CENTRAL SEARCH is a federated search engine that searches across the majority of CUW's electronic resources from one simple interface. It provides citations and abstracts, as well as links to full-text articles and records in TOPCAT.
Looking for a particular journal?
Go to TOPCAT Journal Title Search to check availability of a journal at CUW & SWITCH libraries.
List of Full Text Journals List of journals available full text online, or in print on Rincker Library shelves.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR OFF-CAMPUS ACCESS:
To connect to the databases from an off-campus computer, you will be asked to enter your library barcode number (the 14-digit barcode number from your CUW ID card). If you need assistance, please contact the library, 262.243.4330.
Databases A to Z
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ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest - Bell & Howell) In-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies & tactics, management techniques, competitive & product information, & other topics.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) Full text for scholarly publications covering social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (EBSCOhost) Full text version of the ATLA Religion Database, a collection of major religion and theology journals.
African American Bibliographic Database The AABD brings together biographies of thousands of African Americans into a single, unique resource, carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources.
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive The single most comprehensive resource for research in Biblical Archaeology.
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)
CQ Historic Documents Online version of the Historic Document Series, published annually since 1972. Each volume contains approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the year. Includes presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings and cultural discussions.
CQ Researcher Published 44 times a year, single-themed reports cover political and social issues, including topics in health, international affairs, education, the evironment, technology and the U.S. economy.
CQ Weekly Coverage of U.S. Congress including status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, debates and all roll-call votes.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,001 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,155 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.
The Cochrane Library (EBSCOhost) Database of full text articles that is the best single source of reliable information on the effects of healthcare interventions.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCOhost) Provides full text coverage for over 200 journal titles and citation coverage for additional sources.
Corporate ResourceNet (EBSCOhost) Covers sources on U.S. and international business topics and industries; regulation and policy information; and company and product information.
Criminal Justice Periodicals (ProQuest)Collection of criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Full-text of 15 journals, some going back to 1982. Covers Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.
Dissertation Abstracts Online (OCLC FirstSearch) Index of dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.
EBSCOHost includes the following databases:
ERIC (EBSCOhost) Contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals and for ERIC Resources in Education, a collection of documents on topics in education. Citations for these documents include links to EDRS (ERIC Document Reproduction Services), which offers access to text of 80% of ERIC Documents from 1993 forward.
ERIC Documents Provides access to 80% of ERIC Documents from 1993 to the present. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the full documents.
Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac - Gale) Full text coverage of every academic concentration--from advertising and microbiology to history, political science, and art history. It also incorporates many interdisciplinary journals, and national news magazines.
FirstSearch (OCLC) Includes 50+ databases covering many different subject areas including Education, Business, Health Science, Arts & Humanities.
Hoover's Online Company & business information; includes public, private, and international companies, industries, and key people.
Humanities International Complete (EBSCOhost) Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. HIC includes all the data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index plus almost half a million full-text articles, many available with searchable references.
InfoTrac (Gale) Includes the following databases:
- Expanded Academic ASAP: Coverage of every academic concentration--from advertising to history, political science, and art. Includes interdisciplinary journals, and national news magazines. Many full text articles.
- InfoTrac OneFile: News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, education, health care, humanities, literature and art, science, social science, sports, technology, and more. Many full-text articles.
JSTOR 80+ full-text scholarly journals in such subject areas as: History, Philosophy, Political Science, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Sociology, and many others.
LEXI-PALS Drug Guide (EBSCOhost) Database of Patient Advisory Leaflets from Lexi-Comp that provides vital education on medications for patients. The approach for each pamphlet is to present each medication in an easy to follow and understand question-and-answer format. The database consists of over 1,450 medication and natural product leaflets, with an additional 600 Spanish language leaflets representing the most subscribed and commonly used medications. The database is updated monthly.
Literary Index (Gale) Master index to every literary series published by Gale. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names including pseudonyms and variant names and more than 140,000 titles into one source.
LitFinder Contains a wealth of primary literature content, including citations and full text of hundreds of thousands of poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays.
MagillOnLiterature (EBSCOhost) Source for critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in literature. Includes contents of 31 sets of reference books, including Masterplots and Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of World Authors, the Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill's Literary Annuals and Magill Book Reviews.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost) Provides abstracts and indexing for over 2,500 periodicals, full text for over 1,900 periodicals. Covers general reference, business, general science, multi-cultural, and other subjects.
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) The premier source for citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) Indexes international scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covering 1963 to the present.
New Testament Abstracts (EBSCOhost) Access more than 33,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 12,600 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Article coverage in the database dates back to 1985.
NewspaperARCHIVE Contains millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s, presented in a PDF format that preserves the original context and format of content.
Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Basic (EBSCOhost) Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 100 journals in nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.
Nursing Reference Center-Features include Diseases & Conditions with quick lesson overviews and evidence-based care sheets , F.A. Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, and practice resources link CINAHL Nursing Guide.
OT Search (ON CAMPUS ONLY) The Occupational Therapy Bibliographic System. Tool to help identify documents related to a specific topic.
Old Testament Abstracts (EBSCOhost) Content from over 450 journals is covered. Topics include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978.
Professional Development Collection (EBSCOhost) Contains over 550 full text education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles, and indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals.
Project Muse 40+ full-text scholarly journals in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Mathematics.
ProQuest (Bell & Howell) Includes the following databases:
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- ABI/INFORM Global In-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies & tactics, management techniques, competitive & product information, & other topics.
- Criminal Justice Periodicals Collection of criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
- Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) Interdisciplinary full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
- ProQuest Education Journals Contains more than 550 titles on education with nearly 300 in full text.
- ProQuest Medical Library Combines MEDLINE indexing with full images for more than 100 key medical titles.
- ProQuest Newspapers Provides access to newspapers, including national and local titles, most in full text.
- ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source Find complete, full-text information from leading nursing, allied health, and related publications.
- ProQuest Wilson Education Abstracts Provides abstracts and full text articles from over 400 education journals.
PsycINFO (EBSCOhost) Covers over 1700 international periodicals in psychology and related fields. Citations and summaries of journal articles, plus books, chapters, dissertations and technical reports.
PubMed (National Library of Medicine) FREE access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles.
SAGE Premier Full-text access back to 1999 for 444 Sage Journals.
TeachingBooks Provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of book readings, guides to thousands of titles and multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature.
THOMAS U.S. Legislative information on the Internet. Find information on bills, committee information, the congressional record and more.
Thomson Health Database includes MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series with referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine, and PDR Electronic Library with access to FDA approved drug information. (Note: Please see a librarian for log-in information)
Databases available here include:
DRUGDEX® System
Index Nominum
P&T QUIK® Reports
PDR®
Detailed Drug Information for the Consumer
MSDS from USP
Alternative Medicine
POISINDEX® Managements
TOMES® System
REPRORISK® System
Lab Advisor™
DISEASEDEX™ Emergency Medicine
DISEASEDEX™ General Medicine
IV Compatibility
Interaction Checking
Imprint Codes in Identidex®
AAPCC Codes in POISINDEX®
CareNotes
DrugNotes
AfterCare
Value Line Investment Survey The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. (In case of access problems, please contact a librarian)
Westlaw Campus Research Provides full-text access to news, business and law related information, including sources of analytical and primary law such as: American Jurisprudence, American Law Reports, Federal and State Supreme Court case law, U.S. Code Annotated, Federal Register, and various law reviews and journals.
WorldCat (OCLC) Worldwide catalog of library materials.
WISCAT Statewide bibliographic database for Wisconsin libraries. It contains 5.9 million bibliographic records with local holdings statements for 1137 libraries of all types throughout Wisconsin
