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| 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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| ACM Journals - Association for Computing Machinery |
Description: Online access to many journals published by the ACM (see list below). MUST HAVE A USERNAME & PASSWORD FOR ACCESS - even on campus. Contact the reference desk to obtain this username and password, available only to UW Oshkosh faculty, staff and students.
Coverage: Variable by journal, but many journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1 of the publication run.
Vendor: ACM
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content
The easiest way to access these journals is:
- Go to The Digital Library
- Before attempting to search or browse publications, click the Login button near the very top of the screen.
- Enter the library username and password (contact the reference desk for this login/password)
- Please log-out when you are done.
Online access to:
Journals:
Computing Surveys
Journal of computer documentation
Letters on programming languages and systems
Journal of educational resources in computing
Journal of experimental algorithmics
Journal of the ACM
Magazines:
Communications of the ACM
interactions
netWorker
Transactions:
ACM Transactions on database systems
ACM Transactions on programming languages and systems |
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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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Academic Universe
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See Lexis Nexis Academic Universe |
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| African American Biographical Database |
Description:Collection of Biographical Information on African Americans. 1790-1950. Entries can include photographs and illustrations. "From the famous
to the everyday person, AABD includes profiles and full-text sketches providing both biographical detail and illuminating narratives chronicling the lives of Black Americans." (from site description)
Coverage: 1790-1950
Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey
Full Text? No |
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| Agricola |
Description: Compiled by the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this database indexes materials relating to all aspects of agriculture.
Coverage: 1970 - present
Vendor: Firstsearch
Full Text? No |
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| Alternative Press Index |
Description: Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. Provides in-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals
Coverage: 1991 - present
Vendor: Firstsearch
Full Text? No |
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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: ABC-CLIO
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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| Applied Science & Technology Full Text |
Description: Provides searching for 411 core English language scientific and technical publications. Topics include engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management.
Coverage: Abstracts (1993 - present), Full Text (1997 - present)
Vendor: WilsonWeb
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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| Art Full Text |
Description: Provides comprehensive indexing and abstracting for over 300 leading international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Broad coverage of art topics, including advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture, and art history.
Coverage: Indexing (1984 - present), Abstracts (1994 - present), Full Text (1997 - present)
Vendor: WilsonWeb
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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| Biographies Plus |
Description: Contains full text of the biographies from more than 100 print volumes of biographical reference books by H.W. Wilson. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, date of birth, and keyword.
Vendor: WilsonWeb
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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| Biological & Agricultural Index |
Description: Provides indexing to over 250 journals in the core literature of biology and agriculture. Subject matter includes agricultural, animal sciences, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, ecology, environmental science, fishery sciences, forestry, genetics, horticulture, marine biology, microbiology, nutrition, paleontology, physiology, plant pathology, veterinary medicine, wildlife management, and zoology.
Coverage: Indexing (1983 - present), Full Text (1997 - present)
Vendor: WilsonWeb
Full Text? Yes |
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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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| 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 Full Text |
Description: Searches 400 English language general business periodicals and trade journals, plus the Wall Street Journal and the business section of the New York Times. Topics include management, accounting, advertising and marketing, construction, entertainment and media, information technology, mergers and acquisitions, occupational health and safety, public relations, small business, and a great deal of corporate information.
Coverage: Indexing (1982 - present), Full Text (1995 - present)
Vendor: WilsonWeb
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Business and Management Practices |
Description: Contains online articles about the practical aspects of business management. Provides real-world know-how that focuses on how organizations make and implement decisions, develop and launch new strategies, and plan for change. Includes case studies and how-to articles. Searches for business concepts, industries, and specific departments within an organization.
Coverage: 1995 - present
Vendor: Firstsearch
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| Business Source Elite |
Description: Provides comprehensive access to over 1,400 titles, including The Wall Street Journal.
Coverage: 1985 - present
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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| CAMIO -
Catalog of Art Museum Images Online |
Description: CAMIO, or the Catalog of Art Museum Images Online, includes online images of art from museums around the world. The pieces range in age from prehistoric to contemporary and include a variety of media, such as paintings, photographs, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, and more.
Vendor: OCLC
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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| Clase and Periodica |
Description: CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.!
Coverage: Clase: 1975 to present, Periodica: 1978 to present
Vendor: FirstSearch
Full Text? No |
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| Columbia Earthscape |
Description: This database aims to "select, gather, and link the widest range of on-line resources available" for researchers, teachers, students, and decision makers involved in the Earth sciences.
Coverage: Varies from source to source
Vendor: Columbia University Press
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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| Corporate ResourceNet |
Description: Provides over 4,000 searchable sources covering a broad spectrum of U.S. and international business topics and industries; scientific and medical information; regulation and policy information; and company and product information.
Coverage: 1984 - present
Description: EBSCOhost
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 Abstracts Online |
Description: Criminal Justice Abstracts, the criminology database from SAGE Publications, contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
Coverage: 1968 - current
Vendor: CSA
Full Text? No |
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| Dissertation Abstracts |
Description: Dissertations and theses from institutions in the North America and Europe.
Coverage: 1861 - present. Abstracts since 1980. Thesis abstracts since 1988
Vendor: FirstSearch
Full Text? No |
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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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| EconLit |
Description: Subject indexing and abstracting to materials on economics from journals, books, dissertations, and working papers.
Coverage: 1969 - present
Vendor: FirstSearch
Full Text? No |
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| Education Full Text |
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting of 400 international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based, and information technology.
Coverage: Indexing (1983 - present), Abstracts (1994 - present), Full Text (1996 - present)
Vendor: WilsonWeb
Full Text? Yes, this database has some full text content |
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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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| Emerald Full-Text Journals |
Description: Contains 42,000 articles from over 100 journals, complete with full text archives back to 1989 for some journals. Subjects covered include management, HRM, Marketing, Librarianship, Mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering.
Coverage: 1989 - present (varies by title)
Vendor: Emerald Library
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
Ebsco or Cambridge |
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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