Database Customization

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Customizable Library Databases
Finding Journals
Finding Databases
Journal Publishers Offering Free Alert Services

Customizable Library Databases

Library databases should be accessed using a link from the Library web site. From off-campus, you'll need to login with your UW-W NetID & password (email username & password). To use the customization features in these databases, you'll need to create an additional username and password in each database.

Vendor Name	Key Content	Services Available	Help
ABC-CLIO	America: History & Life Historical Abstracts	Custom user profile Search alerts	ABC-Clio User Guide
EBSCOhost	Suite of 35 databases covering academic and popular journals in humanities, social sciences, medicine.	Custom user profile Search alerts Tables of contents alerts	EBSCO Creating Search & Journal Alerts
EMERALD Library (MCB Press)	172 journals covering business, management, operations, educational administration	Save searches Search alerts Tables of contents alerts	EMERALD - Using The My Profile Facility
FirstSearch WorldCat	Union Catalog of libraries worldwide	Custom user profile Save searches Save search results �
IngentaConnect Current awareness service provided to UW community by UW-Oshkosh (UW-W subscribes to 87 titles via Ingenta) - must register on UW-W campus	IngentaConnect is an online delivery service for thousands of journals in the sciences, medicine, business, arts, humanities, social sciences	Custom user profile Save searches Search alerts	How to Use IngentaConnect
ISI Web of Knowledge (Web of Science)	Science Citation Index Social Sciences Citation Index Arts & Humanities Citation Index	Custom user profile Save searches Save search results Export to citation software	ISI Web of Knowledge Help Topics Sign up for free Web-based training for Web of Science
Project Muse	287 journals in history, literature, humanities and social sciences with a few medical titles	Custom user profile Table of contents alerts	Project Muse Journal Alerts
Ulrichsweb	International periodical directory covering 250,000 journal titles (gives info. on journals)	Alert service for new JOURNAL launches	Ulrichsweb User Guide
UW-W Library Catalog	Books Other library materials	Custom user profile Save records �	How to Use the Library Catalog
WilsonWeb	11 databases offering articles in arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences as well as biographical information �	Customization for current session Citation formatting	WilsonWeb Customize Display

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Finding Journals

Journal Holdings List (link from Library home page)
Shows fulltext journals subscribed to by UW-Whitewater. Print journals are shown in gray boxes with links to the Library catalog. Online journals are shown in purple boxes with links to online version of the journal (often journals are located within an online database).

CUFTS
This free service shows which databases index or contain the fulltext of a journal. Then check the UW-W Articles in Magazines... page to see if we have that database.

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Finding Databases

Articles in Journals, Magazines & Newspapers (Find Articles... link from Library home page)
Search for databases alphabetically, by subject, or by system (vendor). To find out which journals appear fulltext in a particular database, use the Journal Holdings List (above). Most databases contain a lists of publications included.

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Journal Publishers Offering Free Alert Services

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