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DATABASES BY GENERAL SUBJECT AREA

These databases provide acccess to journal articles, searchable by keywords and many other elements. Click in the first section to find databases in a general subject area, or start with General Academic Research. To look for specific journal titles, perform a Journal Title search in TOPCAT.

 

» GENERAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH
» BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, FINANCE, ECONOMICS & COMPANY RESOURCES
» EDUCATION
; FASHION
» HEALTH CARE, NURSING,
NUTRITION, ALLIED HEALTH, MEDLINE
» HUMANITIES
» SCIENCE
» SOCIAL SCIENCE, P
SYCHOLOGY, COMMUNICATION

 

» DIGITAL LIBRARIES
» GOVERNMENT WEBSITES
» WEBSITES BY ACADEMIC SUBJECT
» MMC E-NEWSSTAND


GENERAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH
• — ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER (EBSCOhost)
A multi-disciplinary full-text database of 4,650 journals; has indexing & abstracts for 8,450 journals; covers nearly every area of academic study
 
• — CATHOLIC PERIODICALS & LITERATURE INDEX (EBSCOhost)

Covers the Roman Catholic faith & 200 periodicals & 420,000 index citations & articles & Reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals; Papal Documents; Church Promulgations & Books authored by Roman Catholic Authors; from ATLA & The Catholic Library Association; Coverage to 1981

 
• — DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (DOAJ)

Provides access to thousands of open access scientific and scholarly journals

 
• — EBSCOhost MAIN PAGE

Choose from Research, Business, Health and Medical, and Literary Reference Center, among others; click one section to find all available databases and titles

 
• — EBSCO A-Z

Find and search EBSCO e-journal titles in a comprehensive list of available databases

 
• — ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE
Provides high-quality encyclopedic information with comprehensive statistical comparisons on world date, demographics, countries, chronologies, quotations; has "This Day in History" & blogs on contemporary issues; provides selected websites by subject
 
• — FUNK & WAGNALLS NEW WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA (EBSCOhost)

Provides 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering all subject areas

 
• — GALE DATABASES HOME PAGE
Has the following databases: General Business File ASAP; Business Insights: Essentials; Expanded Academic ASAP; General OneFile; Academic OneFile; Testing & Education Reference Center
 
• — LexisNexis® ACADEMIC

Business information for professionals in law and law enforcement, corporations, government, tax issues; has accounting & financial reports; biographical references, business news, career information; covers federal & state case law; company profiles; directories; Federal Code & Regulations; international legal material; SEC filings & reports; medical news & journals; state codes; tax law; patent search; polls & surveys; state profiles; world almanac

 
• — OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY--OED

Definitive record of the English language; the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language

 
• — PROQUEST DATABASES HOME PAGE

Provides access to these databases: Nursing and Allied Health; ProQuest Psychology Journals; PsycARTICLES (Full Text); PsycINFO (abstracts only)

 
 
BUSINESS - MANAGEMENT - COMPANY RESOURCES
• — BUSINESS INSIGHTS: ESSENTIALS (GALE)
PROVIDES COMPANY PROFILES & HISTORIES; BRAND INFORMATION; RANKINGS; INVESTMENT REPORTS; INDUSTRY NEWS; formerly Business and Company Resource Center
 
• — BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER (EBSCOhost)
Full-Text for 2,300 Journals + 1,100 peer-reviewed titles; Covers business, marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance & economics; updated daily
 
• — GENERAL BUSINESS FILE ASAP (GALE)
PROVIDES ANALYSES OF COMPANY PERFORMANCE & ACTIVITY, INDUSTRY EVENTS & TRENDS; COVERS MANAGEMENT, ECONOMICS, POLITITICS, BROKER RESEARCH REPORTS, TRADE PUBLICATIONS, NEWSPAPERS, COMPANY DIRECTORIES
 
• — INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY; BUSINESS (from Drexel University)
Selected websites on adversiting & marketing, professional ethics, consumer law, non-profit resources, company histories, consumer research & advocacy, corruption & fraud, economics, finance, industries & international trade
 
• — NEWSPAPER SOURCE PLUS (EBSCOhost)
INCLUDES 1,520 FULL-TEXT NEWSPAPERS WITH 28 MILLION FULL-TEXT ARTICLES; PROVIDES OVEER 600,000 TV & RADIO NEWS TRANSCRIPTS, VIDEOS & PODCASTS
 
• — LexisNexis® ACADEMIC: BUSINESS
BUSINESS NEWS, INDUSTRY & MARKET, ACCOUNTING, COMPANY FINANCIAL REPORTS, COMPANY PROFILES, SEC FILINGS & REPORTS, DIRECTORIES
 
• — REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS (EBSCOhost)
Provides Full-Text coverage of 80 regional business publications
 
 
EDUCATION
 
• — EDUCATION RESEARCH COMPLETE (EBSCOhost)
 
• — ERIC: EDUCATION RESOURCE INFORMATION CENTER (eric.ed.gov)

Provides full-text entries to 1,300,000 records; covers journals in Current Index of Journals in Education & Recources in Education Index

 
• — ERIC: EDUCATION RESOURCE INFORMATION CENTER (EBSCOhost)
 
• — INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY; EDUCATION
 
• — OER COMMONS
Open Education Resources contains open access instructor and student resources that are free to use and share
 
• — PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COLLECTION (EBSCOhost)
 
• — TESTING & EDUCATION REFERENCE CENTER (GALE CENGAGE)
College & Graduate School entries; Scholarships; Practice tests
 
 
FASHION
 
• — FASHION SNOOPS (on-campus ONLY)

PROVIDES UP-TO-THE-MINUTE INFORMATION AND INSIGHT TO THE FASHION INDUSTRY; ACCESS TO A WIDE VARIETY OF MARKET REPORTS

 
• — INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY; FASHION
 
 
HEALTH CARE: NURSING/NUTRITION/ALLIED HEALTH/MEDLINE
 
• — CINAHL FULL-TEXT--Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (EBSCOhost)
THE DEFINITE & COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE FOR ALL AREAS OF NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH LITERATURE; PROVIDES FULL-TEXT COVERAGE TO MORE THAN 600 JOURNALS, WITH NO EMBARGO; COVERAGE DATES TO 1981
 
• — CONSUMER HEALTH COMPLETE (EBSCOhost, Consumer version)

UPDATED WEEKLY, CONSUMER HEALTH COMPLETE PROVIDES CONTENT DESIGNED TO SUPPORT PATIENTS' NEEDS AND OVERALL UNDERSTANDING OF HEALTH-RELATED TOPICS; INCLUDES DRUG INFORMATION, IMAGES AND DIAGRAMS, AND REFERENCE BOOKS; RESEARCH VERSION ON EBSCO HOME PAGE

 
• — LEXI-PALS DRUG GUIDE (EBSCOhost)

PROVIDES INFORMATION ON MEDICATIONS VIA PATIENT ADVISORY LEAFLETS; CONSISTS OF 1,450 MEDICATION & NATURAL PRODUCT LEAFLETS; UPDATED MONTHLY

 
• — HEALTH SOURCE NURSING/ACADEMIC EDITION (EBSCOhost)

PROVIDES 550 SCHOLARLY FULL-TEXT JOURNALS FOCUSING ON MEDICAL DISCIPLINES

 
• — HEALTH SOURCE CONSUMER EDITION (EBSCOhost)
FULL-TEXT FOR 300 JOURNALS COVERING CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION, INCLUDING MEDICAL SCIENCES, FOOD SCIENCES, NUTRITION, CHILD CARE, SPORTS MEDICINE & GENERAL HEALTH
 
• — MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)
AUTHORITATIVE INFORMATION ON MEDICINE, NURSING, DENTISTRY, VETERINARY MEDICINE, HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS, PRE-CLINICAL SCIENCES; USES MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS (MESH) WITH TREE-NUMBERS, TREE HIERARCHY & EXPLOSION CAPABILITIES TO SEARCH THE ABSTRACTS FROM OVER 4,800 BIOMEDICAL JOURNALS
 
• — MEDLINE - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (NLM)

A COMPREHENSIVE SOURCE OF LIFE SCIENCES & BIOMEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION WITH 11 MILLION RECORDS

 
• — NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH SOURCE (ProQuest)
RELIABLE, COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE OF MANY SUBJECTS WITHIN THESE FIELDS
 
• — PUBMED CENTRAL
FREE, OPEN ACCESS ARCHIVE OF BIOMEDICAL & LIFE SCIENCES LITERATURE; FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
 
 
GOVERNMENT WEBSITES
 
— American FactFinder
— Bureau of Labor Statistics
— FAFSA on the Web

— FBI Reports on Crime

— Fed Forms

— Fed World (United States Department of Commerce)

— Federal Judiciary

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

— MapStats

— Milwaukee County Government

— USA Trade Online

— State of Wisconsin

— Thomas Databases

— United States Business Statistics

— United States Government Printing Office GPO Databases

— United States House of Representatives

— United States Postal Service

— United States Senate

— United States Census Statistical Abstract

— The White House

Wisconsin Blue Books (UW Digital Collections)

Wisconsin Department of Revenue

Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau

— Wisconsin State Legislature

— public.resource.org (.gov search page)

 
 
HUMANITIES
 
• — ACADEMIC ONE FILE (GALE)
HAS PEER-REVIEWED, FULL-TEXT ARTICLES FOR THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGY, MEDICINE, SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS, THEOLOGY, LITERATURE, AND MORE; FULL-TEXT COVERAGE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TO 1995; UPDATED DAILY
 
• — ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE
Provides high-quality encyclopedic information with comprehensive statistical comparisons on world date, demographics, countries, chronologies, quotations; has "This Day in History" & blogs on contemporary issues; provides selected websites by subject
 
• — EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP (GALE)
COVERS THE ARTS, HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY; HAS SCHOLARLY ARTICLES, NEWS MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS
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• — HUMANITIES INTERNATIONAL COMPLETE (EBSCOhost)
 
• — MODERN LANGUAGE INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (EBSCOhost)

CITATIONS FROM 4,400 JOURNALS; COVERS LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS, FOLKLORE, LITERARY THEORY, CRITICISM, DRAMATIC ARTS, RHETORIC, COMPOSITION, HISTORY & PRACTICE OF TEACHING LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

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MMC E-NEWSSTAND

Note: most links connect to searchable article database options, not actual Websites. Any subscriptions to titles below are electronic only.


The Advocate
Al-Arabiya (English version)
America
American Spectator
Architectural Record
Art in America
Artforum
Arutz Sheva
Atlantic Monthly
BBC News
Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Tribune
Christianity Today
Chronicle of Higher Education
CNN
Columbia Journalism Review
Commentary
Consumer Reports
Cosmopolitan
Diabetes Forecast
Dissent
Fast Company
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Global Post
Harper's magazine
House Beautiful
Humanist
Humanities
Interior Design
Los Angeles Times
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Money
Mother Jones
National Catholic Reporter
National Geographic
National Journal
New Criterion
New Republic
New York Times
New Yorker
Newsweek
Old House Interiors
Paris Review
Poets and Writers
Print
Progressive
Psychology Today
Reuters
Rolling Stone
Scientific American
Shape
Sierra
Smithsonian
Sports Illustrated
Teaching Tolerance
Tikkun
Time
USA Today
Variety
Washington Post
Washington Times
The Week
Weekly Standard
Wilson Quarterly
Wired
Writer's Digest
Yoga Journal
 
French Newspapers
German Newspapers
Italian Newspapers
Portuguese Newspapers
Spanish Newspapers
 
Internet Public Library2, Newspapers & Magazines
EBSCOHost Home (choose Newspaper Source Plus)
 
 
SCIENCE
 
• — SCIENCE REFERENCE CENTER (EBSCOhost)
Provides Full-Text coverage of 640 science encyclopedias, reference books and journals; topics include biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, physics, science & society, technology and wildlife
 
• — EBSCO ANIMALS (EBSCOhost)
Provides information on nature & habitats of animals
 
• — GreenFILE (EBSCOhost)
Scholarly, governmental, and popular articles covering all aspects of the human impact on the environment, climate change, green building, sustainable agriculture, and recycling among others
 

• — INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY2: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
COVERS AGRICULTURE, ANIMALS, ASTRONOMY, BIOLOGY, ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, HEALTH, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, PLANTS, TECHNOLOGY

 
 
SOCIAL SCIENCES
 
• — COMMUNICATION & MASS MEDIA COMPLETE (EBSCOhost)
Covers 90 research journals & major journalism reviews, recent Encyclopedias & Handbooks in Communication studies; Full-Text & Citation coverage of 200 titles
 
• — CRIMINAL JUSTICE-SOCIAL SCIENCE PERIODICALS INDEX (ProQuest)
COVERS 225 CRIMINAL JUSTICE JOURNAL TITLES OF WHICH 67 ARE FULL-TEXT
 
• — LEGAL RESEARCH (LexisNexis® ACADEMIC)
LEGAL NEWS, LAW REVIEWS, CASE LAW, SHEPARD'S, FEDERAL CASE LAW, STATE CASE LAW, FEDERAL CODE, FEDERAL REGULATIONS, STATE CODES, TAX LAW, CANADIAN LEGISLATIVE MATERIALS, CANADIAN STATUTES & REGULATIONS, EUROPEAN UNION LAW (CELEX), COMMONWEALTH & FOREIGN NATIONS, PATENTS, MARTINDALE-HUBBLE LAW DIRECTORY, LAW SCHOOL DIRECTORIES
 
• — PROQUEST PSYCHOLOGY JOURNALS

Provides access to over 540 Full-Text titles in a wide variety of subject areas

 
• — PsycArticles (ProQuest)

Provides Full-Text access to American Psychological Association journals, among others

 
• — PsycInfo (ProQuest)

Provides abstracts and indexing for international psychological publications

 
• — SOCIAL WORK ABSTRACTS (EBSCOhost)

Covers 450 Social Work & Human Services journals back to 1965; produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW); covers all aspects of the Social Work field : theory and practice, service & social issues, therapy, education, human services, addiction, child & family welfare, mental health, civil & legal rights

 
 

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