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  Wall Street Journal

Access to full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition. To access articles from "today", click on the "Publications" tab; then click on the Wall Street Journal link.


Type: Full Text;
Coverage: 1984-present

  Washington Post

Access to full-text articles through America's Newspapers database. Includes today's articles.


Type: Full Text;
Coverage: 1977-present

  Washington Post, 1877-1990 (Proquest Historical Newspapers)

The Washington Post (1877-1990) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.


Type: Full Text;
Coverage: Dec 12, 1877-Dec 31, 1990

  Water Resources Abstracts

Provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications.


Type: Abstracts;
Coverage: 1967-present

  Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900

"A subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of 50,000 publications."


Coverage: 1800-1900

  Web of Science

The Web of Science provides multidisciplinary literature coverage – including cited references – in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Search backward and forward in time with cited reference searching, analyze results, search over 100 years of back files, and link to the full text. Data from 9,300 journals Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Over 13 million records are in the database.

Click here for a list of journals covered in the Science Citation Index.
Click here for a list of journals covered in the Social Sciences Citation Index
Click here for a list of journals covered in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.


Type: Abstracts; Index;
Coverage: 1900-present

  Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900

Available online via C19: The Nineteenth Century Index.

Includes the table of contents of 42 British periodicals from the Victorian era, plus significant overviews of the publication history of each title included. Keyword searchable. Not an easy database to use, so be patient!


Type: Index;
Coverage: 1824-1900

  Who's Who in American Art

This subset of Marquis Who's Who on the Web is the online edition of the print Who's Who in American Art. It provides coverage of 14,000 of the today's most notable artists including artists from the 20th century.

There are a limited number of logins available. Please LOGOUT when finished with your session.


Type: Full Text;
Coverage: 1901-present

  Who's Who in American History

This subset of Marquis Who's Who on the Web is the online edition of two famous print reference sources, Who's Who In America and Who Was Who In America. Includes coverage of 130,000 of the most notable Americans since 1607.

There are a limited number of logins available. Please LOGOUT when finished with your session.


Type: Full Text;
Coverage: 1607-present

  Wiley Interscience Journals

Full text coverage of 270 Wiley journal titles.


Type: Abstracts; Selected Full Text;
Coverage: varies

  WiserTrade (Formerly MiserTrade)

"Online database of state level export statistics and US and Japanese export and import statistics. State data are available by 6-digit HS commodity, 3-digit NAICS industry, 2-digit SIC (1988-2000), and by port of exit. US data are available by Customs District of exit and entry and by individual Port of exit and entry." No Remote Access


Type: Full Text;

  Women Working, 1870-1930 (Harvard University Library Open Collections Program)

A collection of digitized primary source material on women's role in the U.S. economy from Harvard's collections. The collection includes over 2,100 books and pamphlets, 1,000 photographs, and over 4,000 pages from manuscript collections. It will grow to 3,000 books and pamphlets and 10,000 manuscript pages in 2005.


Type: Full Text;
Coverage: 1870-1930

  World Almanac

Includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics, and other information about the world community.


Type: Full Text;

  World Development Indicators

Time series data on demographics, the economy, education, and the environment, for more than 200 countries from 1960-present. Data can be downloaded and manipulated.


Type: Full Text;
Coverage: 1960-present

  World Development Sources

Various full-text reports from the World Bank.


Type: Selected Full Text;
Coverage: 1988-

  World Fact Book

From the CIA, this source covers 264 nations, dependent areas and other entities. Provides statistical details ranging from total area to infant mortality rates integrated with factual information such as an overview of the economy.


Type: Full Text;

  World News Connection (FBIS) (see Reference Librarian for login)


Access for verified DU faculty, students, and staff only.

Provides access to full text translations of newspaper articles from around the world. The information is obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. New information is entered into WNC every government business day. Generally, this information is available within 24-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast.

For complete search instructions, consult the Dialog Bluesheet

For indexing of FBIS documents from 1975-1996, see the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index under the letter "F" above.


Type: Full Text;
Coverage: 1995-present

  World Newspapers

A regional listing of world newspapers and other news sources from World Press Review.


Type: Full Text;

  World Trials

"This collection contains such famous and important works as John Lawson's "American State Trials," "Howell's State Trials," "Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals," "Reports of State Trials" and "Sixty Famous Cases." Also included is the full trial collection from Cornell University Law Library, one of the most complete collections in the United States. Future releases will include the Lawson collection from the University of Missouri."


Type: Full Text;

  WorldCat

World's largest bibliographic database presents bibliographic records for books, serials (journals), and all other formats. Use WorldCat to find materials not in Peak or Prospector.


Type: Index;
Coverage: 1000 B.C. - present

  WorldCat.org

World's largest bibliographic database presents bibliographic records for books, serials (journals), and all other formats. Use WorldCat to find materials not in Peak or Prospector. You could also try the mobile version of the website.


Type: Index;
Coverage: 1000 B.C. - present

  Worldscope

Selected financial information on publicly owned companies worldwide.


Type: Full Text;
Location: Penrose Library Workstations 1&2 (FirstSearch Icon)

  Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.


Type: Abstracts;
Title list
  Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875

Almost 3,000 digitized volumes from almost 1,500 authors, based on Lyle H. Wright's American Fiction, 1851-1875: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography. Nine member libraries from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation are digitizing the collection.


Type: Full Text;
Coverage: 1851-1875

  WTO (World Trade Organization) Documents Online

Official WTO documentation including the legal text of WTO agreements beginning with 1995. From 1986-1994 database includes Uruguay Round documents and a small number of GATT documents.


Type: Selected Full Text;
Coverage: 1986-

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