Databases by Title
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Wall Street Journal
Eastern edition) A U.S. daily financial newspaper that covers news and trends relating to business, industry, finance, the economy, and international commerce. Provides extensive price and other data for securities, commodity, options, futures, foreign exchange, and money markets. Full text in HTML format from 1984 to the present, but does not include data from tables and graphs. Just abstracts from 1982 to 1984.
Microfilm: HG 5 on the Lower Level, 1920-date.
Print copies:current copies at the Science Reference Desk until the microfilm arrives.
WDI Online
Searchable database of more than 700 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups covering the time period 1960 to 2006.
Web of Science
Web of Science from the ISI Web of Knowledge contains three major databases covering all areas of knowledge: Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). The literature can be searched by subject, author, journal title, and author's address. Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work. Please LOGOFF when finished, so others may use the database. Tutorial
RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "Web of Science".
WestCat
WestCat is WMU's online library catalog. It can be used to identify books (including online books), government documents, journals, videos, sound recordings, slides and other items that the University Libraries has in its collections. WestCat can be searched by title, author, subject heading, keyword, call number, and more.
Who's Who on the Web
Provides brief, usually up to date and usually reliable biographical information about more than 1.3 million people. Entries focus on frequently needed facts, such as birthdates, education, career, publications, and other objective data supplied by the individual to the editors. Who's Who in America biographies go back to 1607. The coverage of the rest of the Marquis Who's Who series is from 1985 to the present.
Wiley Interscience
This collection of about 350 online journals focuses mostly on the sciences, but includes some business, education, and social science journals. Access back to 1996.
Wilson Business Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts more than 600 international English-language business magazines cover-to-cover. Overlaps somewhat with the more comprehensive index ABI/INFORM. Coverage is from 1986 to date. Updated monthly.
Wilson Select Plus
Index to full text articles in science, humanities, social sciences, education and business. The index includes records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Coverage: 1994 to the present. Updated weekly.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition
A collection of full text books, articles, documents and images of American women's reform movements over the last 400 years including special subjects such as African-American Women, the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the Equal Rights Debate in the 1920s.
The Scholar's Edition will also include an indexed, searchable online edition of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (5 vols, 1971-2004), fully integrated into the broader Women and Social Movements database.
Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition: Women's Commissions
When complete, this collection will contain 75,000 pages of reports published by commissions in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The publications include reports, pamphlets, posters, and ephemeral materials.
Women Artists on Disc
(CD-ROM, Waldo Library, First Floor, Reference Area)
A comprehensive bibliography of women artists and a resource guide to reference materials on women's art history in the Western world. Integrates four classic, annotated bibliographies previously published as printed volumes. Contains citations from 6,500 reference sources covering 25, 000 women artists and designers.
Women's Wear Daily Archive
The Women's Wear Daily Archive provides full text articles on fashion and designers, including trend reports, research and business news. Coverage from 1994.
World Almanacs
Includes the contents of the most recent volume of: Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of US Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.
World Book Online Reference Center
This online encyclopedia is based on the printed World Book Encyclopedia, and enriched with more articles, maps, tables, videos and sound clips. It provides many cross references and links to other resources including magazine articles and Web sites. It includes a dictionary, atlas and basic Spanish language encyclopedia.
World Development Indicators Online
See WDI Online
WorldCat
Comprehensive catalog of books and other materials in libraries around the world. Contains millions of records in hundreds of languages. Nonbook materials include (among other publication formats) the titles of journals and magazines, manuscripts, maps, electronic resources, websites, computer programs, musical scores, films, slides, sound recordings, conference proceedings, and videotapes. Items located through WorldCat must be requested through Interlibrary Loan unless they are also listed in the WMU libraries catalog, WestCat.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
An index with abstracts to articles from over 1,100 international journals in political science and related disciplines. Includes book reviews. Based on the Political Science Abstracts from Plenum and ABC POL SCI from ABC-CLIO. Coverage: 1975 to the present. Updated monthly.
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