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ABI/INFORM Complete

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.

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Academic Search Complete

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 since 2007-08 by the UW Oshkosh Student Technology Fund.

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African American Music Reference

African American Music Reference brings together of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database strives to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

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African American Newspapers, 1827-1998

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.

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African American Periodicals, 1825-1995

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.

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AHFS Consumer Medication Information

AHFS Consumer Medication Information is an award winning database of drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers. It is frequently updated and conforms to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA's guidelines for the provision of useful prescription medicine information to consumers. There are Spanish language versions of all articles, translated by experienced human health and medical translators (not by computer programs).

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Alt HealthWatch

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.

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America: History and Life

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.

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American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals

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.

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American Society for Microbiology Online Journals

The Society's 11 journals cover the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology.

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Ancestry

Genealogical research search tool that allows you to search census records, birth, marriage and death records, military and court records and much more.

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AP News

This resource provides near real-time access to world-wide news from the Associated Press. This collection includes a rolling 30-day archive of AP Top News, WorldStream, Financial News, AP Online, U.S. Politics and Government, and 50 State Reports.

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Arcat

ArCat is the online catalog of the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives Division. ArCat contains over 21,000 catalog entries for the Archives holdings. It includes descriptions for all Society manuscript collections, state government records, and local government records.

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Search for references and cited references in Arts & Humanities Citations Index

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ArtStor

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.

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Associations Unlimited

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.

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ATLA Religion Database

Covers journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and multimedia sources in all fields of religion and theology. Produced by the American Theological Library Association.

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Bibliography of the History of Art

The Bibliography of the History of Art is a highly comprehensive art bibliography, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals. Broad in scope, the bibliography's citations encompass fine arts-painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture-as well as decorative and applied arts-crafts, graphic arts, and folk and popular art among them.

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index

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.

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Biological Abstracts

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.

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BioOne

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.

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Black Drama: 1850 - Present

This edition of Black Drama contains 502 plays by 125 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

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Books In Print

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.

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Brill E-Books

Over 1,400 titles. Many specialized books in a variety of fields in the social sciences and humanities. Most books in PDF format.

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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500 - 1900

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

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Bureau of Justice Statistics

The mission of the Bureau of Justice Statistics is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

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Business Source Premier

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.

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Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities - Business

Searchable directory of journals in Accounting, Economics, Finance/Management & Marketing for selecting journals most likely to publish your manuscript

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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.

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Child Care and Early Education Research Connections

This comprehensive collection includes scholarly research, policy briefs, government reports, data, and instruments from a wide range of disciplines and sources, relevant to the field of child care and early education. Research Connections compiles and distributes bibliographies, develops issue briefs, and synthesizes research on key topics.

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Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

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.

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Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is a source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

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CINAHL Nursing Index

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.

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Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials

Cochrane Controlled Trials Register is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews.

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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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.

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Cochrane Methodology Register

The Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR) is a bibliography of publications which report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books and conference proceedings; these articles are taken from the MEDLINE database and from hand searches. The database contains studies of methods used in reviews and more general methodological studies which could be relevant to anyone preparing systematic reviews. CMR records contain the title of the article, information on where it was published (bibliographic details), and in some cases, a summary of the article. CMR is produced by the UK Cochrane Centre, on behalf of the Cochrane Methodology Review Group.

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Communication & Mass Media Complete

Communication & Mass Media Complete provides research in areas related to communication and mass media.

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CompPile

An inventory of publications in writing studies, including post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse analysis.

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Contemporary Authors

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.

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CQ Researcher

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.

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Credo Reference

Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.

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Criminal Justice Periodicals Index

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, and Women Police.

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Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria. This database provides access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist.

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Dictionary of Chemistry (Oxford Reference Online)

This dictionary covers all aspects of chemistry, including physical chemistry, biochemistry forensics, metallurgy, materials science, and geology. There are also biographical entries on key figures, highlighted entries on major topics such as polymers and crystal defects, and chronologies charting the main discoveries in atomic theory, biochemistry, explosives, and plastics. With over 4,700 entries, this is a valuable reference resource for students of chemistry at all levels, either at school or at university, undergraduate lecturers, and students and lecturers in related disciplines such as biology.

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Digital Archives of Literacy Narratives

A publicly available archive of personal literacy narratives in a variety of formats (text, video, audio) that together provide a historical record of the literacy practices and values of contributors, as those practices and values change.

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Digital Collections in Wisconsin & Beyond

Digital Collections are organized sets of scanned research materials including books, photographs and primary source documents. This is a collection of links to a wide variety of digital collections.

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Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts

Gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.

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Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation

Gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.

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Directory of Open Access Journals

The Directory of Open Access Journals provides free, full-text access to open access scientific and scholarly journals. Open access journals are journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. DOAJ aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it is not limited to particular languages or subject areas.

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Dissertations & Theses Full Text

A highly comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

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Early American Newspapers Series 1 - 7, 1690-1922

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.

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Early Encounters in North America

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.

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Early English Books Online

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.

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Ebrary

Provides access to a large collection of eBooks on a wide variety of topics.

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Ebsco E-Books

An e-book collection with over 13,000 titles. These include books in the hard sciences, social sciences, humanities, business, education and more. Allows for full-text searching of books, individual book shelves, note-taking and citation export.

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EconLit

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.

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Education Research Complete

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.

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Educational Administration Abstracts

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

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online

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.

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EMC - Education Materials Center

The Education Materials Center (EMC) provides services and collections for education students, faculty, and staff of UW Oshkosh and the community. The EMC website provides access to an extensive array of education resources. Among the different types of resources found here are those that provide information about children's and YA literature; lesson plans appropriate to all levels of the PreK-12 curriculum; academic standards; children's book awards; children's and YA authors and illustrators; and a broad range of PreK-12 bibliographies.

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Encyclopedia Britannica - Elementary

Access to Encyclopedia Britannica's Elementary School Edition. This unique database also offers high-quality online learning materials that are developed by teachers and curriculum experts.

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Encyclopedia Britannica - High School

Access to Encyclopedia Britannica's High School Edition. This unique database also offers high-quality online learning materials that are developed by teachers and curriculum experts.

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Encyclopedia Britannica - Middle School

Access to Encyclopedia Britannica's Middle School Edition. This unique database also offers high-quality online learning materials that are developed by teachers and curriculum experts.

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Environment Complete

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.

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ERIC

Contains citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center.

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Ethnic Newswatch

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.

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Europa Sacra

Europa Sacra provides information on medieval Church prelates including information on all 1300 medieval bishoprics, archdioceses and patriarchates under obedience to Rome, as well as prosopographical information on 18,507 bishops, archbishops and patriarchs. Gradually more recent prosopographical works on members of religious orders and data on secular clergy supplied by nationally-based prosopographical projects will be added.

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Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text

Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, with full text for over 90 journals and 50 books. It also offers selected coverage of another 300 publications

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Films On Demand

A huge number of films, TV episodes and clips on a wide variety of subjects.

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Foundations in Wisconsin

Marquette University's Memorial Library annually publishes Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory. It is the only directory of its kind which covers every active grant making foundation in the state of Wisconsin. The foundation profiles include contact information, total assets, grants paid, and areas of interest. A username & password is necessary for this database. Please contact the Reference Desk for the member login information.

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Gale Literature Criticism Online

Full text access to Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Children's Literature Review

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Gale Virtual Reference Library

A collection of electronic reference books in the areas of history, arts, science and more.

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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. Essays and images and hundreds of audio examples.

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Genderwatch

GenderWatch is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. The database provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's daily lives, including family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles.

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GEOBASE

GEOBASE is a multidisciplinary database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation

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Georef

An index to periodical articles on geology and earth sciences.

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Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online

In the late 1800s, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights. By the time their successors finished their work in 1945, The Gerritsen Collection was the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and fifteen languages. This online resource delivers two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works. Users can trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others. In many cases, it also provides easy access to primary sources otherwise available only in a few rare book rooms. From About the Gerritsen Collection.

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Gilded Age

The Gilded Age brings primary documents and scholarly commentary together into a searchable collection that is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history.

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Government Information Collection, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

The Polk Library's Government Information Division collects government information produced by the U.S. government and the State of Wisconsin. The division also collects select documents from neighboring states, the United Nations and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. In addition to these paper records, Polk Library provides access to government information in both print and electronic format, including electronic documents on the Internet and locally held CD/DVD ROMs.

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GreenFile

GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

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Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition

There are two versions of this database, a Consumer edition and a Nursing edition.?Between the two editions there are abstracts and indexing for nearly 500 consumer health, nutrition and professional periodicals. Over 200 periodicals are covered in full text as well as over 1,000 health pamphlets. Also included is USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient which provides patient-oriented drug information in lay language and 17 health books published by the People's Medical Society.

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Health Technology Assessments

The Health Technology Assessments (HTA) database provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. The aim of the database is to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. In addition to systematic reviews, HTA contains ongoing and completed research based on trials, questionnaires and economic evaluations.

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HeritageQuest

This Badgerlink database provides access to census data, family and local histories, local history articles, Revolutionary War data, Serial Set information and more.

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Historic Sheet Music, 1800 - 1922

This sheet music collection consists of approximately 9,000 items published from 1800 to 1922, although the majority is from 1850 to 1920. Notable in this collection are early pieces by Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern, as well as music by other popular composers such as Victor Herbert, Jean Schwartz, Paul Dresser, Ernest R. Ball, Gussie L. Davis, Charles K. Harris, and George M. Cohan. Numerous arrangements of classical tunes by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert and other famous classical composers are also well-represented.

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Historical Abstracts

Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding North America) from 1450 to the present. The database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals back to 1955.

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Historical New York Times (1851 - 2008)

The New York Times (1851-2008) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

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History Reference Center

A robust, history reference tool, well-suited to secondary eduction. Offers full text from more than 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for nearly 170 leading history periodicals, more than 112,000 historical documents, 113,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 112,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video

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Hoover's Company Profiles

Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Has in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.

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Hoovers Online

Hoovers Online is an Internet-based suite of information resources that enables in-depth company and industry research.

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Humanities International Complete

Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.

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IEEE Digital Library

Peer-reviewed research including: 149 IEEE journals, magazines and transactions, 23 IET journals and magazines, plus 40+ IET conference titles, proceedings from over 900 IEEE and IET annual conferences. More than 2,000 approved and published IEEE standards in key technology fields, with the option to add draft standards. Complete backfile to 1988, plus select content back to 1893.

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In the First Person

In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.

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Institute of Physics Journals

Search over 30 journals from the Institute of Physics

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International Medieval Bibliography

Index to articles relating to the Middle Ages (400-1500 AD). Also includes an online version of the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages. The database comprises over 300,000 articles derived from regular coverage of some 4500 periodicals and 5000 miscellany volume (conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues). Click Enter Databases to get in

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Journal of Applied Physics

Journal of Applied Physics is the American Institute of Physics' (AIP) archival journal for significant new results in applied physics; content is published online daily, collected into two online and printed issues per month (24 issues per year). The journal publishes articles that emphasize understanding of the physics underlying modern technology, but distinguished from technology on the one side and pure physics on the other

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JSTOR

JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which reach back to the 1800s. The database now contains over 2 million pages and new titles and fields are being added constantly (approximately 100,000 pages are added to the database each month).

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Kids Search

Kids Search makes it easier for students to look for their subjects of interest by automatically searching across all applicable databases simultaneously. Important features and functionality of Kids Search include a visually appealing look and feel, and the ability to search by topic, subtopic, or keywords. Some databases include Lexiles in citation information, providing the educator an estimate of the reading difficulty of the result and the approximate grade level reading ability required for comprehension.

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Learning Express

This resource provides substantial online Praxis practice tests. Scored instantly. Type praxis in the search box of the database to access tests. (This database is provided by BadgerLink.)

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Lexikon des Mittelalters & International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages

A valuable research tool for medievalists of all disciplines. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the period 300 to 1500. Its geographical scope covers the whole of Europe, part of the Middle East, and parts of North Africa to document the roots of Western culture and those of its neighbours in the Byzantine, Arab and Jewish worlds.

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LexisNexis - French Language News

The LexisNexis French Language News group file contains newspapers published in French.

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LexisNexis - German Language News

The LexisNexis German Language News group file contains newspapers published in German.

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LexisNexis - Spanish Language News

The LexisNexis Spanish Language News group file contains newspapers published in Spanish.

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LexisNexis - World News Sources

The LexisNexis Non-US group file contains English language newspapers published outside of the United States and English language wire services where more than 60% of the stories originate outside of the United States.

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LexisNexis Academic

Academic Universe provides access to nearly 5,000 publications on a wide range of topics: news, business, legal, and reference information. In Business, it includes company financials, SEC Filings and reports, directories, accounting journals & more

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LexisNexis Business

This LexisNexis Group File combines all of the major sources of company profiles. The file includes profiles of companies and company executives, annual reports and other SEC filings, bankruptcy reports, merger and acquisition transactions, earnings reports. The file covers all US public companies, more than 200,000 private US companies, and many thousands of other companies around the world.

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LGBT Life with Full Text

LGBT Life with Full Text provides indexing and abstracts for over 190 journals and 330 books and reference works. The database also offers full text for more than 120 journals and 140 mongraphs, and a specialized LGBT thesaurus.

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Literary Reference Center

Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 31,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, more than 156,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), more than 440 literary journals, more than 620,000 book reviews, more than 68,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 18,000 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 5,500 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more. In addition, Literary Reference Center includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (six volumes), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story , all of MagillOnLiterature PlusT , and much more

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LitFinder

Full-text poems, essays, plays, speeches, and short stories. Available to Wisconsin residents via BadgerLink

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Margaret Herrick Library

An online database that provides public access to digitized materials from the Library's collections. Currently, the database contains more than 3,000 items, including correspondence, photographs, early release fliers, full issues of rare periodicals, sheet music and movie star ephemera.

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MAS Ultra: School Edition

This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 85,639 biographies and 104,481 primary source documents. Additionally, MAS Ultra - School Edition contains more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

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Masterfile Premier

Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 periodicals, plus searchable full text for more than 1,500 active periodicals. Subjects covered include general reference, business, health, multicultural and more. Total coverage includes over 4 million articles.

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MathSciNet

MathSciNet is the searchable Web database providing access to over 59 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications (from 1940 to the present). The full text of all reviews from 1940 to the present is available on MathSciNet.

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MDConsult

MD Consult is a comprehensive clinical information resource. It includes more than 40 leading medical books, full-text articles from over 70 journals, over 1,000 peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines, more than 5,000 customizable patient education handouts, as well as drug information and Category 1 CME modules.

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Medline with Full Text

Medline with Full text offers indexing for over 4,800 biomedical journals, with full text for over 1,470 of these journals. More than 1,400 of those journals have cover-to-cover indexing.

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Mental Measurements Yearbook

Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.

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Mergent Archives

Beginning with the very first Moody's Manual published in 1909, Mergent offers you more than a century's worth of global corporate data fully digitized into high quality, PDF formatted documents. It also includes more than 85 years of Annual Reports for companies across the globe dating back to as early as 1925.

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Mergent BondViewer

US taxable and municipal fixed income and evaluation data. From pre-sale through defeasance, . . . on-demand access to a wide-range of bond data including both issuer and bond level terms and condition data, US taxable bonds, municipal bonds and retail notes. - from the Mergent site

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Mergent Online

Mergent Online offers detailed insight into company and industry research, both historical and current. Includes U.S. and international company data, global company financials, annual reports, executive profiles, industry reports and more.

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Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies

Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies is an index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa. The database contains more than 588,000 records of published material, grey literature, and theses and dissertations, with about 15,000 records added annually. Subjects covered include politics and law, international relations, business and industry, arts and humanities, social services, anthropology, archaeology, significant religious movements, and history from 1900 to the present.

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Middle Search Plus

Provides abstracts and indexing for over 169 magazines, and searchable full text for 52 of the most frequently used magazines in middle school libraries, including 115 pamphlets. Total coverage includes nearly 400,000 articles.

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Military & Government Collection

Military FullTEXT provides full text from over 330 military and general interest publications. Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for over 380 magazines. Some titles included are Military Review, Parameters, Army Times, and Defense

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MLA Bibliography

The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.

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MLA Directory of Periodicals

The MLA Directory of Periodicals contains all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines.

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Morningstar Investment Research Center

Stock market analysis, equity, mutual fund & ETF research ratings & pics, portfolio tools. Option, hedge fund, IRA, 401K & 529 plan research.

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Music Index

Comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature. The Music Index Online has been available in print since 1949. The Music Index Online coverage spans from 1973 to the present and contains surveyed data from over 850 music periodicals from over 40 countries. This database cites book reviews, obituaries, news periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.

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National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts a...

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts and Full Text Publications

Contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. The full text searching option searches the NCJRS web site and the web sites of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The Office Justice Programs includes the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the Office for Victims of Crime.

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Nature Online

Online access to the monthly and weekly issues of Nature Magazine.

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New England Journal of Medicine Online

Online access to the New England Journal of Medicine

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New York Times (1851-2008)

The New York Times (1851-2008) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

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Newspaper Source Plus

Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.

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NewspaperArchive.com

NewspaperARCHIVE.com provides access to millions of newspaper pages from the United States and other countries. The collection of newspapers includes hundreds of titles, ranging from the 1700's to the present.

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NHS Economic Evaluation Database

The NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED) assists decision-makers in the world of professional health care by providing information on the costs and effects of drugs, treatments and procedures. Economic evaluations - the cost-benefit analysis of two or more different medical treatments - from around the world are systematically identified, described and appraised for quality while their relative strengths and weaknesses are explored and highlighted. The database contains over 6,000 abstracts of quality-assessed economic evaluations and more than 21,000 total records. NHS EED is produced by the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York, UK.

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Nineteenth Century Collections Online

This database is provided courtesy of UW Madison. Access the digital images of thousands of materials published during the 19th Century. With full-text searching of millions of 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.

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North American Immigrants Letters, Diaries, and Oral Hi...

North American Immigrants Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (IMLD) includes 71 authors and approximately 10,000 pages of information. Which provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.

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North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to...

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950

North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. The materials have been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies, supplemented by customer requests and more than 7,000 pages of previously unpublished material. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

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Novelist

NoveList provides subject access to over thousands of fiction titles, full-text reviews, and read-alikes for every title and author. Provided by Badgerlink.

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Novelist K-8

NoveList K-8 provides subject access to over 60,000 fiction titles, full-text reviews, and read-alikes for every title and author. Provided by Badgerlink.

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Nursing Consult

Mosby's Nursing Consult brings the leading resources together in one integrated online service to help nurses efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions. Mosby's Nursing Consult is the perfect resource for the clinical nurse, the nurse administrators and the nurse faculty. It contains drug information, patient handouts, medical journals, health reference books, nursing news, clinical updates and more.

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Nursing Full Text Plus

Nursing Full Text Plus combines full-text access to over 40 research and practitioner-oriented journals dating as far back as 1995. It also includes records from over 400 nursing journals spanning the breadth of the profession.

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OECD iLibrary

OECD iLibrary is a highly comprehensive online resource on the world economy, society, education and environment. It contains all books and papers published by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) since 1998 ? as well as a vast collection of statistics, with data going back to the early 1960s and more than 80 countries are covered.

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Open Access Dissertations

A collection of dissertations and theses that are free to download and read.

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Oxford African American Studies Center

AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, published by Oxford in 2006, the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine, published in March 2005, the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African and African American experience.? In addition to these reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and selected articles from other reference works.

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Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art)

Comprehensive online reference resource for the field of art.

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Oxford English Dictionary

Online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. Search for OED's definition of a word or phrase, etymologies and quotations.

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Oxford Music Online

Comprehensive online reference resource for the field of music.

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Oxford Reference Online - A Dictionary of Psychology

With over 11,000 authoritative, this dictionary covers all branches of psychology, including psychoanalysis, psychiatry, criminology, neuroscience, and statistics. It features comprehensive coverage of key areas, for example: cognition, sensation and perception, emotion and motivation, learning and skills, language, mental disorder, and research methods. Entries provide definitions, word origins and derivations, and are extensively cross-referenced for ease of use. Over 80 illustrations complement the text.

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Oxford Reference Online - The Oxford Companion to the M...

Oxford Reference Online - The Oxford Companion to the Mind

A widely acclaimed guide to the mysteries - and idiosyncracies - of the human mind. Includes articles on concepts such as language, memory,intelligence, consciousness, brain scanning, and artificial intelligence and many more.

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Oxford Reference Online_The Oxford Dictionary of Islam

Designed for readers with little or no knowledge of Islam, the Oxford Dictionary of Islam provides vividly-written, up-to-date, and authoritative entries. The Dictionary focuses primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries, providing a highly informative look at the religious, political, and social spheres of the modern Islamic world.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Reaxys

Reaxys is a unique web-based chemistry database consisting of deeply excerpted compounds and related factual properties, reaction and synthesis information as well as bibliographic data, navigated and displayed via an actionable interface.

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Regional Business News

This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

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SAGE Premier

Online access to over 500 journals published by SAGE.

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Science Citation Index

Search for references and cited references in Science Citation Index.

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Science Direct

ScienceDirect? is a large electronic collection of science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information. Subjects covered include physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences & humanities

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Science Magazine Online

Online access to Science magazine.

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Science Reference Center

Provides access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife

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SciFinder

SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, material science, agricultural science, and more. Access is limited to faculty and graduate students.

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Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period

Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (SWRP) contains 60 volumes of Romantic Poetry, extensive contemporary critical reviews, as well as material specially written for this database by leading scholars

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Social Sciences Citation Index

Search for references and cited references in Social Science Citation Index.

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SocIndex with Full Text

SocINDEX contains over 2 million records from more than 1,200 core journals (some dating as far back as 1895), plus another selected group of over 3,200 journals, as well as monographs and conference papers. The database includes full text from 766 journals, some back to 1908, more than 820 monographs, and 13,900 conference papers. Also included are over 25,000 biographical and bibliographic Author Profiles.

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SportDiscus

This link takes you to 2 databases: SPORTDiscus with Full Text is a source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 415 journals. With more than 700,000 full-text articles dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is a research tool for all areas of sports and sports medicine literature. SPORTDiscus Select focuses to provide information for doctors, allied health professionals, educators and researchers in the field of sports medicine, physical education, sport law & legislation, injury prevention & rehabilitation and other related areas. This database contains 169 full text journals with PDF coverage back as far as 1887 including 130 peer-reviewed publications.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of an editorial board before they are made public. Consequently, the encyclopedia maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research.

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STAT-USA and the National Trade Databank

STAT-USA, an agency in the Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. They supply vital economic, business, and international trade information produced by the US Government

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Statistical Abstract of the United States

The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations.

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Teaching Books.net

An easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. Our online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K?12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.

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Toxline

TOXLINE offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. This database provides bibliographic citations and abstracts from journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, information in the database is drawn from a number of discrete files including Toxicity Bibliography and Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology.

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Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family

Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family allows students and researchers to immerse themselves in the values and behaviors of Americans of the past. The collection provides a window into American social history by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave. The collection currently includes 33,196 pages

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U.S. Census & Other Statistical Sites

This is a collection of a wide variety of government-created statistical resources. Library staff have collected these links and organized them by usefulness and government agency.

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Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory

Online edition of Ulrich International Periodicals Directory. It provides users with essential serials bibliographic and access information that ranges from subscription rates to the latest web address. Nearly a quarter of a million consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly publications, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, 'zines, and many other types of serial publications and services published throughout the world on all subjects, are profiled

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Up To Date Clinical Resource

From the "Up to Date" site: "UpToDate contains the equivalent of over 80,000 pages of original, peer-reviewed text. Access answers to clinical questions. Updated by a staff of physician editors in conjunction with over 4,400 authors, section editors, and peer reviewers so that all content is always current. Specific, practical recommendations for diagnosis and treatment. It combines broad coverage of adult primary care, subspecialty internal medicine, ob/gyn, and pediatrics.

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UW Oshkosh Archives & Area Research Center

The webpages of the UW Oshkosh Archives and Area Research Center. It?s mission is to collect, preserve and provide access to records of historical significance to the members of the university and public community at large.

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UW Oshkosh Theses, Clinical Papers, and Field Projects ...

UW Oshkosh Theses, Clinical Papers, and Field Projects Online

MINDS@UW Oshkosh is designed to store, index, distribute, and preserve research-based digital materials of UW-Oshkosh. This section is comprised of UW-Oshkosh Theses, Clinical Papers, and Field Projects

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ValueLine Investment Survey

The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. The Ratings & Reports section contains one-page reports on approximately 1,700 companies and more than 90 industries. Each company report contains, among other things, Value Line's Timeliness, Safety, and Technical ranks, financial and stock price forecasts for the coming 3 to 5 years, an analyst's written commentary, and much more. For detailed information, please click on EDUCATION and go to either How to Invest in Common Stocks or the Quick Study Guide. The Summary & Index contains an index of all stocks in the publication as well as many up-to-date statistics to keep investors informed about the latest company results. It also contains a variety of stock screens designed to help investors identify companies with various characteristics. The Selection & Opinion section contains Value Line's latest economic and stock market forecasts, one-page write-ups of interesting and attractive stocks, model portfolios, and financial and stock market statistics.

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Web of Science

Search for references and cited references in Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

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Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide

Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide is the world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. The database includes over 1.3 million bibliographic records, some with abstracts, and some going back to 1935 and earlier, mostly from Wildlife Review Abstracts. Approximately 18,000 records per year are added on topics such as habitat, individual species, hunting, diseases, economics, zoology, management techniques, and eco-tourism

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Wiscat

Statewide bibliographic database for Wisconsin. It contains 5.6 million bibliographic records with local holdings statements for 1125 libraries throughout Wisconsin.

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Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 t...

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000

Books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women?s reform activities. Thousands of pages of books, pamphlets, and related materials provide scholars with in-depth access to the published histories and records of women?s reform organizations throughout the United States across the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Women's Studies International

Includes over 255,800 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases including: Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and Southern Women, and more.

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World Factbook, CIA

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

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World History Collection

World History Collection provides full-text coverage of 150 world history journals, with some peer-reviewed titles included.

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WorldCat

WorldCat is a mega-library catalog containing more than 42 million records contributed by 15,000 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.

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