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Legal Periodical Databases
- HeinOnlineCoverage 1220 to present (updated daily)
Full-text legal periodicals, historical texts, foreign & international materials, and primary legal materials in PDF, including the Federal Register, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Reports & attorney general opinions, state session laws, and more. - Index to Foreign PeriodicalsCoverage 1985 to present
Index to world-wide legal literature on all forms of foreign law. Covers foreign law, comparative law, and legal systems. Includes journal articles, reports, essays, yearbooks, and book reviews in a variety of languages. - Index to Legal Periodicals & Books and Full TextCoverage 1908 to present
Index to legal periodicals, court decisions, legislation and more. Full text coverage for selected periodicals is also available. Law books are indexed beginning in 1993. Covers all areas of law from the United States and Commonwealth countries.
General Material & News Databases
Example of general databases that can provide information on your topic. For a full list of databases available through the UW Library System, see the main library Web site: http:library.wisc.edu and select the tab for "databases," you can search by subject area of by name of the database.
SEARCH TIP: Locate the "Advanced Search" feature. Browse the HELP guides in these databases to learn what symbol they use for Truncation, Wildcard, or BOOLEAN OPERATORS (AND, OR, NOT).
A few databases are listed in this below. These are but a sample of the hundreds of databases available to UW students at the UW Library System.
- ProQuest One Business (formerly ABI Inform)ABI/INFORM indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1300 scholarly and trade business periodicals. Popular journals such as Forbes, Fortune, and Business Week are also included. The Web version provides full-text articles from more than 600 of the journals from 1992 to the present. It is an excellent source of information on management techniques, corporate strategies, trends, and business conditions. (Updated daily)
- Business Source PremierBusiness Source Premier is a full-text database of more than 900 business journals plus an indexing and abstracting database of approximately 1600 journals. Both scholarly and popular business magazines are included. The database covers many areas of business including management, economics, finance, banking and accounting. Searches may be limited to retrieve only scholarly journals. Dates vary but many of the full text titles go back to 1990. A business directory is also included.
- FactivaFactiva is a major online source for business and financial news. It provides access to almost 9000 business, trade, and general publications, including same day, full text access to the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.
- Google Scholarscholarly journal articles
- JSTORJSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, botany, ecology, economics, education, film, finance, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, middle east studies, music, philosophy, political science, population/demography, religion, sociology, and statistics.
- Newspapers GuideGuide to all newspaper databases and resources available at the UW
- Web of KnowledgeWeb of Knowledge is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data and author abstracts. Every item of significance is listed: articles, reviews, letters, notes, corrections, and editorials. In addition to access by author, title, and institution, it is also possible to search by cited authors.
Subject Specific Databases
Sample of databases available on non-law and law topics. For more information and databases available at the UW, see the general library system Web site under the tab Databases. These are listed alphabetically and grouped by subject. http://library.wisc.edu
- Making of Modern LawOver 22,000 legal treatises from the 19th- and early 20th- century. Covers all aspects of American and British law and encompasses a range of analytical, theoretical and practical literature for research in American and British legal history.
- PsycARTICLESThe PsycARTICLES® database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 40 journals published by the APA and 9 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present. (Update usually monthly unless journal is not published monthly)
- SoINDEXSocINDEX with Full Text includes full text for 397 "core coverage" sociology journals dating back to 1908 and 150 "priority coverage" journals. It also includes full text for more than 720 books and 6,743 conference papers. Abstracts for more than 800 journals are available back to 1895. In addition, SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 10,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.