| W - Databases |
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Description |
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| Wall Street Journal | Business, Industry & Economics | Show Description |
| Description: Business news and information on financial markets worldwide. In-depth indexing, covering complete bibliographic information, subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas. Accesses top news stories as well as detailed information from all the paper's sections. Even such items as editorials, editorial cartoons, and letters to the editor from well-known people are indexed. |
| Washington Post | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Coverage of national, international, and local news from 1987 to date. The Washington Post is renowned for its political reporting, editorials and columnists.
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| Water Resources Abstracts | General, Physical & Earch Sciences | Show Description |
| Description: 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. |
| Web of Knowledge | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Access to products essential to research in academic, corporate, government, and non-profit organizations. Search individual products such as Web of Science or Current Contents Connect, or search multiple products simultaneously through CrossSearch |
| Web of Science | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Articles, abstracts, and citations from Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index |
| Webster's Collegiate Dictionary | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Merriam-Webster's online dictionary with pronunciation guides |
| Webster's Online Dictionary & Thesaurus | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus. Free public version.
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| What Do I Need to Know About Books and Authors | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Books & Authors provides new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors and topics. Adapted from Gale's acclaimed What Do I Read Next? Print series, Books & Authors is specially designed to complement the browsing habits of today's Web user, integrating easy-to-follow menus that allow users to broaden and narrow their searches according to author, title or series, awards, and other criteria. An "if you like" search connects readers to the themes and genres that may have otherwise gone unnoticed.
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| Wiley Online Library | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Full text access to a multidisciplinary collection of over 600 journals and over 100 books covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. |
| Women's Studies Encyclopedia | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: A wealth of scholarship in the field of women's studies including more than 700 alphabetically listed entries prepared by 425 scholars from all disciplines. Thorough analysis of women and society throughout history and around the world. Extensive bibliographic sources for individual entries as well as a complete general bibliography. more...
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| World Atlas | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: A guide to the world's nations, people, and places. |
| World Digital Library | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: The World Digital Library is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and partner libraries, archives, and educational and cultural institutions from the United States and around the world. WDL provides rare and unique documents – books, journals, manuscripts, maps, prints and photographs, films, and sound recordings. |
| World Factbook | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities |
| WorldAlmanac | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Database of The World Almanac, first published in 1868. Covers arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes, and much more |
| WorldCat | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 36 million bibliographic records representing 370 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.
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| Worldcat Dissertations | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: Dissertations, theses and published material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. |
| Worlddatabank | General, Multidisciplinary & Reference | Show Description |
| Description: This site provides a wealth of statistics from databases maintained by the World Bank such as World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance. World Development Indicators (WDI) provides data across many categories such as education, the environment, health, and poverty. Global Development Finance (GDF) provides statistics about the economic and financial health of countries. |
