Alphabetical Listing of Databases
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Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Wall Street Journal (Proquest) |  |
1986-current |
| Wall Street Journal Historical File (Proquest) | |
1889-1985 |
| Web of Science (ISI) | 1984-current | |
| Library no longer subscribes to WOS. Use Scopus for citations to articles in scholarly journals in science and social science. Use Arts & Humanities Search (FirstSearch) for Arts & Humanities Citation Index. | ||
| Webster's Unabridged (LION) | |
1993 ed. |
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Online version of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published in 1961, and subsequent updates. Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
| Wiley Interscience Journals (Wiley) | |
dates vary |
| Includes full-text of Wiley journals in science, business, education, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology, social sciences. | ||
| Wilson SelectPlus (FirstSearch) | |
1994-current |
| Multidisciplinary database of full-text articles. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. Many articles are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases. | ||
| Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Alexander Street Press) | |
1600-2000 |
| History of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. | ||
| Women Writers Online (Brown Univ.) | |
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| Includes texts by pre-Victorian women writers. | ||
| Women's History Online, 1542-1945 (Gerritsen Collection) | 1543-1945 | |
| Contains primary source materials in women's history that span four centuries and fifteen languages. | ||
| Women's Studies Encyclopedia Online (Greenwood) | |
2002 |
| Contains information about women from all fields and disciplines of study. Focus is on American women. Revised and updated version of the print edition published in 1999. | ||
| World Development Indicators Online (World Bank) | |
1960-current |
| Access to more than 600 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2004, where data are available. | ||
| World Shakespeare Bibliography (Johns Hopkins) | 1900-current | |
| Indexes books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, production reviews, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900. | ||
| WorldCat (FirstSearch) | Dates vary | |
| Online catalog of books and other material cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide. | ||
| Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations (Gale) | |
11th ed., 2004 |
| Information on 200 countries and dependencies from around the world. Entries discuss a variety of topics in detail, from banking and securities to climate, from government data to demographic statistics. Also includes biographical essays on national leaders. Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. | ||
| Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA) | 1975-current | |
| Politics, international relations, government, public policy. | ||
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