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IEEE Xplore
Full text access to many of the transactions, proceedings, journals and magazines published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' since 1998. Provides tables of contents to all IEEE publications from 1988 and titles of current IEEE standards.

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
Contains full-text articles from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, published from 1860 to 1865. Many of the publications are rare and hard to find, and include source materials from museum, library, and private collections, including the American Antiquarian Society. The database can be searched by date or topic, or one can browse each individual publication. The database also contains a sample selection of 300 Union and 300 Confederate letters from the larger database, American Civil War: Letters & Diaries.

In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
This index lets users perform searches within letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies that are freely available on the Web and in Alexander Street databases. Users can access thousands of personal narratives in English from archives and repositories everywhere. Includes links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.

Index of Christian Art
Records over 23,000 Christian art works in worldwide collections from early apostolic time to 1400 AD. Records include subject and stylistic descriptors, school, object type, bibliographies and picture references, cross references, locations, and digital images, when available.(May not work from off campus.)

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
Indexes articles in over 900 law journals and other publications, including yearbooks and government publications, from the US and other English-speaking countries. Includes book reviews. Coverage: 1981-present. Updated monthly.
Print: KZ .I38x (Ref.) 1952-1994

Index to theses (in Great Britain and Ireland)
This indexes theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716, with abstracts since 1970. Full text of a theses may be requested through interlibrary loan, but may take a while and may be expensive. Please check the CRL catalog first, as they purchase some international theses.

Informe!
A collection of Spanish language full-text magazines, covering business, health, culture, currents events, and more. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

InfoTrac
InfoTrac is a large collection of full-text databases in a wide variety of subject disciplines. Listed below are some of the major databases are available from InfoTrac:
Business and Company ASAP
Business and Company Resource Center
ChiltonLibrary.com
Computer Database
Educators Reference Complete
Expanded Academic ASAP
General Business File ASAP
Grand Rapids Press
Health and Wellness Resource Center
InfoTrac Academic OneFile
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
InfoTrac General OneFile
InfoTrac General Reference Center Gold
InfoTrac Health Reference Center Academic
InfoTrac Junior Edition
InfoTrac Kid's Edition
InfoTrac Professional Collection
InfoTrac Student Edition
Informe!
Kid's InfoBits
LegalTrac
New York Times
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
What do I Read Next?

InfoTrac Academic Onefile
Academic Onefile from InfoTrac contains full text articles from several thousand peer reviewed journals which cover a wide range of subjects including the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In addition it contains several hundred audio files and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and CBC. It also contains a number of national and international newspapers. Updated daily.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
Index to the full text from almost 500 newspapers from around the country and world, including the Grand Rapids Press, Detroit Free Press, London Times and the New York Times. Searches can be restricted to particular newspapers. Coverage varies.

InfoTrac General OneFile
Indexes news and periodical articles on a wide variety of topics. Millions of articles are full-text. Coverage: 1980-present.

InfoTrac General Reference Center Gold
An index of general interest articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books on all subjects. Many entries provide full-text and images. Coverage: 1980-present.

InfoTrac Health Reference Center - Academic
Indexes articles with abstracts and selected full text from medical journals and other publications about medicine, nutrition, and related subjects. Coverage: 1980-present.

InfoTrac Professional Collection
An index to a selection of educational journals, many full-text, of special interest to professional educators.

InfoTrac Student Edition
Indexes and provides many full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books on a wide variety of subjects. Intended for high school students.

IngentaConnect
Indexes and abstracts over 30,000 publications, with some access to full-text on a pay-per-view basis. Check our Journal Finder before purchasing articles.

INSPEC
Indexes scientific and technical journals in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Coverage: 1969-present. Updated weekly.

Institute of Physics
Full text articles of titles subscribed to by the WMU Libraries and tables of contents access to all of their published titles. Create an account for e-mail alerting, to save searches or maintain a personal file of articles.

International Financial Statistics
This database provides statistics on international and domestic finances of countries since 1948. Information is presented in spreadsheet format and can be downloaded. Please log-off.

International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 430 music periodicals from 20+ countries, with full text coverage of 125 journals. Articles cover the full spectrum of subjects, popular to scholarly, and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theater, theory, popular music forms, and composition. 30 journals are indexed in their entirety from their first issue, some as early as 1874.

International Medieval Bibliography
An index to articles in journals and other publications about Europe, the Middle East and North Africa within the dates 400-1500 AD. Coverage: 1967-present. To search, click Enter Databases, then the GO button.
Print: Z 6203 .I62x (Ref) 1967-2004

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business. Coverage from 1995.

Iter - Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A non-profit research project enables more access to published materials about the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through online bibliographic databases. Includes books and articles.