in both English and Spanish, with publications in each language and more than 125,000 articles in Spanish.
Coverage: Variable
Vendor: ProQuest
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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