Databases

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.

Not sure which database to use?
Go to Databases by Subject to see a complete list organized by subject areas. 

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) and your library account PIN.  If you need assistance, please contact the library, 262-243-4330, or submit a Request for Assistance.

 

   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 Complete (EBSCOhost) Academic Search Complete indexes more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of more than 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. covering many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, zoology and many other fields. 

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection (EBSCOhost) This database is comprised of titles from the 13th century through the 1893 World Parliament of Religions with the majority of titles from the 19th century.

ATLA Historical Monographs Collection-Series 2 (EBSCOhost) Titles published from 1894 through 1923 that present the growing interest in Eastern religions from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.  It also contains hundreds of volumes describing the evangelical movement and collections of evangelical sermons.  Additionally, a significant number of titles that describe the missionary activities of the period are included as well as numerous biographies of nineteenth century theologians which provide perspective on how and why these leaders were valued in the nineteenth century.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials (EBSCOhost) Full text version of the ATLA Religion Database, a collection of major religion and theology journals.

Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive  The single most comprehensive resource for research in Biblical Archaeology.

Business & Company Resource Center (Gale)  This database provides accurate, up-to-date company and industry intelligence, investment reports, industry statistics, current investment ratings, comprehensive financial overviews, pricing momentum and key ratio measures, financial ratios, business rankings, and company histories for thousands of firms as well as coverage of major business events and trends from 1980 to the present.

Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost-Provided by Badgerlink)  Full text coverage in business disciplines including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.  Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

   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. 

Clinical Pharmacology - Provides a single resource to answer all your medication questions.  It offers accurate, clinically-relevant information on all U.S. prescription drugs, plus hard-to-find coverage of herbal, nutritional and OTC products, as well as new and investigational drugs.

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.

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.

Dissertation Abstracts Online (OCLC FirstSearch) Index of dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.

Dynamed - a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. Content is updated daily through a Systematic Literature Surveillance of 500 medical journals that covers nearly 3,000 clinical topics, AHFS Drug Information Records, and includes ICD-9 and IDC-10 codes.

 

   EBSCOHost includes the following databases:

                                                  EBSCOHost Mobile interface - A limited selection of Ebscohost databases optimized for use on a mobile device with a smaller screen

                                        EBSCOhost Mobile Interface for Medical Databases -  A limited selection of              EBSCOhost databases geared for medical research (includes CINAHL, Cochrane & Medline) optimized for use on a mobile device with a smaller screen.

 

Education Research Complete (EBSCOhost) - a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,870 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,060 journals. This database also includes full text for 133 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

Environment Complete (EBSCOhost)  Offers full-text coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

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.

  

   FirstSearch (OCLC) Includes 50+ databases covering many different subject areas including Education, Business, Health Science, Arts & Humanities.

 Health Technology Assessment (HTA) - Provides details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. The aim of the database is to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care. In addition to systematic reviews, HTA contains ongoing and completed research based on trials, questionnaires and economic evaluations.

History Reference Center (EBSCOhost-Provided by Badgerlink) Full text for nearly 170 history periodicals, more than 112,000 historical documents, biographies of historical figures, and more than 113,000 historical photos and maps along with more than 80 hours of historical video.  It also includes full text for more than 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books.

Hoover's Online Company & business information; includes public, private, and international companies, industries, and key people.

Humanities International Complete (EBSCOhost-Provided by Badgerlink) 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.    

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (EBSCOhost) - (Limited to 1 user at a time)  IPA includes information from over 750 pharmaceutical, medical, and health-related journals published worldwide since 1970. The database covers the entire spectrum of drug therapy and pharmaceutical information.  Topics covered include information on biopharmaceutics & pharmacokinetics, new drug delivery systems, pharmacist liability, legal, political & ethical issues, and many others.

  

   JSTOR   80+ full-text scholarly journals in such subject areas as: History, Philosophy, Political Science, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Sociology, and many others.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL Online) 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.

Lexi-Comp  - Integrates industry-leading databases, including AHFS, to provide drug and clinical information at the point-of-care.

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.

Literary Reference Center (EBSCOhost-provided by Badgerlink) Full text database that combines information from reference works, books & literary journals and includes plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, literary criticism, biographies, poems, book reviews and more.

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.

Literature Criticism Online (Gale) - Access centuries of critiques on authors and their works that span all time periods, types of literature and regions.  CUW coverage includes Children's Literature Review (covers some of the most influential authors of children’s literature), Contemporary Literature Criticism (coverage of authors currently active or who died after Dec. 31, 1999), Shakespearean Criticism (comprehensive coverage of Shakespeare) and Poetry Criticism (poets of all eras).

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.

MDConsult - Provides access to full-text articles from over 80 medical journals and Clinics and 50 leading medical references across a wide range of specialties, as well as clinically relevant drug information, and over 10,000 patient handouts.

MediLexicon  Free database of over 200,000 medical, biotech, pharma and healthcare acronyms abbreviations.  

MEDLINE with Full Text (EBSCOhost) MEDLINE with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for more than 1,470 journals indexed in MEDLINE. Provides access to authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series includes 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 

MLA International Bibliography  (EBSCOhost) Indexes international scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Covering 1963 to the present. 

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database - a highly objective, evidence-based resource designed for healthcare professionals containing information on natural medicines. 

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.

Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCOhost-provided by Badgerlink) Includes 1,520 full-text newspaper including comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Mail (UK), The Irish Times (Ireland), The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times of London, The Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and others.  

Nursing Reference Center-(EBSCOhost) 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

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. 

Ovid Nursing Full Text Plus - Provides full-text access to 33 research and 12 practitioner-oriented nursing and allied health journals (published by leading publishers, including Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) PLUS the Nursing Subset of MEDLINE.

Oxford English Dictionary (OED) A dictionary of the English language which attempts to record a word's most-known usages and variants in all varieties of English past and present, worldwide. The OED Online contains the Second Edition (1989), and the Additions Series (1993, 1997). It includes definitions, etymologies, and quotations.

    Pharmacy resources Databases, journal titles, e-bo0ks supporting CUW's School of Pharmacy

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:

 

  • 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.
  • ProQuest Medical Library Combines MEDLINE indexing with full images for more than 100 key medical titles.  
  • ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source  Find complete, full-text information from leading nursing, allied health, and related publications.

 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.

Rehabilitation Reference Center (EBSCOhost) Evidence-based clinical reference tool for use by physical therapists, occupational therapists and rehabilitation students at the point-of-care. Includes more than 150 research instruments, information from AHFS on over 11,700 drugs and their manufacturers, more than 9,800 exercise images, key reference handbooks, guidelines from the National Guidelines Clearinghouse, nearly 1,500 relevant patient education topics in both English & Spanish, and news and clinical updates. Also includes more than 200 Clinical Reviews, clinically-organized summaries on rehabilitation topics written and reviewed by EBSCO’s team of professional physical and occupational therapists, incorporating the best available evidence through rigorous systematic surveillance.

    SAGE Premier  Full-text access back to 1999 for 444 Sage Journals.

SciFinder  (Limited to 1 user at a time) - a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more. NOTE: THIS SITE REQUIRES EACH USER TO REGISTER AND SET UP A LOGIN/PASSWORD.  USERS MUST REGISTER WITH THEIR CUW.EDU EMAIL ADDRESS.  SciFinder registration page.  You may encounter a Security Certificate error when accessing either the SciFinder database or the registration page.  It is safe to accept the option offered by your browser that allows you to proceed to the database.

SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCOhost) SocINDEX with Full Text provides users with a wealth of extremely useful information across the spectrum of sociological study, offering comprehensive coverage of sociology, including abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text (limited to 4 simultaneous users) SPORTDiscus with Full Text is a comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 440 journals.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage Access to S&P products including Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, and The Outlook.

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.

USP-NF Online (Limited to 1 User at a time) :  Your source for FDA-enforceable quality standards for drugs, dietary supplements, excipients, procedures for tests, assays, analytical methods, and more.

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.

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