UWP Karrmann Library - Electronic Resources by Title

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ABI/Inform Global: Index to national and international business journals. The majority are full text.
Academic Search Elite: Abstracts and full text journal articles in all subject categories.
ACS Publications: Full text of 26 American Chemical Society publications are available through an agreement with the University of Wisconsin System. Web editions include full text from January 1996 to the current issue.
African American Music Reference: 50,000 pages 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. A comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
AGRICOLA - Free Access: Materials relating toall aspects of agriculture.
Alternative Press Index: Indexes to journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change from the radical and left perspectives.
America: History and Life: 2,000+ international journals covering U.S. and Canadian history. Includes some journals dealing with the history of a few foreign countries.
Annual Reviews (an index, no fulltext) - Free Access: An intelligent synthesis of scientific literature.
Applied Science Full Text: Indexes and abstracts for 400 science and technology journals.
Art Full Text: Indexes and abstracts from leading art journals.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A citation index can be searched by author, topic and citation.
ASCE Research Library: Journals from the American Society of Civil Engineers, this full-text database contains more than 24,000 journal and 8,700 proceedings papers, from 1993 to present.
ASME Journals: Must search in ASME Digital Library: Online Journals
Contains the full text of 21 American Society of Mechanical Engineering journals as well as abstract and citation information from over 475 international mechanical engineering journals from 1989 to the present.
Associations Unlimited: The electronic version of the Encyclopedia of Associations. Contains detailed descriptions on 142,000 International and U.S. organizations.

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BadgerCat: Books and materials in Wisconsin Libraries.
Biographies Plus Illustrated: Contains full text of over 40,000 biographies.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index: Locates biographical information on thousands of people.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus: Indexes to the leading journals in biology and agriculture.
Biological Abstracts: Indexes & abstracts international journals in the life sciences. Topics include agriculture, biochemistry, ecology, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, toxicology and much more.
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Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic: This medical database provides over 100 full text journals, covering virtually every area of medical study. Topics include: clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences. All full text journals contained in this database are also indexed in MEDLINE.
BioOne: Provides access to the full-text of 60+peer reviewed, high-impact bioscience research journals.
Black Drama 1850 to Present: 207 plays by 64 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Britannica Online: Electronic encyclopedia with links to Web sites.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries: 24,000+ letters and diaries of 91 women, biographies are included.
Buckmaster's Annual Reports: Annual reports from Fortune 500 companies.
Business Full Text: Index to business journals. Full text.
Business & Industry: Information dealing with both public and private companies and manufacturing and service industries. International coverage.
Business & Management Practices: Covers business managment articles from 600 management journals, trade publications and other respected business sources.
Business Dateline: Citations to regional businessarticles.
Business Organizations...: Directory of organizations that serve business and industry.
Business Source Elite: Indexes and abstracts to business periodicals and newspapers.

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CQ Researcher: In-depth, weekly publication covering current and controversial issues. Full text.
Child Abuse, Child Welfare, and Adoption Database: Contains citations and abstracts to books, journals and papers in the area of child abuse.
CINAHL: "Provides indexing for 3,001 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,155 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. "
Clinical Kinesiology: Electronic version of journal, starting with v.57 no. 1 spring 2003. We have the print editions v.55 no. 1 spring 2001 - v. 56 no. 4 winter 2002.
College Source: Provides the complete catalog of undergraduate and graduate schools in the United States. Ask for password information at the Reference Desk.
Contemporary Authors: Biographical and bibliographic informationon writers, journalists, editors, etc. Full text. Also available in print REFPN451 .C58
Contemporary Women's Issues: Provides full text access to global information on women.
Corporate ResourceNet: 4,000+ searchable sources covering a broad spectrum of U.S. and international business topics and industries; scientific and medical information; regulation and policy information; and company and product information. Some full text.
Criminal Justice Abstracts: Index to journal articles, books and reports from criminal justice sources.
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Criminal Justice Periodical Index: Index to U.S., U.K. and Canadian criminal justice journals, newsletters and law reporters. Some full-text.

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Dissertation Abstracts: Citations and abstracts for doctoral dissertations completed in the U.S. Also Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. NOTE: It is common policy among libraries that dissertations and theses are not available for InterLibrary Loan.

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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment: 10,000+ and growing pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.
Early English Books Online: A digital library of over 96,000 titles printed between 1475-1700. Searchable by keyword, title and author. NOTE: Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view page images.
EBSCOhost databases: EBSCOhost provides a number ofpopular databases including Academic Search, ERIC and Business Source Elite.
EBSCO Animals: Provides in-depth information on avariety of topics relating to animal science.
EconLit: An index of economic literature.
Education Full Text: Subject coverage includes all areas of education ranging from multicultural education to computer technology. Fulltext.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Provides access the digital images of every page of 150,000 English-language 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.
Emerald Full Text: The full text of 130+ journals, published since 1994 onward. Subjects include Engineering, Management, Human Resources, Library & Information Services,Marketing among others.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Electronic version of Britannica.
ERIC: Indexes and abstracts to journal articles and documents in education. ERIC Thesaurus
EthnicNewsWatch: News, culture and history from over 200 ethnic press publications. Full text.

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FirstSearch databases: FirstSearch provides more than fifty different databases in all subject categories.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: Electronic version of the New World Encyclopedia.

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GenderWatch: International publications devoted to women and genderissues. Full text.
General Science Full Text: Indexes and abstracts and full text articles from popular and professional science publications.
GEOBASE: Worldwide literature on geography and geology.
GEOREF: "This database is a comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.6 million bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates."
The Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online: 4,700+ publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The collection reflects the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights.
Global Perspectives on Design and Culture: This Database was designed to support classes taught in the areas of living environments, including landscape; interiors; furniture; textiles and household objects within a global outlook.
GPO Monthly Catalog: An index to information published by the U.S. Government. Also available in print (Government Documents,3rd Floor - Index Tables)
GreenFILE: GreenFILE offers well-researched 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.
Grove Music Online has been renamed Oxford Music Online

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Health Source: Consumer Edition: Consumer health and nutrition information. Includes periodical articles, health pamphlets and healthbooks.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition: This database povides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Updated on a daily basis.
Hoover's Company Records: "Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more. "
Humanities Full Text: Covers the fields of art, history,communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, philosophy and religion. Full text.
Humanities International Index: A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.

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IEEE Xplore: IEEE Xplore provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards.
Ingenta Table of Contents Service: "Provides email delivery of the Table of Contents from 26,000+ journals. Must set up an account on campus before using the service."

Instructions for patrons to set up TOC service:
NOTE: Patrons must set up an account on campus before using this service.

Log onto Ingenta by clicking the link.
It should say you are signed in as University of Wisconsin Platteville.
To get your own account, look for the words Need to Register? Sign Up Here and click that link.
Fill out the required fields (those with an * next to them)
Click Register
Look for a section on the right hand side that says manage my ingenta
Click the link that says new issue alerts
This is where you can view alerts you have set up, and set up new alerts. To add an alert, click the tab that says Add.
Now you should be able to search for journals and have them added to your TOC delivery. Just click the box next to the title, then click Add. You should then get email delivery from the journals selected. You probably won't know if it's working until a new TOC is entered into the database. For example, if it's a quarterly journal, you might not get one for awhile. It doesn't send you one right away.
You can now log out of Ingenta by clicking on Sign Out in the middle right side of the screen.
Write down your username and password so you don't forget them! If you forget your password, you will have to email Ingenta, not the Library, as we have no access to the usernames and passwords created at Ingenta.

IoP (Institute of Physics) Electronic Journals: Over 30 journals published by the Institute of Physics. Includes full-text articles and is searchable and browsable. (Select Standard Service for access.)
International Journal of Project Management: "This journal offers wide ranging and comprehensive coverage of all facets of project management. Published eight times per year, it provides a focus for worldwide expertise in the required techniques, practices and areas of research; presents a forum for its readers to share common experiences across the full range of industries and technologies in which project management is used; covers all areas of project management from systems to human aspects; links theory with practice by publishing case studies and covering the latest important issues."
International Medieval Bibliography: This resource is in German. The World's leading interdisciplinary bibliography about the Middle Ages. This database covers Europe, the Middle East and North Africa during the period of 400-1500. Comprised of 300,000+ articles from over 4,500 journals.

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JSTOR: Arts & Sciences Collections 1 & 2: Archives of scholarly electronic journals in Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Mathematics, History, and more.
Journal of Chemical Education: Electronic version of the monthly print edition. September 1996 vol. 73:9 to the present are available.

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Knovel Scientific & Engineering Online Reference: Online collection of scientific and engineering reference books. Keyword searchable or by titles. Best used with Internet Explorer.

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Legal Periodicals & Books: Articles from legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications.
LexisNexis Academic: Provides access to 6,000 news, business, legal and reference information. Some full text.
Literary Index: A free index to Gale's literature series searchable by author or title.

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MAS Ultra-School Edition: Provides full text for 320+ general interest and current events magazines.
McClatchy-Tribune Collection: Includes a 90-day archive of 290+ newspapers. Updated daily.
MDConsult: "Operates a family of electronic information resources that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals."
MLA Directory of Periodicals: "Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines."
MLA International Bibliography: "A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers."
MasterFILE Premier: Offers abstracts and full text to more than 1,800 general interest periodicals.
MathSciNet: Indexes and abstracts over 3,100 periodicals and 7,500+ books, conference proceedings and technical reports from two American Mathematical Society publications.
Medieval Encyclopedias: This resource is in German. Includes International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages and Europa Sacra. Covers Europe, North Africa and the Middle East during the period of 300-1500.
MEDLINE: Provides complete coverage to the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Mental Measurements Yearbook: Contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas. Also available in print REF LB3051 .T4
Middle Search Plus: Provides indexing and abstracting to magazines commonly used in middle school libraries.
Military and Government Collection: Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government via periodicals, academic journals, and other content. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
Music Index Online: An index of 640 international periodicals concerned with every aspect of classical and popular music.

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NCJRS Abstracts (Criminal Justice) - Free Access: Abstracts more than 150,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports. Some full text.
Nature: Online version of the International Weekly Journal of science. Contains full text of archived content. To see the full selection of Nature's other journal titles, go to the Pulications A-Z index.
Naxos Music Library: Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of classical music, it includes the catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artist.
netLibrary: A collection of approximately 5000 electronic books that are available to UWP faculty, students and staff.
New England Journal of Medicine: "A weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice. Material is published with an emphasis on internal medicine and specialty areas including allergy/immunology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, kidney disease, oncology, pulmonary disease, rheumatology, HIV, and infectious diseases."
Newspaper Source: Provides the selected full text for 23 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
Proquest Newspapers: Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Full-text coverage of Wisconsin newspapers including the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.
Niles' Register: Cumulative Index, 1811-1849: The Niles Register was a national newsweekly from 1811-1849.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories: "Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories 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. "
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950: "Includes the immediate experiences of 632 women, as revealed in approximately 82,000 pages of diaries and letters. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database."
Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Basic: This database contains 100 full text journals, covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. All full text journals covered in this database are also indexed in CINAHL.
NursingConsult: "Brings the leading resources together in one integrated online service to help nurses efficiently find answers to pressing clinical questions. "

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Online Geographical Bibliography - Free Access: The geographical bibliography of the American Geographical Society Collection located in the Golda Meir Library.
Oxford English Dictionary: Electronic version of the print title, searchable by word or definition.
Oxford Music Online: A gateway into music research and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference subscriptions and products which include, but are not limited to The Oxford Dictionary of Music; Grove Music Online database and The Oxford Companion to Music.

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PapersFirst: An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Periodical Abstracts: General and academic journals in business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, etc.
Pollution Abstracts: Indexing to journal articles on all aspects of pollution and waste management.
Primary Search: Provides indexing and abstracting to magazines for young readers.
ProceedingsFirst: An index of conference publications.
Professional Development Collection: For professional educators, provides a specialized collection of over 550 full text journals, indexing and abstracts are also provided for 800+ additional journal titles.
ProjectMuse: 300+ of the Johns Hopkins University Press's journals are offered online via Project Muse. Subject areas include the arts, culture,history, literature, philosophy and politics. Many titles have coverage back to 1995. Available on campus only.
ProQuest Direct databases: Includes the Newspaper database, ABI-Inform and Criminal Justice Periodical Index. From Bell & Howell.
PsycArticles: Provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1987 to the present. Includes more than 34,000 full-text articles from 43 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
PsycINFO: Abstracts from over 1300 psychologyjournals.

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Readers' Guide Full Text: Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 popular journals. Full text. Also available in print, Reader's Guide to Periodical LIterature, 1900 - present (Reference AreaIndex Tables)
Regional Business News: Full text newswire database incorporates business wires from all over the world.
Royal Society of Chemistry Archives: Full text access to over 238,000 original articles published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (and its forerunner Societies) from 1841 to 1996.

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SAGE Journals Online: SAGE publishes over 470 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine. Full-Text
Science Citation Index: A citation index can be searched by author,topic or citation.
Science Online Magazine: The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period: Archive of 60 volumes from 47 poets. Web resources, criticism and biographical essays are to be added regularly.
SIRSResearcher: General reference database exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues.
Social Sciences Full Text: Index to social sciencejournals. Full text.
Social Sciences Citation Index: A citation index can be searched by author,topic or citation.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "An online encyclopedia covering a variety of philosophical topics. This resource is continuously updated by discipline experts with each entry reviewed by an editorial board prior to publication. Coverage: entries written from 1995 - present."

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Tests in Print: "Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s)."

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University of Wisconsin Digital Collection

"Since its foundation in early 2000, the UWDCC has worked collaboratively with UW System faculty, staff, and librarians to create and provide access to digital resources that support the teaching and research needs of the UW community, uniquely document the university and State of Wisconsin, and provide access to rare or fragile items of broad research value. The UWDCC has also partnered with cultural heritage institutions and public libraries throughout Wisconsin to create digital resources."

"Resources within the collections are free and publicly accessible online. They are loosely organized into collections that span a range of subjects including art, ecology, literature, history, music, natural resources, science, social sciences, the State of Wisconsin, and the University of Wisconsin. Digital resources include text-based materials such as books, journal series, and manuscript collections; photographic images; slides; maps; prints; posters; audio; and video."

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Web of Science Citation Databases: Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded,Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities CitationIndex. Together they index over 8,000 scholarly journals and can be searchedby author, topic or citation.
WebSPIRS Databases: Includes Biological Abstracts,Criminal Justice Abstracts, and Mental Measurements Yearbook.
Wilson databases: Access to all databases from H.W.Wilson including Readers' Guide, Applied Science and Tech, Humanities Abstracts.
WISCAT: Combined catalog of books and other materials in over 1000 Wisconsin libraries.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Contains 40+ document projects that interpret and present documents concerning women's involvement in social movements, most of which are not otherwise available online.
Women's Studies International: Includes citations and abstracts drawn from a variety of women's studies databases.
WorldAlmanac: Electronic version of the WorldAlmanac and Book of Facts, World Almanac of the U.S.A., World Almanac of Politics and World Almanac for Kids.
WorldCat: Books and materials in libraries worldwide.
Worldscope Global: Financial reports on companies worldwide.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts: "Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy."

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