General and Interdisciplinary Resources

Academic Interdisciplinary Indexes

Academic Search Complete - Provides full text to over 3,600 scholarly journals dating back to 1985. (EBSCO) user guide (PDF 177k)

ProQuest Research Library - Covers a wide range of subject areas dating back to 1985. user guide (PDF 78k)

Academic OneFile - Covers a wide range of subject areas dating back to 1980. (Thomson Gale) user guide (PDF 75k)

SAGE Journals Online - Over 400 full text journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

CQ Researcher - Good starting place for current issues. Includes background, a timeline and a bibliography of further articles for each topic. user guide

Current Biography - More than 15,000 full text biographies, and more than 9,400 obituaries from 1940 to the present. (H.W. Wilson) user guide (PDF 1.11mb)

Ethnic NewsWatch Complete - A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. (ProQuest) user guide (PDF 78k)

Chronicle of Higher Education - the No. 1 source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. access guide

Newspapers

* Newspaper Source Plus - 1,520 full-text newspapers (including major Wisconsin papers), also features television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts. (EBSCO) user guide (PDF 177k)

Access World News: Research Collection - Includes Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and transcripts of Wisconsin TV news stations (trial through June 2010).

LexisNexis - Regional, U.S. and international newspapers; radio & television transcripts; and newsletters. user guides

Proquest Newspapers - 20+ years of full text from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, L.A. Times, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. user guide (PDF 78k)

Historical New York Times (1851- 3 years ago) - Full text, scanned images from the actual paper. Does not include current editions. (ProQuest) user guide (PDF 135k)

Historical Wall Street Journal (1889- 16 years ago) - Full text, scanned images from the actual paper. Does not include current editions. (ProQuest) user guide (PDF 135k)

* Access Newspaper Archive - Contains tens of millions of searchable historical newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s.

Online newspapers from around the world - Directory of online newspapers, listed by geographic region. Language, location, frequency and links are given for each entry.

Books & Reviews

Essay & General Literature Index - Indexing to 5,300 anthologies and collections in the humanities and social sciences accesses around 65,000 essays (chapters) from 1985 to date. (H.W. Wilson) user guide (PDF 1.11mb)

Choice - Publishes 7,000+ annual reviews of current scholarly books and electronic products. CHOICE covers more than 50 academic subdisciplines spanning the humanities, science and technology, and the social and behavioral sciences.

* MasterFile Premier - Provides full text for almost 2,000 general reference publications dating as far back as 1975. Includes 90,000+ biographies, Magill Book Reviews and Essential Documents in American History. Updated daily. (EBSCO) user guide (PDF 177k)

* MAS Ultra - School Edition - Designed for high school libraries, this database includes full text of over 550 popular, general interest and news magazines. MAS Ultra also includes over 550 full text pamphlets and almost 250 reference books. (EBSCO) user guide (PDF 177k)

Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary - The OED Online traces the history of the English language word by word. Each of the 616,500 entries contains a definition, spelling, part of speech, etymology or origin, pronunciation, and quotations to illustrate usage. Other features include cross-referencing by word, as well as searching for quotations by author, date, text and keywords.

Dictionary.com - Comprehensive language website. Includes dictionary and thesaurus lookups, foreign language dictionaries, and links to other language websites.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopędia Britannica - Provides access to the complete print version of the encyclopedia (approximately 80,000 entries) along with daily updates, over 10,000 illustrations, photographs, drawings, maps, and video clips. Users may browse alphabetically, by subject, year, or geographically. An Internet Guide allows entries to be cross-referenced with relevant websites selected by the encyclopedia's editors.

* Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. (EBSCO) user guide (PDF 177k)

Credo Reference - An electronic reference book collection.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - A library of electronic encyclopedias in a wide range of disciplines.

General and Interdisciplinary WEBSITES