AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature 1955-to date (updated quarterly)

AATA Online indexes articles from over 400 journals; with 120 journals covered comprehensively. It includes over 100,000 abstracts of worldwide literature related to the preservation and conservation of material culture and heritage. Coverage includes books, periodical articles, conference proceedings, occasional papers, electronic resources, audio visual resources, dissertations, and theses on the technical aspects of art and architecture. Topics included are: architectural preservation, archaeology, methods of examination and documentation, history of craftsmanship and technology, conservation education and training, and the analysis and treatment of materials, such as, paper, photograpy, paint, wood, textiles, plant and animal materials, metals, ceramics, and stone.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art
Vendor/Software: Getty Conservation Institute; International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC)

ABI/INFORM 1971-to date (updated daily)

ABI/INFORM indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1300 scholarly and trade business periodicals. Popular journals such as Forbes, Fortune, and Business Week are also included. The Web version, ABI/INFORM Global, provides full-text articles from more than 600 of the journals from 1992 to the present. It is an excellent source of information on management techniques, corporate strategies, trends, and business conditions.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: ProQuest Information and Learning/ProQuest & ProQuest Direct

ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) 1990-to date (updated monthly)

ABSEES covers North American scholarship on East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It includes citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, government publications, and more. ABSEES Online can be searched by ten different fields, including author, title, subject, date of publication, and publisher. There is selective coverage of materials published before 1990.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCOhost Web

Abortion in Africa: A Review of Literature from the 1990's to the Present Day 1990-present (updates vary)

Produced by Centre Population et Developpement (CEPED), this publication is a review of the literature on the subject of Abortion in Africa. It includes a bibliographic database containing 600 references, which may be accessed via key words as well as a thematic summary divided into six chapters. It presents a wide collection of published material from both journal articles and books, but also from grey literature such as various types of written reports, theses, unpublished conference papers, working papers etc. It was created as a part of a the CEPED network "restricted access to family planning and fertility regulation modes, and women's health" led by Agnes Guillaume. The database focuses on the issue of abortion that frequently arises when women do not have access to family planning or when such methods fail. The network's activities are also concerned with new methods of fertility regulation such as emergency contraception, which is currently being put on the market in Africa, as well as "medicalized" abortions offered in circumstances where such act is illegal. Each entry includes the author's name, year of publication, title, type of publication (journal, book, grey literature etc.), an abstract (generally taken from databases and/or from the author's summary, or produced by us), and key words indexed by topic and country or geographical area. The source of the document is included with a link if the reference (or a summary of it) is available for public download. A search engine will allow the user to run a search on one or several key words in the bibliography and the text. A list of key words is offered in French and English.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial Library
Vendor/Software: Centre Population et Developpement (CEPED)/Internet

ABU: la BibliothÈque Universelle Date Varies (updates vary)

ABU maintains hyperlinked, searchable files of public-domain texts in the French language. Of the 277 texts available as of January 2001, almost all are literary works; the exceptions are usually either political or philosophical (for example, the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, some Marx and Engels, some Leibniz), although there are also titles in history of science and other fields as well.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: CNAM: Conservatoire National des Arts et M'tiers, Centre d'Etude et de Recherche en Informatique, FOR the Association des Bibliophiles Universels

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology Current (updates vary)

The Dictionary has more than 133,000 entries from 124 fields of science. Subjects range from acoustical engineering to zoology, including classical fields like mathematics and emerging ones such as systematics. It is searchable using single words, compound words, abbreviations, acronyms, proper names and geographic names. Many of the entries have audio pronunciation. Entries can also be browsed through a subject hierarchy of specific scientific domains.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Harcourt, Inc.

ACADEMIC SEARCH 1984-to date (updated daily)

Academic Search is a full text database of more than 3000 journals. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor are also indexed. It covers many academic areas, including business, social sciences, humanities, general science, education, and multi-cultural. Searches may be limited to retrieve only peer-reviewed titles (approximately 1700). Dates vary, but many of the full-text titles go back to 1990. A business directory is also included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business, College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCOhost Web

AccessScience Current (updated daily)

McGraw-Hill AccessScience is the online version of the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. This encyclopedia contains more than 7100 articles on all aspects of science and engineering, a dictionary of 115,000 terms, research updates, biographies of more than 2000 scientists and engineers, and a weekly update of events in the field. Encyclopedia articles contain a definition, a general overview of the subject, and its relationship to other related topics.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Steenbock, Wendt
Vendor/Software: McGraw-Hill/AccessScience

AccessUN 1966-to date (updated monthly)

AccessUN indexes United Nations documents and publications. Articles appearing in UN periodicals are individually indexed as are the bilateral and multilateral treaties in the United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS). Full-text resolutions from the principal organs are appended to their respective bibliographic citations. For CD-ROM access to publications before 1966, see Index to United Nations Documents.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law, Memorial
Vendor/Software: NewsBank/NewsBank InfoWeb

ACLS History E-Book Project Antiquity-to date (updates vary)

The ACLS History E-Book Project makes available works of major importance to historical studies. All parts of the world and all periods of history are included. The aim is to include "books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature." You can search the whole collection or individual books, using words or phrase within the full text, title, subject, or author. You can browse by subject, author, or title and read all or part of the e-book.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: American Council of Learned Societies

ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY 1985-to date (updated weekly)

The Digital Library is an online resource containing all ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings from 1991 and forward. The scholarly and trade publication source list includes 22 journals and magazines and 44 conference proceedings. Abstracts and some full text exist for literature published between 1985 and 1990. All aspects of computing is covered by the literature. The collection can be browsed by journal title or conference subject areas. The title, abstract or full text can be searched separately. Searches can be limited to a specific journal or conference, subject classification or date(s). Results are in either HTML or PDF formats.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Association for Computing Machinery

ACT DISCOVER CAREER Current (updated irregularly)

Discover, from the American College Testing (ACT) group, is an advanced career guidance system. It combines the unique capabilities of the computer with information about occupations, values, interests, skills, and nationwide graduate school information. It can help you systematically examine your present values, interests, and skills. Discover covers all the major aspects of career decision-making and planning through a system of nine separate and interrelated sections.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College
Vendor/Software: American College Testing

Acta Sanctorum Database 1st through 17th centuries CE (not updated)

The Acta Sanctorum Database is an electronic version of the complete printed text of the Acta Sanctorum ["Deeds of the Saints"] taken from the edition published in many volumes by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp in the seventeenth century and continued in Brussels in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is a collection of documents recounting the exemplary lives, deaths, miracles, and other deeds of saints of the Roman Catholic Church as well as major historical moments in their subsequent veneration. Organized according to each saint's feast day, it runs from January through November. The final volume is the Propylaeum ["preliminary volume"] to December published in 1940; this is an annotated edition, rich in older bibliographical references, of the Martyrologium Romanum, the church's month-by-month listing of its saints. Lives, etc. of saints with feast days in December are not included in the Acta Sanctorum. Although some early modern saints are included, the Acta Sanctorum's coverage is chiefly ancient and medieval.

The editorial matter and most of the documents are in Latin; some documents are in Greek. Every "Search" page and every document page has a vertically oriented toolbar at the upper left, headed by the words "Acta Sanctorum"; some important indexes for searching are over the picture and thus easily missed by new users. One of these is the database's "BHL GoTo" feature, which guides one to matter on particular saints according to the numbers and number ranges assigned in the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina (BHL; a standard inventory and finding guide for lives, etc. of the saints). The toolbar includes links to the Table of Contents, to the general contents of the database's Help file, to contextual Help varying on where one is in the database, and (document pages only) to a set of links, called "Context", to surrounding matter in the volume in which the present document occurs.

Boolean searching, truncation searching, and proximity searching are all possible; details are available through the "Help Contents" pick on the toolbar. Searching by saint's name requires use of a Latin name form; to insure complete coverage you may have to use several alternate spellings as well.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: ProQuest (vendor)/ ProQuest UK (=Chadwyck-Healey): publisher/unknown

Advanced Polymers Abstracts 1986-to date (updated monthly)

Advanced Polymer Abstracts is a subfile of the Engineered Materials Abstracts database. It includes technical information about the uses, manufacturing, and properties of thermoset and thermoplastic resins; materials that compete heavily with metals for structural applications. Some of the major areas of coverage include: molding, extrusion, polymer blends, thermoplastic elastomers, and PVC.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

AESOPICA.NET: AESOP'S FABLES ONLINE Dates Vary (updates vary)

This is an ongoing project to publish on the Web the Greek and Latin texts of Aesop's fables (and other "Aesopic" fables in ancient and medieval collections), together with early modern and modern English-language translations and with indexes to collections by fable number. Greek-language texts are published in Unicode; you may need to set your browser accordingly (for more information on this, see: http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/greek.htm. Greek authors included thus far are Aesop (click on Chambry, whose Budé edition is used here), Aphthonius, Babrius, and "Syntipas"; ancient Latin authors included are Phaedrus and Avianus; medieval Latin authors included are Ademar, "Romulus" (Books I and II), Walter of England, and Odo of Cheriton. Also included are the 15th-century English translation by Caxton (Books I-III), the late 17th-century one by L'Estrange, 19th-century ones by Townsend and by Jacobs, and a very recent!

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Laura Gibbs, Information Technology, Technology Services Center, University of Oklahoma

African American Biographical Database 1790-1950 (updated bimonthly)

The AABD contains biographical profiles for African Americans taken from a series of Black Biographical Dictionaries published by Chadwyck-Healey. Most profiles are for people living between 1790 and 1950, although some newer people are included. Searches may be by name, state, occupation, religion, etc. The database is provided through BadgerLink by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. BadgerLink's information resources are available to all public, academic and special libraries, PK-12 schools, institutions of higher education and individual Wisconsin citizens with Internet access.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey; ProQuest

Africultures 1997- (updated monthly)

Africultures contains a multisciplinary collection of full-text critical essays on the cultural and artistic expression of contemporary Africa. It covers sociocultural issues around the African diaspora and various arts disciplines, film studies, literature and related fields. Included are book, film, music, concert, theatre and art reviews, as well as, interviews with artists, musicians, writers and critics. It includes an international calendar of events. Each issue is focused on either a specific theme or a particular country.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Editions L'Harmattan/Africulture Web

AGRICOLA 1970-to date (updated quarterly)

The AGRICOLA database indexes 2,500 journals, USDA publications, state agricultural experiment station and extension services documents, FAO publications, foreign documents, conference proceedings, books, and audio-visual materials. Its subject matter covers agriculture, animal industries, animal nutrition, botany, chemistry, entomology, plant science, soil science, veterinary medicine, and water management. Approximately 10% of the citations include abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts 1993-to date (update bimonthly)

Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts indexes 123 journal titles covering plant and animal biotechnological developments, new applications in food industry, and new developments in the environmental field. Topics include plant genome studies, fermentation, soil microorganisms, bioremediation, transgenic plant and animals, biopesticides, breeding techniques, safety tests, and biochemical applications in water treatment and industrial hygiene.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock, Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Agricultural Information Resource Centers: A World Directory Current (updates vary)

This directory includes almost 4,000 agricultural libraries and documentation centers in 189 countries. The entries contain the complete address, phone number, email address, and fax number of each center; size, subjects, and language of the collections; and type of institution, type of materials collected, and services provided. It is produced by the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) in cooperation with the National Information Services Corporation (NISC).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock Library
Vendor/Software: National Information Services Corporation (NISC)/BiblioLine

AGRIS 1986-to date (updated quarterly)

The AGRIS database indexes English and foreign-language journals, books, reports, conference papers, and patents. Its subject matter covers agriculture, animal production, aquaticscience and fisheries, extension work, machinery and buildings, natural resources, plant production and protection, pollution, protection of stored products, and rural sociology. Approximately 10-15% of the citations include abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals 1990 to date (updated quarterly)

The Air University Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items and editorials appearing in 76 English language military and aeronautical periodicals.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Air University Library

Alciato's Book of Emblems: The Memorial Web Edition in Latin and English 1492-(updates vary)

Electronic text-and-image site devoted to a pioneering and highly influential Europeanemblem book, the Emblemata of Andrea Alciato. It includes an edition of the visual images and the Latin text from an edition of 1621, a scholarly English-language translation, commentaries on individual emblems, a title list, a table of emblems, primary and secondary bibliography, information about Alciato, and links to other sites. Also included are provisional electronic editions of Geoffrey Whitney's Choice of Emblemes (Antwerp, 1586) and of Gratiae Ludentes, or Jestes from the University (London, 1638).

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: English Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland

Aldrich Spectral Viewer with FT-IR and FT-NMR Libraries 2001-2002 (not updated)

The Aldrich Spectral Viewer is an electronic book style program for searching, viewing and printing spectra and related structure and technical data. The Spectral Viewer libraries include the FT-NMR of 15,000 compounds and the FT-IR of 11,000 compounds. The types of compounds contained in the Spectral Viewer include hydrocarbons, ketones, aldehydes, salts, amides and many others. The libraries can be used separately or in combination to create a more comprehensive search. When started, the program will display the main screen of the spectral viewer. The product displayed at startup is Butane.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: Sigma-Aldrich/Aldrich FT-NMR library with spectral viewer, network ver. 1.1 and Aldrich FT-IR library with spectral viewer, network ver. 2.1

All that JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources Current (updates vary)

All That JAS is a categorized registry of 123 Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations or other types of abbreviated publication titles (example: conference proceedings titles). Selected online public access catalogs that offer abbreviated title searching have also been included. In addition, All That JAS includes select lists and directories that provide access to the unabbreviated titles of serial publications.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Gerry McKiernan, Iowa State University Library

ALTERNATIVE PRESS INDEX 1991-to date (updated quarterly)

The Alternative Press Index, produced by the Alternative Press Center in Baltimore, indexes approximately 300 alternative, radical, and left publications that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. Ninety per cent of the publications indexed in API are unique; they are not covered in more mainstream indexes.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: OCLC/FirstSearch Web

Aluminium Industry Abstracts 1972-to date (updated monthly)

This database is part of the multi-database Materials Science subject area from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. It provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business developments. The database includes information abstracted from approximately 2,300 scientific and technical journals, government reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, books, and patents.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE 1964-to date (updated monthly)

America: History and Life indexes and abstracts more than 1700 social science and humanities journals in the field of United States and Canadian history. (See Historical Abstracts for non-North American coverage.) Links to full-text articles are included when available. Books and dissertations are included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Historical
Vendor/Software: ABC-CLIO

America's Best Graduate Schools Current (updated continually)

Contains ranking of graduate and professional schools from U.S. News and World Report. Also includes some articles on graduate schools, career choices, etc.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: U.S. News and World Report

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS: JOURNALS Dates Vary (updates vary)

The full-text of articles in 26 American Chemical Society journals may be searched and displayed at this site. A special feature, ASAP, (Articles as Soon as Published) offers early access to articles scheduled to appear later in the printed journals. Several ACS titles that focus on news and current events are also listed here but are not available in full text. However, table of contents can be displayed for these titles. ACS journals publish articles in every area of the chemical sciences: chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, pharmacy--to name only a few of the broad categories. Dates of coverage vary with each title, but most are available from 1996 to date.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: American Chemical Society

American Dante bibliography 1953-to date (updated annually)

This database presents annotated bibliographies of Dante scholarship published annually in Dante Studies. It allows users to search bibliographies by publication year. It also provides access to an Italian Dante bibliography for the years 1988-1990. It contains links to DanteNet and related online journals.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: American Dante Society

American Film Institute Catalog 1893-1950 and 1961-1970 (not updated)

The American Film Institute Catalog is a comprehensive resource for the study of American film. The searchable database contains citations to more than 14,000 films, covering 1893 through 1970, minus 1951-1960 (AFI is currently working on the fifties volume). Catalog entries give release and copyright dates; genre; information on technical processes; full credits for writing, directing, cast, production staff, production and distribution vehicles, literary and stage sources, lyricists and composers; plot summaries; production history; remakes; and censorship issues.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial Library
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey, ProQuest

American Humanities Index 1975 - to date (updated biweekly)

The American Humanities Index includes more than 1,000 scholarly and creative journals published in the U.S. and Canada. It provides citations for a variety of works, including articles, essays, etchings, murals, reviews, poems, and photographs. All journals included are indexed in their entirety.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCOhost Web

American Journeys: Eyewitness accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement 1000 AD- 1844 AD (not updated)

American Journeys contains more than 17,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wisconsin Historical Society
Vendor/Software: Wisconsin Historical Soceity/ContentDM

AMERICAN POETRY DATABASE Colonial Period-Early 20th Century (not updated)

American Poetry Database includes the full text of poems by more than 200 influential American poets from the Colonial period to the early twentieth century. Its principal bibliographic source was the Bibliography of American Literature, Yale University Press, 1955-1991, with additional poets included in the interest of presenting a more thorough and balanced collection.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey/Open Text

ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS 1980-to date (updated monthly)

The Analytical Abstracts database indexes 1,100 international journals each year, in addition to books, conference proceedings, standards, and technical reports in more than 20 languages. The subject matter includes analysis, biochemistry, chemicals, energy, industry, pharmaceuticals, science and technology. All citations include abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

The Ancient World Web Current (updates vary)

This is a site devoted to listing non-commercial Web sites which cover all aspects of the ancient world, pre-1000 AD.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Julian Hayden

Animal Health and Production Compendium 2002 to date (updates vary)

The Animal Health and Production Compendium focuses on all aspects of animal health and production, including diseases, nutrition, husbandry and breeding. It has been designed primarily for problem solving and as a reference tool for practical use throughout the world. The Compendium covers several hundred topics in food-animal production (cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry), including husbandry, housing, handling, identification, transport, behaviour, nutrition, genetics, reproduction, techniques, welfare, slaughter, meat, milk, eggs, products and legislation.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: CAB International/CABI Publishing/CABI Compendium

L'AnnÉe Philologique 1969-to date (updated annually)

L'Anne Philologique, the most comprehensive index to scholarly work in classical studies. Includes citations drawn from more than 1100 journals plus books and conference proceedings.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Fourth Dimension

ANNO:Austrian Newspapers Online 1808-1938 (updates vary)

ANNO is a growing portal to historical journals, periodicals and newspapers published in the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria. You can search this resource via the date of publication and/or the name of the newspaper.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: memorial
Vendor/Software: Austrian National Library/not known

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) 1920-to date (updated regularly)

ABELL has long been regarded as an essential bibliography of English language and literature in English. Issued in printed volumes since 1921, it is the British equivalent of the MLA Bibliography, but different enough in its coverage and the journals it indexes that the overlap is surprisingly far from complete. ABELL covers monographs, periodical articles, critical editions, books reviews, collections of essays and dissertations. Subject areas covered are: English language, English literature, bibliography, and traditional culture of the English-speaking world. Coverage is international and includes articles in languages other than English.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software:Chadwyck-Healey

Annual Reviews Varies (updated annually)

Founded in 1932, Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 29 disciplines (biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences). Date coverage varies, depending on when each Review began - this site includes complete coverage of all Reviews. Each Review synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and identifies the principal contributions in each field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. The Reviews can be browsed by topic or searched, including full text searching.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Most libraries
Vendor/Software: Annual Reviews/

ANTE: Abstracts in New Technology & Engineering 1981-date (updated monthly)

ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering (formerly Current Technology Database), is an abstracting and indexing service monitoring approximately 350 academic and trade publications from the U.K. and the U.S. Coverage includes new technologies such as information technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering (including construction, electrical and chemical engineering) and allied subject areas. Abstracts are available from January 1993 to the present.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS 6.0

ANTHROPOLOGICAL INDEX ONLINE 1957-to date (updated quarterly)

Anthropological Index Online contains citations for more than 750 international journals and special interest publications in all areas of anthropology and archaeology. In anthropology, all geographical regions are covered, with particularly strong coverage of Eastern and Central Europe. In archaeology, coverage concentrates on Eastern and Central Europe and the Soviet Union, the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific; Western Europe and Classical antiquity are not covered in great detail. Citations from the 1960s are limited.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Royal Anthropological Institute

Anthropological Literature Late 19th century-to date (updated quarterly)

Produced by one of the world's foremost anthropology libraries, Anthropological Literature indexes entries at least two pages long in more than 900 journals and monographic series held in Harvard University's Tozzer Library. These include articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries. Anthropological Literature online includes the complete contents of Anthropological Literature: An Index to Periodical Articles and Essays (published quarterly since 1979).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: RLG (Research Libraries Group)/Eureka Web

Applied Science Full Text 1983-to date (updated quarterly)

The Applied Science Full Text covers more than 700 English language scholarly and trade journals of (which approximately 160 journals are full text) in the general fields of engineering, computers, chemistry, applied mathematics, energy, and a wide variety of applied sciences.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial, Physics, Wendt
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) 1978-to date (updated monthly)

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) indexes more than 5,000 journals, reports, conference proceedings, and books in the area of aquatic sciences. It covers the major aspects of the aquatic environment, including aquaculture, limnology, oceanography and marine environments, environmental quality, and water pollution.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

ARCAT (updated semiannually)

This database is the online catalog of the holdings of the Archives Division of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The division is the official archival repository for Wisconsin state and local government records, and holds manuscripts collected from individuals, organizations, churches, businesses, and other record creators. Holdings total almost 100,000 cubic feet of correspondence, diaries, subject files, reports, minutes, recordings, and other unpublished primary research source materials; approximately 2,000,000 photographs, motion pictures, and other visual ephemera; more than 25,000 maps and atlases; and the holdings of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. The database includes descriptions of approximately 75% of the Archives Division's government records and manuscript collection holdings. None of the maps or atlases and only a very small percentage of the photographic and film holdings are described in the database.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Historical Society
Vendor/Software: State Historical Society, Archives Division/Endeavor/WebVoyage

ARCHIVES USA Early Historic Periods-to date (updated quarterly)

Archives USA is a compilation of information about manuscript and special collections in the United States and Canada.It includes detailed subject indexing of finding aids and more general information about manuscript repositories. Included are records for more than 109,000 separate collections in 4800 repositories. Contact information for repositories is provided as well.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial, Historical Society
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck Healey

Aristoteles Latinus Database 500-1600 (updates vary)

An ongoing electronic edition of the complete corpus of surviving late antique and medieval Latin translations of the works of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Aristoteles Latinus Database is based on but not fully identical with the older but also still ongoing printed edition, _Aristoteles latinus_ (Memorial Library Stacks Regular Size Shelving; PA3890 A2 1953); it does not contain its prefaces describing the manuscript traditions of particular translations, nor does it include its apparatus of variant readings, its Greek-Latin comparative apparatus, or its bilingual indexes. There is a Help pick at the top of the search screen; use this until you become familiar with the database.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Brepols/unknown

ART Full Text 1984 -to date (updated monthly)

Art Full Text indexes approximately 450 key English and foreign-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins (of which 117 are full text). Its subject matter covers archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, decorative arts, graphic arts,industrial and interior design, landscape architecture, museology, and film, video and photography. Feature articles are indexed, as are bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences and exhibitions, book and film reviews, and significant editorials and letters to the editor. Reproductions are also indexed. See Art Index Retrospective for coverage of earlier journal literature.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art, College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

ART INDEX RETROSPECTIVE 1929-1984 (not updated)

This index is the predecessor to Art Abstracts, citing articles and reproductions from approximately 450 key English and foreign-language periodicals from 1929 through 1984. Subject matter includes broad coverage of art, architecture, graphics, crafts, decorative arts, industrial and interior design, photography, film and video.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art, College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

The Art of Books: German Decorative Trade Bindings from Collections of the University of Wisconsin-Madison 1860's-1920 (not updated)

This virtual collection demonstrates types and styles of decorative bindings used on German books of the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Also included is supporting information about trade bookbinding in Germany. All materials are drawn from the collections of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Memorial Library

Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance 1470-1775 (not updated)

Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance is a searchable, full-text collection of leading treatises on art and architecture written between 1470 and 1775. Languages are Latin or Italian, with some English translations. First or early editions of texts have been preferred; translations, if provided, are from the period (with two exceptions from 1912-15 and 1907). Entire texts and associated images are included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey/INSO/Windows

ARTBIBLIOGRAPHIES MODERN 1974-to date (updated semiannually)

ABM covers the subject areas of modern and contemporary art and design and the history of photography. Artists and movements from late nineteenth century Impressionism to the present are included, with an emphasis placed on adding new and lesser-known artists. The history of photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. ABM abstracts journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Artfact 1986- (updated daily)

Artfact is the "world's largest auction catalog archives of prices paid for antique, art, and collectible objects sold by the world's premier auction houses: more than six million unabridged auction catalog entries with available photos and complete research by auction house experts." The auction records provide the complete description from the auction house catalog entry, including auction title, date, and auctioneer; estimated and realized prices; provenance of objects; and research notes, among other information. The "Auction Features" includes information on auction houses, upcoming auctions, and a searchable database of auction results by auction house, date of sale, and object description. The "Fine Arts Features" includes the Artist Directory with biographical data on 50,000 U.S. and international artists as well as the Fine Art Style Guide, and Fine Art Prices, a searchable database by name of artist.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Kohler Art Library
Vendor/Software: Artfact, Inc./Microsoft IE 5.5 or higher needed to view Artfact

Articoli Italiani di Periodici Accademici (AIDA) 1997-2002 (updated semiannually)

AIDA indexes articles from over 1,000 Italian periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. The database can be searched by keyword, author, article or journal title, subject heading (in English), editor, publisher, and holding libraries (in Italy!).

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: K.G. Saur/Internet

The Arts Collection not static (updates vary)

The Arts Collection brings together, in digital form, primary and secondary materials relating to the creative arts as broadly defined: visual, literary, musical, and performing.

Although this collection is still in its infancy, future additions may include archival as well as published materials and may be drawn from a variety of formats: books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, audio and video, and more. Our first submission to the collection is the journal Arts in Society, published on the University of Wisconsin campus from 1958 to 1976. We hope and intend that this digital UW Arts Collection continues the tradition of providing informative, thought-provoking resources regarding the arts.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Kohler, Memorial
Vendor/Software: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center/web interface

ARTS & HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX (AHCI) 1980-1989 (not updated)

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to more than 1,100 journals spanning 25 disciplines. Every item of significance is listed: articles, reviews, letters, notes, corrections, and editorials. In addition to access by author, title, and institution, it is also possible to search by cited authors and to find articles sharing one or more cited reference. See also Web of Knowledge, with AHCI coverage from 1987 onwards and remote access capability.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: ISI Windows

Arts PoÉtiques @ Globe-Gate Dates Vary (updates vary)

A hyperlinked collection of about 25 mostly French-language statements, manifestos, etc. about the art of literary creation or about the creation of artistic literature. The site also links to a number of French-language discussions about these and similar texts.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: The Globe-Gate Project, University of Tennessee-Martin

arXiv.org e-Print archive 1991- to date (updates weekly/daily)

This is an archive of pre-print literature in physics and related disciplines: mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computation linguistics, and neuroscience. It is subdivided into broad subject categories: Physics, Mathmatics, Nonlinear sciences, and Computer Science. There are also links to related information on the Web.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Los Alamos National Lab

ASCE CIVIL ENGINEERING DATABASE 1974-to date (updated quarterly)

The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) provides access to all ASCE journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. There are more than 80,000 bibliographic and abstracted records.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: American Society of Civil Engineers

ASCE Publications (American Society of Civil Engineers) 1995-date (updates vary)

The ASCE Publications Web site is an entry point for the full text of the 29 journals that ASCE publishes. Full text is provided in either PDF or GZipped PostScript. Each journal can be browsed or searched. The ASCE Civil Engineering Database is also accessable from this site. It provides access to more than 97,000 bibliographic and abstracted records with coverage back to 1972.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: ASCE

ASM Handbooks Online 1992-date (updates vary)

ASM Handbooks Online contains the complete contents of the 20 volume ASM handbook series. Together these 20 volumes provide practical data and information about the selection, processing, performance, and analysis of structural materials. The collection also includes access to the ASM desk editions; containing all the data and information from the two print volumes: Metals Handbook Desk Edition (2nd ed.) and the Engineered Materials Handbook Desk Edition. All of the text and tables from the print volumes are captured in full text and are completely searchable. All the figures are scanned images, with searchable captions. In most instances the numbering of figures, tables, equations, and references match the print volumes. Cross-referencing between volumes is enabled through hypertext links. Tables are both alpha and numerically searchable.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: ASM International

ASME Online Journal Gateway 2000-to date (updates vary)

The ASME Online Journal Gateway is the entry point to approximately 18 journals published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Tables of contents for each journal are available back to 1996. Full text for each journal begins with the year 2000. Each journal can be searched individually by issue or across all issues. It is not possible to search all journals at once.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASSIST quick search (military standards) Dates vary (updates vary)

The ASSIST database, the official DoD repository, providing access to over 100,000 full text Department of Defense specifications and standards. A full text version of the Department of Defense Index of Specifications and Standards (DODISS) is included. Full text is available in PDF format for downloading free of charge.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Document Automation and Production Service/n/a

ASSOCIATIONS UNLIMITED Current (updated semiannually)

This full-text database describes more than 154,000 national, international, regional, state, and local associations. In addition to basic address listings, information is supplied on membership, publications, and conference dates. Formerly Encyclopedia of Associations.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business, College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Gale/GaleNet World Wide Web

ATLA Religion Database 1949-to date (updated semiannually)

ATLA Religion Database (formerly ATLAS) indexes more than 600 of the leading journals in the field of religion and theology. The index also includes essays from multi-author works and book reviews. ATLA recently has added full text of approximately 39 journals and will be adding about 30 more. Most of the journals will be full-text back to 1949, although some will not include the most recent 1-5 years, depending upon individual publishers. For more information on the full text journals see http://www.atla.com/products/titles/titles_atlas.html.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Augustine of Hippo 354-(updates vary)

A scholarly collection of electronic editions and translations of, and commentary and bibliography on, the late Roman intellectual and eminent Christian theologian Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE). Page maintained by J.J. O'Donnell (University of Pennsylvania), one of the leading North American advocates of humanities scholarship on the Internet.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: J. J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania

Austrian Literature Online (ALO) 19th and early 20th centuries (updates vary)

Austrian Literature Online (ALO), despite its English-language title, is a German-language site offering digitizations of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary and cultural works from Austria. Also included are some German-language dictionaries of Austrian provenance from the same period. Maintained by a consortium of Austrian university libraries, its texts are grouped together in subject categories called "Sammlungen" [Collections]. Choose one of these categories (those of broadest interest are Austriaca, Varia, and Periodica) and you will get listings of individual works or, in some cases, further subject groupings (e.g., "Woerterbuecher" [Dictionaries]). A special section on the Austrian women's movement of the late nineteenth- and (esp.) early twentieth-century is listed under "Sammlungen" as: "Frauen in Bewegung (Ariadne/OeNB)". Choosing a specific title ("Dokument") brings up facsimiled pages with a menu. Choosing "PDF erzeugen" from that menu gets you a very legible version of the same item in PDF format.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: A consortium of Austrian university libraries

Autorinnen und Autoren Middle Ages to the present (updates vary)

Autorinnen und Autoren ("Female Authors and Male Authors") is a gateway, maintained by the university library of Germany's Free University of Berlin, to well over 5500 Web-based biographical and other notices of German-language authors (mostly literary) and of some anonymous works. Entries include reveiws of recent books by contemporary writers, are usually in German, and are arranged under the first letter of an author's surname or, in the case of anonymous works, under the first significant word in the title.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Universitaetsbibliothek der Freien Universitaet Berlin/unknown

Available Chemicals Directory Current (updates vary)

The Available Chemicals Directory containins pricing and supplier information for more than a quarter of a million research grade and bulk chemicals. It also includes information on product purities, forms, grades and available quantities. ACD may be searched by: structure or substructure, chemical name or synonym, Chemical Abstracts Registry number, molecular weight, or formula.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: MDL Information Systems/ISIS Base 2.2.1, ISIS Draw 2.2.1, ACD 99.2

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals 1934-to date (updated weekly)

The Avery Index is the primary architectural periodical index published in North America. It indexes a broad range of articles on architecture from such diverse fields as archaeology, decorative arts, interior design, landscape architecture, city planning, and housing. It surveys over seven hundred American and international journals, including scholarly and popular periodical literature as well as publications of professional associations, American state and regional periodicals, and the major serials on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. The index includes selective coverage dating back to 1741.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University/Getty Research Institute/CSA Illumina

Bacteriology Abstracts 1982-present (updated monthly)

Bacteriology Abstracts indexes 429 journals studying bacteriology from its pure biochemistry and genetics aspects to its clinical and agricultural applications. It includes immunology, vaccinations, and diseases of human and animals, as well as the application, use, and effects of bacteria in agriculture, soil, and the environment.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek-Digitale Bibliothek (The Digital Library of the Bavarian State Library) 1400's-to date (updates vary)

This database is a massive digitization project of the Bavarian State Library in Munich. Collections include: incunabula (early printed books), German Parliamentary Publications, documents about the Soviet Union, and other materials. This is an ongoing project.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

BEILSTEIN/GMELIN CROSSFIRE: ORGANIC AND INORGANIC/ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY 1771-to date (Beilstein is updated quarterly; Gmelin is updated semiannually)

Beilstein (organic chemistry) and Gmelin (inorganic/organometallic chemistry) are separate databases searchable with the Crossfire interface. Select the appropriate database before beginning a search (note that some compounds are found in both). Both databases document the preparations, reactions and properties of chemical substances and are organized around the data for individual compounds. They are searchable in multiple ways; including chemical structure, formula, physical property parameters, chemical reaction, as well as bibliographic data. Beilstein contains a module(Autonom) that generates systematic chemical names for organic compounds from structures drawn by the user. Beilstein's content also includes pharmacological, ecotoxicological and bioactivity data.

NOTE: Although access is available to licensed UW users, if you are not in a campus library you will need additional Remote Access and client distibution information.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: MDL Information Services/CrossFire Beilstein EcoPharm and CrossFire Gmelin

BEST EVIDENCE 1991-to date (updated quarterly)

Best Evidence is part of the Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Reviews Database from OVID. It covers the full-text of two journals: The ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group. This database offers abstracts and commentary on important individual articles. The editors of Best Evidence create reviews of current medical research by surveying the medical literature for the articles that they define as clinically relevant and methodologically sound and by reporting their analysis in a concise, structured format. This database does not contain original research articles. Instead, it contains discussion and review of research that has been done, as well as citations to the pertinent articles. Using this source, clinicians can quickly understand and apply to their practice important changes in medical knowledge, without having to read and synthesize for themselves thousands of journal articles.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences
Vendor/Software: American College of Physicians; Ovid Technologies/Web Gateway (Ovid 7.8)

BibliografÌa de la literatura espaÑola desde 1980 1998 (updated every 3 years)

The Bibliografìa de la literatura española desde 1980 includes citations of literary works, editions, translations and critical studies published in books, journals, conference proceedings, and miscellaneous publications. It covers Spanish, Latin American, and Filipino authors, and works encompassing the Medieval period to the present.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey España

Bibliografia EspaÑola de Revistas Cientificas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades 1999 (updated every 3 years )

The Bibliografìa Española de Revistas Cientìficas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades includes bibliographic citations emanating from specialized Spanish journals covering such areas as Latin America, education, history, law, scientific documentation, economics, geography, linguistics, literature, political science, sociology, and urban studies.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientìficas/MICRONET

BibliografÌa General EspaÑola Siglo XV-2004 2004 (updated every 3 years )

The Bibliografìa General Española Siglo XV-2004 contains more than one million Spanish-language titles published in Spain, South America, and elsewhere in the world. It covers classical and modern literature, scholarly publications, conference proceedings, legal publications, reference books, and periodicals.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: K.G. Saur Verlag

Bibliographie der deutschen Sprache- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) 1985- (updates vary)

The Bibliographie der deutschen Sprache- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) is a German-language periodical index and bibliography of other publications in all aspects of German language and literature. Edited at the City and University Library of Frankfurt am Main, it reports on significantly more German-language publications than do chiefly English-language literature indexes (MLA, Humanities Abstracts, etc.).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Center for Research Libraries / Verlag Vittorio Klostermann GmbH/unknown

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ASIAN STUDIES 1971-to date (updated irregularly)

The Bibliography of Asian Studies lists journal articles about Asia in Western language journals and books. Citations to books were discontinued in 1992.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Association for Asian Studies

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF ART (BHA) 1973-to date (updated quarterly)

BHA indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from more than 4,300 periodicals. It covers the literature of the history of Western art from late antiquity to the present. BHA includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989, and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art
Vendor/Software: Research Libraries Group-CitaDel/Eureka Web

Biblioteca: i classici della letteratura italiana Dates Vary (updates vary)

An Italian-language site featuring searchable texts (derived from older, public-domain editions) of writings by major literary authors in Italian. The site includes biographies of the authors, and is gradually adding introductions, commentaries and bibliographies on the individual literary texts. The site also includes a history of Italian literature (Appunti di Storia della Letteratura italiana --as of Feb. 2001, 19th- and 20th-century only) and a glossary into modern Italian of words from 13th- and 14th-century Italian literature.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Prof. Giuseppe Bonghi, Novara, Italy

Bibliotheca Augustana 8th century BCE-20th century CE (updates vary)

An extensive and frequently updated collection of e-texts, mostly literary, in the following languages: Latin, Greek, German, English, French, Italian, Spanish. The language of the site is Latin; individual sections have chronological and author indexes. Many but not all of the texts are from superseded editions in the public domain. New additions are signalled in the "Quid novi? [What's new?]" section.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Ulrich Harsch

Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina Dates Vary (updates vary)

The Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL) contains the text (without prefaces and critical apparatus) of critical editions of Latin authors published in the well-regarded series Bibliotheca Teubneriana. This version enables scholars to search across works written from earliest times to the second century. Some post-classical texts, including works of Ausonius and of Macrobius, are also included. Two updates are planned which will extend the BTL to more than 700 texts. This will include all editions of the Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina up to and including 1997.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Teubner; Brepols/Dataware

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-to date (updated with each new Congress)

This Directory provides brief biographical information, including party affiliation, for all members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives from the Continental Congress to the present.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: The Congress of the United States

Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon Year 0 to present (updates vary)

The Bautz Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon is an alphabetically arranged, German-language biographical and bibliographical dictionary of prominent figures in the history and study of the Christian church in all its branches and denominations. Coverage of Christian writers and of people who played important roles in church history is especially strong. This on-line version includes revisions and updates not found in the printed volumes of the same title.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH/unknown

BIOGRAPHY & GENEALOGY MASTER INDEX 1976-to date (updated annually)

Citations to more than 4 million current and historical persons are included in the Biography & Genealogy Master Index. Sources include more than 1000 English-language "who's who" type publications, including biographical dictionaries, handbooks, and directories. Name, birth and death dates, and source information are included for persons in all fields.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Gale/GaleNet World Wide Web

BIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS 1980-to date (updated quarterly)

The Biological Abstracts database indexes 9,600 journals each year. The subject matter covers anatomy, bacteriology, behavioral sciences, bioengineering, biotechnology, cell biology, clinical medicine, genetics, immunology, microbiology, nutrition, parasitology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, radiation and systematic biology, toxicology, virology, and zoology. All citations include abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Biology, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

BIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS/RRM 1991-to date (updated quarterly)

The Biological Abstracts/RRM database contain citations to more than 2 million international life science meetings, symposia, and workshop papers; review articles; books; book chapters; and patents. Abstracts are available only for book citations.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

BIOLOGICAL & AGRICULTURAL INDEX PLUS 1983-to date (updated monthly)

The Biological & Agricultural Index Plus contains citations to articles, book reviews, symposia, conference papers, and selected letters to the editor in more than 290 English-language periodicals on biology and agriculture. There are also links to relevant Web sites and full-text articles from 45 journals as far back as 1994. Articles are in plain text or PDF images. Some citations also contain abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Biology, College, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic Edition 1985 - present (updated daily)

Designed for doctors, research scientist, students and clinical specialists, this EBSCO medical database provides over 100 full text journals, including full text for many peer-reviewed publications. It offers journals which cover virtually every area of medical study. Topics include: clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the pre-clinical sciences. All titles included in this database are indexed in Medline.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Ebling, College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCOHost Web

BioOne 2000-to date (updated monthly)

BioOne aggregates the full text of high-impact bioscience research journals. It's coverage is continually expanding. Most titles in the collection are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers that had formerly been available only in print. Currently the collection contains 37 titles in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. Many of the journals are official organs of member societies of the American Institute for Biological Sciences (AIBS). Coverage includes volumes from 2000 forward and as the back years grow they will remain archived electronically. BioOne includes an "inter-journal linking" feature that links citations in an article to the abstract/full text of the cited article (when that article is contained in another BioOne journal), or to websites of publishers which support CrossRef, PubMed, JSTOR and Cambridge Abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Biology, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: BioOne

BioTech Life Science Dictionary Current (updates vary)

The BioTech Life Sciences Dictionary includes more than 8300 terms that deal with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics. While not covering biological species or popular names, it does include medically and biotechnologically relevant organisms such as bacteria, worms, fungi, and some plants.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Biology, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Univ. of Texas Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology; Indiana Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology

BIOTECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTS (DERWENT) 1982-to date (updated quarterly)

Biotechnology Abstracts contains more than 150,000 citations and abstracts to the worldwide journal and patent literature dealing with biotechnology. Subjects include genetic and biochemical engineering, fermentation, tissue culture, plant cell culture and breeding, biological control, downstream processing, and waste disposal.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts 1982-to date (updated monthly)

Biotechnology and Bioengineering Abstracts indexes 539 journal titles covering research, applications, regulatory developments and new patents across all areas of biotechnology and bioengineering. It surveys biotechnological aspects of medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, the environment and marine biology.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Birds of North America Online 2004 (updates vary)

The Birds of North America Online (BNA Online) is the most comprehensive and current reference work detailing the life histories of North American birds. The series provides detailed scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada. BNA Online is the online version of the monumental print work (18 volumes, 18,000 pages) which was the joint project of the American Ornithologist's Union, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the Academy of Natural Sciences. Now, as an online project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, BNA Online is designed to become a living resource. The species accounts will be updated frequently, with online-coordinated contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors. In addition, BNA Online is building image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings and more. Each online species account will contain recordings of that bird's songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Biology, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Bonner Kant-Korpus. Ergebnisse 1724- (updates vary)

The Bonner Kant-Korpus is a project to make available online writings of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant according to the text of the first three sections (i.e., vols. 1-23) of the still ongoing Akademie-Ausgabe of his Schriften and including corrections and other suggested changes for a new edition. A German-language introduction to the project is available.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: IKP, Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn/unknown

Book Review Digest Plus 1983 - to date (updated monthly)

Book Review Digest Plus provides citation information, excerpts, or full-text for reviews of more than 500,000 fiction, nonfiction, social science and general science books. Reviews come from a base of more than 100 popular, scholarly, and specialty English-language journals, supplemented by thousands or more journals from other Wilson databases. Reviews covered are both positive and negative in nature. Master records for each book link users to multiple reviews when available.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

Books in Print Current (updated weekly)

Books In Print consists of bibliographic records of 3.2 million books, 330,000 videos, and 120,000 audiocassettes. It features more than 600,000 full-text reviews from twelve leading sources, including Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal and School Library Journal. BIP covers books currently in print and titles about to-be-published as far as six months in advance, as well as information on 1.3 million out of print titles. The subsections "Forthcoming Book Room," the "Children's Room" and the "Fiction Room" allow more targeted searching within each category. Author biographies and lists of bestsellers throughout the last century are also included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Bowker

Braintrack University Index Current (updates vary)

Braintrack is a worldwide university index on the Internet. It contains more than 5300 links to higher educational institutions in 152 countries. Universities, polytechnics, colleges and other higher educational institutions all over the world are included. Information is retrieved using either keyword searches of the institution's name or browsing the alphabetical country list. Retrieved records link to the institution's homepage.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: ionos GmbH

Brazil's Popular Groups 1987-2000 (updated monthly)

Brazil's Popular Groups is a database created by the Library of Congress-Rio Office. The collection makes accessible to researchers a body of primary materials, mostly non-commercially produced and difficult to acquire and obtain, which is basic to the study of grass-roots political and social movements in Brazil. The documentation includes newsletters, house organs, reports, posters, collections of clippings, brochures, resolutions of congresses, educational manuals, independent news services, catalogs of publications and handouts. Geographically, all states of Brazil are represented in the collection.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Library of Congress-Rio Office/WebSPIRS

BRITISH & IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 1695-1991 (not updated)

BIAB is a database focusing on the archaeology, historic buildings, maritime and industrial archaeology, environmental history, and the conservation of material culture--with a geographical focus on the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. It includes citations and often abstracts to journals and other material published between 1695 and 1991. For information published after 1991, you need to use the printed British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography, available in Memorial Library Reference.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: BIAB, Institute of Archaeology, University College London/ArcHSearch

BUSINESS and INDUSTRY 1994-to date (updated monthly)

Business and Industry indexes more than 900 leading trade journals and general business publications from more than 190 countries. More than 60% of the articles are full- text. The database provides information on public and private companies, industries, products, new technologies, market size, and trends.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: Dialog on Disc/Responsive Database Services

BUSINESS FULL TEXT 1982-to date (updated monthly)

Business Full Text indexes 400 key business periodicals, including trade magazines and scholarly journals. Its subject matter covers all aspects of business, from management, production, and marketing to activities of specific businesses and trades. Feature articles are cited with abstracts, as are biographies, product reviews, obituaries, statistics, association reports, and book reviews. Full-text articles have been added beginning with 1995.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business, College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

Business Source Elite 1984-to date (updated daily)

Business Source Elite is a full-text database of more than 900 business journals plus an indexing and abstracting database of approximately 1570 journals. Both scholarly and popular business magazines are included. The database covers many areas of business including management, economics, finance, banking and accounting. Searches may be limited to retrieve only scholarly journals. Dates vary but many of the full text titles go back to 1990. A business directory is also included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: Ebsco/EBSCOhost Web

CAB ABSTRACTS 1972-to date (updated quarterly)

The CAB Abstracts database indexes 10,000 English and foreign-language journals, books, technical reports, theses, symposium, patents, conference proceedings, and annual reports each year. The subject matter covers agriculture, animal breeding and disease, biotechnology, dairy science, entomology, forestry, horticulture, microbiology, nutrition, plant breeding and pathology, soil science, veterinary science, and weeds. Approximately 85% of the citations include abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

Canadian Music PeriodicalIndex 1890-to present (updated monthly)

CMPI (Canadian Music Periodical Index) is an index to Canadian music periodical literature which provides bibliographic sources for information on all aspects of musical activity in Canada. Updated monthly, the database currently includes more than 25,000 entries indexed from 475 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Music
Vendor/Software: National Library of Canada

CANCERLIT 1983-to date (updated monthly)

Prepared by the National Cancer Institute, Cancerlit covers all aspects of experimental clinical cancer therapy presenting bibliographic records (most with abstracts). Indexed materials include articles from journals, abstracts of papers presented at professional meetings, government and technical reports, dissertations, and monographs.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences
Vendor/Software: OVID Technologies/Web Gateway

CAPLEX Current (updates vary)

CAPLEX is a general encyclopedia in the Norwegian language. It contains some 64,000 brief articles, popularly written. Hypertext links to maps, photographs, related matter in the encyclopedia, and external links (including sites with current bibliographies) give this work added value. Frequently updated, this is a useful source for information on Norwegian persons, places, culture, and society.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: J.W. Cappelens Forlag AS

CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index) 1907-to date (updated semiannually)

CASSI contains bibliographic details for approximately 80,000 publications cited in Chemical Abstracts or the CAS databases (SciFinder Scholar) since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications. CASSI provides the full title for journal abbreviations, including an English translation for non-English titles. Library holdings information submitted prior to 1998 is also included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: Chemical Abstracts Service/CASSI on CD

Catholic Encyclopedia 1907-14 Edition

This source is the electronic version of the classic Catholic Encyclopedia,published between 1907-1914. A very few articles have been updated or added, such as ones on the twentieth century Popes, but most information is from the early volumes.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Kevin Knight (New Advent Catholic Supersite)

Census (U.S. Agricultural Census) 1987-to date (updated in 5 year cycles)

The Census of Agriculture is taken to obtain agricultural statistics for each county, state and the Nation. The census is conducted on a 5-year cycle collecting data for years ending in 2 and 7. Geographic Area Series data and Documentation are adapted from: 1997 Census of Agriculture: Geographic Area Series, Volume 1, 1A, 1B, 1C [machine-readable data file].

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service; Government Information Sharing Project, Oregon State University

CensusCD+Maps 1990 (including estimates & projections)

CensusCD+Maps has demographic information down to the neighborhood level (block groups) from the most recent US 1990 Census (STF3 A,B,C and D), along with more current estimates (1998) and projections (2003). It also has estimates and projections of consumer spending at the neighborhood level. CensusCD+Maps combines this set of demographic data with statistics going back to 1969 on agriculture, banking, births & deaths, building, crime, employment, federal spending, industry earnings, local government, marriages and divorces, payrolls, personal income, retail businesses, and service businesses for every county in the US. CensusCD+Maps lets you create your own computed fields from the data and maps these on the fly.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: GeoLytics

Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts 1975-to date (updated monthly)

This database is part of the multi-database Materials Science subject area from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. It is a comprehensive database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics. Source materials include over 300 journals, conference proceedings, books, patents, standards and company product literature. All abstracts are in English.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Chambers' Book ofDays 1879 (not updated)

"A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar including Anecdote, Biography, & History; Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character." The Book of Days is an electronic reproduction of an original, nineteenth century "reference work," describing and relating a variety of information--anecdotal, historical, social, religious--as well as life events (birth, death, etc.) of well-known or important individuals. The site's current navigation is simple, allowing the user to browse the work by date--much in the same way the original paper copy would have been used.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Digital Production Facility, Memorial Library

CHEMFINDER.COM Current (updated daily)

ChemFinder.Com provides a searchable chemical database of more than 75,000 unique substances from more than 350 sites. Physical property data can be retrieved through a simple word search or an advance query search interface that uses a special, but not required, plugin for viewing of 2D chemical structures. Some of the properties that can be retrieved include melting and boiling point, flash point, specific gravity, evaporation rate, vapor density and water solubility. Additional resource links are provided for many of the compounds.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry, Wendt
Vendor/Software: CambridgeSoft/ChemFinder Pro 4.0 and ChemDraw Pro 4.5

ChemInform Reaction Library 1900-to date (updated semiannually)

ChemInform Reaction Library is a collection of novel syntheses and preparative methods in organic chemistry. The selected reactions focus on synthetic methodology, with coverage of established synthetic methods of representative importance. It accesses full reaction schemes and incorporates reaction classifications for clustering related reactions. The collection is selected and abstracted by FIZ CHEMIE Berlin. ChemInform RXL grows by approximately 50,000 reactions annually.

NOTE: The ChemInform Reaction Library can only be searched by means of the Reaction Browser that will be invoked when you select this resource. By default, a search performed in Reaction Browser (consisting of exact structures, substructures and/or data fields) will retrieve reactions from four databases of which ChemInform is only one. You may limit your search to a particular database before you search,or limit the results of a search after it is completed. See Quick Guide for instructions.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: MDL Information Systems, Inc./ISISBase 2.5

Chicano Database 1967-to date (updated quarterly)

The Chicano Database is the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for information about Mexican-American topics and the only specialized database for Chicano references. Approximately 125 serials are completely indexed. It incorporates the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, a comprehensive resource covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature. It also includes (1992 to the present) the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Portions of the database have been published as the Chicano Periodical Index, covering 1967-1988; the Chicano Index, of articles and books added since 1989; Arte Chicano: An Annotated Bibliography of Chicano Art, 1965-1981; the Chicano Anthology Index; the Chicana Studies Index: Twenty Years of Gender Research, 1971-1991; and Hispanic Mental Health Research: A Reference Guide, covering 1920-1980.)

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: RLG (Research Libraries Group)/Eureka Web

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database 1991-to date (updated monthly)

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is a searchable database of more than 50,000 reviews of children's and young adult literature titles from education and library review journals such as Appraisal, ALAN Review, Five Owls, Kirkus, Kliatt, VOYA, and others. CLCD also includes the annotated entries from CCBC Choices for 1996 to the present. CCBC Choices is the annual best-of-the-year list created by professional staff of the Cooperative Children's Book Center of the School of Education at UW-Madison. The dates of reviews vary from source to source, with nothing available prior to 1991 at this time.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Please note that this resource is not licensed for use by off-campus (remote) users at this time.
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Vendor/Software: CLCD Company LLC/CATSEARCH

China Academic Journals 1994 (updated daily)

This multidisciplinary full-text database is produced by Tsinghua (Qinghua) University in Beijing, with a mirror server in the US. UW-Madison has subscription to the social sciences and humanities collection, in 3 out of the 9 available series. These are namely, Series F: Literature, History, Philosophy; Series G: Politics, Economics, and Law; and Series H: Education, Social Sciences. Its content is updated daily. UW-Madison has access to articles from 1994 to the present.

CAJ provides access to articles from a large number of journals in China. It is accessible through the WWW, and it requires Adobe Acrobat Reader version 6+ with Chinese simplified fonts. Articles can be viewed in .pdf files. There is no longer a need to download the CAJ view.

CAJ’s Search Capabilities include the following: Basic: title, author, keyword, organization, abstract, reference, full-text, journal title, ISSN, year, issue, and theme; and Advanced: may combine >2 terms or phrases in different fields. And one can enter search terms in both English and Chinese (simplified or traditional).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial Library
Vendor/Software: East View/Adobe Acrobat Reader version 6+ with Chinese simplified fonts

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) 1991-to date (updated weekly)

CIAO is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It includes full-text of working papers from 58 organizations, full-text of the proceedings of conferences sponsored by 17 organizations, abstracts from eleven major international affairs journals, and abstracts and/or reviews of books. More than 280 full-color regional, political, and country maps are also included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Columbia University Libraries & Press

CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health) 1982-to date (updated monthly)

The Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Publications of the American Nurses Association and National League for Nursing are indexed as well as selected journals, health care books, nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, educational software and audiovisual materials. Indexed areas covered include consumer health, biomedicine, and health librarianship. Of the 500 journals indexed more than 150 titles present citations with abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences
Vendor/Software: OVID Technologies/Web Gateway

Civil Engineering Abstracts 1966-Date (updated biweekly)

Civil Engineering Abstracts provides comprehensive international coverage of the field with the monitoring of approximately 3000 serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications. It provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the serials literature in civil engineering and its complementary fields including: forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, mathematics, and computation. Many of the recent records in the database include cited references, corresponding author's e-mail address, and publisher contact information. All records are indexed using a controlled vocabulary of about 12,500 terms. Each record is assigned a classification code that makes the record retrievable by broad subject area. Approximately 20,000 new records will be added per year.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Classical Music Library Middle Ages to Present (updated monthly)

Classical Music Library (Classical.com) is a service that streams classical music over the internet on demand. Currently, there are over 20,000 tracks available for listening. Users can select music via a search feature or browse a variety of categories including composer, artist, conductor, and genre. Classical Music Library also provides composer biographies, program notes, a glossary of musical terms, and an image gallery. Audio files may be downloaded for a fee.

NOTE: The Library currently has a limited subscription that allows for three simultaneous users only. Please be considerate of others and log off when you are not actively using the service.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Mills Music Library
Vendor/Software: Classical International Inc./web delivered, currently streamed at 22 kps

Clinical Reference Systems Current (updates vary)

CRS provides more than 7,000 reports--in every-day language and many with images--describing symptoms, treatments, risks and after-effects of a vast array of medical conditions and other medical topics. Health subject areas covered are: adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, eye, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health and sports medicine. Spanish language versions are available and are cross linked with English versions.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCOhostWeb

COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS 1991-to date (updated quarterly)

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is part of the Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (EBM) Database from OVID. The Cochrane Collaboration creates reviews of current medical research by surveying the medical literature for the articles that they define as clinically relevant and methodologically sound and by reporting their analysis in a concise structured format. The Topic Reviews in the Cochrane Database are created from systematic study of several or dozens of journal articles. Topic Reviews give background, objectives, criteria for inclusion in the review (participants, intervention, outcome, methods of review, discussion, conclusion, etc.) Each review cites the original articles that report the actual studies used in the review. This database also contains Protocols for reviews currently being prepared by the Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups. The Protocols contain the background, objectives and methods for reviews in preparation.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences
Vendor/Software: Cochrane Collaboration/Ovid Technologies/Web Gateway (Ovid 7.8)

COLLECTED WORKS OF JOHN DEWEY, 1882-1953: The Electronic Edition 1882-1953 (not updated)

A product of the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University, The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953: The Electronic Edition contains the complete text of Dewey's work (Early Works, 1882-1898; Middle Works, 1899-1924; Later Works, 1925-1953) as it appears in the thirty-seven volume print edition published by Southern Illinois University Press between 1967 and 1990.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: CIMC
Vendor/Software: InteLex Corp./Folio Bound VIEWS, Version 3.1a

Columbia Earthscape: an online resource on the global environment 2000-to date (updates vary)

Earthscape is organized into four main topics: Research, Education, Earth Affairs magazine, and Links & Resources. The Research section is devoted to papers and conferences, journal abstracts, books, and datasets and databases. The Education section contains a sample curriculum, mini-courses, and a discussion area designed for instructors to share experiences, philosophies, and strategies of teaching, including interactive media in the classroom. The online magazine, Earth Affairs, highlights the interdisciplinary nature of environmental earth sciences. Its focus is not only the science of investigating Earth as a system, but also discussing related public concerns and policy. Links are organized by Earth-systems disciplines, activities, issues, and habitat. The Datasets & Databases section presents links to datasets, classification and modeling systems, and a range of online databases, with full indexing and search capabilities.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Geology, Wendt
Vendor/Software: Columbia University Press and SPARC

Communication Abstracts 1977 - to date (update Bimonthly)

Communication Abstracts includes abstracts of communication-related articles from 160 journals. Abstracts also cover reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources from throughout the world. Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines relevant to communication researchers. Major topics include general and mass communication; advertising; marketing; broadcasting; communication theory; interpersonal, intrapersonal, small group, and organizational communication; journalism; public opinion; public relations; radio; speech; and television.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/Sage Publications/IDS

Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) Dates Vary (updated weekly)

Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) is the result of a combination and enhancement of two major databases: CommSearch and Mass Media Index. Types of articles include scholarly journals, journalism reviews, recent encyclopedias, and handbooks in the field of communications. Because of its varied past, dates and scopes of coverage differ widely depending on the publication--some journals are included back to the early 1900's. CMMC provides full-text articles for more than 200 journals in the field (see the list of "core" journals), as well as citations for many more.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCOhost Web

Community of Science 1998-to date (updated daily)

Community of Science offers a number of services, such as the Funding Opportunities database, the Funding Alert email update service, and the COS Funded Research and COS Expertise features. The COS Funding Opportunities database includes 18,600 research grants in all subject areas worldwide, and can be searched by sponsor, deadline, keyword, level of education, free text, citizenship or residency, and more. Results include links to email and web addresses when available. There is also a special separate geographic search feature. The Funding Alert service offers to its subscribers customized email updates of funding in all areas of expertise. In addition, this site also offers COS Funded Research, allowing users to examine histories of grants and awards given to research facilities worldwide. The COS Expertise section contains 440,000 profiles of researchers in 1300 institutions around the world. University of Wisconsin clientele are automatically considered subscribers to the database.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial (Grants Information Center)
Vendor/Software: Community of Science, Baltimore, MD

Composites Industry Abstracts 1986-to date (updated monthly)

Composites Industry Abstracts is a subfile of the Engineered Materials Abstracts database. It focuses on polymers and ceramics with fibers, honeycombs, whiskers and laminates. These strong yet lightweight materials are now used for a variety of applications, from automotive body panels to sporting goods. Some of the major areas of coverage include: ceramic matrix composites, fiberglass, polymer matrix composites, laminates and metal matrix composites. Journal list.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Comprehensive composite materials 2000-to date (updates vary)

Comprehensive Composite Materials is the electronic version of the six volume print resource in the Wendt Library reference collection. CCM covers key aspects of naturally occurring and synthetic composite materials, including history, reinforcements, matrix materials, mechanical properties, physical properties, theory, structural design, structural analysis, manufacturing processes, quality assurance, test methods, applications, recycling and disposal. Classes of materials covered include polymer matrix composites, metal matrix composites, ceramic matrix composites, carbon/carbon composites, and cement and concrete composites. CCM also covers smart materials as they relate to composites, including process monitoring, embedded sensors and actuators, and damage detection. The database includes more than 4,000 figures and approximately 15,000 references.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Pergamon/Elsevier

Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry 1985 (1st Edition)

This database focuses on synthesis of heterocycles, reactions of heterocyclic systems, and use of heterocycles in the synthesis of non-heterocyclic structures. The information in the database is based on Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry (Pergamon), volumes 1-7, 1985.
NOTE: Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry can only be searched by means of the Reaction Browser that will be invoked when you select this resource. By default, a search performed in Reaction Browser (consisting of exact or partial structures) will retrieve reactions from five databases of which Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry is only one. You may limit your search to a particular database before you search, or limit the results of a search after it is completed. See Quick Guide for instructions.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: MDL Information Systems, Inc./ISISBase 2.5

Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry 1900 to date (updated annually)

Derived from the Drug Compendium in Pergamon's Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry, Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry provides chemical structures and biochemical properties including drug class, logP, and pKa values for over 8,400 pharmaceutical compounds. CMC is updated with compounds identified for the first time in the United States Approved Names (USAN) list.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: MDL Information Systems, Inc./ISISBase 2.5

Computer & Information Systems Abstracts 1981-date (updated biweekly)

Computer and Information Systems Abstracts provides a comprehensive monthly update on the latest theoretical research and practical applications around the world. From its inception as one of the earliest databases in the field, Computer and Information Systems Abstracts has proven itself an essential resource. This database provides international coverage with the monitoring of over 3,000 serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS 6.0

Computing Reviews Online 1985-date (updated daily)

Computing Reviews Online is based on the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) 40-year-old print journal of the same name. Computing Reviews helps readers manage the large amount of new material published in computer science by pointing them to the best new journal articles and books and giving them a continually updated overview of the field. Readers also benefit from the ability to link to full text, receive customized alerts and read multiple points of view. Every signed review consists entirely of the reviewer's opinions which may or may not coincide with those of the editors or publisher of Computing Reviews.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: ACM and Reviews.com

Conference Papers Index 1982-current (updated bimonthly)

Conference Papers Index provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets, and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Any science library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

CONGRESSIONAL MASTERFILE 1789-1969 (not updated)

Congressional Masterfile indexes Congressional publications from 1789 to 1969. See also Congressional Universe.

Access: Stand-Alone (Historical Society)
Access: Networked-Within (Law)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Historical Society, Law
Vendor/Software: CIS/QAccess

CONGRESSIONAL UNIVERSE 1970-to date (updates vary by source)

Congressional Universe provides access to U.S. legislative information, including the complete text of bills, select Congressional testimony, committee reports, the Congressional Record, public laws, and much more. Indexing/abstracting coverage of Congressional publications begins in 1970. It also includes the full text of the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register.

Access: Networked Within (Historical Society, Law)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Historical Society, Law
Vendor/Software: CIS

CONSULTANT Dates Vary (updated weekly)

Consultant is a database that functions as a diagnostic support system, veterinary textbook, and citation database. It includes approximately 500 signs/symptoms, about 4,000 diagnoses, and more than 10,000 literature references. It covers approximately 6,700 diseases of 8 species, including avian, caprine, canine, equine, feline, bovine, ovine and porcine. Cited references are filtered for quality and relevance to clinical practice.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Cornell University

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS 1960-to date (updated semiannually)

Contemporary Authors offers biographical and bibliographical information on nearly 100,000 modern authors, including novelists, poets, screenwriters, journalists and other nonfiction writers. The database contains the full-text of the following series: Contemporary Authors Vol. 1-140, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series Vol. 1-41, and Contemporary Authors Permanent Series Vol. 1-2.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Gale/GaleNet World Wide Web

CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S ISSUES 1992-to date (updated bi-weekly)

CWI provides full-text (text-only) access to journals, newsletters, reports, pamphlets, bibliographies, fact sheets, and other material on a broad array of women and gender-related issues around the world. As of August 1999, there were 30,000 individual items in the database from some 1900 sources, including more than 100 journals. All articles are in English. Material includes academically-focused articles and documents from organizations.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance:Memorial, Women's Studies
Vendor/Software: Responsive Database Services

Copper Data Center Database 1965-today (updated monthly)

This database is part of the multi-database Materials Science subject area from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. It is an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology. The database covers copper technology from smelting and hydrometallurgy through the performance of copper and copper alloys in their end-use applications and service environments. It references data on the properties and performance of copper and copper alloys and on the applications of the copper metals. Over 52,000 documents have been indexed in this database, including 5582 documents published between 1863 and 1964.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Corporate Affiliations Current (updated weekly)

This database provides corporate linkage information on more than 170,000 of the most prominent parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions-down to the seventh level of corporate linkage. Major U.S. and international public and private businesses are included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business, Memorial
Vendor/Software: LexisNexis

Corporate ResourceNet Varies with journals, Coverage starts for some in 1985 (updated daily)

Corporate ResourceNet covers a broad spectrum of U.S. and international business topics and industries; scientific and medical information; regulation and policy information; and company and product information. It provides full text access to nearly 1,340 magazines and journals. The database includes full text sources ranging from general publications such as Fortune and Money to trade publications such as American Demographics, Chemical Week, Electronic Business, and Restaurant Hospitality. The collection of titles also includes top management journals such as Academy of Management Executive, California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: Ebsco/EbscoHost Web

CorpTech Directory on the Web current (updated annually)

CorpTech publishes high-quality company and contact information on one of America's strongest business segments: high-tech development, manufacturing, and services. Companies that develop, make, and provide services related to everything from lasers to computers, and biotech products to advanced materials are included in the directory. CorpTech annually verifies and updates detailed information on 50,000+ companies; including company name & address, ownership, annual sales, employees, key executives, company description, and product details in 3,000 high-tech categories. High tech companies can be found by company name, location, industry, size, and SIC or NAICS codes.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: OneSource Information Services, Inc.

Corrosion Abstracts 1980-to date (updated bimonthly)

This database is part of the multi-database Materials Science subject area from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. It provides the world's most complete source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering. International sources of literature are abstracted in the areas of general corrosion, testing, corrosion characteristics, preventive measures, materials construction and performance, and equipment for many industries.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Country Studies/Area Handbooks Dates Vary (updates vary)

This source includes indepth analyses of countries prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. Studies for 100 countries are currently available. Dates vary; see the "Research Completed" date at the beginning of each study or the "Data as of " date on the end of each section of text.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Library of Congress

CountryWatch 1993-to date (updated daily)

CountryWatch is a combination of textual and statistical sources on more than 190 countries. Lengthy Country Reviews give a complete historical, political, economic, investment, social, and environmental overview of each country. The DataWatch portion allows you to display, cross-tabulate and download numeric data about the countries. Country Wire provides access to full articles from 12 international news services. The Map Gallery supplies physical/political maps in a variety of sizes and formats. In addition, thematic maps cover a variety of cultural and economic subjects. The Forecast section is not part of our subscription.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: CountryWatch.com/Web

CPM Plus: Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library 1503-1996 (not updated)

CPM Plus: The Catalogue of Music in the British Library contains approximately one billion bibliographic records for printed music published between 1503 and 1996 that is housed in the British Library. CPM Plus brings together the CPM (Catalog of Printed Music), listingentries from 1503-1980; the CMC (Current Music Catalog), listing entries from 1981-1996, including popular songs; and the SUP (Supplement to the Catalog of Printed Music), listing entries from an unpublished catalog of pre-1981 printed music. Printed music published after 1996 may be searched directly in the British Library Public Catalogue.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Music
Vendor/Software: Saur; Bowker Saur

CQ Researcher November 1991-to date (updated weekly)

The CQ Researcher contains weekly indepth reports that cover the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Users may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles using words, dates or other criteria.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Current (updated annually)

The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is a basic reference book for chemical and physical data. Material is updated and revised and new material included in each annual. Sections include basic constants, units conversion factors and mathematical tables, chemical and physics terminology, organic and inorganic compounds, biochemistry, analytical chemistry, properties of atoms, particles, solids, fluids, polymers, and sections on geophysics, astronomy, and laboratory safety.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry, Physics, Wendt
Vendor/Software: CRC Press/William Andrews Software

Creeds of Christendom 1st century CE to the present (updates vary)

This ongoing resource gives English-language texts (and some texts in other languages) of creeds and creed-like statements promulgated, adopted, or recognized by, Christian churches and denominations from earliest Christianity onward. As of 25 November 2003 over 130 such texts were available from this site.

One limitation not explicitly noted on the site is that there are no citations to the documentary source used for each text and thus no ready way to verify either the accuracy or the current denominational acceptance of the texts provided. So the site is useful for ready reference but not really authoritative.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Rev. Michael Anderson, St. Marys, WV/unknown

CRIMINAL JUSTICE ABSTRACTS 1968-to date (updated quarterly)

Criminal Justice Abstracts contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Prepared in cooperation with the Criminal Justice Collection of Rutgers University Library, it covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on virtually any topic in criminal justice.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law
Vendor/Software: Willow Tree Press, SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

Criminal Justice Periodical Index Mid 1980s-to date (updated weekly)

Criminal Justice Periodical Index contains citations, abstracts, and some full-text access to approximately 150 criminal justice journals. Publications in CJPI focus primarily on practical issues in crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, policy issues, and courtroom procedures. Dates of coverage are mixed with the earliest indexing beginning in 1972. Indexing for the majority of titles, however, begins in the mid 1980s. About 25% of the titles also include full-text access. The earliest full text coverage begins in 1991, although most do not start until the mid 1990s.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law
Vendor/Software: ProQuest Information and Learning/Proquest Direct Web

CRIS (CURRENT RESEARCH INFORMATION SYSTEM) Current Year (updated annually)

CRIS is a list of current or recently completed research projects funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Besides the core CRIS file, CRIS includes four other project databases: HNRIMS (Human Nutrition Research and Information Management Systems, covering human nutrition research funded by U. S. federal agencies; ICAR (Inventory of Canadian Agri-Food Research); CZARIS (Czech Agricultural Research Information System; and the United States National Biological Service Annual Work Plan.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: National Agricultural Library, USDA

Crop Protection Compendium 1997 to date (updates vary)

The Crop Protection Compendium is an encyclopaedic, mixed media tool that brings together a wide range of different types of science-based information on all aspects of crop protection. It encompasses not only pests, diseases and weeds and their natural enemies, but also the crops that are their hosts and the countries where they occur.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: CAB International/CABI Publishing/CABI Compendium

CSA Engineering Research Database 1966-date (updated biweekly)

The CSA Engineering Research Database covers the international serial and non-serial literature pertaining to civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, and transportation engineering including their complementary fields of forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics/computation. Content includes basic and applied research, design, construction, technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, energy production and developments in new technologies. Over 3,000 primary journals plus trade literature, patents, newspapers, press releases, conference proceedings, books and reports. Subfiles that make up the CSA Engineering Research Database can be searched separately if desired. The subfiles are: ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering, Civil Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, and Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS 6.0

CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace 1962-date (updated biweekly)

The CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace brings together in one place the most comprehensive bibliographic coverage of research, emerging technologies, applications and companies in the areas of aeronautics, astronautics, computer & information technology, electronics, communications, solid state materials and devices, and space sciences. Everything from theoretical research through practical application is covered. Over 1,000 primary journals plus patent information, conference proceedings, books, theses and reports. The subfiles that make up this database can be searched separately, if desired. The subfiles are: Computer and Information Systems Abstracts, Electronics and Communications Abstracts, and Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS 6.0

CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX 1966-date (updated biweekly)

The CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX brings together in one place the majority of the leading materials science databases, with specialist content on materials science, metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering application. Everything from raw materials and refining through processing, welding and fabrication to end us, corrosion, performance and recycling is covered in depth for all metals, alloys, polymers, ceramics, and composites. Over 3,000 primary journals plus trade literature, patents, newspapers, press releases, conference proceedings, books and reports. The subfiles that make up this databae can be searched separately, if desired. The subfiles are: Aluminium Industry Abstracts, Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts, Copper Data Center Database, Corrosion Abstracts, Engineered Materials Abstracts, Materials Business File, Mechanical Engineering Abstracts, METADEX, and WELDASEARCH. See the individual "About" files for details on each source.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS 6.0

CSA Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts 1966-date (updated biweekly)

CSA Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the serials literature in mechanical and transportation engineering and their complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation. This database provides in depth, comprehensive coverage of the international engineering literature with the monitoring of over 2,600 serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS 6.0

CSA Technology Research Database Collection 1962-date (updated biweekly)

This comprehensive database provides a single mega-file of all the unique records available through its components: the CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX, CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace, and the CSA Engineering Research Database. The database content represents the most comprehensive and current coverage of the relevant serial and non-serial literature available. Sources covered include over 4,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade literature, patents, books, and press releases.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS 6.0

CURRENT BIOGRAPHY 1940-to date (updated bimonthly)

Current Biography contains the full text of the biographies and obituaries on the more than 15,000 people that have appeared in Current Biography Yearbook since 1940. Numerous undated biographies and articles that have not appeared in print editions are also available. Current Biography includes artists, politicians, business people, journalists, actors, writers, sports figures, scientists, and other people prominent in the news. In addition, the articles are supplemented with recent citations from Biography Index. The profiles and obituaries are searchable by name, profession, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, date of birth or death, and keyword.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

CURRENT CONTENTS 1993-to date (updated weekly)

Current Contents provides access to essential bibliographic information from the world's leading scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The journals included are indexed within days of publication, and include 7,500 international journals covering all disciplines. Complete bibliographic information is provided for each article, review, letter, note and editorial listed. Searchable abstracts are available for about 75% of the documents.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Most Libraries
Vendor/Software: ISI/OVID Technologies/Web Gateway

CURRENT INDEX TO LEGAL PERIODICALS Previous Quarter-to date (updated weekly)

CILP provides timely topical access to approximately 475 law school law reviews and other selected legal journal under 100 subject headings. In addition, it provides full tables of contents of all journals indexed.

Access: Networked Within (Law)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law
Vendor/Software: Marion Gould Gallagher Law Library

CURRENT INDEX TO STATISTICS 1975-to date (updated annually)

Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic database of the applied and theoretical statistical literature. It allows you to do keyword searches of dozens of statistics and methodology journals. Most of the records are from the core journals on the list, but there are more than 400 other sources, indexes, journals, books, conference proceedings, and book and software reviews. There are also a small number of items published before 1975 and a small number of theses and technical reports.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software:Univ. of Chicago, American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics; UW-Madison Statistics Dept./CIScd, Version 1.7.2

Current Issues Universe 1995-to date (updated biweekly)

Current Issues Universe contains the full text and excerpts of more than 8,000 reports, position papers, conference papers, Congressional testimony, speeches, and magazine articles on current policy issues. It also contains specific research questions to help in topic selection for research papers, speeches, and discussions. Sources include public interest and advocacy groups, professional and trade associations, research center think tanks, and government agencies and offices. Each source organization is profiled and linked to its Web site, when available. Replaces Current Issues Sourcefile.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: LexisNexis

Current Research (1892-to date)

Current Research@University of Wisconsin—Madison indexes all dissertations completed at UW-Madision which are in the ProQuest Digital Dissertations database. Dissertations produced after 1996 have 24-page previews as well as access to the full text (in PDF format) of the entire dissertation. Masters theses are not included In addition, this includes access to Current Research@CIC Institutions which provides 24-page previews and access to the full text of all CIC dissertations produced after 1996 (CIC includes the Big Ten schools plus University of Chicago).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Bell & Howell Information and Learning/ProQuest Direct Web

Current World Information Knowledgebase Current (updated monthly)

Current World Information Knowledgebase (CWIK) is a directory of leaders and facts about their countries or organizations. It also provides addresses, FAX and telephone numbers, and some e-mail addresses for reaching government leaders, foreign embassies in the United States, and U. S. embassies abroad.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: International Academy at Santa Barbara

Dance Catalog 1450-to date (updated daily)

The Dance Catalog is the library catalog of the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts. It lists works, published and unpublished, about all forms of dance, from all cultures, in print and other media. It includes materials in many languages and serves as an index to international range of dance periodicals. The Dance Catalog is part of CATNYP, the NYPL Research Libraries Catalog. The Web site replaces the CD-ROM version of this database, Dance on Disc.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial, Music
Vendor/Software: NYPL/INNOPAC

DANCE ON DISC: The Complete Catalog of the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library 1450-to date (updated annually)

Dance on Disc is the library catalog of the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. It contains full bibliographic descriptions of more than 211,000 records representing the library holdings, which include manuscript and archival collections as well as published materials in all formats, including journal articles. All forms of dance, the history of dance, instruction, performance, choreography, therapy, research, set design, and costumes, from all countries and cultures, are covered.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Music
Vendor/Software:

Danish National Archive of Literature (DNA) = Dansk Nationallitteraert Arkiv (DNA) Dates Vary (updates vary)

Machine-readable texts of classics of Danish literature ("literature" broadly defined; the collection includes the Gesta Danorum of the medieval Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus and the Astronomiae instauratae mechanica of the astronomer Tycho Brahe). Most texts are in Danish, with some in Latin. At present, the majority of the texts are from Det Danske Sprog-og Litteraturselskab (DSL) (Danish Society of Language and Literature), though with a selection from other publishers. In November 2000 some 45 text files were available on this site, a project of the Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Danish Royal Library).

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Det Kongelige Bibliotek

Dartmouth Dante Project 14th century-to date (updates vary)

The Dartmouth Dante Project contains searchable full-text versions of Dante's Commedia and of close to 50 commentaries on it from the 14th century to the present. A few files are in English; most are in Italian. Click on "Database Help" for general information, including search options, search examples, stop words, and display formats and sorts.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Dartmouth College Information System/Various

DATABASE OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY 1760 - 1900 (not updated)

The Database of African-American Poetry includes the full text of poems (including, elegies, odes, ditties, hymns, and sonnets) of more than 50 African-American poets. Its principal bibliographic source was African-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975 by W.P. French et al.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey/Open Text

DATABASE OF CLASSICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (DCB) 1976-1987 (updated irregularly)

Based on L'Annee Philologique, the DCB contains citations of all known scholarly work published in any language anywhere in the world concerning the areas of ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, science, early Christian texts, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy. It covers the time period from the second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D.

Access: Stand-Alone (Memorial)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: American Philological Association/CompLex

DATASTREAM 1970-1997 (not updated)

Datastream is a system which enables users to access a vast database of economic, company and financial data. A wide range of data on equities, bonds, stock market indicators, commodities, company accounts, financial futures and options, market news, and macro-economic indicators are included.

Access: Stand-Alone (Data & Program Library Service: DPLS)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: DPLS
Vendor/Software: Primark

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection 1800's and 1900's (updates vary)

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. The collection categories include old and antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children and manuscript maps. Genealogy and family history can be studied on the maps. The online collection, about 6,500 images, is an expanding cross section of digital images designed to highlight the depth of the collection. The site contains more than 50 complete rare atlases, including Thomas Jefferys's American Atlas (1776), Guillaume Delisle's Atlas de Geographie (1731) and John Arrowsmith's London Atlas (1844). You will also find maps from the Philadelphia and London editions of Lewis and Clark's History of the Expedition... (1814) and numerous maps of explorations of the American West by Pike, Long, Fremont, Warren and others. The digitized maps are very high resolution images scanned at at least 300 pixels per inch.

NOTE: A special Geographic Information System (GIS) Browser allows integration and interaction of historical maps with current geospatial data and other historical maps. Examination of the maps in GIS reveals changes in the history of the areas shown on the maps. Eleven historical maps of the San Francisco Bay area from 1851 to 1926 from the David Rumsey Collection are now available for viewing in the GIS Browser. Other major U.S. cities will be added later.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Geography, Wendt
Vendor/Software: David Rumsey, Cartography Associates, Luna Imaging/Version 3 Insight Java Client

Decameron Web Current (updates vary)

The Decameron Web is an archive of information pertinent to the reading and studying of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. It was assembled by students at Brown University under the direction of M. Riva. It currently comprises the original Italian text and English translation in a searchable format (the Branca 1992 edition, digitized by Nanda Cremascoli and her students). In addition, it features numerous documents and images designed to elucidate the cultural and literary context of the Decameron, including a variety of students' projects that explore literary topics, cultural relationships and the visualization of the text in various media; film clips; an on-site newsgroup and a real-time chat chamber designed to serve as a forum for discussion; and an email newsletter which will periodically disseminate among subscribers information related to Boccaccio and medieval Italian culture in general. Not all functions are operational as of February 2001.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Dept. of Italian Studies, Brown University

Declassified Documents Reference System: The United States 1945-1970's (not updated)

The DDRS: US includes documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act from the period immediately after World War II through the 1970's. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is covered: the Cold War, Vietnam, foreign policy shifts, the civil rights movements, and others. Documents are available as keyed searchable texts and as digital facsimiles.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Primary Source Media

Defining Gender 1450-1910 1450-1910 (update annually through 2007, then complete)

When completed, Defining Gender will contain some 50,000 images of original documents from five centuries of advice literature and related material, from diaries, advice and conduct books, as well as articles from medical and other journals, ballads, cartoons, and pamphlets. Much of the material is British in origin and is from the Bodleian Library. Defining Gender will include five sections: Conduct and Politeness (Section I), Domesticity and the Family (Section II), Consumption and Leisure (Section III), Education and Sensibility (Section IV) and The Body (Section V). Section I was completed in 2003; the others will be added annually through 2007. Each section also features author biographies, essays by scholars, a chronology, and teaching hints. The items in Defining Gender are a selection from various microfilm series, and there is a link to the indices for the full microfilm sets. Searching operates on all indexed terms, not every word in the full text. An average of forty index terms is associated with each document.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Adam Matthew/unknown

Design and Applied Arts Index 1973-to date (updated monthly)

The Design and Applied Arts Index is an international index to design and craft journals. The database currently contains nearly 120,000 annotated references from more than 450 design and craft journals published from 1973 onward; however, most articles date from 1987. Types of material include major articles; short articles; news items; conference and seminar reports; reviews of books, videos, films, CD-ROMS, and exhibitions; obituary notices, and illustrations. In addition, it includes data on more than 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms, etc. All areas of design and craft are covered, including industrial design, interior design, environmental design, computer-aided design, furniture design, ceramics, jewellery, textile design, graphic design, book design, photography, advertising, exhibition design, theatre design, ergonomics, and design and craft theory, among other areas. Between 10,000-15,000 references are added annually. There are four ongoing supplementary databases: Education Directory, Organizations Directory, Archives Directory, and Periodicals Directory.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Deutsche Dichterhandschriften des Poetischen Realismus: Ortsverzeichnis 19th century CE (updates vary)

A scholarly location index to the papers of more than 400 German literary authors of the nineteenth century. All help files and other explanatory matter are in German.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Brigham Young University

Deutsche Nationalbibliographie 2004-on (updated monthly)

This is the online version of the German National Bibliography, which attempts to list all books, periodicals (*not* articles in periodicals), government publications, and other materials published in Germany, or in the German language outside of Germany. For earlier coverage, consult the printed and CD-ROM "Deutsche Nationalbibliographie" and other resources available in Memorial Library, Reference Department (262 Memorial Library).

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Die Deutsche Bibliothek (National Library of Germany)/not known

Digest of Education Statistics 1990- (updated monthly)

The Digest of Education Statistics, compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), U.S. Dept. of Education, summarizes information about American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. Data is selected from many government and private sources, including NCES's own survey results, and must be current and nationwide in scope. Topics include the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international education. Evaluative context is provided in supplemental information on population trends, attitudes on education, education characteristics of the labor force, government finances, and economic trends.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial Gov Docs; CIMC
Vendor/Software: National Center for Education Statistics/standard browser

Digital Domesday Book 11th Century (not updated)

The Domesday Book is the great census and description of England undertaken in the 11th century. It includes information about places and people in medieval Britain. Additional essays provide information on changes to the present time. Included are both the original Great Domesday and Little Domesday Books, as well as searchable modern translations.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Alecto Historical Editions/Index+ (c)System Simulation Ltd.

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture 1620-1840 (updated monthly)

The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources. The project, made possible by the Chipstone Foundation, will provide access to digitized primary materials significant to the decorative arts and material culture of Early America. Materials for this project will range from Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, to a database of early American furniture from the Chipstone Foundation.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: University of Wisconsin Madison General Library System

Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts 16th and 17th centuries (updates vary)

A uniquely exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, this comprehensive electronic collection gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to more than 1,500 works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. These works include full-text/ascii files of the theological writings of more than 300 Protestant authors of virtually every denomination, as well as a wide range of confessional documents, biblical commentaries, polemical treatises, and Bible translations. The site is browseable by author, by title, and by topic (terms follow the widely used American Theological Library Association thesaurus). There is also a search form allowing one to search by combinations of the above plus languages of works in the collection (initially: English, French, Latin; German and Dutch expected shortly). After a small initial release in early 2002 the number of texts will increase substantially over the next several years. Thereafter the set will continue to grow, but at a foreseeably slower rate.Coverage of the 18th and 19th centuries is planned.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Alexander Street Press, Ad Fontes

Digital National Security Archive 1945-to date (updated annually)

The DNSA includes over 35,000 declassified primary documents relating to US foreign policy since 1945 grouped in 20 collections. The documents were compiled and organized by the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental research institute and library which collects and publishes documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act. Extensive record descriptions and full text included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey

Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL) Date Varies (updates vary)

This Dutch-language site, sponsored by the Nederlandse Taalunie and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, offers literary texts (and some literary history) from the Dutch Middle Ages to the present. A section on the Dutch language, including lexicographical aids, is planned but (as of January 2001) not yet ready.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Stichting DBNL Leiden

Directory of Dissertations in Progress (American Historical Association) current year (updated annually)

The American Historical Association's Directory of Dissertations in Progress lists dissertations currently underway in history departments of North American universities. You can search the database by author, by school, or search titles by keyword.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: American Historical Association/not known

Directory of Graduate Research 1997-2001 (updated every odd year)

The Directory of Graduate Research, published by the American Chemical Society Committee on Professional Training, contains information on graduate programs from 12 disciplines within the chemical sciences: chemistry, chemical engineering, biochemistry, medicinal/pharmaceutical chemistry, clinical chemistry, polymer science, food science, toxicology, marine science, forensic science, materials science, and environmental science. The DGR includes information on degrees offered, areas of specialization, and interdisciplinary programs. It lists faculty member biographical information, area of specialization, titles of all papers published within the last two years, links to email accounts and individual telephone numbers, and FAX numbers. Includes links to graduate program web sites.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: American Chemical Society/DGRweb 2001

Directory of Sources for Women's History in Ireland 1997-1999 (not updated)

This site contains information and descriptions of more than 14,000 collections and sources in 262 repositories in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland compiled from a survey conducted between 1997 and 1999. All periods of Irish women's history are included, from the earliest recorded times to the present. The main criteria were that the collections contained material about women's lives and roles. The Directory provides information on repositories, details regarding access to the material, the name of the collection, where such exists, the manuscript reference number which allows that document or collection to be seen within the repository, and a description of the material.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Women's History Association of Ireland

Directory of Women's Media Current (updated irregularly)

This is a directory of media owned and operated primarily by, for and about women. Sections list print periodicals, Internet periodicals, publishers, media organizations, and other women's media (news services, radio, film, and video groups, news and media websites, bookstores, listservs, and selected other directories). Coverage is international. The listings within the sections may be viewed either in alphabetical order or geographically by U.S. state and foreign country.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press

Documenting the American South 1608 -1920 (updates vary)

Documenting the American South (DAS) provides access to digitized primary sources that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Currently, DAS includes five digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, and materials related to the church in the black community. Another project featuring North Carolina is in development.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

DOE INFORMATION BRIDGE 1996-to date (updated daily)

The DOE Information Bridge provides access to Department of Energy research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics. It includes the full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy-sponsored report literature, more than 30,000 reports.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

DOW JONES INTERACTIVE Dates Vary (updated daily)

Dow Jones Interactive contains the full text of more than 4000 publications, including 48 of the top 50 newspapers. Coverage is international and completely up-to-date. In addition to general news, Dow Jones provides extensive business and financial information.

Access: Networked Within (Business)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: Dow Jones

Duecento: la poesia italiana dalle origini a Dante 1180(ca.)-1321 (updates vary)

An Italian-language text archive of some 2400 texts of approximately 200 Italian poets from the beginnings of the literature through Dante. It is searchable by individual words and by poetic schools (but not by the names of known authors), this electronic concordance provides texts of poems found through searching, bibliography on them, and (in a separately linked series of pages) hyperlinked criticism.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Francesco Bonomi, Pietramensola

Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Database Current (updated every 6 weeks)

D&B Million Dollar Database provides information on more than 1,260,000 U.S. leading public and private businesses. Company information includes industry information with up to 24 individual 8-digit SICs, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives and biographies. This database provides the capabilities to search by company name, by industry (8-digit SIC code), and geographic area (state, county, and city). You can also combine search strategies with financial characteristics of companies, such as sales and number of employees. The data on this site is updated every six weeks; there are no archives of outdated information.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business Library
Vendor/Software: Dun & Bradstreet

DYABOLA (CD-ROM version) 1956-to date (update biannually)

Dyabola is an international index to scholarly journals and collected works on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern art and archaeology. This database may be searched by title, author, or subject. There are no abstracts. Note(1): Greek fonts may not display properly in this CD-ROM database. Use the Web version if you wish to find articles written in Greek. Note(2): Use keyboard navigation, not the computer's mouse, when searching this database. Follow instructions outlined in the Quick Guide.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Deutsches Archaologisches Institut/Dyabola

DYABOLA (Web version) 1956-to date (update biannually)

Dyabola is an international index to scholarly journals and collected works on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern art and archaeology. This database may be searched by title, author, or subject. There are no abstracts. To begin a session, check the box labeled "IP-Zugang" and then click the Start button. Select "Realkatalog DAI Rom" and choose English as a language preference, if desired.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Deutsches Archaologisches Institut/Verlag Biering & Brinkmann/DYA v5.5 Retrival Programme, 2nd version

E-Tripitaka Later Han dynasty to the beginning of the Yuan dynasty (updates vary)

E-Tripitaka is the electronic edition of a large collection of Chinese Buddhist Canon that is used throughout East Asia. The main language is Chinese, with citations, fragments and notes in other languages and scripts, including Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Japanese and others. The aim of CBETA is “to provide an electronic edition of Chinese Buddhist texts that is as accurate and reliable as possible and that can serve as a foundation for further work both in Buddhist Studies and for Buddhist communities.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: CBETA/web

Early church fathers 1st-8th Centuries CE (not updated)

Early Church Fathers is a database containing virtually all the contents (minus the indexes) of three late nineteenth-century English-language translations of important writings of the early Christian church fathers and of the early ecumenical councils. They include: Ante-Nicene Fathers; A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church;and A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series. The site opens with general table of contents to whole set; individual volumes have their own more detailed tables of contents. The database is searchable, and downloads are possible.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Calvin College

Early English Books Online 1475-1700 (updates vary)

Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides full-text images of almost all the books printed in England and her colonies from the beginning of printing to 1700 (about 125,000 titles). You can search for books on your topic by author, title,and keyword, or search just for illustrations from these books if you wish. EEBO includes the items listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and additional supplementary materials. Gradually, searchable electronic text versions of a selection of these books are being added to the project. These searchable texts are called: EEBO-TCP, the Early English Books Online Text Creation Project. Eventually both EEBO and EEBO-TCP will be combined into one database. For now, in addition to using using Early English Books Online (EEBO), check EEBO-TCP if you want to do want to do keyword searching within an individual work.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: ProQuest Information and Learning/DJVU and Acrobat Reader

Early Canadiana Online 17th century-1920's (updates vary)

Early Canadiana Online is a digital library containing over 1,410,000 pages in more than 8,400 volumes. It includes drama, fiction, and poetry, as well as nonfiction texts describing travel, settlement, geography, history, peoples, and events in early Canada.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions/not known

Early Modern Italy, 1550-1800 1850-present (updated semiannually)

Early Modern Italy provides an electronic bibliography of resources covering Italy from 1550-1800. The bibliography provides information on scholarly studies and dissertations done on this topic. Articles are in French or English. Topics include history, art history, music, literature, philosophy, religion and science.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Baroque History Enterprise Ltd.

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts 1971-date (updated biweekly)

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) provides comprehensive authoritative coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. EEA is currently comprised of approximately 102,000 records (full citations and abstracts) from 1971 forward, plus several hundred earlier classic papers and reports. EEA includes approximately 44,000 journal articles -- indexes and abstracts of all major journals that publish significant earthquake engineering research; approximately 36,000 meeting abstracts -- proceedings of conferences and major meetings in earthquake engineering research, and approximately 23,000 research reports' abstracts -- abstracts of research monographs and technical reports including Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports and Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS 6.0

EBSCO Animals Current (updates vary)

EBSCO Animals is a basic reference database that contains information about the habitat and behavor and pictures of a many familiar animals. It is most helpful for obtaining order, family and genus species names of animals.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCOhost Web

Ecology Abstracts 1982-to date (updated monthly)

Ecology Abstracts provides access to about 350 research journals in ecology. It covers interactions of all organisms--microbes, plants, and animals--to their environment and to each other. The subjects include evolutionary biology, economics, ecosystems management and systems analysis, and the impact of climate on organisms, biosystems, water resources, soil, and humans.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

ECONLIT 1969-to date (updated quarterly)

EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 300 scholarly English language periodicals and books in the field of economics.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business, Memorial, Social Science Reference
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

EDINBURGH ENGINEERING VIRTUAL LIBRARY (EEVL) Dates Vary (updated daily)

The EEVL provides a central access point to networked engineering information for the United Kingdom higher education and research community, and anyone else who may be looking for networked engineering information.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Heriot-Watt University

EDUCATION FULL TEXT 1983-to date (updated monthly)

Education Full Text indexes more than 400 English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and selected monographic series. It covers all levels of education. Feature articles are indexed, as are important editorials and letters to the editor, interviews, reviews of educational films, software reviews, critiques of theses, charts and graphs without text, and book reviews. Abstracts are included since 1994. Full-text articles have been added beginning with 1996.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: CIMC, College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

eHRAF Collection of Archaeology Dates Vary (updated annually)

The eHRAF Collection of Archaeology is modeled after the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography. It provides researchers and students access to the full text of archaeological books, journal articles, dissertations, and manuscripts for comparative studies within and across regions. Annual installments cover eight or more major traditions from around the world, with at least 10,000 pages indexed to the paragraph level The database uses a modified Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM) for quick retrieval of information. Each major tradition typically contains an overview by an expert and descriptive materials on five to seven sites.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Human Relations Area Files Inc.

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography Dates Vary (updated annually)

The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a full-text database of archaeological books, journal articles, dissertations, and manuscripts containing information on 78 selected cultures from around the world and covering all aspects of cultural and social life. This is an updated and enhanced version of a portion of the corresponding HRAF microfiche and CD-ROMS, located in Memorial Library Room 443.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Human Relations Area Files, Inc.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) 1700-1800 (updates vary)

The Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), when completed, will include searchable full-text and images of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom and in the British colonies during the eighteenth century. Approximately 150,000 items are included. Subjects include: history, geography, social sciences, fine arts, medicine, science, technology, literature and language, law, and reference materials.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Galegroup/not known

Eighteenth-Century Fiction 1700-1780 (not updated)

A collection of 18th-century fictional prose, including 96 works by writers from the British Isles; single editions of works both well-known and rare, containing complete text and original images. Prefaces, annotations by authors, illustrations, contents pages, appendices, lists of subscribers, dedications, errata etc. are included. The resource is searchable by word or phrase, range of years, author, work, or genre. Female authors are strongly represented and searches may be limited by gender.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial Library
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey; ProQuest

EIS: Digest of Environmental Impact Statements 1985-to date (updated bimonthly)

EIS provides access to environmental impact statements since 1985. The statements include a lengthy description of the purpose, the positive and negative aspects, legal mandates, and prior references as well as the issuing agency, the EIS, and EPA numbers. About 450 draft and final impact statement are added per year.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock, Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

EIU COUNTRY REPORTS 1993-to date (updated regularly)

The EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) Country Reports profiles and reports on 180 countries. The Profiles are annual overviews of a country, giving an historical perspective to its current politics, economy and industries. They include statistical tables that cover five years of the main macroeconomic indicators. The Reports are quarterly updates which include an analysis of the country's current political and economic climate as well as a 12-18 month projection.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

Electronics and Communications Abstracts 1981-date (updated biweekly)

Advances in electronics and communications are constantly leading to important new instrumentation for research. And the comprehensive guide to ongoing work in this field is Electronics and Communications Abstracts - now expanded and jointly published with Engineering Information. In short, the journal tracks every relevant source of information necessary to keep abreast of this complex, highly competitive discipline. This database provides international coverage with the monitoring of over 3,000 serial titles as well as numerous non-serial publications.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS 6.0

Emerald 1994-to date (updated daily)

Emerald is an "electronic management research library database" that provides users with full-text access to more than 24,000 articles from 130 journals published by MCB University Press (UK). Of these titles, 113 are not currently subscribed to in print by UW-Madison; UW-Madison has current subscriptions to 17 titles and partial runs for another 37 titles. Users can browse Emerald journal titles alphabetically, by Library of Congress Classification, or by general subject categories. At the article level users can search by article title, author, keyword, or article full text. Searches can be further refined by article type and by quality indicator. Subject coverage focuses on the major management disciplines, including marketing, human resources and organizational development, library and information management, and quality and operations management.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Engineering Information (Elsevier)/n/a

EncyclopÆdia Britannica Online Current (updated daily)

Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia with more than 14,000 illustrations, including video clips, photographs, drawings, maps, and flags, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus and the Britannica Book of the Year. It provides access to the full-text articles in 150 magazines. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Encyclopædia Britannica

ENCYCLOPAEDIA JUDAICA 1972 (updated irregularly)

Encyclopaedia Judaica combines the complete text of the 16-volume 1972 print edition, eight year books, and two decennial volumes. New feature articles and selected updates were added to those resources, including major recent events and 1996 election information. More than 20,000 articles on all aspects of Jewish life and culture are included. Besides text, the Encyclopaedia includes a media gallery and interactive timeline.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Access: Stand-Alone (Memorial)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Judaica Multimedia

Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering 2003-04 (not updated)

The Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering is the largest and most comprehensive guide on raw production technology with more than 3000 references and nearly 2000 photographs, figures, tables, and equations. Examining the role of engineering in delivery of quality consumer products, this expansive source covers the development and design of procedures, equipment, and systems utilized in the production and conversion of raw materials into food and nonfood consumer goods—emphasizing and illustrating the various engineering processes associated with the production of materials with agricultural origin.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Marcel Dekker, Inc. /Marcel Dekker

Encyclopedia of Animal Science 2004 (update Access to four years of new and updated content.)

The Encyclopedia of Animal Science includes contributions from keynote experts on subjects such as genetics, nutrition, lactation, biodiversity, and the contributions of animals to society. More than 2500 references, 300 subject entries, and hundreds of figures, equations, and tables are included. Critical societal issues related to animal science including animal well-being, biodiversity, biotechnology, food safety, urban/agricultural ecosystems, consumer demand for animal products, and environmental stability are discussed. The encyclopedia is searchable or may be browsed via an alphabetical table of contents.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Marcel Dekker, Inc. /Marcel Dekker

Encyclopaedia of Islam 1999 (updated Irregularly)

The Encyclopaedia of Islam presents the current state of the Islamic world, from religion and history to politics and culture. It is made up of the 10 volumes included in its print counterpart of the same name. Articles cover distinguished Muslims, tribes and dynasties; the crafts and sciences; political and religious institutions; the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of various countries; and the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. Its geographical and historical scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire; the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia; the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states. The Addenda & Corrigenda, Glossary and Index of Terms, Index of Proper Names, and Index of Subjects are all included, but supplements from 1980-1982 will only be available in a future edition. Searching is possible in both Arabic transcription and in English.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Brill Academic Publishers/CD-ROM ver 1.0

Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology 1999-to date (updates vary)

The Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology contains more than 400 articles covering recent research on food microbiology written by experts in the field. It includes details of all the important genera of food-borne bacteria and fungi, how to detect the growth and/or metabolism of the organisms, food standards/specifications, and the role of monitoring systems in food industry.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Academic Press/Ideal Reference

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 2003- (updated quarterly)

The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science includes topics such as database design, intellectual property, user services, and the Internet, as well as entries on the activities of selected national and academic libraries, and library and information professional associations.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: SLIS
Vendor/Software: Dekker/???

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Online) Current (updated continuously)

The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Online) contains more than 3,000 signed articles by internationally renowned authorities in all subdisciplines within the life sciences. All articles are original and have been peer-reviewed and rigorously edited. Articles are organized in a structured, subject-based hierarchy at different levels of complexity. The database contains extensive tables, figures, illustrations, photographs, and multimedia features. It is is extensively cross-referenced and indexed, and includes direct links from references to the primary literature, as well as links to many other related Web sites in the life sciences. The Encyclopedia contains news items and a glossary of more than 4,000 terms in the life sciences. At least 20% of the content is completely updated in a given year. There are 3 levels of articles: introductory--for undergraduates and non-specialist readers needing basic concepts; secondary--useful for advanced undergraduates and graduates with material equivalent to graduate level texts; and "special essays,"--which cover 'hot topics' and controversial issues.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Biology, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Nature Publishing Group

Encyclopedia of Pest Management 2002-03 (not updated)

Encyclopedia of Pest Management is a key reference work for professionals in academia, industry and government, as well as students at all levels. It is designed to be regularly consulted for immediate and precise information to guide students, scholars, workers, the public and policy makers. Contributions address a wide spectrum of scientific and human topics, concepts, methodologies, strategies, solutions, questions, and dilemmas. Coverage includes: principles of integrated pest management (IPM), pests and their management in crops and livestock, insect pests, weed pests, plant pathogens, pest control through breeding and bio- and gene-technology, etc.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Marcel Dekker, Inc. /Marcel Dekker

Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science 2004-05 (not updated)

Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science is a single-source reference work to inclusively cover classic and modern studies in plant biology in conjunction with research, applications, and innovations in crop science. From the fundamentals of plant growth and reproduction to developments in agronomy and agricultural science, the Encyclopedia's content nurtures communication between these academically distinct yet intrinsically related spheres--offering a spread of clear, descriptive, and concise entries to optimally serve scientists, agriculturalists, policy makers, students, and the general public.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Marcel Dekker/Marcel Dekker, Inc.

Encyclopedia of Soil Science 2003-04 (not updated)

The Encyclopedia of Soil Science provides complete information on chemistry, analysis, and evaluation of soils and geography and focuses on agriculture development in the third world, particularly through research on sustainable management of natural resources, soil productivity and environmental quality. Content includes detailed contributions from more than 400 esteemed international authorities across nearly 400 entries, plus over 1,000 illustrations.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Marcel Dekker, Inc. /Marcel Dekker

Encyclopedia of the Amospheric Environment Current (updates vary)

The Encyclopedia is a source of information on a range of atmospheric issues, including air quality, acid rain, global warming and ozone depletion. There is an extensive bibliography and links to more than 3000 other webpages. A news section offers access to recent news items concerning the atmosphere. Information is provided for two levels of users--advanced or less advanced. Information in the Encyclopedia may be reproduced for individual, school, and college use, and by other non-profit organizations.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Atmosphere, Climate and Environment Information Programme, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Encyclopedia of Water Science 2003-04 (not updated)

The Encyclopedia of Water Science provides instant access to the most effective procedures in agricultural water engineering-- unveiling a wide spectrum of design concepts, methodologies, and solutions for enhanced performance of water quality, treatment, conservation, and irrigation methods, as well as improved water efficiency in agricultural programs.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock, Biology
Vendor/Software: Marcel Dekker, Inc. /Marcel Dekker

Engineered Materials Abstracts 1986-to date (updated monthly)

This database is part of the multi-database Materials Science subject area from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Engineered Materials Abstracts (EMA) provides bibliographic information for polymers, ceramics, and composites. Citations covering the research, manufacturing practices, properties and applications of these materials have been taken from 1,300 journals, plus dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books. The EMA database contains three distinct subfiles that can be searched separately if desired; Advanced Polymers Abstracts, Composites Industry Abstracts, and Ceramics.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Engineered Materials Abstracts, Ceramics 1986-to date (updated monthly)

Engineered Materials Abstracts, Ceramics is a subfile of the Engineered Materials Abstracts database. This subfile covers worldwide information about ceramics. The literature describes high temperature applications, erosive environments, biomedical applications, and other areas where hardness and corrosive resistance are needed. Some of the areas covered include: sintering, powder compacts, precursor powders, crystal structure, silicon nitride and glass ceramics.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

ENGINEERING E-JOURNAL SEARCH ENGINE Dates Vary (updated biweekly)

This searches the full text of more than 100 engineering journal sites. In order to be selected, e-journals must be free, available without registration, and offer all or most of the journal content as full text. Articles may be in PDF or Postscript format. The main EEVL database also evaluates thousands of engineering websites.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library

Engineering Index (Compendex) 1884 - date (updated weekly)

Engineering Index (Compendex) is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research, containing millions of references and abstracts taken from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. Coverage includes nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology, agricultural engineering and food technology, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, control, civil, mechanical, materials, petroleum, aerospace and automotive engineering as well as narrower subtopics within all these and other major engineering fields. The Engineering Village 2 interface allows you to access additional databases such as INSPEC, ENGnetBASE, United States patents, esp@cenet, Scirus, and daily news feeds from Lexis/Nexis.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Engineering Information (Elsevier)/n/a

Engineering Village 2 1884 - date (updated weekly)

Engineering Village 2 provides instantaneous, desktop access to multiple engineering databases through one interface. The databases include: Compendex (Engineering Index); INSPEC; ENGnetBASE, with over 160 handbooks; patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office; esp@cenet, the European Patent Organisation database: Scirus, a comprehensive science-specific web search engine; and daily news feeds from LexisNexis on a broad spectrum of engineering topics. Both Compendex and INSPEC can be searched simultaneously and have any duplicate records removed from the results list.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Engineering Information (Elsevier)/n/a

English Short Title Catalog 1473-1800 (updated daily)

The English Short Title Catalog provides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language, as well as for materials printed in English anywhere else in the world. ESTC serves as a comprehensive bibliography of the hand-press era and as a census of surviving copies. All recorded English monographs printed between 1475 and 1700 are now represented in the file. Produced by the ESTC editorial offices at the University of California, Riverside and the British Library, in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society and more than 1,600 libraries worldwide, the file is updated and expanded daily.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: RLG/Eureka Web

ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online Dates Vary (updates vary)

ENGnetBASE is a collection of approximately 15 engineering handbooks. Most of the print versions of these handbooks are in the Wendt Library reference collection. The print and the electronic versions can be located by using MadCat. ENGnetBase contains more than 1,200 articles or more than 20,000 pages of text. The handbooks can be searched or browsed individually or selectively. Boolean and proximity searching are possible. Output can be sorted by relevancy, frequency of hits, size of documents, or date.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: CRC Press

Environmental Engineering Abstracts 1990-to date (updated monthly)

Environmental Engineering Abstracts indexes over 700 primary journals and over 2,500 additional sources including monographs and conference proceedings. It covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock, Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

ENVIROnetBASE; environmental handbooks online Dates vary (updates vary)

ENVIROnetBASE is a collection of more than 100 handbooks that cover properties and processes associated with the air, water, soils and biosphere. Many of the print versions of these handbooks are in UW-Madison libraries. The print and the electronic versions can be located by using MadCat. The handbooks can be searched or browsed individually or selectively. Boolean and proximity searching are possible. Output can be sorted by relevancy, frequency of hits, size of documents, or date.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: CRC Press/CRC Press

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Database 1981-to date (updated monthly)

The Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database is a multidisciplinary database that covers all areas of air, land, water, and noise pollution as well as basic science areas of bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, and water resources. More than 1,000 primary journal literature titles in major scientific languages are covered as well as trade literature, patents, conference proceedings, chapters in books, and reports.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock, Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

ERGONOMICS ABSTRACTS 1985-to date (updated quarterly)

Ergonomics Abstracts is a focused, comprehensive, and international abstracting service, covering scholarly research on the subjects of ergonomics and human factors. This resource also covers related material from pyschology, physiology, biomechanics, job design, human-compuer interaction, safety science, human engineering, medicine, occupational health, sport and transport. Approximately 350 journals are covered. Additionally, books, reports and conference proceedings are represented. Users are able to browse a topical classification scheme or an applications list. The database contains approximately 67,000 records and adds about 5,600 annually.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Taylor and Francis

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) 1966- (updated quarterly)

ERIC contains citations and abstracts of the international journal and report literature in education and related fields. Subjects include all aspects of education, including child development, classroom techniques, computer education, counseling and testing, administration, higher education, library science, and vocational and adult education. Sources include more than 980 journals, educational reports, project descriptions, curriculum guides, and dissertations. The complete texts of 90% of the document literature (ED numbers) are available in PDF format using the EDRS DOCUMENT LINK. They are also on microfiche at the CIMC (Center for Instructional Materials and Computing).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Access: Stand-Alone (CIMC)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: CIMC, College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCOhost

Eric Weisstein's Encyclopedia of Mathematics (CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics) (updates vary)

This is a compendium of mathematical definitions, formulas, figures, tabulations, and references. It is intended for a broad spectrum of readers with a wide range of mathematical backgrounds and interests. The text and all the equations and figures are searchable. The entries are extensively cross-linked and cross-referenced, some with external Web links. Standard mathematical references are given at the end of most entries to facilitate additional reading. The work also contains a large number of explicit formulas and derivations. Because of the alphabetical listing of entries in the encyclopedia, neither table of contents nor index are included. Most articles are followed by a "see also" list of related entries for quick navigation.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt, Math
Vendor/Software: Eric W. Weisstein

e-EROS Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis 2003- (updated semiannually)

e-EROS is the online version of the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. e-EROS contains a database of around 50,000 reactions and approximately 3800 of the most frequently consulted reagents and is fully searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type, and experimental conditions. Full text searches can also be performed in e-EROS. Each entry contains the various uses and characteristics of each reagent, with examples of its use. Also included is information concerning physical data, solubility, form supplied in, purification, and where relevant, preparative methods. Literature references to key review articles and seminal papers are provided.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: Wiley/Wiley InterScience/ISIS Draw browser plug-in

Espacenet 1836- to date (updates vary)

Espacenet, a free online searchable database, comprises a comprehensive collection of patents representing technical developments from 1836 to today. A collaborative effort of the European Patent Office and the European Commission, Espacenet provides patent information for over 45 million documents from 71 countries, including the United States. Facsimile images of patent documents in the original language are available in PDF and coverage varies by country. Searchable English language abstracts are available for 5 million documents. United States patents are searchable by keyword in title and abstract back to 1920, and by number for retrieving facsimile images back to 1836. Designed primarily for the general public.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: European Patent Office/Espacenet version released Oct. 20, 2004

ESSAY & GENERAL LITERATURE INDEX 1985 - to date (updated annually)

The Essay & General Literature Index indexes chapters in more than 300 English language essay collections and anthologies annually. Both humanities and social sciences topics are covered, including economics, political science, history, philosophy, religion, and criticism of literary works, drama, and film. There are no abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

ETHNIC NEWSWATCH 1960-to date (updated monthly)

Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of more than 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Spanish language publications are presented in Spanish. The entire database is searchable in both English and Spanish.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: ProQuest Information and Learning/ProQuest Direct Web

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe ca. 1st century AD- to date (updates vary)

EuroDocs is a collection of links to facsimiles, translations, and transcriptions of documents which shed light on key happenings within the countries of Western Europe. Includes political, economic, social and cultural history from about the first century AD to the present.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Europa Sacra ca. 300-1500 AD. (updates vary)

Provides information on medieval Church prelates including information on all 1300 medieval bishoprics, archdioceses and patriarchates under obedience to Rome, as well as prosopographical information on 18,507 bishops, archbishops and patriarchs. Gradually more recent prosopographical works on members of religious orders and data on secular clergy supplied by nationally-based prosopographical projects will be added. Europa Sacra Online 2004 draws its initial information from: C. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi... ab anno 1198 [1st and 2nd edns. Münster, 1898ff] , P.B. Gams, Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae [Regensburg, 1873-86]

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Brepols/not known

EUROPEAN REFERENCES (SCAD) 1983-to date (updated quarterly)

European References (SCAD, Système communitaire d'accèss à la documentation) is a CD-ROM version of the SCAD database prepared by the Commission of the European Communities. It contains references for European Union documents and publications as well as citations to journal articles about EU-related topics.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Context Ltd.

Evans Digital Edition (Early American Imprints) 1639-1800 (updated monthly until completed in 2004)

This collection will contain digital editions of all titles in the Evans microform editions; more than 36,000 items and over 2,400,000 images, all with searchable OCR-created ASCII text. Both the digital and microform editions are based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. With these bibliographies, Evans and Bristol attempted to identify all works published in America through 1800. The Evans collection is a definitive resource for all aspects of American life in the 17th and 18th centuries. The collection is being released in monthly segments and it is projected that it will be completed in mid 2004.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial, Historical Society
Vendor/Software: Readex

Explication de texte: French literary analysis @ Globe-Gate Dates Vary (updates vary)

This source is a virtual library of more than 80 resources which should inform or enhance efforts in French textual analysis. A limited number are oriented towards English-language texts, because they contain valuable insights, a concise list of strategies, or practical style sheets. Included also are rhetorical figure vocabularies and resources for making sense of allusions to mythological figures or Biblical characters. There are also resources which inventory major theoretical approaches. A print bibliography is also included.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Globe-Gate Project, University of Tennesse-Martin

FACTS.COM 1980-to date (updated weekly)

FACTS.com includes 75,000 full-text news articles, weekly updates from the Facts On File World News Digest, and regular wire-service updates from Reuters. In addition, FACTS.com contains selected content from: Issues and Controversies On File , Today's Science On File, Editorials On File, The World Almanac, and Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Facts on File News Services

Faculty of 1000 2001-to date (updated daily)

Faculty of 1000 is an online research tool that contains selected articles which have been reviewed by leading authorities across all areas of Biology. The database is perhaps most useful in identifying which recent journal articles are ranked highly by authorities. In Faculty of 1000 the field of biology is divided into 16 "faculties" or subjects. Each faculty is further divided into sections each employing between10-50 faculty members, each of who reviews 2-4 papers each month. The service invites the best scientists internationally in each field, both experienced and younger investigators, to submit reviews. Features include the ability to view all the key papers within a particular topic or subtopic. Seach results can be sorted chronologically, by "F100 Factor" (a numerical ranking that conveys the relative importance of the paper), by type of paper (for example, technical advance), or by the number of faculty members who have selected each paper. There is also the ability to view "top 10" lists, "classic papers" within a broad or narrow field, and "most viewed" papers. When articles are indexed in PubMed there will be a link to the PubMed abstract. There is also the ability to link out the the full-text article if the UW-Madison has licensed access to the source journal.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Biology, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Biology Reports Ltd.

Family & Society Studies Worldwide 1970-to date (updated quarterly)

Family & Society Studies Worldwide database (formerly Family Studies) is the electronic version of the indexes Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature and FAMILY (Australian Family & Society Abstracts). It indexes more than 1800 journals, books, chapters, newsletters, government documents, and dissertations. It covers the educational, medical, psychological and sociological aspects of family literature

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: National Council on Family Relations/NISC/BiblioLine

FAO Corporate Document Repository 1990-to date (updated daily)

The FAO Corporate Document Depository includes FAO documents and publications, and selected non-FAO publications dealing with food, food security, agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, and rural development. Documents and publications will usually be available full-text in at least one of the FAO's official languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French and Spanish. Documents as far back as the 1950s are included irregularly.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT), Food and Agriculture Information Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

FAOSTAT: FAO Statistical Databases 1961-to date (updates vary)

FAOSTAT is a collection of online databases containing more than 1 million time-series records covering international agricultural statistics. Data are provided by national governments or extrapolated by FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) staff. Topics covered are: agricultural production, agricultural trade, food balance sheets, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest products, fishery products, population, agricultural machinery and food aid shipments. Data can be displayed as tables or downloaded for use in spreadsheets.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)/FAOSTAT

Faulkner's Advisory for Information Technology Studies Current (updates vary)

This online technology reports database was created especially for the academic community. The database provides more than 1200 clearly written reports covering all of the most important technology areas: data networking, broadband, information security, electronic government, electronic business, the Internet, business intelligence/content management, IT asset management, application development, mobile business, wireless communications and more. This database also provides information on vendors in the information technology field.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: Faulkner Information Resources

FBIS PUBLICATIONS and FBIS INDEX 1977-to date (updated quarterly)

The FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) Publications (1996-to date) and FBIS Index (1977-1996) provides indexing to news broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government statements, and other worldwide press materials translated into English. The Index provides access to the full-text FBIS Daily Reports microfiche collection, also found in the Microforms/Media Center (Room 443 Memorial Library). Full text is included beginning with 1996. See also Global Newsbank.

Access: Stand-Alone (Memorial)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: NewsBank/Readex

FedStats Dates Vary (updated continually)

FedStats provides access to the statistics found in the publications of more than 70 United States federal government agencies. Searches on FedStats provide direct links to federal agency statistical publications in both full-text and tabular format.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Historical, Memorial
Vendor/Software: United States Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy/TOPIC

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index 1994-to date (updated bimonthly)

Feminae is a multilingual scholarly index covering journal articles from 1994 to the present from almost 400 journals, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 CE to 1500 CE). It excludes books written by a single author. Special searching includes subjects found in Feminae's thesaurus: region, century, language, and primary evidence (type of document). Some entries include abstracts, but they are not searchable. As of May 2001, there were about 5,000 records in the database.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Margaret Schaus & the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

FIAF International FilmArchive Database 1972 - to date (updated quarterly)

FIAF International FilmArchive Database, contains more than 325,000 records, with more than 12,000 additional records added each year. It combines various databases related to film and television, most prominently the International Index to Film Periodicals plus records from its TV-related companion (1979 to the present). Approxmiately 300 international scholarly journals in the areas of film and television studies are indexed, as well as some trade journals. Citations and short abstracts are included, but there is no full text. Article types include reviews, book extracts, conference reports, scripts, and obituaries. Of particular interest is the Treasures from the Film Archives database, which contains unique information about silent film holdings in 90 international film archives. It provides minimal credit information and holdings on more than 35,000 silent shorts and feature films. Another resource, the International Directory of Film and TV Documentation Collections, contains detailed information about the collections of the world's foremost film archives, libraries, and educational institutions.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Ovid/WebSPIRS

Film Index International 1900 - to date (updated semiannually)

Film Index International includes information on more than 100,000 films and 40,000 individuals from 170+ countries. It is searchable by person, film title, and keyword, plus many other fields. Records include director name, full cast and crew lists, credits, awards received, and synopses. In addition, it provides citation information for selected (mainly scholarly) reviews and other journal articles related to the film or person. For articles on film topics, see FIAF: The International Federation of Film Archives.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck Healey/ProQuest/ProQuest

firstVIEW Current Year (updated weekly)

FirstVIEW is a web site of current runway fashions shows from Sydney, Milan, London, Paris and New York featuring apparel from world-famous designers. It includes designer fashions from the haute couture, women's wear, menswear, accessories, and beauty, hair and make-up. The collection includes video and photos. A less up-to-date version is available at the publically-accessible site http://www.firstview.com.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: firstVIEW

FISH & FISHERIES WORLDWIDE 1971-to date (updated quarterly)

The Fish & Fisheries Worldwide database indexes English language journals, books, conference proceedings, symposia, government reports, theses, and dissertations. The subject matter covers animal behavior, conservation, disease, genetics, habitats, management techniques, parasites, pesticides, propagation, and toxicology. Includes full-text book reviews, but there are no abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Biology, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: NISC/BiblioLine

Forestry Compendium 2002 to date (updates vary)

The Forestry Compendium provides comprehensive, worldwide coverage on tropical, subtropical, temperate and boreal species and contains detailed datasheets on over 1200 species worldwide of economic importance and lesser known species of local importance.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock, Biology
Vendor/Software: CAB International/CABI Publishing/CABI Compendium

Foundation Grants Index 2000-2001 (update December, 2002)

Foundation Grant Index includes descriptions of nearly 125,000 grants of $10,000 or more awarded by over 1,000 of the largest independent, corporate, and community foundations in the U.S. Grants may be searched using up to 12 search fields. Includes grantmaker contact information and links to their websites when available.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial Library Reference Department
Vendor/Software: Foundation Center (www.fdncenter.org)/Foundation Grants Index on CD-ROM Version 3.0

Foundations in Wisconsin Online 2002-updated annually (with other irregular updates)

Foundations in Wisconsin is a web-based searchable database of over 1100 active private, corporate, and community foundations based in Wisconsin. It contains brief abstracts with contact information, total assets, grants paid, and areas of interest. Most of the data is compiled from IRS 990PF tax returns filed by the foundations, with additional information obtained from other sources such as annual reports and web sites.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial Library
Vendor/Software: Marquette University Memorial Library

The Franciscan Archive: A WWW Resource on St. Francis and Franciscanism Dates Vary (updates vary)

The Franciscan Archive is a Web site dedicated to all things Fransican. It maintains an index of all URLs which in any way pertain to St. Francis, the religious orders he founded, Franciscan saints, spirituality, history, art, architecture, theology, etc. It also provides a place for the publication of original texts, translations, and articles on Franciscanism. The site is semi-popular in approach but includes scholarly texts, especially selections from and translations of the writings of Francis, Clare, Bonaventure, and other noted Franciscans. Separately linked sections include: Franciscan Historical Documents; Franciscan Sources; Secondary Sources of Franciscan History; Franciscan Saints & Blesseds; Other Famous Franciscan Personages; Franciscan Theology & Literature (Bonaventure is here); Franciscan-Marian Literature; Franciscan Art, Architecture, & Music; and Related Articles and Links.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Bro. Alexis Bugnolo, OFM

FRANCISCAN AUTHORS, 13TH-18TH CENTURY: A CATALOGUE IN PROGRESS 13th-18th Centuries (updated quarterly)

Franciscan Authors is a scholarly biobibliography of authors belonging to the Order of Friars Minor (OFM). Arrangement is alphabetical with links to individual entries. Annotations are in Dutch, though knowledge of this language is not necessary in order to get authors' dates or citations of their manuscripts and of pertinent primary and secondary literature. Separate files are available for anonymous texts, for hagiographies of Franciscans, and for the provinces of the order.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Maarten van der Heijden and Bert Roest

French Etymology @ Globe-Gate 9th-20th Centuries (updates vary)

This database is an ongoing collection of links to machine-readable files pertaining to etymologies of French words. Levels of treatment range from scholarly through didactic to haute vulgarisation. Most files are in the French language. A general section is followed by one for etymologies of specific words.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Globe-Gate Project, Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center, University of Tennessee-Martin

FSTA: Food Science and Technology Abstracts 1969-to date (updated annually)

The FSTA database indexes 1,800 journals, books, theses, conference proceedings, reviews, standards, legislation, and patents each year. The subject matter covers beverages, cocoa and chocolate, commodity technology, dairy products, dietetic foods, fats and oils, fermentation technology, fish, flour and bakery products, food additives and engineering, food hygiene, food laws, meat and poultry, sugars, and toxicology. Approximately 95% of the citations include abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: International Food Information Service; SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

Gallica Classique 12th-20th centuries (updates vary)

A collection of several hundred full-text files in canonical French literature. Some are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader; others are HTML. Maintained and operated by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, this site offers searchable texts from the Institut National de la Langue Francaise's FRANTEXT project, Acamedia's electronic versions of Chateaubriand's Oeuvres completes and of Balzac's Comedie humaine (Furne ed.), plus Bibliopolis' machined versions of the Garnier-Flammarion classics. The language of the site is French.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Bibliotheque Nationale de France

Gallica: images et textes numerises 1800 to early 20th century; Literature coverage begins 12th century (updates vary)

Gallica is an "experimental server" with links to thousands of electronic text, image, animation, and sound files bearing on the nineteenth-century French experience. The literature subsection draws on texts of classic French literature from the 12th century onward. There are introductory pages for the following disciplinary groupings: History; Political Science; Law and Economics; Literature; Philosophy; Science and the History of Science. The language is French. Most files are full-text/image, but more than 300 works are available in full-text/ASCII. A special strength is digitized photographs, of which this site had over 10,000 in early 1999. The site's general search engine is linked to under the term "Recherches-plein texte" (under "Consultation" in the general menu).

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Bibliotheque nationale de France

Gartner Datapro for intraWeb 1995-to date (updates vary)

Datapro provides independent analysis in all areas of information technology (IT). The service evaluates vendors and products for new and existing technologies and markets. The service analyzes the competition from a global perspective for the worlwide IT marketplace. See the related resource Gartner intraWeb for in-depth analysis of IT trends.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Gartner

Gartner intraWeb 1995-to date (updated daily)

Gartner intraWeb is an online service providing market research reports for the Information Technology (IT) professional. It provides reports on trends in the IT industry, available technologies, and analysis of products on the market, including reception by customers of the products.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: Gartner Group

GENDERWATCH (WOMEN 'R') 1980-to date (updated quarterly)

GenderWatch (previously Women 'R') is a women's and gender issues database with thousands of full-text articles from about 100 magazines, academic journals, regional publications, and newsletters; thirteen books on women and gender; and many special reports, including conference proceedings and government reports. Articles labeled "Diversity Folio" are selected from newspapers and magazines of American ethnic communities.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial, Women's Studies
Vendor/Software: ProQuest Information and Learning/ProQuest Direct Web

GENERAL SCIENCE FULL TEXT 1984 - to date (updated monthly)

General Science Full Text indexes 150 English-language popular and professional science periodicals, as well as the Science section of the New York Times. Its subjects include the physical and life sciences, as well as genetics, environment and conservation, food and nutrition, and medicine and health. Feature articles are indexed, as are biographical sketches, symposia, conferences, review articles, selected letters to the editor, obituaries, and book reviews. There are abstracts beginning with 1993. Full-text articles from 40 journals have been added beginning with 1995.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Biology, College, Memorial, Physics, Wendt
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

GEOBASE 1980-to date (updated twice monthly)

GEOBASE abstracts scholarly literature on geography, geology and ecology. It provides comprehensive bibliographic references to more than 2,000 primary journals, books, monographs, reports, conference proceedings and theses in the fields of human and physical geography, cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), geomorphology, climatology, hydrology and development studies. It is international in scope and is the only database in these fields to include abstracts. The interdisciplinary coverage makes it an ideal tool for researching environmental issues.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Geography
Vendor/Software: OCLC, Elsevier Science/FirstSearch Web

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Resources Current (updates vary)

This is a guide to University of Wisconsin-Madison and Web resources for acquiring data for use with geographic information systems (GIS) software, particularly ArcGIS. The guide includes background information on GIS, resources for data acquisition, and information about GIS software.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Robinson Map
Vendor/Software:Robinson Map Library and Steenbock

GEOREF 1785-to date (updated monthly)

GEOREF, produced by the American Geological Institute, indexes the earth sciences literature of the world. It contains more than 1.9 million references to literature covering North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. In addition to indexing articles from more than 3,500 serials annually, it includes conference papers and abstracts, guidebooks, maps, reports, theses and some monographs. Approximately 70% of the references are to serials. About 15% of the articles are in a language other than English. Less than 10% of the references include abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Geology/Geophysics
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

The Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online 1543-1945 (not updated)

The Gerritsen Collection includes books and periodicals from around the world which document the condition of women, the evolution of feminist consciousness, and women's rights. More than 4,000 books and 265 periodicals in the collection are primarily in English with German, French, and Dutch-language materials strongly represented. Other languages included are Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Slavic, and Scandinavian. ASCII text is searchable by keyword and Boolean operators. Records are linked to corresponding page images.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: ProQuest Information and Learning

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE 1970-to date (updated annually)

Global Development Finance contains a database of 200 time series indicators, including up to the year 2005 for "pipeline" data. It also contains the full contents of the print version of Volume 1 and 2 of the GDF and all the tables from both volumes. Text providing country notes, definitions, and source notes is linked to each table. A privatization database is included in the Tables section.

Access: Stand-Alone (DPLS, Memorial)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: DPLS
Vendor/Software: World Bank/STARS v4.0

Global Market Information Database Last six years (updated annually)

Global Market Information Database delivers volume and value market size data across 52 countries. All the data is fully comparable across more than 350 consumer products and over a six-year time series. Key socio-economic parameters such as population trends and economic indicators are also included, to help place consumer trends in context.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: Euromonitor

GLOBAL NEWSBANK 1996-to date (updated monthly)

Global NewsBank offers varying perspectives on international issues and events. Covering Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Pacific Rim, Central and South America and the Middle East, it is ideal for researching a wide variety of international developments related to politics, economics, science & technology, culture and business. The full-text news articles are from more than 1,500 international sources, including translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, periodicals and government documents. For similar coverage of the years 1977-, use FBIS Publications and FBIS Index.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: NewsBank

Government Periodicals Universe 1988-to date (updated quarterly)

Government Periodicals Universe covers articles in approximately 170 current federal publications. It includes retrospective coverage through 1988 of more than 70 additional federal publications that have major research, reference, or general interest value.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: CIS

Google Scholar varies (updated daily)

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt, All GLS Libraries
Vendor/Software: Google/Google

GPO ACCESS Dates Vary (updated regularly)

GPO Access provides Web access to more than 70 full-text databases published by the United States government. The growing list of available titles includes the Federal Register, the Congressional Record, the United States Code, the Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT), and the Code of Federal Regulations.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Historical, Memorial
Vendor/Software: U.S. Government Printing Office

GPO MONTHLY CATALOG 1976-to date(updated monthly)

The GPO Monthly Catalog indexes publications of the United States Federal Government. The material indexed covers a broad range of subjects, and selected records have short abstracts. Many of the publications eventually appear in MadCat, but these two versions of the database provide much more up-to-date information. See also GPO Access for Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT) (1994-to date only).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff (OCLC/FirstSearch Web)
Access: Networked Within (Historical) (MARCIVE)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Historical, Memorial
Vendor/Software: OCLC/FirstSearch Web & MARCIVE

GRANTSELECT Current (updated bimonthly)

The GrantSelect database provides information on more than 10,000 research grants available to both individuals and organizations from more than 4,000 federal, state, and local governments, commercial organizations, associations, and private foundations. Funding programs listed include all academic disciplines, and must be relevant to higher education. Emphasis is on U.S. programs, yet some foreign programs are included as well. Grants may be searched by type, subject, geographic area, sponsor, population groups, and more. Each entry includes full program description, requirements, eligibility restrictions, contact person and address, funding amounts, and deadline and renewal information. GrantSelect corresponds to the print publications Directory of Research Grants, Directory of Biomedical and Health Care Grants, and Directory of Grants in the Humanities. Formerly Grants Database. See also the Grants Information Center.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Oryx Press

GrayLIT Network: a science portal of technical reports 1960-to date (updates vary)

The GrayLIT Network makes the gray literature of U.S. Federal Agencies easily accessible over the Internet. It taps into the search engines of distributed gray literature collections, enabling the user to find information without first having to know the sponsoring agency. The U.S. Interagency Gray Literature Working Group, "Gray Information Functional Plan," 18 January 1995, defines gray literature as "foreign or domestic open source material that usually is available through specialized channels and may not enter normal channels or systems of publication, distribution, bibliographic control, or acquisition by booksellers or subscription agents." Developed by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), in collaboration with Department of Defense (DOE), Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the GrayLIT Network is a portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects. Many of the documents are available in full-text PDF files.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Greek grammar on the Web: the electronic gateway to the study of ancient Greek 8th cent. BCE to 7th cent. CE (updates vary)

A portal designed primarily for beginning and intermediate students of ancient Greek, this site leads to online resources for Greek fonts, for accounts/explanations of Greek letters, numbers, accentuation, and pronunciation, for introductory courses and training, for dictionaries and similar aids, for grammar, for the history of the language, for advanced study of the language, for reading texts, and for other surveys and bibliographies. Listings include evaluative comments by the site's creator, a professor of ancient Greek at the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain), Belgium.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Prof. Marc Huys, Dept. of Classical Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/unknown

Grove Art Online 1999 (updates vary)

This database contains the full text of the original 34 volume Dictionary of Art (1996), with ongoing revisions and updates. The searchable articles cover all aspects of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphics, contemporary art forms such as performance and installation, architecture, decorative arts, and photography) from prehistory to the present. History of film making is excluded. In addition, this resource provides access to the Bridgeman Art Library of 100,000 online images, Art Resource of 90,000 images and links to other external websites containing images.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art
Vendor/Software: Grove/Excaliber

Guide to Medieval Christian Spirituality Dates Vary (updates vary)

A large collection of links to writings (mostly but not exclusively English-language) in and on medieval Christian sprituality. Individual sections include: "Links to works by key figures in Medieval Spirituality"; "On saints and their lives"; "Articles on key figures in Medieval Spirituality"; "Articles on key themes in Medieval Spirituality"; "Websites devoted to Spirituality"; and "Religious orders". By "articles" is meant encyclopedia articles, not articles published in online scholarly journals; most articles thus far are from the New Advent online version of the old, early twentieth-century Catholic Encyclopedia and therefore do not reflect recent scholarship.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Scott DeGregorio, University of Toronto

Gutenberg Digital 1450's (not updated)

This is the digitized version of the Gutenberg Bible. Included in this Web site as well is additional information about the origin and spread of printing, and about the text of the Bible at the time of Gutenberg's invention.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Niedersaechsische Staats-und Universitaetsbibliothek Goettingen

Gutenberg-e 1500's-to the present (updated annually)

The Gutenberg-e prizewinning books represent the most distinguished and innovative scholarship delivered with creative and thoughtful use of digital technology. These books have undergone a rigorous academic review process by distinguished historians brought together by the American Historical Association. The books represent a wide range of subjects including: Africa, colonial Latin America, South Asia, Europe before 1800, military history, and history of foreign relations. While these digital monographs can be printed out and read in the traditional way, the electronic versions offer elements that cannot be conveyed in print (e.g., extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links to related Web sites). New monographs are added to the collection each year.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Columbia University Press

H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences 1994-to date (updates vary)

H-Net Reviews publishes reviews of books and multimedia materials. While the focus is on history, many reviews of current and contemporary topics are also included. Reviews are written by academic reviewers affiliated with H-Net's network of scholarly discussion lists. Although the focus is on English-language resources, H-Net Reviews also includes reviews of German-language materials in social and cultural history.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: H-Net/Web-based

HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) 1985-to date (updated quarterly)

HAPI is a database of evaluation and measurement tools designed to facilitate health and psychosocial studies. the measurement instruments available include questionnaires, checklists, index measures, rating scales, project techniques, tests, interview schedules, and a variety of other means of evaluation. The database currently contains more than 45,000 records.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences
Vendor/Software: Ovid Technologies Gateway

HAPI ONLINE (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) 1970-to date (updated biweekly)

HAPI Online contains worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. It covers materials published in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals, containing more than 210,000 citations. See also Latin American Studies.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: UCLA Latin American Center

HarpWeek: the Civil War Era 1857-1865 (not updated)

HarpWeek is the searchable electronic version of the Civil War years of Harper's Weekly, one of the most important American periodicals of the nineteenth century. Includes images of all the pages, both illustations and text.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: HarpWeek

Haz-Map Current (updates vary)

Haz-Map is an occupational toxicology database designed to link jobs to hazardous job tasks which are related to occupational diseases and their symptoms. It is a relational database of chemicals, jobs and diseases. It contains 180 occupational diseases and 987 biological and chemical agents. The Haz-Map Jobs table is based on the 1997 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. The Industries table is based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The Diseases table is based on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9).

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Clinical Sciences, Health Sciences, Pharmacy
Vendor/Software: National Library of Medicine/Haz-Map

Health and Safety Science Abstracts 1981-to date (updated quarterly)

Health and Safety Science Abstracts covers public health, safety, and industrial hygiene including aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety, occupational safety, and ergonomics. Produced in conjunction with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, it indexes 1367 research journals and numerous government reports, conference proceedings, and books in the field of public health and safety.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock, Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Health and Wellness Reference Center 1994-to date (updated daily)

Provides health information for nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health research. It combines indexing of approximately 205 periodicals, six reference books, and over 500 pamphlets; selective indexing for articles in approximately 1500 additional general interest titles; and full text for more than 150 periodicals, all reference books, and all pamphlets. A source list is included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences
Vendor/Software: Gale/InfoTrac

Health Source: Consumer Edition 1984-to date (updated daily)

Health Source: Consumer Edition provides full text since 1990 from nearly 280 periodicals covering nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol, and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 430 periodicals. Health Source: Consumer Edition also provides full text for more than 1,100 pamphlets and 20 books.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences, College
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCOhost Web

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition 1975-to date (updated daily)

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for more than 800 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences Libraries
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCOhost

HEALTHSTAR 1975-to date (updated monthly)

HealthSTAR contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration and research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. Produced cooperatively by the National Library of Medicine and the American Hospital Association, citations contain abstracts when available to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, meeting abstracts and papers, book chapters, government documents, and newspaper articles.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences
Vendor/Software: OVID Technologies/Web Gateway

Hebrew Books ca. 1880-1969 (updated irregularly)

Hebrew Books is a full-text database (PDF files) of titles by American Rabbis (700 books and 160 issues of four periodical titles as of June 2002). Most of the titles are in Hebrew, but a few are in English or Yiddish. Pulldown lists of author, city, state, and subject as well as browse and word searches are provided. So far, most of the texts seem to have been published between 1880 and 1967. Although it does not require Hebrew fonts, it does require Internet Explorer/ Netscape 5 versions or higher.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial or Jill Rosenshield
Vendor/Software: Hebrew Books Organization/Internet Explorer or Netscape 5+

Hein Online Dates Vary (updated irregularly)

Hein Online contains full-text legal periodicals beginning with the earliest volumes through the most current volume allowed under contract. It covers all areas of United States law. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (free download).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law
Vendor/Software: Hein

HEIN'S U.S. TREATY INDEX ON CD-ROM 1776 - to date (updated irregularly)

Provides full treaty information on 15,886 treaties and other international agreements.

Access: Networked Within (Law)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law
Vendor/Software: William S. Hein & Co.

HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS 1955 - to date (updated monthly)

Historical Abstracts indexes and abstracts information in world history and the related social sciences and humanities, excluding the U.S. and Canada. (See America: History and Life for U.S. and Canadian coverage.) Links to full-text articles are included when available. It lists articles covering the years 1450 to the present, including approximately 1700 periodicals published in 90 countries in 40 languages. Collections of essays, conference papers, dissertations, and books are also included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: ABC-CLIO

Historical Census Browser 1790-1960 (not updated)

Historical Census Browser presents data describing the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960. The available data differ somewhat from decade to decade, according to what was collected in the census and the items chosen for transcription to electronic form. All decades contain basic counts of population and housing units, as well as information on race, gender, and some measure of household size and composition. No information is available below the county level, and only states are included (no information on western territories before statehood, or for the District of Columbia). Thematic maps are also available for many of the items. The site is not intended as a tool for downloading data for further research or more involved manipulation. The site does NOT contain information about individuals.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial Library, Historical Society Library
Vendor/Software: Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, University of Virginia Library/no special software; web site using xml

HISTORICAL MICRODATA AROUND THE WORLD 1801-to date (updates vary)

Historical Microdata Around the World is a gateway to Internet resources for the historical/statistical study of population. Coverage currently emphasizes Europe, Canada, and the United States.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Norwegian Historical Data Centre, University of Tromso

Historical Primary Sources: Texts from Collections of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dates Vary (updates vary)

Three historical texts--a classic in city development (Madison: a Model City), an account by an involved eyewitness (Annals of the Famine in Ireland), and an insightful view by a gifted Swedish writer of the United States and Cuba at the middle of the nineteenth century (The Homes of the New World)--mark the beginnings of a project intended to bring to a wider audience a selection of historical primary source materials. Materials selected for this project are owned in the original by the UW-Madison Libraries, but because of age, condition, and vulnerability, most can no longer be circulated. Further, because of their content and importance, these materials warrant the additional search and retrieval capability which can be provided by SGML encoding using the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library/Open Text

History Cooperative Current (updates vary)

The History Cooperative brings together several nationally known journals with a focus on American history. The site also includes access to the Booker T. Washington papers. The Web site includes the full text of the most recent journal issues. For full text of back issues, refer to JSTOR.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: History Cooperative

History Guide Ancient World - 20th Century (updates vary)

The History Guide is an Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history. Current emphasis is Anglo-American history, but it is expanding to include other aspects of world history.It is maintained in cooperation with the InformationsWeiser Geschichte of the Bavarian State Library. Resources are described and evaluated with a set of metadata. New resources are continuously added to the database; already cataloged resources are regularly double-checked and updated.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Gottingen State and University Library

HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE 1975 - to date (updated annually)

RLIN's History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (HST) database includes four files. The Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science includes all of the citations from the annual bibliographies published in Isis from 1975 to the present. It does not include the book review listings. The file also contains all references from the Current Bibliography of the History of Technology (published in Technology and Culture annually) from 1987 to the present. The annual Italian bibliography (Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza) and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine are also included. A single search will access all files in this database.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN)/Eureka Web

HÖlderlins Werk 1770-1843 (updates vary)

A fully searchable electronic edition of writings of the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin presented in the so-called Grosser Stuttgarter Ausgabe of his Collected Works. A set of contents links on the left side of the main page lead to detailed tables of contents for each section. The edition reproduces Hölderlin's now no longer standard orthography. A brief guide to the chief differences (essential for accurate search results) is available on the site. Not all of the texts contained in this edition had been scanned in as of October 2000.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Hölderlins-Gesellschaft

Human Population & Natural Resource Management Database 1995-Current (updated monthly)

Human Population & Natural Resource Management explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature has also been summarized. Major areas of coverage include: Human population dynamics, Demography, Population - Environment Relations, Population Statistics, Poplulation Policy, Ecotourism, Sustainable Living, Sustainable Consumption, Environmental Awareness and Environmental Education. 561 titles covered.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock Library, Biology Library, Geography Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/CSA Databases

HUMANITIES FULL TEXT 1984 - to date (updated monthly)

Humanities Full Text indexes 400 English language periodicals. Its subject matter covers archaeology and classical studies, art, film, folklore, history, journalism, linguistics, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and theology. Feature articles are indexed, as are interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, and reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, movies, television and radio. There are abstracts beginning with 1994. Full-text articles from 96 journals have been added beginning with 1996.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

Hume Archives Dates Vary (updates vary)

A collection of scanned texts of writings by the eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume and of early reviews and other early commentary on his work, available in HTML, text, and RTF formats. The texts have been scanned from public-domain originals and may not reflect advances in the modern scholarly editing of these works.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: The University of Tennessee at Martin

IBZ (INTERNATIONALE BIBLIOGRAPHIE der ZEITSCHRIFTENLITERATUR = International Bibliography of Periodical Literature) 1987-to date (updated monthly)

The IBZ is produced in Germany and indexes more than 5600 periodicals in many languages from around the world. It is particularly strong in European humanities and social sciences. The database currently contains more than 2 million records and adds about 120,00 per year. There are no abstracts. A stand-alone CD-ROM version in Memorial Library Reference includes years back to 1983.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Zeller Verlag

ICE Virtual Library (Institution of Civil Engineers) 1837-to date (updates vary)

This is an index to all the papers published in the ICE Proceedings (1837- ), Transactions (1836-1842), Conferences (1897- ), Giotechnique (1948- ) and Municipal Engineer (1984-1991). Since 1992 the ICE Proceedings have been published in subject parts-Civil Engineering (general), Municipal Engineer, Transport, Structures & Buildings, and Water, Maritime & Energy. In 1994 an additional part was introduced: Geotechnical Engineering. Also included is a series of Civil Engineering special issues on current major civil engineering projects. Wendt Library owns most of the ICE publications.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Thomas Telford Electronic Publishing/Institution of Civil Engineers/Excite search engine

IEE Online Journals 1994-to date (updated daily)

IEE publishes materials in electrical and electronic engineering, physics, computing, control and software engineering, and related subjects in information technology. This has the contents pages of recently published IEE journals, abstracts of all articles, and full text for the journals to which UW Madison subscribes.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Institution of Electrical Engineers (United Kingdom)

IEEE Xplore 1988-to date (updated daily)

IEEE Xplore contains the comprehensive electronic collection of IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, conference proceedings and active standards. The database covers approximately 100 journals and more than 350 conferences. All documents are available with related abstract/citation records and PDF full-text. For the journals, transactions and magazine content, HTML full-text will be made available starting from 1996 publication year and going forward. The HTML content will be loaded in phases during 2000 with the most recent content (from 1998 and 1999) loaded in the first stage. As more HTML content is loaded, users will be able to conduct searches across this full-text along with the text of the abstract/citation records. (IEEE Xplore utilizes cookies, small files that stay on your computer. Cookies are used to control simultaneous users and to enforce a time-out mechanism. The cookies will self-destruct upon logging-off or timing out of a session.)

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

ILI STANDARDS INFOWEB SEARCH Current (updated monthly)

The ILI Standards Infoweb Search database is a bibliographic Standards database, covering 350,000 worldwide standards from 250 issuing authorities.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software:ILI

Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS) 1979-to date (updated daily)

The Illinois Researcher Information Service is a database of more than 8,000 federal and private funding opportunites in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and the humanities. Upcoming deadlines in 25 subject areas can be viewed. The database can be searched by sponsor, keyword, deadlines, all fields, activities supported, residency, and more. Entry results include hyperlinks to email, web addresses, and online application forms when available by the sponsor. IRIS also includes an email funding update service, "IRIS Alert Service," available to subscribers, as well as an "IRIS Expertise Service" for faculty who wish to record and match research interests.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial (Grants Information Center)
Vendor/Software: University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign

Illustrated Incunabula Short Title Catalogue Pre-1501 (updates vary)

The Illustrated Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (IISTC) is based on the Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC) census compiled by the British Library. Incunabula are books printed before 1501, the early years of printing with moveable type. The IISTC contains images of some incunabula text pages to identify the edition and to indicate the basic structure and contents of each book. The second edition contains more than 20,000 page images from more than 4,000 editions, with the aim of illustrating all 28,000 editions in the Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue in later editions. The IISTC is not a full text database and does not necessarily include images of woodcuts. Pages filmed include, but are not limited to: the first printed page, title page (if not the first printed page), start of primary text (if not the first printed page), first page of second quire, end of text, page with colophon, page with printer's device, and last printed page (if none of the above).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Special Collections (Memorial)
Vendor/Software: Primary Source Media/Windows

INDEX KEWENSIS 1893-1996 (updated irregularly)

Index Kewensis is an index to plant names with bibliographic references to the place of first publication. For each plant, the family, genus, species and an author-inclusive citation is supplied. It is searchable by family, genus, species, author, infra family, infra genus and infra species.

Access: Stand-Alone (Biology/Herbarium)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Biology
Vendor/Software: Index Kewensis/Cambridge

Index of Christian Art Apostolic times to 1400 AD (updated annually)

The Index of Christian Art provides text descriptions and bibliographic references for approximately 23,500 works of Early Christian and Medieval art in 17 media, created from early apostolic times to 1400. (Morgan Library manuscript holdings now being added will extend the date range for manuscripts to 1600.) Extensive thematic and iconographic indexing is also provided. Eight thousand images are linked for viewing, and citations are given for published sources of reproductions, if known. The online database is a portion of the 200,000-item indexed picture file compiled at Princeton University. Four copies of the complete index exist and may be consulted at: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D.C.; University of California, Los Angeles; Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht; and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art
Vendor/Software: Princeton University/Aleph

INDEX TO FOREIGN LEGAL PERIODICALS 1985-to date (updated quarterly)

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is an index to articles appearing in approximately 450 legal journals published worldwide. The legal systems and practices of all countries are included, with the exception of some of those of the United States, the British Isles, Canada, and Australia, whose systems of law are based in common law. It provides in-depth coverage of international, comparative, and foreign law in all languages except Arabic. IFLP also analyzes the contents of approximately 80 individually published collections of legal essays, Festschriften, and congress reports each year.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law
Vendor/Software: American Association of Law Libraries, SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

Index to Jewish Periodicals 1988-to date (updated annually)

The Index to Jewish Periodicals is an index to more than 150 English language Jewish studies periodicals published in the United States, Canada, England, Israel, South Africa, and Australia. It covers topics relating to Judaica, Hebraica, Israel and the Middle East.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Index to Jewish Periodicals/InMagic

INDEX TO LEGAL PERIODICALS FULL TEXT & RETROSPECTIVE August 1918-to date (updated monthly)

The Index To Legal Periodicals Full Text & Retrospective indexes legal periodicals, court decisions, legislation and more. Full text coverage for selected periodicals is also available. Law books are indexed beginning in 1993. Covers all areas of law from the United States and Commonwealth countries.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals 1844-1907 (not updated)

The Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art Periodicals indexes 42 art journals published in the United States during the nineteenth century. Entire journal contents are indexed, including articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems and advertisements. Journal coverage includes artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decoration and collecting.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Art
Vendor/Software: RLG-Citadel/Eureka

Index to printed music: collections & series c. 1850 - 1995 (updates vary)

The Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series is a resource designed to locate individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, including anthologies, monuments of music, and composers' collected works. IPM indexes every piece in a collection. The core of the resource is drawn from Collected Editions, Historical Series & Sets & Monuments of Music: A Bibliography, by George R. Hill and Norris L. Stephens (Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1997) and currently contains 135,000 index entries, 20,000 name entries and 9,300 citations. By 2007, IPM aims to incorporate Hill and Stephens' entire text.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Mills Music Library
Vendor/Software: NISC/Biblioline [unknown version]

INDEX TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS 1801-to date (updated annually)

This database is a cumulative index of all House of Commons Parliamentary Papers since 1801. It includes material from the Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801-1900, the House of Commons decennial indexes 1900-1979, and data from the Parliamentary Online Information Service Database from 1979 onwards. Fields may be searched and/or browsed by keyword, paper title, subject, chair/author, session, paper type, paper number, and date.

Access: Stand-Alone (Memorial)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey/Windows

Index to Theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland 1970-to date (updated bimonthly)

This is the primary index to dissertations submitted a for higher degree in United Kingdom and Irish universities. Abstracts are included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Portland Press Ltd.

INDEX TO UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS 1956 - to date (updated monthly)

The Index to United Nations Documents and Publications indexes United Nations publications issued from 1956 to date. Articles appearing in UN periodicals are individually indexed as are the bilateral and multilateral treaties in the United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS). Full text resolutions from the principal organs are appended to their respective bibliographic citations beginning in 1974. For web-based access to publications since 1966, see AccessUN.

Access: Networked Within (Law)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law
Vendor/Software: NewsBank/Readex

Indexes of British Parliamentary Papers 1801-1944/45 (not updated)

This database provides Sessional Index, General (Subject) Index, and Index of Names for House of Commons Papers, 1801-1945, and House of Lords Papers, 1801-1922. Also included is a list of volumes and basic information about the individual volumes of House of Commons and House of Lords Papers during these years. Includes brief biographies and portraits. For additional or more recent indexing of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, consult the Index to the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers on CD-ROM, available in the Reference Room (262D) of Memorial Library.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Bunsei/Shoin/DynaText Windows

IndexMaster 1980-to date (updated daily)

IndexMaster contains the actual index and table of contents of selected legal titles, including treatises and hornbooks. Search by keyword, publisher, title and author, or a combination of these elements. The indexes and tables of contents must be viewed with Acrobat Reader.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law
Vendor/Software: IndexMaster

Industrial and Applied Microbiology 1982-to date (updated monthly)

Industrial and Applied Microbiology indexes 460 journals as well as government reports, books, and conference proceedings. It covers practical microbiological applications in the field of agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. It includes such topics as antibiotic and antimicrobial agents, contamination, ripening, and fermentation process for foods, wines and beer, soil microbiology, plant diseases, biodegradation, isolation and identification of microorganisms.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

INFOBASE TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES Current (updated quarterly)

This directory contains more than 100 million U.S. residential and business telephone listings obtained from national telephone directories. Searches may be performed by name, address, city, state, zip code, telephone number, business or SIC code.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Pro CD for Windows

Infoplease.com Dates Vary (updates vary)

Infoplease.com contains reference sources from the Information Please Almanac product line. Included are TIME/Information Please Almanac, ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac, A&E Entertainment Almanac, Information Please Kids' Almanac, Information Please Dictionary, and the Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Information Please LLC

ingenta Varies (updated daily)

Ingenta provides access to full text articles from many publishers in many disciplines. More than 800 of our electronic journal subscriptions at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries are provided through ingenta. In addition, UW-Madison students, staff and faculty have access to ingenta's current awareness e-mail alerting services (formerly known as UnCover). Authorized users from this campus may register and select journals from which tables of contents will be e-mailed when available. There is also a saved search alerting service. These results are delivered via e-mail to alert the user to newly published material.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: ingenta/

Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv (IZA) 1965-to date (updates vary)

The IZA is a searchable, full-text German-language archive of more than 800,000 newspaper and journal articles bearing on German literature (including film and theater) or on the German language. It includes reviews, interviews, reports on congress activities, and other information sources frequently not covered by broader journal and newspaper indexes. More than 30 newspapers and 45 journals are regularly scanned for additions to the archive. The web site is in German.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Institut fuer Germanistik, Universitaet Innsbruck

INSPEC 1969-to date (updated monthly)

The INSPEC (Information Services for the Physics and Engineering Communities) database is a combination of three indexes: Physics Abstracts, Electrical and Electronics Abstracts, and Computer and Control Abstracts. It contains citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature in physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology. In addition to articles from more than 4200 journals, conference papers, significant books, technical reports, and dissertations are included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Physics, Wendt
Vendor/Software: Engineering Information (Elsevier)/n/a

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Varies; ICPSR was founded in 1962 (updated weekly)

ICPSR maintains and provides access to a large archive of quantitative social science data for research and instruction. The ICPSR data holdings contain around 5000 studies and 50,000 files covering a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Codebooks may be downloaded by any user, but most of the datasets themselves are available only through the licensed access.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Data & Program Library Service (DPLS)
Vendor/Software: ICPSR/ICPSR

International and Geopolitical Research Resources various (updates vary)

The sites and databases included on this web page provide information about countries: for example, statistics, maps, current political updates, documents, reports and a variety of demographic data.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: GLS/web page; n/a

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences 1981-to date (updated quarterly)

The IBSS includes bibliographic citations and selective abstracting for an international selection of journals (more than 2600), books and book chapters in the fields of economics, political science, sociology and anthropology. About 30% of items are published in languages other than English.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

International Financial Statistics (IFS) Online 1948 to date (updated monthly)

The International Financial Statistics (IFS) Online contains approximately 32,000 time series (monthly, quarterly, and annually) covering more than 200 countries and areas. IFS is a standard source of statistics on international and domestic finance, and reports, for most countries of the world, current and historical data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Results can be saved in a variety of formats, including spreadsheet. Limit 5 simultaneous users.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Data & Program Library Service (DPLS)
Vendor/Software: International Monetary Fund/IFS Online, 32-bit

International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP Full Text) 1998-to date (updates vary)

IIBP Full Text includes current and selective retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean. In addition it includes full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals from 1998 forward. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary--spanning cultural and artistc, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of importance to the Black Studies discipline.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO MUSIC PERIODICALS, FULL TEXT EDITION (IIMP) 1990-to date (updated quarterly)

IIMP draws its current content file from more than 375 music periodicals from twenty countries. It also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in the New York Times and the Washington Post. IIMP covers both scholarly and popular articles about music. There is limited coverage back to 1874.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Music
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO THE PERFORMING ARTS (IIPA FULL TEXT) 1864-to date (updated quarterly)

IIPA Full Text covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more. It draws its current content from more than 200 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. Currently 25 of the 200 periodicals contain full-text articles. Although the majority of titles begin in 1998, 46 important journals have been added retrospectively, some back to 1864.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial, Music
Vendor/Software: Chadwyck-Healey

INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (IMB) 1967-to date (updated quarterly)

The International Medieval Bibliography is the major index to medieval studies (c. 400-1500). It includes citations to articles in approximately 4500 journals and "miscellany" volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Access: Stand-Alone (Memorial)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Brepols/Dataware (stand-alone); Web

INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL ABSTRACTS 1970-to date (updated quarterly)

IPA provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature. Comprehensive information is included or drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Pharmacy
Vendor/Software: Ovid Technologies Gateway

International Who's Who Current (updated annually)

The International Who's Who contains more than 18,500 biographies of men and women from around the globe. Typical entries include nationality, date and place of birth, education, marital and family details, past career and current position, honors and awards, publications, leisure interests, current address and fax and telephone numbers.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Europa Publications

Internet Classics Archive 13th century BCE-2nd Century CE (updates vary)

Searchable full-text scholarly editions and translations of close to 450 works of "classical literature" by approximately 60 authors. Most of the authors are ancient Greek and Latin, but a few Chinese and Persian works are included as well.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Classics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Dates Vary (updates vary)

This encyclopedia includes brief, English-language articles aimed chiefly at an undergraduate or early graduate student audience. The site is in continuous development. Entries are from three kinds of sources: adaptations from public domain sources, adaptations of material written by the editor for classroom purposes, and original contributions by professional philosophers around the Internet. Over time, the editor seeks to replace all of the first two kinds with original contributions by professional philosophers; entries of these kinds are identifiable by the inclusion of the initials IEP at the foot of the article, and lack bibliographies. By contrast, original articles are identifiable by the author's name at the close. Presently, most articles in the history of philosophy prior to 1900, such as "Aristotle," are compiled from at least three public domain sources and have been heavily edited. Currently most of the articles on philosophical terminology, such as "Universals," are by the editor, Prof. James Fieser.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: The University of Tennessee at Martin

INTERNET LIBRARY OF EARLY JOURNALS 18th -19th Centuries (not updated)

The ILEJ is a searchable file of digital images of runs of six important British journals from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The three 18th-century journals are: Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The three nineteenth-century journals are: Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: ILEJ Project

Internet Movie Database 1892-to date (updates vary)

The Internet Movie Database is a searchable or browsable collection of detailed information about more than 200,000 movies, including cast, director, filming locations, plot, production, and more. The database is searchable by title, actor, character, quote, awards, and plot. There is biographical information about more than 400,000 actors and actresses and nearly 40,000 directors.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Internet Movie Database, Ltd.

Internet Sacred Text Archive Date Varies (updates vary)

The Internet Sacred Text Archive provides archived, mostly public-domain texts (plus links to some others offsite) of significant primary writings in world religions. Where public-domain primary texts are not available in any number, public-domain secondary material is used to provide overviews of religious beliefs and practices. Most texts are in the English language; some texts are in Sanskrit, Latin, Finnish, and other languages. Texts are arranged in the three main sections: Traditional (Neolithic, Shamanism, Australian, Pacific, African, Ancient Near East, Classical Paganism, Northern European, Egyptian, Native American, Wicca/Neopaganism); Eastern (Shinto, Hinduism, I Ching, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism); Western (hypertext Bible, Christian texts, Judaism, Mormonism, Bahai'i, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Esoteric, Age of Reason).

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: J. B. Hare

Investext Plus Current 3 Years (updated weekly)

Investext Plus contains investment research reports on global companies and industries. The reports are stored in PDF format and are available 2-3 months after their release to brokerage house and investment analysts' customers. These reports come from more than 450 brokerage houses and investment banks, as well as 190 trade associations. About 5,000 reports are added to the database weekly. The interface contains three types of reports: Company, Industry, and Geographic/Topical Reports. Searching for specific content is difficult, because it does not allow keyword searching (unless the words are in the report title. Students and faculty use these research reports to study investment analysis, but they are also helpful for case research and strategic management courses.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance:Business
Vendor/Software: Investext Group

iPOLL Databank 1935 - present (updated daily)

The iPOLL Databank at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is a full-text, question-level retrieval system for United States public opinion back to 1935. Through subject, word, organization, and date indexes, users can retrieve the complete question text and the percentage of respondents giving each response. iPOLL also provides study-level information including the name of the organization(s) that conducted the poll, the name of the sponsoring organization(s), the dates when the poll was conducted, the polling method used, and a full description of the sample. Major survey research organizations represented in iPOLL include The Gallup Organization, The Roper Organization, Louis Harris and Associates, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and the Associated Press, among others.

To request a public opinion dataset whose questions appear in iPOLL, contact the Data and Program Library Service .

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Data & Program Library Service
Vendor/Software: Roper Center for Public Opinion/iPOLL

ISI Emerging Markets, Russia Dates of coverage vary (updated daily)

ISI Emerging Markets is a full-text Russian business intelligence resource in Russian and English. Included are company news and financials, industry profiles, and macroeconomic reports. It also contains legal news and laws; including Kodeks Law Database (Russian) and Garant Law Database (English).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance:Law
Vendor/Software: ISI Emerging Markets

ISI Essential Science Indicators Ten year rolling file (update bimonthly)

ISI Essential Science Indicators is a resource that enables researchers to conduct ongoing, quantitative analyses of research performance and track trends in science. Covering 22 subject areas using a multidisciplinary selection of 8,500 journals from around the world, this in-depth analytical tool offers data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals. It is a unique and comprehensive compilation of essential science performance statistics and science trends data derived from ISI's data sets.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Engineering, Steenbock, Memorial
Vendor/Software: ISI/ISI

Italianemo: riviste di italianistica nel mondo 2000- (updates vary)

Italianemo (an acronym for "Italianistica nel mondo") analyzes and indexes articles in Italian Studies appearing in journals published in or after the year 2000. It has versions in Italian and in English but is better developed in Italian and searches should be made in this language.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Esperienze letterarie/unknown

ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance 400-1700 AD (updates vary)

A bibliography of approximately 225,000 records from the complete runs of more than 300 scholarly journal titles pertaining to the Renaissance (1300-1700) and Middle Ages (400-1299). Also under construction is a bibliography of books (monographs) covering the same time period.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto/DRA,WebZ

IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database varies (updates vary)

The IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database contains solubilities originally published in the IUPAC (International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry) - NIST Solubility Data Series. Mutual solubilities and liquid-liquid equilibria of binary, ternary and quaternary systems are presented. Typical solvents and solutes include water, sea water, heavy water, inorganic compounds, and a variety of organic compounds such as hydrocarbons, halogenated hydrocarbons, alcohols, acids, esters and nitrogen compounds. For many systems, sufficient data were available to allow critical evaluation. Data are expressed as mass and mole fractions as well as the originally reported units. There are over 30,000 solubility measurements, compiled from 11 volumes of the IUPAC Solubility Data Series. There are about 1028 chemical substances in the database and 3,619 systems, of which 338 have been critically evaluated. The database has over 800 references.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) & National Institute of/IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database, Version 1.0

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 1997-to date (updated annually)

JCR provides a means of determining the relative importance of scholarly and technical journals within their subject disciplines by using a variety of citation and article counts attributed to each journal. Journals are evaluated and ranked according to their impact factor (how often the journal is cited), immediacy index (how quickly an article is cited), and other criteria. This results in one method for identifying a subject's core journals. There are two editions available. The Science Edition contains data from roughly 5,000 journals in the areas of science and technology. The Social Sciences Edition contains data from roughly 1,500 journals in the social sciences. There is no citation report for the arts and humanities.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences, Memorial
Vendor/Software: ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)

JSTOR: JOURNAL STORAGE PROJECT Dates Vary (updated irregularly)

JSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access more than 400 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, language, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, population/demography, sociology, and statistics. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue, depending on the title. The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal; it is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR. Graphs, photographs, and other images are included. UW-Madison Libraries have acquired the following JSTOR collections ( details of coverage available): Arts & Sciences I; Arts & Sciences II; Business; Ecology & Botany; General Science; Language & Literature; Music.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: JSTOR

KCDLonline (Kraus Curriculum Development Library) 1983-to date (updated annually)

This searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. The database provides keyword searching of the KCDL Cumulative Index back to 1983, and links to PDF versions of the documents that make up the Kraus Curriculum Development Library beginning with the 20th edition. Documents from earlier editions are available on microfiche at the CIMC.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: CIMC
Vendor/Software: Kraus

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Current (updates vary)

This is the 4th edition of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, covering the entire chemical industry and allied fields. Updated regularly, Kirk-Othmer Online will stay current with the latest developments in chemical technology and related fields. Articles will be updated and revised in response to actual changes and developments as they occur in the chemical industry. Searching can be conducted in both query-based and menu-driven modes. These are just some of the subject areas covered by Kirk-Othmer: Risk management, enterprise resource planning, outsourcing, combinatorial synthesis and technology, functional foods, process automation, electronic chemicals, specialty silicones, genomics, mergers and acquisitions, nanoparticles, bioinformatics, ISO 14000, micron-scale chemical analysis, medical applications of biodegradable materials, product development strategies, drug discovery strategies, chemistry of Aging, single-site catalysis, custom manufacturing, global chemical market analysis, recycling, vitamins, antibiotics, graphite fibers, and pesticides.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt, Chemistry
Vendor/Software: Wiley/n/a

Knight Ridder Collection Most recent 90 days (updated daily)

The Knight Ridder Collection is a 90-day archive of approximately 100 newspapers from the Knight Ridder wire service. Most of the titles are American regional newspapers. Of particular interest in the region are: The Wisconsin State Journal, The Post-Crescent, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Chicago Tribune, Detriot Free Press, St. Louis-Dispatch, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Selected full text content is available for newswires and newspaper columns. This resource is licensed by BadgerLink/Department of Public Instruction for use by all Wisconsin residents.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCOHost

Knovel Scientific and Engineering Online References Dates Vary (updated daily)

The Knovel database contains of some of the leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings. Some of the subject areas covered are: chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, concrete, asphalt, mechanical engineering, semiconductors, electronics, and surface engineering. Some of the standard reference texts included are Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Machinery's Handbook, and the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Knovel is a provider of aggregated engineering and applied science data that utilizes proprietary tabular analysis tools. The content of more than 200 books is interactive and cross-searchable. Users can manipulate and extract information (for example, text, live tables, graphs, images, databases) to suit their needs. Data searching retrieves tables, graphs, and equations that can be further manipulated in spreadsheets and with java applets. Many titles have hyperlinked indexes.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Knovel

KnowEurope Dates Vary (updated weekly)

KnowEurope is a Web service which provides information about the institutions, structures, countries, policies and processes of the European Union and the wider Europe. It includes news resources, reference publications, statistics, and guides to information on the EU by topic. See the section titled "What Does KnowEurope Contain" for complete information on the resources included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: ProQuest

Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan Based on print encyclopedia, Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, published in 1983. (not updated)

Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan is based on the original nine-volume print version of the same name, published in 1983. The online version contains almost all of the 11,000 main-text entries of that book, thousands of which have been updated to reflect changes occurring in the 1990s. There are also 150 new entries on notable people, companies, events, trends, etc, of the last decade. The main-text entries cover various aspects of Japanese culture and society from prehistory to contemporary science and technology and can be accessed by searching full text or topics or browsing topics, an A-Z list of titles, or a map of regions and prefectures. Hundreds of photographs, illustrations and maps are also included

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial Library
Vendor/Software: Kodansha/Palgrave Macmillan/no software

KVINNSAM 1978-to date (updated monthly)

KVINNSAM is an interdisciplinary scholarly database on women and gender, containing citations in English, Swedish and many other languages. It is produced by the Women's History Collections Department at Göteborg University Library, Sweden, and reflects the Library's collections, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. The references consist of books, journals, articles, chapters, pamphlets, dissertations, research reports, etc. Subject headings and field tags are in English; keyword searches in other languages retrieve titles in those languages. A list of subject headings is at http://www.ub.gu.se/samlingar/kvinn/kvinnsam/ordlista_eng.html. Since the gender aspect of subject terms is already assumed, do not include "women" or "gender" in a search. About forty percent of KVINNSAM is to material not in English, making it a useful database for advanced researchers doing comprehensive searching for citations in other languages. As of November, 2001, there were more than 90,000 citations in KVINNSAM. Additions are underway for the period 1958-1977.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Women's History Collections Department, Göteborg University Library

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies Dates Vary (updates vary)

The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to resources in Medieval Studies, covering the years ca. 500-ca. 1500 AD. All types of materials are included.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Georgetown University

Langue du XIXe siÈcle Date Varies (updates vary)

A scholarly, French-language site dealing with many aspects of the French language in the nineteenth century. Files include extracts from many nineteeth-century writings on the French language as well as some recent scholarly ones, plus extracts and searchable data sets from a number of nineteenth-century French dictionaries. There are also some JPEG files of title pages and, in color, of some nineteenth century French paintings, as well as more than thirty brief musical pieces in MP3 files.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Russon Wooldridge, Dept. of French, Univ. of Toronto

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (1986-to date) (updated semiannually)

Latin American Studies contains more than 200,000 citations from INFO-LATINAMERICA (formerly INFO-SOUTH), the Latin American Data Base (LADB) , and the World Law Index, Part 1 (Hispanic Nations). See also HAPI Online.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: NISC/Romwright

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1982-to date (updates vary)

The Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains full-text monographs in computer science. The collection begins with volume 149; published in 1982. Between 1982 and 2000 coverage is not complete. Beginning in 2001 titles are available as they are published.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Springer-Verlag

Left Index 1982-to date (updated quarterly)

The Left Index provides indexing to "the diversity of literature on the left, with a primary emphasis on politically and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside the academy and a secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources of news and ideas." Topics covered include politics, economics, the labor movement, ecology and environment, women's studies, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: NISC/Biblioline

Lexikon der deutschen Krimi-Autoren: Internet-Edition varies (updates vary)

H. P. Karr's Lexikon der deutschen Krimi-Autoren: Internet-Edition is a German-language bio-bibliography of over 120 German-speaking writers of mystery and detective fiction. The database includes information on film, radio and television authors, as well as those writing in more traditional forms. It aims to give the first complete overview of crime literature in German, including authors from both the old and the new German states, as well as those from other countries writing in German. The database was originally published electronically in 1992. For this web-based version there have been more-or-less annual updates from 1998 onward.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Edition Softcrime, Essen, Germany/Unknown

Lexikon des Mittelalters Online & International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages 300-1500 AD. (updates vary)

Taken together, these two encyclopedias are an important source of information for medieval studies. Lexikon des Mittelalters Online (LexMa) is a major German-language encyclopedia. The International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online (IEMA), is an English-language supplement to the Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA),with additional articles which fill in the gaps in coverage. When complete, coverage will include all of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Brepols/not specified

Leximagne 9th century-to date (updates vary)

This exhaustive collection of nearly 800 electronic French dictionaries, glossaries and word lists gives access to hundreds of thousands of words, terms and expressions. The range of subjects covered by specialized dictionaries accessible from this site is extensive and quite varied. It is frequently updated.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Globe-Gate Project, University of Tennessee-Martin

LEXIQUE D'ANCIEN FRANÇAIS To 1500 (not updated)

A database of some 48,000 Old French words, namely the lemmata from the Tobler-Lommatzsch Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch. The latter is still in production, but by special arrangement this database includes the as yet unpublished (in 1998) lemmata beginning with the letters U-Z.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: University of Calgary

LEXIS/NEXIS ACADEMIC UNIVERSE Dates Vary (updated daily)

LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe is an online service composed of approximately 5,000 legal, news, reference, and business sources, most full text. It includes international and U.S. newspapers, ethnic and regional news sources, magazines, wire services, newsletters, trade journals, company and industry analyst reports, and broadcast transcripts. Advertisements, obituaries, graphics, and non-local (syndicated) features are typically not included. Of particular interest are the New York Times, June 1980 -to date;The Wisconsin State Journal, 1992-to date; The Capital Times, 1992-to date; and The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, September 1995-to date. Years of coverage vary, but many sources begin with the late 1980's or early 1990's. Polls (from the Roper Center for Public Opinion) and the World Almanac are included in the Reference search category. See also ProQuest Newspapers.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business, College, Law, Memorial, Wendt
Vendor/Software: CIS

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE ABSTRACTS PLUS (LISA) 1969-to date (updated annually)

LISA indexes and abstracts the world's literature in librarianship, information science, and related disciplines. More than 350 periodicals from more than 60 countries, as well as conference papers, books, and reports. Now includes Current Research in Library and Information Science, abstracts of research in progress.

Access: Stand-Alone (School of Library & Information Studies)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: School of Library & Information Studies
Vendor/Software: Bowker

Library Literature and Information Science Full Text 1984-to date (updated monthly)

Library Literature and Information Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Full-text coverage begins in 1994.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial, School of Library & Information Studies
Vendor/Software: Wilson/WilsonWeb

LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE BEHAVIOR ABSTRACTS (LLBA) 1973-to date (updated quarterly)

LLBA provides abstracts of articles on linguistics and its sub-disciplines from approximately 2,000 serials published around the world, complemented with coverage of recent books, occasional papers, technical reports, and dissertations. Fields covered include child language acquisition, computational and mathematical linguistics, language therapy, dialectology, artificial intelligence, and bilingualism, among others.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

LOIS PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY: WISCONSIN; UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS, SEVENTH CIRCUIT; UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT REPORTS Dates Vary (updated quarterly)

The LOIS Professional Library contains the full text of the Wisconsin Statutes, the Wisconsin Administrative Code, Wisconsin Attorney General opinions, and court decisions from Wisconsin appellate courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Access: Networked Within (Law)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law
Vendor/Software: Law Office Information Systems, Inc.

Literature Resource Center (updated continuously)

Literature Resource Center includes information on a large number of authors and literary works taken from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and other sources. In addition to biographical information, LRC includes full-text articles from more than 130 literary journals, a dictionary of literary terms, and links to 5,000 relevant Web sites and special collections.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial, College
Vendor/Software: Gale/Galenet

LitFinder 9th Century - current (update Periodic (varies))

LitFinder provides full-text access to thousands of poems, short stories, essays, plays, and speeches in the areas of Literature, History, Economics, Sociology, Art & Architecture, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, and Drama dating back to the 9th Century BCE. Includes a glossary of literary terms.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Roth Publishing/

Lyrikline 1999-to date (updates vary)

This German-language site offers texts of contemporary German lyric poems (10 per author) plus recordings of the authors reading their poetry. It requires a frame-capable browser and, for the recordings, RealAudio Player (downloadable from the site). A click on "Suche" ("Search") brings you to the site's search screen; here one may search by concept ("Begriff") or by author (from the drop-down menu at "Autorenbereich"). Links at the bottom of the search screen lead to 1) an alphabetical list of authors, 2) publication venues of the poems arranged by author and by date, and 3) publication venues of the poems arranged by publisher/author/date. Selection is the editorial responsibility of prominent contemporary poets (1999, Elke Erb; 2000, Gerhard Falkner).

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: eurobylon eV

Magazine Stacks: Tables of Contents of Historical Journals, Monographic Series and Occasional Volumes 1827-to date (updates vary)

This growing resource consists of tables of contents of European (including British) historical journals. It is intended to help researchers locate articles by browsing through the tables of contents of journals which are not otherwise available in electronic format. The original group of titles emphasizes German resources.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Stuart Jenks

MagazinePlus varies with index (update varies with index)

MagazinePlus is the largest collection of Japanese databases. With over 5.2 million items, it consolidates five separate databases: Zasshi Kiji Sakuin (an index to 9396 Japanese language and 102 Western language scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, with coverage from 1975-present, updated twice a month); Jānaru Indekkusu (an index to weekly and monthly magazines, with coverage from 1981-present, updated weekly); Joint (an index to 1300 economic journals, with coverage from 1981-1995); KSK (an index to foreign journals on industries, with coverage from 1986-present, updated every 2-3 months); Gakkai nenpō kenkyū hūkoku ronbun sōran (an index to annual publications of academic societies, with coverage from 1945-1995); and Ronbunshū naiyō saimoku sōran (an index to monographic books and conference papers, with coverage from 1945-1998).

NOTE: Use of this database requires a computer with a fairly recent browser installed (Internet Explorer is recommended) along with a Japanese input enabler such as the Microsoft Global Input Method Editor (Global IME) for Japanese or Japanese Language Kit.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Nichigai Associates

Making of America 1850- 1900 (updates vary)

The Making of America (MOA) is a distributed digital library of important materials (journals and books) that document nineteenth century America and the history of the United States. MOA is a collaborative publishing effort by Cornell University Libraries and the University of Michigan Libraries. Approximately 900,000 pages of materials were selected from the Cornell University Library, and 600,000 pages from the University of Michigan. Collectively, these materials represent more than 750 bound volumes of journals and more than 2,000 books. These 1.5 million pages are all black and white, and they represent a wide range of illustration processes used during the nineteenth century. More information is available from both MOA sites at Cornell and at the University of Michigan.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Cornell University and the University of Michigan libraries

MapQuest Current (updates vary)

MapQuest is a free interactive map-building Web site primarily for the United States, Canada, and Mexico (more international maps will be added). Maps can be generated using address, zip code, latitude/longitude, area code, or by airport. Other services offered are driving instructions, topographic maps, national park maps, airport terminal maps, and a world atlas. Maps and data are from a variety of sources.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: MapQuest.com, Inc.

Market Research Monitor Past 3 years (updates vary)

Database from Euromonitor provides access to articles from all Euromarket journals as well as over 250 consumer market and retail briefings published each year, 600 major market profiles from the world's leading industrialized countries, and a 3-year archive of published reports

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: Euromonitor/World Wide Web

MASTERPLOTS COMPLETE Multiyear (not updated)

Masterplots Complete contains full-text essays on works of fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry from the following reference books: Masterplots (1976); Masterplots, American Fiction Series (1985); Masterplots, British Fiction Series (1985); Masterplots, European Fiction Series (1986); Masterplots II consisting of the following individual series: American Fiction Series (1986) and Supplement (1994); Short Story Series (1986) and Supplement (1996); British and Commonwealth Fiction Series (1987); World Fiction Series (1988); Nonfiction Series (1989); Juvenile and Young Adult Fiction Series (1991) and Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series (1993); Poetry Series (1992); African American Literature Series (1994); Women's Literature Series (1995). Biographical information on authors is also included from the Cyclopedia of World Authors (1974) and Cyclopedia of World Authors II (1989). The full-text of Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (1963) and Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (1990) provides information about fictional characters.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Salem Press/AND CompLex for Windows

Materials Business File 1985-to date (updated monthly)

This database is part of the multi-database Materials Science subject area from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. The Materials Business File focuses on industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries. Information for the database comes from more than 500 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books. S ome major areas of coverage include: recycling, health and safety, waste treatment, plant developments and descriptions, competitive materials and regulations.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

MATHnetBASE 1998-date (updates vary)

MATHnetBASE currently contains a collection of approximately 35 handbooks and monographs covering topics in mathematics. You can search the works individually or search multiple works simultaneously. Boolean and proximity searching is possible. Search results can be sorted by relevancy, frequency of hits, size of documents, or date. Print versions of most of these handbooks are in the Wendt Library book collection.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: CRC Press

MATHSCINET 1940-to date (updates vary)

MathSciNet indexes and abstracts more than 3100 periodicals and more than 7500 books, conference proceedings, theses, and technical reports from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Both English and foreign language materials in the fields of mathematics, statistics, computer science, and related fields are included.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff (MathSciNet)
Access: Stand-Alone (MathSci) (Math)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Math
Vendor/Software: American Mathematical Society; SilverPlatter

MATWEB: The Online Materials Information Resource 1980-to date (updated daily)

MatWeb is a searchable database of engineering properties of almost 16,000 materials. The database comprises mostly data sheets and specification sheets supplied by manufacturers, but it also includes general polymer information (minimum, average, and maximum values) based on the proprietary polymer grades. It includes coverage of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers, aluminum, magnesium, steel, cast irons, semiconductors and fibers for ceramics. It also includes superalloys, and specific metal alloys (like titanium, zinc, copper and lead alloys).

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Automation Creations Inc.

MD Consult 1995 to present (updated daily)

MD Consult is a comprehensive clinical information resource. It includes more than 40 leading medical books, full-text articles from over 70 journals, over 1,000 peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines, more than 5,000 customizable patient education handouts, as well as drug information and Category 1 CME modules.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Ebling
Vendor/Software: Elsevier/Web

MDL Drug Data Report (MDDR) 1988-to date (updated monthly)

MDDR provides access to information about drugs under development or recently launched. Sources include patents, journals, meetings and congresses. Produced by MDL and Prous Science, the database contains more than 100,000 biologically relevant compounds and well-defined derivatives, with updates adding about 10,000 a year to the database. The database may be searched by structure, substructure, molecular formula or other fields. Records include descriptions of therapeutic action and biological activity; generic, trade and trademark names; and development phase.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: MDL Information Systems, Inc./ISISBase 2.5

Mechanical Engineering Abstracts 1981-to date (updated monthly)

This database is part of the multi-database Materials Science subject area from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. This is the only source that surveys and summarizes the worldwide literature in mechanical engineering, engineering management, and production engineering. The cited literature presents theoretical perspectives as well as specific applications from journal articles and conference papers. Major areas of coverage include: mechanical design and devices, power plant engineering, nuclear technology, fluid flow, hydraulics, pneumatics, vacuum technology, HVAC, cryogenics, aerospace and automotive engineering.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Mediaevum.de 400 CE- (updates vary)

Mediaevum.de is a German-language Internet portal for students of medieval German language and literature, providing annotated listings of many important or otherwise useful sites in this discipline (plus others that are at least partly outside the discipline but nonetheless useful for students of it). There is an English-language version of the main page, but this is only infrequently updated. Users unfamiliar with this site might begin by clicking on the Sitemap, which offers links to subordinate pages in readily visible categories.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Mediaevum.de/unknown

Medical & Healthcare Marketplace Guide Current (updates vary)

The Medical and Healthcare Marketplace Guide covers the biomedical industry, including information on healthcare services, emerging high-technology companies (biotechnology and life science), contract manufacturers, component suppliers, contract research organizations, and consulting firms. The guide includes an overview of the biomedical industry, through more than 600 market research reports of the industry, as well as a section on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and other corporate changes. The Research Reports can be searched by content, keyword, or title. You will also find detailed profiles of more than 9,000 international companies, with names of key executives, physical, website, and email address, ownership information, financial data, and product and service offering. You can search by company name, executive name, or multiple criteria including ownership/public/private, revenue, geography, product/service, FDA drug approval, new product launch, or merger/acquisition activity.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: Dorland Healthcare/Web

MEDIEVAL DIPLOMATIC AND THE 'ARS DICTANDI' 10th-13th Centuries (updates vary)

Searchable, full-text scholarly editions and translations of medieval Latin dictaminal texts from Alberic of Monte Cassino into the 13th century. Whereas the primary focus is on texts relating to the preparation and writing of charters, the content is actually much broader. Includes the Opera omnia of Boncompagno of Signa (1194-1243) and older Teubner editions of two ancient Latin forerunners: the Rhetorica ad Herennium and Cicero's De inventione. Medieval sources and analogues (in French, German, and Latin) for Boncompagno are also available from this site, which is under construction.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Steven M. Wight, Universita di Pavia

MEDLINE 1966-to date (updated weekly)

MEDLINE is the source for clinical medical information covering all aspects of biomedicine, including the allied health fields; biological and physical sciences; and humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Citations are available for documents from more than 3,600 journals published throughout the world, plus selected monographs of congresses or symposia (1976-1981). Abstracts are included for about 67% of the documents in MESH. Ovid provides links to some full text.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: OVID Technologies Gateway

MEDLINEPLUS Current (updated daily)

MEDLINEplus is an extensive consumer health site with access to information about specific diseases and conditions from the National Institutes of Health, other government agencies, health organizations and academic medical centers. Additional information includes health dictionaries and encyclopedias, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for accurate, current health information.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences
Vendor/Software: National Library of Medicine

MENTAL MEASUREMENTS YEARBOOK 1989-to date (updated semiannually)

The MMY contains descriptive information and full-text reviews of commercially published English-language tests. It covers more than 1850 standardized educational, personality, vocational aptitude, psychological, and related tests. Information provided about each test includes name, classification, author, publisher, price, time requirements, existence of validity and reliability data, score descriptions, intended populations, and critical reviews.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: CIMC, Memorial
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus Current (updated irregularly)

The online Collegiate Dictionary is based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition. It includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections of that book. It also includes 1,000 illustrations and 25 tables. Selected sections of the Collegiate Dictionary, notably the Signs and Symbols section, are omitted because they include special characters and symbols that cannot readily be reproduced in HTML.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Merriam Webster, Inc

Metabolite 1901-present (updated semiannually)

Metabolite is a metabolism information system for finding metabolic schemes and data that are stored in the Metabolite database. The Metabolite database uses information from multiple studies to assemble structural metabolic entries for particular parent compounds. The Metabolite browser offers a graphical interface for searching and displaying metabolic schemes stored in the database. The focus is on xenobiotic compounds and biotransformations (primarily medicinal drugs). Sources: Biotransformation of Drugs (1977-1983); Pharmacokinetics (1986-1990); Original Metabolism Literature and New Drug Applications (1990-present); Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry, Steenbock
Vendor/Software: MDL Information Systems/Windows NT

METADEX 1966-to date (updated monthly)

This database is part of the multi-database Materials Science subject area from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. METADEX is a comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development. Citation information comes from more than 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books. Major areas of coverage include: steel, microstructure, metal matrix composites, nonferrous metals, machining, casting, coatings and corrosion.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

METEOROLOGICAL & GEOASTROPHYSICAL ABSTRACTS (MGA) July 1974-to date (updated monthly)

The MGA database covers the fields of meteorology, climatology, physical oceanography, hydrology, glaciology, and atmospheric chemistry and physics. The database provides abstracts from journal articles and conference proceedings, books and technical reports.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: American Meteorological Society & Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

Military & Government Collection 1961-to date (updated daily)

The Military & Government Collection provides current news pertaining to all branches of the military. The database contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and cover-to-cover full text content for nearly 300 of these titles. Dates of full text coverage vary. Some publications covered in this database are Air Force Controller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defense Studies, Global Security Review, Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Defense, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Military Technology, and Naval Forces. The database also includes the full text for 245 pamphlets and for the country reports from CountryWatch.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: College, Memorial
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/EBSCO/EBSCOhost Web

Mintel 1998 - 2004 (updates vary)

Mintel publications produce over 600 reports each year, covering an extensive number of sectors and focusing on topical marketing issues. Divided between European, UK-specific (incorporating NI and the ROI) and US consumer intelligence reports, Mintel publications analyze market sizes and trends, market segmentation, along with consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. They provide thorough analyses of specialist sectors, breaking down often complex issues into comprehensible sections to highlight marketing opportunities, as well as consistently assessing the futures of the markets and the companies dominating them.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: Mintel International Group/Internet

MIT CogNet Dates Vary (updates vary)

MIT Cognet provides a unique electronic community for researchers in cognitive and brain sciences, with in-depth current and classic text resources (electronic books, journals, and reference works) and a dynamic interactive forum for scholars, students, and professionals that includes job listings, calls for papers, discussion groups, and other scholarly communication sources.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: MIT Press

MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences Current (updated regularly)

Online version of a major new encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences. The encyclopedia is fully searchable by keyword, has dynamic links between related articles, and includes links to other cognitive science resources on the web. The encyclopedia is one part of the library's subscription to MIT Cognet. Memorial Library has the paper copy, Reference Stacks BF311 M556 1999.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: MIT Cognet

Mittelalterliche Literatur im Internet 400 CE- (updates vary)

Mittelalterliche Literatur im Internet is the e-texts portion of the German-language Internet portal Mediaevum.de. It provides links to collections of medieval literary texts, and to e-texts of a number of individual works that have been placed online, in varous medieval forms of German as well as in Latin (in this latter language, from antiquity into the early modern period).

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Mediaevum.de/unknown

MittelHochDeutsche Begriffs-DatenBank / Middle High German Conceptual DataBase Dates Vary (updates vary)

An ongoing searchable location, concept, and dictionary file of close to 100 Middle High German texts with 682,000 textlines, 4.3 million words, 35,000 distinct words, and 16,000 distinct meanings. Some English-language information is provided, including help files. There are two primary modules ("dictionary" and "analyze text") plus a search form; the Help files for each are essential. The site requires a username and password that can be established at first use.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: German Dept., Bowling Green State University

MITTELHOCHDEUTSCHE WÖRTERBÜCHER IM VERBUND Dates Vary (updates vary)

A composite German-language dictionary, with a German-language help file, of Middle High German. It is based on the conversion to machine-readable form of the following scholarly printed sources: Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch; mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Georg Friedrich Benecke (1854-66); Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch von Dr. Matthias Lexer (1982-1888); Zugleich als Supplement und alphabetischer Index zum Mittelhochdeutschen Wörterbuch von Benecke-Müller-Zarncke (1872-78); Nachträge zum Mittelhochdeutschen Handwörterbuche (1878); and Findebuch zum mittelhochdeutschen Wortschatz : mit einem rückläufigen Index von Kurt Gärtner (1992). The preferred browser is Netscape Navigator.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Fach Germanistik, Universität Trier

MLA Directory of Periodicals Current (updated semiannually)

Includes more than 4,000 titles from the master list of periodicals from the MLA International Bibliography. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses, frequency of publication, scope, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines. The Directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 1963-to date (updated quarterly)

The Modern Language Association International Bibliography indexes 3,000 English language and foreign periodicals as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations. Its subject matter includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Reviews of literary and scholarly works are not included. There are no abstracts.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: SilverPlatter/WebSPIRS

Modern Language Association (MLA) Language Map data from 2000 U.S., census (not updated)

The MLA Language Map is intended for use by anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States. The census data are based on responses to the question, "Does this person speak a language other than English at home?" The Language Map illustrates the concentration of language speakers in zip codes and counties. The Data Center provides actual numbers and percentages of speakers and includes census data about seven additional groups of languages less commonly spoken in the United States.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Modern Language Association/not known

Monumenta Germaniae Historica Early Christian Era and Medieval Period (updates vary)

This is the searchable electronic text version of the massive, printed set also called Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH), a collection of primary materials for the study of the European Middle Ages. The e-MGH includes selected portions of the printed set. To complete the electronic coverage will take several years; updates are issued at irregular intervals.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Teubner Brepols/Dataware

MORNINGSTAR MUTUAL FUNDS Current (updated quarterly)

Morningstar provides information on more than 1500 mutual funds in the United States. It includes each fund's objective, recent price and dividend, performance over the past ten years, portfolio composition, portfolio analysis, risk and return analysis, and Morningstar ratings.

Access: Stand-Alone (Business)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Business
Vendor/Software: Morningstar/Windows

MUSIC INDEX ONLINE 1979-to date (updated annually)

The Music Index Online indexes 640 music periodicals from twenty countries. There are no abstracts.

Access:Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Music
Vendor/Software: Harmonie Park Press

19th Century Masterfile: Series I 1786-1907 (not updated)

Series I of 19th Century Masterfile provides access to the periodical literature of the nineteenth century. Included is an online version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1907); the foremost index for nineteenth century periodicals. Also included are: Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922), ed. Jones and Chipman; Index to Periodicals (1890-1902), by W.T. Stead; and An Alphabetical Subject Index and Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion (1890-1899), ed. Ernest Cushing Richardson. The full-text of articles is not provided; check MadCat to see if the UW-Madison Libraries have the journals indexed by this resource.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Paratext: Electronic Reference Publishing

19th Century Masterfile: Series V 1066-1891 (not updated)

Series V of 19th Century Masterfile provides access to several basic resources for eighteenth and nineteenth century research. These include: A Compilation of the Message and Papers of the Presidents (1789-1897); Subject Matter Index of Patents Issued by the U.S. (1790-1873); Cobett's Parliamentary History of England (1066-1803); Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons (1803-1830); Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Lords (1803-1830); and Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U.S. (1774-1881).

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Paratext: Electronic Reference Publishing

NAIC (National Adoption Information Clearinghouse)

This site includes a database with more than 4500 citations and abstracts to books, journal articles, reports, etc. dealing with adoption issues. It also has two directories, National Adoption Directory and National Organizations Directory.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: National Adoption Information Clearinghouse

NASA CASI TECHNICAL REPORT SERVER 1915 - date (updated weekly)

The CASI TRS (Center for Information Technical Report Server) database contains more than 2.2 million citations and abstracts for publicly available documents, journal articles, and conference proceedings. It is part of the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), which provides recent full-text reports produced by the NASA centers. It also includes a selected portion of the information from the NASA RECONplus system, which covers the Scientific and Technical Reports (STAR file series), the Open Literature file series of journal articles and conference papers, as well as citations from the NACA collection.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Center for Information/WAIS search engine

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS 1981-to date (updates vary)

The National Academy Press is the publishing arm of the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. This Web site contains full text of books published after approximately 1994. Earlier books may have cover images and summaries. Full text is either in PDF or HTML formats. You can browse the collection by broad subject categories, which cover most science disciplines. A full title search searches the title, subtitle, and descriptive information of nearly 2,000 titles. More than 130,000 pages of the National Academies monographs, reports, recommendations, and examinations have been optically "read" and digitally indexed for full-text searching. Searching within the full text of a retrieved book or chapter is also possible.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health Sciences, Steenbock, Wendt
Vendor/Software: National Academy Press

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information 1965 to date (updated annually)

This site contains two databases. The first, Documents, has more than 32,000 records on child abuse and neglect and child welfare issues from books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grants, conference papers, unpublished papers, and reports on completed or continuing research. The second, Organizations, describes 129 national organizations that focus on child abuse or neglect issues.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect

NATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFERENCE SERVICE (NCJRS) ABSTRACTS DATABASE 1970's-to date (updated daily)

The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 150,000 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.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Law
Vendor/Software: National Institute of Justice

NATIONAL EDUCATION LONGITUDINAL STUDY, 1988 (Base year through third follow-up 1988-1994) (updated periodically)

This database provides all publicly available data and electronic codebooks for the National Education Longitudinal Study. In 1988, some 25,000 eighth graders, their parents, their teachers, and their principals were surveyed. Three follow-ups are included: 1990, 1992, and 1994.

Access: Stand-Alone (Data & Program Library Service: DPLS)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: DPLS
Vendor/Software: National Center for Education Statistics, US Dept. of Education

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLICATIONS INTERNET SITE (NEPIS) 1990-to date (updated regularly)

NEPIS is a database of more than 7,000 full-text EPA documents from the early 1990's to the present. New documents are added as they are received at the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP). Documents may be displayed either as page images or (through the Enhanced Search option) as searchable text files. Single copies of in-stock documents may be requested through the NSCEP online catalog at http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/ .

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock, Wendt
Vendor/Software: United States Environmental Protection Agency/Clarit

National Journal Group's Policy Central Dates Vary (updated daily)

Advertised as "the academic community's policy source", Policy Central offers several databases covering various aspects of U.S. government, public policy, and business. Among them are National Journal (archived back to 1977), The Hotline (daily briefings on politics), Congress Daily, Poll Track and the Almanac of American Politics.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: National Journal Group

NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL SURVEYS OF LABOR MARKET EXPERIENCE: YOUTH COHORT, 1979-1994 (updated periodically)

The NLSY is a nationally representative sample of 12,686 young people who were 14-22 years of age when first surveyed in 1979. Data was conducted in yearly surveys, chronicling their life changes and life course experiences.

Access: Stand-Alone (Data & Program Library Service: DPLS)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: DPLS
Vendor/Software: Ohio State University/R.8.1

NATIONAL TRADE DATA BANK (NTDB) Current (updated monthly)

The NTDB contains approximately 150,000 time series, tables, documents, analyses, and commentary on the U.S. and international trade and trade promotion. It covers national income and product accounts; balance of payments; U.S. exports by state and industry; investments; statistics on labor, economics, and energy; international price indexes; world agricultural production; imports and exports; trade projections; and exchange rates.

Access: Networked-Within via STAT-USA (Business, Historical)
Access: Stand-Alone (Historical, Memorial)
Libraries for Extensive Assistance Business, Historical, Memorial
Vendor/Software: U.S. Department of Commerce

Naxos Music Library n/a (updated monthly)

Naxos Music Library is the world's largest classical music listening service. The collection provides online access to over 80,000 tracks (5,500 CDs) of music, consisting of the entire Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogs, plus other licensed independent labels. Folk, jazz, and ethnic music titles are also included. Naxos features simple and advanced searching and extensive background information, including complete liner notes and various music reference tools. Near-CD(64Kps)or FM (20Kps) quality sound files are currently available.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Mills Music Library
Vendor/Software: Naxos Digital Services Ltd/Windows Media Player 9

NDRL/NIST solution kinetics Through 1994 (updates vary)

The NDRL/NIST Solution Kinetics Database provides a tool for rapidly finding rate data on reactive intermediates. The data includes information on a particular reaction, all of the reactions of a particular species, or various subsets of all of the reactions. More than 23,900 entries for about 14,000 reactions involving over 11,600 chemical species (reactants or products) are included.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: U.S. Department of Commerce, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Standard Reference Data Program/NDRL/NIST Solution Kinetics Database ver. 3

Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library Dates Vary (updates vary)

This is an international collection of computer science technical reports from participating institutions. The reports are in many formats, for example Postscript or TIFF; the archive is in FTP. There are more than 150 institutions at this time, mostly universities which grant PhDs in computer science or engineering, plus some research facilities in industry and government. There are also links to other computer science technical report sites.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: Advanced Research Projects Agency, UW-Madison Computer Sciences Dept./Dienst 4.0

New Communication Technologies: Their History and Social Influence: An Annotated Bibliography 19th Century-to date (updates vary)

This annotated bibliography covers scholarship on the history and social influence of new communication technologies. It begins with innovations in timekeeping, the reproduction of visual images, and Johann Gutenberg's invention of printing with movable metal type--developments between the thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries that helped to make possible the modern world. The primary focus of this volume, though, is on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: steam power, photography, the electric telegraph, the phonograph, the telephone, the electric light and the spread of an electrical network, moving pictures, and the wireless. This bibliography currently has approximately 1,100 entries, and initially appears in an electronic format. Works can be accessed via keyword, or through several broad thematic categories.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Prof. Stephen L. Vaughn, School of Journalism and Mass Communication; University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries/WebZ and SiteSearch 4.1.1

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2001 (updated regularly)

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd edition (New Grove II) is the single most important reference tool for information on music. Included are nearly 30,000 articles in English, written by subject specialist scholars, covering the entire span of music history from antiquity to the present. New Grove II was published in an online version in 2001 and represents a thorough revision of the 1980 print edition, reflecting changes brought about by the latest music scholarship. New Grove II casts aside the Western classical music bias of previous editions to include much more information on world, folk, and popular music traditions. This version offers full-text searching and a feature which will browse through the subjects of the entire dictionary. The explore feature offers one click access to popular topics such as "Women Composers." There are links to relevant third party websites.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Music
Vendor/Software: Macmillan Reference; Grove's Dictionaries

New Grove Dictionary of Opera 1992 (updated regularly)

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera contains full text articles in English on all aspects of opera since 1600, including composers and their works, singers, conductors, poets, and stage designers. Articles are written by subject specialists. Both scholars and students will find this a useful resource. The Dictionary first appeared as a four volume print edition in 1992. The online version has added sixty new entries, revised and updated other entries, and added a lengthy list of obituaries. Special features include an "Index of Aria First Lines" and links to significant opera web sites.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Music
Vendor/Software: Grove Music

NewspaperARCHIVE Elite 1700s - (updates vary)

NewspaperARCHIVE Elite includes fully searchable newspaper pages from more than 400 cities and towns—from The Washington Post to the Stevens Point Gazette (see full title list). An excellent tool to research genealogy, history, culture and newsworthy events in a local context. Years of coverage vary, but some newspapers go back as far as the 1700s and include titles from the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom. Pages are reproduced in PDF format.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: EBSCO/NewspaperARCHIVE.com /web (not the normal EBSCO interface)

NIST Critically Selected Stability Constants of Metal Complexes Database 2001 (not updated)

NIST Critically Selected Stability Constants of Metal Complexes Database contains the stability constants, enthalpies, and entropies of proton and metal ion equilibria with ligands in aqueous solution under defined conditions of ionic strength and temperature. Protonation constants under specified conditions of temperature and ionic strength for over 4,400 ligands are given. In addition, 3,094 heats of protonation and 2,692 entropies of protonation are provided. Also included are 45,516 equilibrium constants as well as 6,596 heats of reaction and 6,135 entropies for metal ions other than hydrogen. The scope of the database is similar to the 6-volume set Critical Stability Constants, by R.M. Smith and A.E. Martell.

Access: Only available in campus libraries
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry, Wendt
Vendor/Software: National Institute of Standards and Technology/NIST Standard Reference Database 46

NIST Data Gateway varies (updates vary)

NIST Data Gateway-provides access to many (currently over 80) of the NIST scientific and technical databases. These databases cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. The Gateway includes links to free online NIST data systems as well as to information on NIST PC databases available for purchase. Note: Currently only a selected subset of all NIST Online Databases are indexed by the Gateway.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry
Vendor/Software: National Institute of Standards and Technology/NIST Data Gateway Version 3.1

NIST WebBook (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Dates Vary (updates vary)

The NIST WebBook provides users with easy access to chemical and physical property data for chemical species through the internet. The data provided in the site are from collections maintained by the NIST Standard Reference Data Program and outside contributors. Data in the WebBook system are organized by chemical species. The WebBook system allows users to search for chemical species by various means.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Chemistry, Physics, Wendt
Vendor/Software: National Institute of Standards and Technology/NIST Standard Reference Database Number 69-Nov. 1998 Release

North American Women's Diaries and Letters Colonial Times-1950 (updated irregularly)

An extensive collection of published and unpublished women's diaries and correspondence, drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, mostly in copyright. The database is enhanced by more than 1,500 biographies, and can be searched by subject, event, place, person, and chronology. This resource is intended for students and scholars in history, literature, sociology, and genealogy. It will be published in five parts, Winter 2001 to Summer 2002.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Alexander Street Press

NSSN BASIC: A NATIONAL RESOURCE FOR GLOBAL STANDARDS Current (updates vary)

NSSN originally meant "National Standard Systems Network," but the project has expanded to global coverage. The database provides access to bibliographic information for more than 250,000 standards, from more than 600 national, foreign, regional, and international standards organizations. The standards are grouped into six broad categories: Approved Industry Standards, Approved International Standards, Approved U.S. Government Standards, Industry Standards Under Development, International Standards Under Development, and U.S. Government Standards Under Development. Abstracts are not included in NSSN.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

NTIS (National Technical Information Service) 1964-to date (updated weekly)

The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) contains descriptions of U.S. government-sponsored research from agencies such as DOD, DOE, DOT, EPA, and NASA. It covers work in the fields of astronomy, biotechnology, computers, energy, engineering, environment, materials science, transportation, etc. NTIS is the central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio visual products from Federal sources.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt Library
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS 6.0

Nuclear Science Abstracts 1948-1976 (not updated)

The Nuclear Science Abstracts, produced by the U.S. Department of Energy, covers the worldwide nuclear science and technology literature from 1948 -1976. The database contains nearly one million records selected from the 33 volumes of the print Nuclear Science Abstracts. The database provides abstracts and citations for a range of unclassified documents that include scientific and technical reports from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, and their contractors. The database also includes data from other national and international agencies, universities, and industrial and research organizations.The years 1948-1968 are not currently available.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Physics, Wendt
Vendor/Software: Dialog OnDisc/U.S. Dept. of Energy/Dialog@Site v.3.0

Nuovo Rinascimento Dates Vary (updates vary)

A varied database of Italian-language texts, scholarly articles, reviews, bibliographies, and other material focusing on the literature and, to a considerably lesser extent, other cultural aspects of Italy in the early modern period. Indice completo functions as a table of contents; for literary texts, scroll down to Testi.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Libera Associazione Nuovo Rinascimento

NURSING COLLECTION (NURC) 1995 - to date (updated monthly)

NURC includes 14 journals, every word of which is searchable, including references and graphics captions. Within the full-text display, hypertext features allow users to display an outline of the document and move immediately to a selection section, to display complete references cited within the text, and to link directly to MEDLINE and other full text documents. All graphics, tables, and photographs as they appear in print.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Health
Vendor/Software: OVID Technologies/Web Gateway

Oceanic Abstracts 1984-to date (updated monthly)

Oceanic Abstracts is the premier database for marine resources, abstracting nearly 500 journals. It covers such topics as marine biology, ecology, marine geology, geophysics, geochemistry, oceanography, marine pollution and environmental protection, living and non-living resources, and ships and shipping. It is available as part of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, and is international in scope.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Geology, Wendt
Vendor/Software: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts/IDS

OECD (ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT) INDEX 1970-to date (updated monthly)

The OECD Index indexes OECD Publications from 1970 onwards and OECD general distribution documents since 1992. Abstracts and information on product availability are included.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: OECD/InMagic:DB/Text WebPublisher

OED ONLINE (OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY) (updated quarterly)

The OED Online contains the complete contents of the 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and three Additions volumes published from 1993-97. It also includes quarterly releases of work in progress from the complete revision of the OED which is currently underway. Each of the 616,000 entries contains the etymology, definition, part of speech, date of origination, pronunciation, cross-references, and quotations.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: Oxford University Press

On-line Medical Dictionary Current (updates vary)

Produced by CancerWeb, a British site, the On-line Medical Dictionary (OMD) is a searchable dictionary that contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. British spelling is used for some terms. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, and history pertaining to the medical or scientific field.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Steenbock Library
Vendor/Software: Academic Medical Publishing and CancerWeb

OneLook Dictionaries; the Faster Finder (updates vary)

This free service contains more than 2.3 million words found in more than 490 online dictionaries. The list of dictionaries can be browsed by broad subject areas (including slang) or alphabetically. Retrieved records provide links to the home pages of the source dictionaries.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt, Memorial
Vendor/Software: Bob Ware, bware@onelook.com

The Online Books Page ancient to present (updated daily)

The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books.

Major parts of the site include:

• An index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet
• Pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts
• Special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books
• Information on how readers can help support the growth of online books

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Memorial
Vendor/Software: University of Pennsylvania Library/not known

Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science Dates Vary (updated continuously)

The mission of the Ethics Center is to provide engineers, scientists, and science and engineering students with resources useful for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work life.

Access: Open to everyone
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Wendt
Vendor/Software: MIT-Case Western Reserve University

Online Geographical Bibliography 1985-to date (updates vary)

The Online Geographical Bibliography provides bibliographical references to books, periodical articles, pamphlets, government documents, maps and atlases that were added to the American Geographical Society Collection at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The AGS Collection is an internationally recognized scholarly resource in geography, cartography and related fields. This database is a cumulative index of Current Geographical Publications from 1985 to the present.

Access: Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff
Libraries for Extensive Assistance: Geography
Vendor/Software: American Geographical Society Collection, UW-Milwaukee & Endeavor/WebVoyage

Online Guide to Computing Literature 1987-to date (updates vary)

The Online Guide to Computing Literature consists initially of more than 350,000 citations of core works in computing. These works are of all types (journals, proceedings, books, technical reports, and disserations), and are from all the major publishers in the discipline. A wider search of the world's computing literature is made possible by the Online Guide by including reference linking. The Online Guide is is only one aspect of the ACM Portal. The ACM Digital Library and the Online Guide to Computing Literature have been woven together with a set of links. For each article published by ACM, references have been extracted from the PDF representations. The universe of these references from the ACM literature currently totals somewhere between 750,000 and one million (non-unique) citations. By a process utilizing proprietary, fuzzy algorithms, these unstructured text strings of OCR'd citations are matched against the structured bibliographic entries in the Online Guide to Computing Literature. Several directed methods are available for browsing bibliographic citations in computin