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Academic OneFile
- (InfoTrac - Gale Group);
Large collection of peer-reviewed full text periodicals covering multiple disciplines. In addition
to over 9,000 academic journals, it includes full text of major newspapers as well as hundreds of
podcasts, video and reference content.
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Academic Search Elite
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Includes some full text articles as well as journal citations from such areas as Social
Science, Humanities, General Science, Education and more.
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African American Experience
- (Greenwood);
A collection of reference sets, books, primary documents, manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations
and statistics, lesson plans, music files, photographs, maps and other images.
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ARTstor
- (ARTstor);
A collection of approximately 300,000 digital images and related
data from various disciplines to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning
in the arts. Sixteen major art museums are sharing their digital image collections.
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BadgerCat
- (OCLC);
Catalog of books and other materials in libraries in Wisconsin.
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BCRC - see Business and Company Resource Center
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Biology Digest
- (FirstSearch);
Lengthy abstracts (digests) written in
a nontechnical style. Subjects included are botany, environmental science,
life sciences and zoology. Coverage in health and medicine is particularly strong.
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Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Provides full text for over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study.
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Books In Print with Book Reviews
- (Bowker);
Includes publication information
(author, title, publisher, etc) as well as some book reviews for both in-print
and out-of-print books. A good resource for locating information ABOUT books.
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Business and Company Resource Center
- (Gale Group);
Brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information,
rankings, investment
reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this
database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
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Business Source Elite
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Provides full-text articles from nearly 930 Business, Economics, Management, Finance, Banking
and Accounting journals.
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Cambridge Companions Online - Literature Collection
- (Cambridge University Press);
A full text collection covering literature and the classics including essays of over 144 titles.
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CINAHL Plus With Full Text (Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature)
- (Ebsco);
Provides full text for over 560 journals covering nursing, biomedicine, health science librarianship, alternative medicine, consumer health.
This database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of practice,
evidence-based care sheets, legal cases, clinical innovations, trials & drug records, and research instruments.
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Cochrane Library
- (Wiley);
Source of reliable and up-to-date information on the
effects of interventions in health care. Provides information and evidence
to support decisions taken in health care.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete
- (Ebsco);
Full text for over 160 titles in the areas of communication and mass media studies. There will
be searchable citations as well as indexing and abstracting for more than
285 journals. The database will also include monographs, conference proceedings,
and working papers.
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Contemporary Women's Issues [CWI]
- (First Search);
Focusing heavily on health
and human rights, this database provides full-text access to global information
on women in over 150 countries. It indexes books; journals; newsletters;
research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies;
and fact sheets. Included are over 1500 sources going back to 1992.
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Corporate ResourceNet
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Contains full text
articles from nearly 1,250 quality business magazines and journals, including trade publications and top management journals. In addition,
detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies are also included.
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CQ Researcher
- (CQ Press);
In depth reports focused on a single topic.
Information on controversial subjects with extensive bibliographies.
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Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature - see CINAHL
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Dictionary of Music & Musicians - see Grove's Dictionary of Music & Musicians
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Directory of Open Access Journals -
Offers free access to over 2000 full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
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Education Complete - see ProQuest Education Complete
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Education Research Complete
- (Ebsco);
Topics cover all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, multilingual education, health education
and testing. It provides full text for over 750 journals, full text for over 100 books and numerous education-related
conference papers.
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ERIC (Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse)
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Contains more than 2,200 digests with references for additional information
and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
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Ethnic NewsWatch
- (ProQuest via Badgerlink);
Full text articles in newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses with coverage beginning in 1990.
Includes articles in both English and Spanish.
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Expanded Academic ASAP - see Academic OneFile
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GenderWatch
- (ProQuest);
A full-text repository of a historical perspective on the
evolution of the women's movement and changes in gender roles. Publications
include journals, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books,
booklets, and government & special reports.
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General BusinessFile ASAP
- (InfoTrac - Gale Group);
Includes some full-text
articles from Business and Management journals as well as investment
reports on major companies and industries.
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GreenFILE
- (Ebsco);
Information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Content includes global warming,
green building, pollution, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
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Grove Music Online
(formerly Grove's Dictionary of Music & Musicians) - (Oxford University Press);
Biographies of composers, performers and writers of music. Links to digital sound. Articles on
styles, instruments, printing and publishing, as well as regions, countries and cities. Includes
world music, jazz, pop, ancient and church music. Note: Please click the "Log Out" button at
the top right of the screen when you have finished using the Grove's database.
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Harvard University Library Open Collections Program (OCP) -
Subject-specific digital collections of books, pamphlets, trade catalogs, manuscripts &
photographs from Harvard's libraries, archives & museums. The inaugural project is
Women Working: 1800-1930 - focusing on women's roles in the U.S. economy, including
working conditions, statistics, health, conduct of life & social issues.
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Health in the Americas
- (Pan American Health Organization);
Offers a comprehensive presentation of issues related to health and human development, specific disease conditions and risk factors,
environmental health, and the evolution of health systems and services for the region and for specific countries and territories of the Americas.
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Health Source - Consumer Edition
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
You can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences,
food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports
on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205
general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
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Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Provides nearly 540 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical
disciplines Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 570 journals.
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HighWire Press
- (Stanford University);
HighWire is the largest archive of free, full-text science articles. It offers online articles from peer-reviewed
journals in the life sciences, health sciences, and physical sciences as well as some journals in the social sciences.
Some articles are available on a pay-per-view basis only.
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Historical Newspapers - see ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Hoover's Online (Pro)
- (Hoover's);
Includes Handbook of American Business, World Business,
Emerging Companies, Private Companies, Index.
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Humanities International Index
- (Ebsco);
A collection of bibliographic references
to literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States
and Canada. This database contains over 1,000 journals published from 1975
to the present.
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InfoTrac OneFile - see Academic OneFile
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JSTOR
- (JSTOR);
Over 400 journals from several collections covering African/Asian/Latin
American/Middle Eastern & Slavic studies, anthropology, archeology, architecture,
art, business, classics, ecology & botany, economics & finance,
education, general science, history, language & literature, law, math,
music, philosophy, political science, psychology, public policy & administration,
sociology, statistics, and more. The time frame is from the first volume
published to 3-5 years ago.
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Literary Index
- (Gale);
With author title and custom search options, this index provides citations
to help the user locate information from any books in the Gale Literature Criticism
series.
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MAS Ultra - School Edition
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Provides some full-text articles from over 320 general interest and current events magazines.
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MasterFILE Premier
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Provides full-text articles
from over 1,810 journals covering nearly all subject areas including General
Reference, Business, Consumer Health, General Science and much more.
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McClatchy-Tribune Collection
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune information services.
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Medline
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and much more.
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Medline (PubMed) - see PubMed Medline
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National Library of Medicine Gateway - see NLM Gateway
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Naxos Music Library
- (Naxos Music);
Includes a comprehensive collection of classical, jazz contemporary,
world/folk, New Age and Chinese music online. Also features biographical information on
composers and artists, new releases and a playlist. Extensive search capabilities are
part of this database.
For assistance using Naxos with an Apple Mac computer, please call the Alverno Library Reference Desk at 414-382-6062.
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NetLibrary -
Provides access to electronic books (ebooks) that can be viewed via the Internet. Includes links to chapters within
the ebook being viewed plus the capability to search ebook text.
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New York Times - see ProQuest Newspapers or ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Newspaper Source
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. Contains full text
television & radio news transcripts and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
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NLM Gateway
- (National Library of Medicine);
Enter one or more search terms. Results (not usually full
text) from several different databases are presented in categories (such as journal
article citations, books, consumer health information, meeting abstracts) rather
than by database. A useful option is limiting your search to just one of these
categories (such as journals).
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Nursing Journals
- (Ovid/Ebsco/ProQuest);
Online Nursing journals with full
text articles from journals indexed in CINAHL, as well as other selected Nursing journals.
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Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Basic
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Provides full text for 100 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine,
health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.
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Nursing/Medical & Allied Health - see ProQuest Nursing/Medical & Allied Health
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OECD Health Data Database
- (Ebsco);
A comprehensive source of health data and statistics from many countries. Contains information on a
variety of related topics-environment, biotechnology, social issues, economics and more.
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OED - see Oxford English Dictionary
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Open Collection Program (OCP) - see Harvard University Library Open Collection Program
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
- (Gale);
Online library of current event topics
- facts and arguments, providing comprehensive information on today's social
issues. Includes Information Plus' Statistics and government documents,
as well as social issue selections from Gale and Macmillan Reference USA.
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Oxford English Dictionary
- (Oxford University Press);
Provides definitions of over 500,000 words. Traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence
to the modern period offering variant spellings and using the International
Phonetic Alphabet to show pronunciations.
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Oxford Music Online - see Grove Music Online
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Primary Search
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research.
Full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text information
dates as far back as 1990.
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Professional Development Collection
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than
550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Also contains more than
200 educational reports. Full text information dates as far back as 1965.
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Project Muse -
Provides online access to full-text scholarly journals in the arts and humanities,
social science, religion and history.
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ProQuest Education Complete
- (ProQuest);
Full text on hundreds of educational topics from over 400 educational journals. Includes literature on primary,
secondary & higher education, special education, home schooling, and
adult education. Features charts, tables & diagrams in full text articles.
Indexing included.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers - New York Times
- (ProQuest);
Access to past issues from 1851-2003. Added functionality allows viewing images of
an entire page or an entire issue. Includes photos, graphics and advertisements.
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ProQuest Newspapers
- (ProQuest via Badgerlink);
Includes citations
and full-text articles from over 40 state and national newspapers;
coverage spans from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,
Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune to the Milwaukee Business Journal,
LaCrosse Tribune, Sheboygan Pressband the Wisconsin State Journal.
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ProQuest Nursing/Medical and Allied Health
- (ProQuest);
Complete full text from 280+ leading nursing and related journals with most having
full text from 1988 to the present. Some publications will have full image,
text & graphics from either 1992 or 1996 to the present.
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PsycARTICLES
- (Ebsco);
Online reading room with full text articles from Psychology
journals indexed in PsycINFO.
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PsycBOOKS
- (Ebsco);
This database contains access to over 600 books published from APA. It also includes 100 out-of-print books,
70+ classic books of historical impact in psychology and 1500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press
Encyclopedia of Pyschology.
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PsycINFO
- (Ebsco);
Provides access to citations and fulltext articles from the
professional Psychology literature as well as from other related disciplines.
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PubMed Medline
- (National Library of Medicine);
Provides authoritative medical information
on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system,
pre-clinical sciences and much more.
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Regional Business News
- (EbscoHost via Badgerlink);
Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications
and incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires
from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Sage Premier Collection
- (Sage Publications);
Contains over 435 full-text journals, book reviews, editorials, graphics and tables in Communication, Education, Health Sciences,
Business, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Criminology, Urban Studies and more.
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Science Direct College Edition - Health & Life Science Collection
- (Elsevier);
Includes over 850 full text journals in the areas of nursing, medicine, pharmacology and environmental and biological sciences.
Note: The Alverno Library only provides access to articles and journals with a "green icon" next to the title.
Any titles with a "white icon" are not available through this database. Contact an Alverno librarian if you have questions about
how to find articles with a "white icon" (414) 382-6062.
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Smithsonian Global Sound
- (Alexander Street Press);
Features more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word,
natural & man-made sounds from recordings of Smithsonian Folkways Records. The database includes
American folk traditions, blues, bluegrass, old-time country, calypso, American Indian & world
traditions, jazz, classical, children's recordings, biographies, drama & poetry.
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Value Line Investment Survey
- (Value Line);
This database tracks approximately 1700 companies and their stocks, presenting historical data going
back 15 years, projections for the next year and 3-5 years into the future, plus relevant statistical and
analytical information in the form of 3 sections: Ratings & Reports, Summary Index, and Selection & Opinion.
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WISCAT -
Wisconsin online catalog;
features the holdings of a majority of Wisconsin
academic, public, & special libraries.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States (1600-2000)
- (Alexander Street Press);
Perspectives on women's social movements from colonial times to the present
in the form of books, images, documents, essays, commentaries & bibliographies.
Includes a Dictionary of Social Movements, Chronology of Women's History
& Federation of Women's Clubs.
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Women Working (1800-1930) - see Harvard University Library Open Collections Program (OCP)
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WorldCat
- (OCLC);
Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
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