A - Z
All Research Databases made available by Polk Library, from A to Z.
Paley Center for Media iCollection
Streaming access to over 15,000 programs from Paley's extensive collection of television, radio and film archives. It covers an enormous range of material from news reports, entertainment programs, advertisements and more.
No
Book Resources
Paley Center for Media
Passport GMID
This online market research tool monitors industry trends and gives strategic analysis and a market size and market share database for products across multiple countries. Passport is Euromonitor International's global market analysis software platform, which analyses the industry in countries around the world.
Yes, some available
Reference and Background Resources
Euromonitor
Periodic Table Live
An interactive periodic table that allows you to explore a broad range of information about the elements, their reactions, their properties, their structures, and their histories.
No
Reference and Background Resources
ChemEd DL
Philosopher's Index
Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. Includes journal articles, books, book chapters (such as contributions to an anthology) and book reviews. Philosopher's Index monitors over 550 journals from more than 40 countries.
No
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
1940 - present.
CSA
Physical Review B
Physical Review B (PRB) is the largest and most comprehensive international journal specializing in condensed matter and materials physics. PRB appears monthly in two sections.
Yes, some available
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
Current
American Physical Society
Physical Review Letters
PRL is a major physics letters journal, providing rapid publication of short reports of significant fundamental research in all fields of physics. International in scope, the journal provides its diverse readership with weekly coverage of major advances in physics and cross disciplinary developments. PRL's topical sections are devoted to general physics (including statistical and quantum mechanics, quantum information, etc.), gravitation and astrophysics; elementary particles and fields; nuclear physics; atomic, molecular, and optical physics; nonlinear dynamics, fluid dynamics, classical optics; plasma and beam physics; condensed matter; and soft-matter, biological, and interdisciplinary physics.
Yes, some available
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
Current
American Physical Society
Picture Book Database
The Picture Book Database combines data from dozens of online and print sources, thousands of picture books, and many publisher, author, and illustrator websites. You can find picture books by artistic media and style, character education, literary devices, literacy tie-ins, categories, genres, and formats, series and characters, original publisher/title/language (for titles published outside the U.S.), country of origin, and age ranges.
No
Reference and Background Resources
Picturing Books
Points of View Reference Center
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 offers 255 topics, each with an overview, two opposing points of view, and critical thinking guide. The contents include 1,143 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, TV and radio news transcripts, primary source documents, reference books, and the Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century. Topics covered include affirmative action, cloning, AIDS, immigration, and tax cuts.
Yes, some available
Reference and Background Resources
Current
EBSCO
Political Science Complete
Political Science Complete offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for more than 800 journals, with full-text coverage for over 350 of those journals. The database also features a subject thesaurus, more than 180 monographs, and the full text of more than 28,000 conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association
Yes, some available
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
1982 - present. Varies by title
EBSCO
Primary Search
Provides the full text of 35 magazines for young readers and abstracts and indexing for 116 magazines. Primary Search includes Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the World Almanac for Kids and the World Almanac of the USA.
Yes, some available
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
Indexing (1984 - present), Full Text (1989 - present)
EBSCO
Professional Development Collection
Professional Development Collection,designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 900 journals. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965
Yes, some available
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
Full Text (1965 - present)
EBSCO
Project Muse
Project Muse provides worldwide, networked, subscription access to the full text of the Press's 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Yes, some available
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
Varies by journal
Project Muse
PsycCritiques
PsycCRITIQUES is a full-text database with tens of thousands of incisive book and film reviews from 1956 to present. It provides users with insight on publications from a psychological perspective allowing them to choose relevant reading material, to select appropriate course materials, and more.
Yes, some available
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
EBSCOhost
Access to this resource is on a trial basis. THIS TRIAL WILL LAST UNTIL 5/30/13. Please send your feedback about this product to hardyr@uwosh.edu
PsycExtra
PsycEXTRA is a unique database that combines bibliographic records with full-text professional and lay-audience literature such as legal testimony and amicus briefs, reports, conference materials, popular magazines, factsheets, grants, and web materials. It is the premier resource for information and data for cutting-edge research and practice in the behavioral and social sciences and an archive of gray literature documenting psychology's development.
Yes, some available
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
EBSCOhost
Access to this resource is on a trial basis. THIS TRIAL WILL LAST UNTIL 5/30/13. Please send your feedback about this product to hardyr@uwosh.edu
PsycInfo
PsycINFO (R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
No
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
1887 - present
EBSCO
Public Administration Abstracts
Public Administration Abstracts includes 60,000 bibliographic records going back to 1974, covering the most important journals within the public administration discipline and related theory.
No
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
1974 - present
EBSCO
Public Library of Science - Biology
Biology features works of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface with other disciplines, such as chemistry, medicine, and mathematics. Access is free to all on the web.
Yes, some available
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
2003 - present
Public Library of Science
PubMed
More than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from Medline and life science journals. Citations may include links to full text articles from PubMed Central or publisher websites.
Yes, some available
Journal, Magazine and Newspaper Resources
Varies by journal
U.S. National Library of Medicine
