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ABI/INFORM Global
(ProQuest):
Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1600 scholarly and
trade business periodicals with full-text from more than 700
journals. It is an excellent source of
information on management techniques, corporate strategies, trends,
and business conditions. Coverage: 1971 to present with small
collection (25 titles) back to early 1900's. Updated: bi-monthly.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost):
Provides access to citations and abstracts for over 8,000 magazines and
journals, with full text access to over half these titles. For
scholarly publications, full text is available for more than 3,600
titles
covering subjects such as social sciences,
humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and
linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic
studies. Coverage: 1975 to present. Updated: Daily.
ACS
Publications (American Chemical Society):
Access to more than a
dozen ACS chemistry journals. Also includes current news and educational
resources in the field of chemistry. Coverage varies by title, but in
many cases goes back to the first issue.
Updated: monthly.
African American Biography Database (Chadwyck-Healey):
With content from Black Biographical Dictionaries (1790-1950)
and Black Biography (1790-1950): Cumulative Index, this
resource includes portraits of well-known and everyday African
American such as activists, business people, former slaves, artists,
educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers,
athletes, farmers, and scientists. As the database continues to
grown, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites,
etc. will be added. Coverage: profiles from 1790 to present. Updated:
Continuously.
African American Music Reference (Alexander
Street Press):
Is a new resource that will eventually contain 50,000 pages of
coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave
songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of
black American musical expression. The fall 2007 release includes
1304 essays and images from 36 sources, over 13506 pages. Content
includes biographies of 185 African American composers and
5,000 pages of liner notes from Document Records.
AGRICOLA
(FirstSearch):
From the National Agricultural Library, U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture (USDA). Index to 850 journals and other materials relating to all aspects of agriculture,
forestry, and animal science. Coverage: 1970 to present. Updated:
monthly.
Aldrich FT-NMR Library with Spectral Viewer (Sigma-Aldrich):
Electronic book that contains high-resolution 300MHz 1H
and 75MHz 13C spectra for the more than 11,800 compounds
found in the printed version of The Aldrich Library of 13C
and 1H FT-NMR Spectra. Found on the Science/Health workstation in the reference area.
Alternative
Press Index (FirstSearch):
Indexes nearly 290 newspapers and magazines that report
and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic,
political and social change. Provides additional viewpoints on
internationally significant subjects. Coverage: 1991 to present. Updated:
quarterly.
Alternative
Press Index Archive (FirstSearch):
Indexes nearly 290 newspapers and magazines that report
and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic,
political and social change. Provides additional viewpoints on
internationally significant subjects. Coverage: 1969 to 1990. Updated:
quarterly.
American Universities & Colleges (Greenwood Press):
This e-book provides profiles on 1,900 institutions of higher
education, including all accredited colleges and universities
that offer at least the baccalaureate degree. Profiles include
data on: * tuition, room and board; * admission requirements; *
financial aid; * enrollments; * student life; * library
holdings; * accelerated and study abroad programs; * departments
and teaching staff; * buildings and grounds; * degrees
conferred. Data can be searched, browsed by institution, and by
state. Last Updated:
2008. Note: The 2 volume print version is available in Murphy
Library's
reference collection; call no. LA226 .A65.
America:
History and Life (EBSCOhost):
Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada. 1,700 journals are indexed. Coverage: 1964 to present. Updated: quarterly.
New look, same resource. EBSCO
purchased this resource in summer 2007. As a result, the
database is now available via the EBSCOhost
interface.
Animal
Behavior Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific):
Papers relevant to
animal behavior, with subjects ranging from neurophysiology to
behavioral ecology, from genetics to applied ethology.
Coverage: 1982 - present. Updated: monthly.
Animals
(EBSCOhost):
EBSCO's
Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of
topics relating to animals. Coverage: current. Updated: annually.
Annual
Reviews Online:
Online access to 18 different Annual
Reviews titles in the biomedical, physical, and social sciences.
Full Text Coverage: 1996 to present. Citation and Abstract
Coverage: 1984 to present. Updated:
annually.
ArcExplorer (ESRI):
A (freely available) lightweight GIS data viewer software program.
Used for a variety of display, query, and data retrieval applications
and supports a wide variety of standard data sources. Found on
Statistics/Geography workstation in the reference area.
Art Abstracts (Wilson):
Citations and abstracts from more than 400 art journals, yearbooks,
and museum bulletins primarily in English, but also includes
publications in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and
Swedish. Citations:1984 to present. Abstracts: 1994 to present. Updated: monthly.
Quick Tip:
Creating Bibliographies with Art Abstracts (pdf) This resource is
limited to 1 simultaneous user. If access is unavailable,
please try again later.
Note: To search only the Arts &
Humanities Citation Index, click the change limits
link towards
the bottom of the screen and uncheckthe boxes for
Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
ASFA:
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
(Cambridge Scientific):
Collection of 5 databases: ASFA 1, ASFA 2, ASFA 3, ASFA Aquaculture, and ASFA Marine Biotechnology. Indexes over 5,000 journals in the field of
aquatic sciences; including conservation, marine biotechnology, oceanography,
policy and legislation, and wildlife management.
Coverage: 1971 to present. Updated monthly.
ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources (Cambridge
Scientific):
Coverage of basic and applied research on aquatic organisms. All
aspects of marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms and
environments are examined, including information on biology and
ecology of aquatic organisms, exploitation of living resources, and
related legal, policy, and socioeconomic issues Coverage:
1971 to present. Updated: monthly.
ASFA
Aquaculture Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific):
Information on
cultivating marine, freshwater, and brackish water species with
related disciplines - such as water pollution, ecology, diseases,
nutrition, oceanography, and limnology. Coverage: 1984 to present.
Updated: bimonthly.
Associations Unlimited (Gale):
A searchable
directory of over 450,000 U.S. associations and professional organizations, from the
Encyclopedia of Associations. Entries include membership numbers, IRS
information for non profit organizations, and organization contact
information. Coverage: current year. Updated: annually.
This resource is
limited to 23 simultaneous users across UW System. If access is
unavailable, please try again later.
Atlas of the World (Hammond): Easy to use map of the
world. Zooms in to city level. Found on the Statistics/Geography workstation in the
reference area. This is the online version of the
Hammond World Atlas.
BadgerLink Song Book
Database
(BadgerLink):
This is database includes 40,000 unique records for songs contained
in 2000 separate songbooks available via the WI Department of Public
Instruction's Reference and Loan Library Collection or through
Wisconsin libraries. Users can search for a song by title, composer,
lyricist or year to discover a book containing the song.
Biography & Genealogy Master
Index (Gale):
Indexes biographical dictionaries, volumes of literary
criticism, and Who's Who for biographies of over 4 million people.
Coverage: 1975 to present. Updated: bi-annually.
This resource is
limited to 6 simultaneous users. If access is unavailable,
please try again later.
Biological Abstracts
(Web of Knowledge):
Abstracting and indexing of more than 4,000 international journals
in the life sciences, including agriculture, biochemistry,
biotechnology, botany, ecology, the environment, microbiology,
neurology, pharmacology, public health and toxicology.
Coverage: 1994 to present. Updated:
bi-monthly.
This resource is
limited to 7 simultaneous users. If access is unavailable,
please try again later.
Biological
Sciences (Cambridge Scientific):
Collection of 25 databases of abstracts and citations in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology
and ecology. Covers over 6,000 serials, as well as conference
proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and
patents. Coverage: 1982 to present. Updated:
monthly.
Biology Digest (Cambridge Scientific): Compilation of abstracts and indexes of domestic and international literature in the area of life
sciences focusing on the latest developments in biological research.
Coverage: 1989 to present. Updated: monthly.
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition (EBSCOhost):
Full text for more than 100 periodicals covering clinical medicine,
dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences and the health
care system.
Coverage: 1985 to present. Updated: daily.
BioOne.1:
Includes full text articles from over 80 high impact
journals in biological, ecological and environmental studies.
Coverage: 2000 to present. Updated: weekly. Search Tip:Under "Selected Collection(s)", limit to
BioOne1:
Black
Drama - 1850 to present: (Alexander Street Press):
Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the
mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North
America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African
Diaspora countries. The plays are accompanied by
reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich
performance database, and images.
Black Studies on Disc (Hall): Provides citations to
articles, book chapters, and manuscripts of interest to African
American studies in the humanities, social sciences, and arts. Found
on workstations in the reference area.
BNA Tax Management Library (BNA):
Includes BNA's U.S. Income Portfolios Library (more
info)
with more than 160 portfolios examining topics of federal taxation,
and BNA's State Tax Portfolios Library
(more info)
with more than 60 portfolios examining topics of state taxation.
Also includes practice tools, primary sources, news and
developments, and journals and special reports. Updated: Monthly.
BNA Labor and
Employment Law Library:
Provides explanations of complex federal and state laws,
regulations governing employment, as well as cases, rulings, awards and opinions from U.S. courts and
administrative agencies. Coverage: varies by publication. Updated: monthly.
Note: This resource is for UW-L student, faculty, and
staff use only. A username and password are required for access,
please e-mail the Reference
Desk or call 785-8508 for assistance.
Books
in Print (FirstSearch):
In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos.
Coverage: 1979 to present. Updated weekly.
British & Irish Women's Letters and Diaries: 1500 - 1900 (Alexander
Street Press):
Spanning more than 300 years, this collection will bring the
personal experiences of more than 1,000 women to researchers,
students, and general readers. Represented are all age groups and life
stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and not
so famous. More than 500 biographies enhance the use of the database. Coverage: 1500 to
1900.
Budget of the
United States Government (GPO Access):
A complete description of the President's budget plans for the
coming fiscal year. Other related and supporting budget
publications, such as the Economic Report of the President,
are included, which may vary from year to year. Coverage: 1996 to
present. Updated: yearly.
Burger's
Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery (Wiley InterScience):
An online equivalent of the six volume print reference work, this
resource covers areas of traditional and new biology. Topics
include: drug discovery and development, cardiovascular agents and
endocrines, autacoids, chemotherapeutic agents, and nervous system
agents. Coverage: articles posted online from 2003 to present.
Updated: monthly.
Business
Source Elite (EBSCOhost):
Nearly 1,050 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more.
Coverage: 1984 to present. Updated: daily.
Business News,
Regional (EBSCOhost):
Regional Business News is a full text
newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the
world. Included in this database are A&G Information, Africa
News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International,
South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business
News Wire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network, and
Phillips Business Information Highlights. This database is updated daily.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse purchases
many electronically based information resources. These resources always involve
software licenses, copyright restrictions, and other contractual agreements which require
them to be restricted to a specific group. This group is often University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse faculty, staff and students only.
If you come to the library or use a computer on campus via the campus LAN, you are
considered a valid library patron. However, if you are currently affiliated with UW-La
Crosse, but you use a different Internet Service Provider (ISP) or you are currently
accessing our resources from off campus, Murphy Library offers remote access to multiple
electronic services on a password basis so that you can access Internet-based resources
which are restricted to UW-La Crosse students, faculty and staff.
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