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GENERAL ACADEMIC RESEARCH


— ACADEMIC SEARCH ELITE -- EBSCOhost
  FULL-TEXT ARTICLES FOR 2,500 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING 1,500 PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS; INDEXING & ABSTRACTS FOR 3,474 JOURNALS
COVERS COMPUTER SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS, ART & LITERATURE, HUMANITIES, MEDICAL SCIENCES, ETHNIC STUDIES & OTHERS
   
ACADEMIC UNIVERSE -- LexisNexis
  NEWS -- BUSINESS NEWS, INDUSTRY & MARKET, ACCOUNTING, FINANCIAL REPORTS, COMPANY PROFILES, SEC FILINGS & REPORTS, DIRECTORIES -- LEGAL NEWS & REVIEWS, FEDERAL CASE LAW, STATE CASE LAW, AREA OF LAW BY TOPIC, FEDERAL CODE, FEDERAL REGULATIONS, STATE CODES, TAX LAW, INTERNATIONAL LEGAL MATERIALS, PATENT RESEARCH, CAREER INFORMATION -- MEDICAL NEWS & JOURNALS -- BIOGRAPHICAL, COUNTRY PROFILES, POLLS & SURVEYS, QUOTATIONS, STATE PROFILES, WORLD ALMANAC
   
BOOKS IN PRINT (BIP) with Book Reviews
  BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE FOR BOOK, AUDIO BOOK & VIDEO TITLES
   
— CATHOLIC PERIODICALS & LITERATURE INDEX
  COVERS ALL ASPECTS OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH AND INCLUDES OVER 380,000 INDEX CITATIONS OF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS PUBLISHED IN ROMAN CATHOLIC PERIODICALS, PAPAL DOCUMENTS, CHURCH PROMULGATIONS AND BOOKS ABOUT THE CATHOLIC FAITH AUTHORED BY ROMAN CATHOLICS AND/OR PRODUCED BY CATHOLIC PUBLISHERS
   
COMMUNICATION & MASS MEDIA COMPLETE -- EBSCOhost
  COVERS 90 RESEARCH JOURNALS, MAJOR JOURNALISM REVIEWS, RECENT ENCYCLOPEDIAS & HANDBOOKS IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES; INCLUDES FULL-TEXT & CITATION COVERAGE OF 200 TITLES
   
EBSCOhost Main Page
  ACADEMIC SEARCH ELITE -- MASTERFILE PREMIER -- ERIC -- BUSINESS SOURCE ELITE -- MEDLINE -- HEALTH SOURCE NURSING/ACADEMIC EDITION -- HEALTH SOURCE CONSUMER EDITION -- KNIGHT RIDDER COLLECTION -- CORPORATE RESOURCE NET -- REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS -- CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY -- MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MLA DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS -- COMMUNICATION & MASS MEDIA COMPLETE -- NEWSPAPER SOURCE -- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COLLECTION -- MILITARY & GOVERNMENT COLLECTION -- BIOMEDICAL REFERENCE COLLECTION BASIC -- CLINICAL REFERENCE SYSTEMS -- NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH COLLECTION BASIC
   
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ONLINE
   
FIRSTSEARCH -- OCLC
  ALTERNATIVE PRESS INDEX -- BASIC BIOSIS -- BIODIGEST -- BUSINESS DATELINE -- BUSINESS & INDUSTRY FACTS -- BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS -- BUSINESS MANAGEMENT -- CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSUES -- DISCLOSURE -- DISSERTATIONS -- MEDIA REVIEW DIGEST -- NEWS ABSTRACTS -- PAIS ARCHIVE -- CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS -- SIRS RESEARCHER -- WILSON SELECT PLUS -- WORLD ALMANAC -- WORLD SCOPE
   
FUNK & WAGNALLS NEW WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA -- EBSCOhost
 

INDEXES 25,000 RECORDS; FULL-TEXT FOR EACH RECORD MAY BE ACCESSED BY DOUBLE CLICKING ON THE TOPIC FROM THE DISPLAY -- HAS IMAGES, BIOGRAPHIES AS WELL AS INFORMATION COVERING MANY SUBJECT AREAS -- UPDATED ANNUALLY

   
INFOTRAC -- Thomson Gale
  BUSINESS & COMPANY RESOURCE CENTER -- EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP -- GENERAL BUSINESS FILE ASAP -- INFOTRAC ONE-FILE -- TESTING & EDUCATION REFERENCE CENTER
   
LEXISNEXIS -- ACADEMIC UNIVERSITY
 

ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL REPORTS; BIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE; BUSINESS NEWS; CAREER INFORMATION; CASE LAW (FEDERAL & STATE); COMPANY PROFILES; COUNTRY PROFILES; DIRECTORIES; FEDERAL CODE & REGULATIONS; IN TERNATIONAL LEGAL MATERIALS; SEC FILINGS & REPORTS; LEGAL NEWS & REVIEWS; MEDICAL NEWS & JOURNALS; STATE CODES; TAX LAW; PATENT RESEARCH; POLLS & SURVEYS; STATE PROFILES; WORLD ALMANAC

   
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY (OED)
   
PsycARTICLES/PsycINFO
  FULL-TEXT ARTICLES FROM JOURNALS PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, THE APA EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING FOUNDATION & THE CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION -- UPDATED DAILY -- COVERAGE STARTS WITH 1985 -- COVERS INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE IN PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, EDUCATION, BUSINESS, MEDICINE, NURSING, PHARMACOLOGY, LAW, LINGUISTICS, SOCIAL WORK -- SOURCES INCLUDE 1,800 JOURNALS, CHAPTERS, BOOKS, REPORTS, THESES AND DISSERTATIONS, 8 MILLION CITED REFERENCES IN 185,000 JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOKS
   
   
 
   
   
 
BUSINESS - MANAGEMENT - COMPANY RESOURCES
   
Business & Company Resource Center
  COMPANY PROFILES & HISTORIES,, BRAND INFORMATION, RANKINGS, INVESTMENT REPORTS, INDUSTRY NEWS; FULL-TEXT FOR 500 PEER REVIEW
   
Business Source Elite -- EBSCOhost
  FULL-TEXT FOR 1,125 SCHOLARLY BUSINESS JOURNALS, INCLUDING FULL-TEXT FOR 500 PEER REVIEWED BUSINESS PUBLICATIONS -- COVERAGE FROM 1985 -- UPDATED DAILY
   
Corporate Resource Net -- EBSCOhost
 

FULL-TEXT ARTICLES FROM 1,300 MAGAZINES & JOURNALS

   
General Business File ASAP -- Infotrac
  ANALYSES OF COMPANY PERFORMANCE AND ACTIVITY, INDUSTRY EVENTS & TRENDS -- COVERS MANAGEMENT, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, BROKER RESEARCH REPORTS, TRADE PUBLICATIONS, NEWSPAPERS, JOURNALS & COMPANY DIRECTORY LISTINGS
   
Knight Ridder Collection -- EBSCOhost
  INCLUDES A 90-DAY ARCHIVE OF 100 NEWSPAPERS FROM THE KNIGHT RIDDER WIRE SERVICE -- UPDATED DAILY
   
LexisNexis Business
  BUSINESS NEWS -- INDUSTRY & MARKET -- ACCOUNTING -- COMPANY FINANCIAL REPORTS -- COMPANY PROFILES -- SEC FILINGS & REPORTS -- DIRECTORIES
   
Regional Business News -- EBSCOhost
  FULL-TEXT COVERAGE FOR 75 REGIONAL BUSINESS PUBLICATIONS -- UPDATED DAILY 
   
 
   
   
 
EDUCATION

— EBSCOhost
 

ACADEMIC SEARCH ELITE -- MASTERFILE PREMIER -- ERIC -- MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MLA DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS -- COMMUNICATION & MASS MEDIATE COMPLETE -- NEWSPAPER SOURCE -- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COLLECTION

   
— Educators Reference Desk
  RESOURCES AND SERVICES TO THE EDUCATION COMMUNITY -- FROM THE INFORMATION INSTITUTE OF SYRACUSE -- THE SITE PROVIDES 2,000+ LESSON PLANS, 3,000+ LINKS TO ONLINE EDUCATION INFORMATION & 200+ QUESTION ARCHIVE RESPONSES
   
— ERIC -- Educational Resource Information Center
  ACCESS TO EDUCATION LITERATURE & RESOURCES FROM JOURNALS INCLUDED IN THE CURRENT INDEX OF JOURNALS IN EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN EDUCATION INDEX -- PROVIDES FULL TEXT OF MORE THAN 2,200 DIGESTS & CITATIONS & ABSTRACTS FROM OVER 1,000 EDUCATIONAL AND EDUCATION RELATED JOURNALS
   
— Testing & Education Reference Center -- InfoTrack
  COLLEGE AND GRADUATE SCHOOL ENTRIES -- SCHOLARSHIPS -- PROVIDES ON-LINE PRACTICE TESTS
   
 
   
 
FASHION
   
TextileNet Base
  COVERS CONVENTIONAL FABRICS AND TEXTILES, BIOMATERIALS, CASHMERE AND COTTON, SMART FABRICS AND WEARABLE ELECTRONICS; EXPLORES PROPERTIES, APPLICATIONS AND MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES FOR NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC FIBERS; INCLUDES CRC HANDBOOKS THAT OFFER INFORMATION ON WEAVING, DESIGN AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE FIBERS.
   
   
 
   
   
 
HEALTH CARE: NURSING/PHARMACOLOGY/ALLIED HEALTH/MEDLINE
   
— CINAHL -- Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health -- EBSCOhost
  A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE COVERING NURSING, ALLIED HEALTH, ALTERNATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE, CONSUMER HEALTH, HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARIANSHIP; COMBINES THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC INDEX OF 1,700 CURRENT TITLES WITH FULL-TEXT OF 400 TITLES FROM PROQUEST NURSING JOURNALS & OVER 7,000 NURSING DISSERTATIONS
   
— Clinical Pharmacology -- EBSCOhost
  UP-TO-DATE, CONCISE AND CLINICALLY RELEVANT DRUG MONOGRAPHS FOR US PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, HERBAL & NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS, OVER-THE-COUNTER PRODUCES & NEW & INVESTIGATIONAL DRUGS
   
— EBSCOhost Home Page
 

ACADEMIC SEARCH ELITE; MASTERFILE PREMIER; ERIC; MEDLINE; HEALTH SOURCE NURSING/ACADEMIC EDITION; HEALTH SOURCE CONSUMER EDITION; CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY; COMMUNICATION & MASS MEDIATE COMPLETE; NEWSPAPER SOURCE; BIOMEDICAL REFERENCE COLLECTION BASIC; CLINICAL REFERENCE SYSTEMS; NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH COLLECTION BASIC

   
— Health Source Nursing Academic Edition -- EBSCOhost
 

550 FULL TEXT JOURNALS THAT FOCUS ON MEDICAL DISCIPLINES; HAS ABSTRACTS AND INDEXING FOR NEARLY 850 JOURNALS; UPDATED DAILY

   
— Health Source Nursing Consumer Edition -- EBSCOhost
  FULL-TEXT FOR 300 JOURNAL, COVERING CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION, INCLUDING MEDICAL SCIENCES, FOOD SCIENCES, NUTRITION, CHILDCARE, SPORTS MEDICINE, GENERAL HEALTHSCHOOL RESEARCH; UPDATED DAILY
   
— Medline -- EBSCOhost
  AUTHORITATIVE INFORMATION ON MEDICINE, NURSING, DENTISTRY, VETERINARY MEDICINE, HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, PRE-CLINICAL SCIENCES; USES MESH (MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS) INDEXING WITH TREE NUMBERS, TREE HIERARCHY AND EXPLOSION CAPABILITIES TO SEARCH THE ABSTRACTS FROM OVER 4,800 BIOMEDICAL JOURNALS
   
— Medline National Library of Medicine NLM
 

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

   
— Nursing Journals -- ProQuest
   
— PubMed Central -- National Institutes of Health -- Archive of Life Science Journals
  FREE DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES JOURNAL LITERATURE
   
 
   
   
 
GOVERNMENT (FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL)
   
 

— FAFSA on the Web

 

— Fed Forms

 

— Fed World

 

— Federal Agency Alphabetical Directory -- Louisiana State University

 

— Federal Agency Hierarchical Directory -- Louisiana State University

 

— Federal Judiciary

 

— Federal Web Locator

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
 

— MapStats

 

— Milwaukee County Government

 

— Stat-USA Internet

 

— State of Wisconsin

 

— Thomas Databases

 

— United States Congress

 

— United States Government Manual

 

— United States Government Printing Office GPO Databases

 

— United States House of Representatives

 

— United States Postal Service

 

— United States Senate

 

— United States Statistical Abstract

 

— The White House

  Wisconsin Blue Books (UW Digital Collections)
  Wisconsin Department of Revenue
 

Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau

 

— Wisconsin State Legislature

   
 
   
   
 
HUMANITIES
   
— EBSCOhost Home Page
  ACADEMIC SEARCH ELITE -- MASTERFILE PREMIER -- ERIC -- BUSINESS SOURCE ELITE -- MEDLINE -- HEALTH SOURCE NURSING/ACADEMIC EDITION -- HEALTH SOURCE CONSUMER EDITION -- KNIGHT RIDDER COLLECTION -- CORPORATE RESOURCENET -- REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS -- CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY -- MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MLA DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS -- COMMUNICATION & MASS MEDIATE COMPLETE -- NEWSPAPER SOURCE -- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COLLECTION -- MILITARY & GOVERNMENT COLLECTION -- BIOMEDICAL REFERENCE COLLECTION BASIC -- CLINICAL REFERENCE SYSTEMS -- NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH COLLECTION BASIC
   
— Great Books Index
  THE "GREAT BOOKS" IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
   
— InfoTrac One File
  NEWS & PERIODICAL ARTICLES ON BUSINESS, COMPUTERS, CURRENT EVENTS, ECONOMICS, EUCATION, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, HEALTH CARE, HOBBIES, HUMANITIES, LAW, LITERATURE AND ART, POLITICS, SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE, SPORTS, TECHNOLOGY AND GENERAL INTEREST; UPDATED DAILY
   
— Modern Language International Bibliography MLA -- EBSCOhost
 

1.6 MILLION CITATIONS FROM 4,400 JOURNALS & 1,000 PUBLISHERS; FROM THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION; COVERAGE IS INTERNATIONAL & INCLUDES LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS, FOLKLORE, LITERARY THEORY, CRITICISM, DRAMATIC ARTS, RHETORIC, COMPOSITION, HISTORY & PRACTICE OF TEACHING LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

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NEWS
   
  — BBC News World Edition
  — Chicago Sun Times
  — Chicago Tribune
  — Chronicle of Higher Education
  — CNN
  — International Herald Tribune
  — LexisNexis News
  — MilwaukeeJournalSentinel
  — New York Times
  — NewsCentral
  — NewsDirectory
  — Newspaper Source -- EBSCOhost
  — ProQuest Newspapers
  — Washington Post
  — Washington Times
  — Yahoo!News
   
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
   
 
SCIENCE

— Basic Biosis -- OCLC FirstSearch
   
— BioDigest -- OCLC FirstSearch
   
— Biomedical Reference Collection -- EBSCOhost
  100 FULL TEXT JOURNALS, INCLUDING FULL TEXT FOR PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS; TOPICS INCLUDE CLINICAL MEDICINE, NURSING, DENTISTRY, VETERINARY MEDICINE, HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, PRE-CLINICAL SCIENCES; ALL FULL TEXT JOURNALS ARE ALSO INDEXED IN MEDLINE; MAJORITY OF FULL TEXT TITLES ARE IN PDF; FULL TEXT ITEMS GO BACK TO 1985
   
— EBSCO Animals
  INDEXING, ABSTRACTS AND FULL TEXT RECORDS DESCRIBING THE NATURE AND HABITAT OF ANIMALS
   
— Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
  THE ONLINE EQUIVALENT OF THE 20 VOLUME PRINT EDITION PUBLISHED IN 2002
   
— CINAHL -- Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health
  A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE COVERING NURSING, ALLIED HEALTH, ALTERNATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE, CONSUMER HEALTH, HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARIANSHIP; COMBINES THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC INDEX OF 1,700 CURRENT TITLES WITH FULL-TEXT OF 400 TITLES FROM PROQUEST NURSING JOURNALS & OVER 7,000 NURSING DISSERTATIONS
   
 
   
 
SOCIAL SCIENCE

— Criminal Justice Periodicals Index -- ProQuest
  INCLUDES 225 CRIMINAL JUSTICE JOURNAL TITLES OF WHICH 67 ARE FULL-TEXT
   
— EBSCOhost Home Page
  ACADEMIC SEARCH ELITE -- MASTERFILE PREMIER -- ERIC -- BUSINESS SOURCE ELITE -- MEDLINE -- HEALTH SOURCE NURSING/ACADEMIC EDITION -- HEALTH SOURCE CONSUMER EDITION -- KNIGHT RIDDER COLLECTION -- CORPORATE RESOURCENET -- REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS -- CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY -- MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY -- MLA DIRECTORY OF PERIODICALS -- COMMUNICATION & MASS MEDIATE COMPLETE -- NEWSPAPER SOURCE -- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COLLECTION -- MILITARY & GOVERNMENT COLLECTION -- BIOMEDICAL REFERENCE COLLECTION BASIC -- CLINICAL REFERENCE SYSTEMS -- NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH COLLECTION BASIC
   

— Ethnic Newswatch -- ProQuest

   
— InfoTrac
  BUSINESS & COMPANY RESOURCE CENTER -- EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP -- GENERAL BUSINESS FILE ASAP -- INFOTRAC ONEFILE -- TESTING & EDUCATION REFERENCE CENTER
   
— Legal Research -- LexisNexis
  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 LISTINGS --LAW SCHOOL DIRECTORIES
   
— PsycARTICLES/PsycINFO -- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts CSA
  FULL-TEXT ARTICLES FROM JOURNALS PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, THE APA EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING FOUNDATION & THE CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION -- UPDATED DAILY -- COVERAGE STARTS WITH 1985 --PROVIDES ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE IN PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, EDUCATION, BUSINESS, MEDICINE, NURSING, PHARMACOLOGY, LAW, LINGUISTICS, SOCIAL WORK -- SOURCES INCLUDE 1,800 JOURNALS, CHAPTERS, BOOKS, REPORTS, THESES AND DISSERTATIONS, 8 MILLION CITED REFERENCES IN 185,000 JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOKS
   
— Social Work Abstracts
  45,000 RECORDS, FROM 1977 TO THE PRESENT, FROM SOCIAL WORK AND RELATED JOURNALS ON TOPICS SUCH AS HOMELESSNESS, AIDS, CHILD AND FAMILY WELFARE, AGING, SUBSTANCE ABUVE, LEGISLATION, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION, ETC.