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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 Central Reference Desk and Science Reference Desk until the microfilm arrives.
Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies
Includes private and public companies listing for each, when available: year founded, description of products/services offered, approximate sales, number of employees, SIC codes, officers, fax number, stock exchange, ticker symbol, whether private or public, or a subsidiary, and lists the companies by location (zip code). In addition the directory contains ranked lists of the 1,000 largest privately held companies, and the 1000 largest public companies. Ranks companies by sales within four-digit SIC, within four-digit SIC code for states, and by sales within six digit NAICS. Also located at the Reference Desk: HG 4057 .A56 (Reference Desk Collection)
WDI Online
A 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. Data from the World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world.
Web of Science
Contains three major databases: (1) Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), (2) Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), and (3) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present). Cited Ref. Search allows users to search for articles that cite a particular author or work. Tutorial
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RefWorks Info: For Import Filter, choose "ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)". For Database, choose "Web of Science".
Web of Science Tutorial
Online guide to using Web of Science.
Westlaw Campus Research
An extensive research database of legal sources, including the Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, United States Code Annotated (USCA), Federal and State court cases, American Law Reports (ALR), and American Jurisprudence 2d, Black's Law Dictionary, Legal Guides, and more. Also includes more than 700 law reviews and journals.
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 1200 online journals focuses mostly on the sciences, but includes some business, education, and social science journals. Access back to 1996. This collection now includes journals formerly listed on Blackwell Synergy.
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.
WMU Image Catalog
The Image Catalog database is a catalog of University Libraries’ Visual Resources Library slide and digital images collection. Use the Image Catalog to locate art images for instructional and research purposes. Search the catalog by creator, title, keyword, date, medium, culture, stylistic period, subject, and more. The search result screen displays a thumbnail image and brief descriptive text. For digital images the thumbnail will be of the actual work. For slides (images that are not available in a digital format) the resulting thumbnail image will be a placeholder and will contain the call number of that image so if can be located in the original Visual Resources Library collection. To learn more about the item, double click the thumbnail; a larger image is then displayed with the catalog record appearing on the left.
Image Catalog uses the LUNA Insight image database system. For information please call Miranda Howard at 387-5166 or Cecelia Moore at 387-4112.
Restricted to WMU Faculty, Staff, and Students.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition
A collection of full text books, pamphlets, articles, documents and images of American women's reform movements over the last 400 years including special subjects such as African-American Women and the Equal Rights Debate in the 1920s. Includes the bibliographic dictionary Notable American Women 1907-1950.
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Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition: Women's Commissions
When complete, this collection will contain 75,000 pages of materials documenting women's issues over more than four decades in all fifty states and U.S. territories. This includes the 1963 final reports of the President's Commission on the Status of Women and reports from the many state and local commissions since then.
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 Studies International
Indexes the core disciplines in women's studies, covering over 2,000 periodical sources, including those from Women's Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Women Studies Librarian and several others. Includes references to journal articles, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, newspapers, dissertations, and newsletters. Coverage is from 1972 to present.
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.
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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, music 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.
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.
