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FEDSTATS Description: FEDSTATS provides easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by more than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government.
Coverage: Current
Vendor: U.S. Government
Funk & Wagnells New World Encyclopedia Description: Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
Coverage: Current with annual updates
Vendor: EBSCOhost
GenderWatch
Description: GenderWatch is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. The database provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's daily lives, including family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles.
Coverage: Mid 1970 - present
Vendor: Proquest
General Science Full Text
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting to 168 popular and professional English language science periodicals. Designed specifically for students and non- specialists, the periodicals covered range from very general to highly specialized titles. Subjects covered include biology, chemistry, astronomy, conservation, earth science, medicine, nutrition, oceanography, and zoology.
Coverage: 1984 - present
Vendor: WilsonWeb
GEOBASE
Description: An index to literature on geology, geography, and ecology.
Coverage: 1980 - present
Vendor: FirstSearch
Geobib Description: Online Geographical Bibliography (Geobib) is a searchable online database of all bibliographic entries found in Current Geographical Publications. Current Geographical Publications includes bibliographical references to books, periodical articles, pamphlets, government documents, maps and atlases in the American Geographical Society Collection of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are included and arranged in accordance with the classification scheme utilized in the AGS Collection Research Catalogue.
Coverage: 1985 - present
Vendor: Endeavor / UW-Milwaukee
GeoRef
Description: An index to periodical articles on geology and earth sciences.
Coverage: US, 1785 - present; World, 1933 - present.
Vendor: SilverPlatter
Gerritsen Collection Description: Contains more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945 that trace the evolution of feminism movement.
Coverage: 1543-1945, with the majority of the coverage from 1860-1900.
Vendor: Alexander Street Press
Government Documents Catalog Service
Description: Government Documents Catalog Service is a accumulation of the complete Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications with coverage 1976 to Present. The database contains over 400,000 citations to books, journals, reports, maps and other materials. Subject coverage includes agriculture, education, health, environment, defense, labor, energy, transportation, forests and fisheries, mining, manufacturing, domestic and foreign trade.
Coverage: 1976 - present
Vendor: Autographics
Guide: Guide to the Government Documents Catalog Service
Green Bay Press-Gazette Description: Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Coverage: 1999 - present
Vendor: Newsbank
Grove Music
Description: Comprehensive online reference resource for the field of music.  This the online version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians 2nd edition
Coverage: current
Vendor: Groves
Health Source
Description: There are two versions of this database, a Consumer edition and a Nursing edition.  Between the two editions there are abstracts and indexing for nearly 500 consumer health, nutrition and professional periodicals. Over 200 periodicals are covered in full text as well as over 1,000 health pamphlets. Also included is USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient which provides patient-oriented drug information in lay language and 17 health books published by the People's Medical Society.
Coverage: 1988 - present
Vendor: EBSCOhost
Historical Abstracts

Description: Historical Abstracts is a reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database.
Coverage: 1954-present
Vendor
: ABC-CLIO

Historical Newspapers-The New York Times

Description: Historical Newspapers-The New York Times has full text and full image articles from the New York Times dating back to the 19th century.
Coverage: 1851-2001; more recent articles can be found in ProQuest Newspapers.
Vendor: ProQuest

HRAF - Ethnography (eHRAF)
Description: eHRAF is an acronym for Human Relations Area Files, which indexes the information in its collection of ethnography by culture and subject. Using a systematic listing of the cultures of the world search for information on hundreds of cultures worldwide.
Coverage: varies
Vendor: Human Relations Area File, Inc.
Guide: Human Relations Area File
Humanities Full Text
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting to 400 English- language periodicals on disciplines including literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology.
Coverage: 1984 - present
Vendor: WilsonWeb
Ingenta
Description: Formerly Uncover, this database provides free searching and browsing of more than 25,000 publications. 
Coverage: 1988 - present
Vendor: Ingenta
Institute of Physics Journals Description: Search over 30 journals from the Institute of Physics.
Coverage: 1975 - present
Vendor: IoP

International Index to Music Periodicals

 

Description: IIMP draws its current content from more than 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries. IIMP also includes retrospective coverage from over 185 periodicals dating back as far as 1874. Included in the current and retrospective content are 29 complete-run titles, from inception to the present (or final) issue, and many partial-run titles.
Coverage: 1874-present
Vendor: ProQuest
JSTOR
Description: JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which reach back to the 1800s. The database now contains over 2 million pages and new titles and fields are being added constantly (approximately 100,000 pages are added to the database each month).
Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s to 1994.
Vendor: JSTOR
Lexis Nexis Academic
Description : Academic Universe provides access to nearly 5,000 publication on a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
Coverage: 1990 - present
Vendor: Lexis-Nexis
LexisNexis Congressional
Description : Allows you to search the following: Hearing transcripts and submitted testimony, Committee reports, Bills, Public laws, Selected committee prints, Congressional documents, Congressional Record, Federal Register, Current Code of Federal Regulations, and the current US Code.
Coverage: Varies from source to source
Vendor: Lexis-Nexis

Revised 22 Aug 2006

Database Description Pages: A - E ; F G H I J K L ; M - R ; S - Z