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America: History and Life (ABC Clio: 1964 - )
America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. This extensive database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.

Anthropological Index Online
FREE
The Anthropological Index is a regionally arranged subject and author index to periodical articles in all areas of anthropology. It is produced by the Museum of Mankind Library.

Catalog of United States Government Publications
FREE
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. This is also known as the National Bibliography of U.S. Government. The CGP contains descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. The CGP is the online counterpart of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications.

Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption (BiblioLine : 1965- )
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Includes more than 17,000 citations and abstracts of professional literature from books, journals, government reports, conference papers, federally-funded grants, curricula, and unpublished papers.

CJPI Criminal Justice Periodical Index (ProQuest)
Covers a wide range of popular and scholarly publications in criminal justice, security issues, policing, organized crime, juvenile justice and law enforcement. Available as part of the ProQuest system.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) (EBSCOhost)
This database was created by combining CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Both of these resources have been expanded in content and scope to create CMMC. Communication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources.

CQ Researcher
Full text of CQ Researcher (1991 - ). Contains in-depth research on current topics with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues and bibliographies for further information.

Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch : 1861- )
The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions. Indexing began in 1861, abstracts of dissertations in 1980, and abstracts of theses in 1988.

EconLit (FirstSearch : 1969- )
Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers. Produced by the Journal of Economic Literature.

Ethnic NewsWatch (Proquest)
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

GenderWatch (Proquest)
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.

Gerritsen Collection – Women's History Online, 1543-1945
The Gerritsen Collection delivers two million page images of original printed works, spanning 4 centuries and 15 languages. The collection includes periodicals, books and pamphlets.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
FREE
The Handbook is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. It is edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and has been continuously published since 1935. Works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II, & III Collection
JSTOR is an electronic journal archival project which provides full-text accesss to complete runs of back issues of over 550 scholarly journal titles in approximately 40 fields.

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LexisNexis Academic
Access to a wide range of full-text news, company information, business news, legal research and reference information.

LexisNexis Congressional
Includes federal legislative history information, testimony, bills, laws and regulations, full-text of house and senate reports, Code of Federal Regulations, individual members voting records and financial disclosure, and more federal information.

Lit Finder: Essays
FREE to all residents of Wisconsin via BadgerLink
Essay Finder is a unique database of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century which have been analyzed in standard library indexes. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama.

Lit Finder: Speeches
FREE to all residents of Wisconsin via BadgerLink
This database has the full text of speeches from antiquity to modern times.

NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers
The 11th Edition of the NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work. It is an important resource for identifying social workers who are qualified providers of mental health services. Like its predecessors, this edition aims to advance sound professional practice standards by providing a uniform method to identify qualified clinical social work practitioners.

NCJRS Abstracts Database
FREE
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 140,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. The time period covered is from the early 1970's to the present.

New York Times Historical Newspapers (1851-2002) (Proquest)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times. It offers complete coverage from 1851-2001. The database delivers every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF. And the database just keeps growing, with a new year's content added annually

North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colony to 1950
This collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.

Polling the Nations
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Compiled from more than 12,000 surveys conducted in the United States and 70 other countries, the 300,000 questions and responses in Polling the Nations are the most comprehensive collection of polling data anywhere. Examples of some of the 3500 topics include AIDS, the death penalty, marriage, racism, and unemployment.

Project Muse
Provides access to the full text of 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)
Provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1988 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.

PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Includes PsycLit database.

Readers' Guide Full Text (WilsonWeb : 1983- )
Included in the OmniFile Full Text: Mega Edition database. Contains comprehensive indexing and abstracting of more than 240 of the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of over 120 of those periodicals. It covers news, current events, and all subject areas, including business, fashion, politics, crafts, food, education, sports, history, and science. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.

ScienceDirect College Edition
Extensive Full Text access to the Elsevier journal collections relevant to the social sciences: Social Sciences & Humanities (350 peer reviewed journals).

Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science: 1987 - )
Multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1725 journals spanning 50 disciplines as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3300 of the world's leading scientivic and technical journals.

Social Sciences Full Text (WilsonWeb : 1983- )
Included in the OmniFile Full Text: Mega Edition database. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 415 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of over 115 of those periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

Social Work Abstracts (WebSpirs : 1977- )
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The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 35,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.

Sociological Abstracts (CSA)
Contains records from 3,000 journals covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
This database is a summary of statistics on the social, cultural, political, and economic organization of the United States. It includes a selection of data from many statistical publications, both government and private. Indexes, abstracts and full-text provided. Includes links to some online statistical agencies.

WisLaw Wisconsin Statutes
CD-ROM at Reference Desk
Contains the full text of Wisconsin Acts, the official statutes, Attorney General opinions, Wisconsin Supreme Court rules, and other materials. Dates of coverage vary.

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000
Includes books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities. The resource examines perspectives on women's social movements from Colonial times to the present and is updated on a quarterly basis by adding new document projects, book and website reviews, related teaching tools, and more documents.

Women's Studies International (BiblioLine: 1972- )
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Women's Resources International is a combination of nine contributing databases covering women's studies, women's issues, and gender-focused scholarship from throughout the world. Databases include: Women's Studies Abstracts (1984-); New Books on Women & Feminism (1987-); Women of Color and Southern Women 1975-1988, and annual supplements (1989-); and other databases and print publications.

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