New Resources
This is a list of new electronic resources that have been recently added to the library collection. Access to these resources is restricted to computers on campus or to those connecting via UWM computer accounts (more information).
For a list of all newly cataloged titles, see the New Materials section of the Library Catalog. For more updates, see What's New @ UWM Libraries.
September 2009
- Cochrane Library
- A collection of evidence-based medicine databases that brings together relevant research on the effectiveness of healthcare treatments and interventions.
August 2009
- Journal Citation Reports
- An essential resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals worldwide.
July 2009
- Academic Search Complete
- A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals.
- Auto Repair Reference Center
- Contains the complete automotive repair manuals that were originally published in the Chilton Total Car Care Series as well as technical service bulletins, wiring diagrams and labor time estimates.
- Book Collection Nonfiction
- Informative abstracts and searchable full text for popular nonfiction books.
- Business Source Premier
- Indexes over 5,000 academic journals, trade journals, and business magazines covering all business disciplines, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics
- Consumer Health Complete
- Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
- Education Research Complete
- A bibliographic and full text database covering 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.
- Educational Administration Abstracts
- Includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
- Environment Complete
- Coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, and more.
- History Reference Center
- Full text of reference books, history periodicals, documents, biographies, photos and maps, and video.
- Humanities International Complete
- Includes all data from more than 2,100 journals and 2.47 million records. The database includes full text for more than 890 journals.
- Literary Reference Center
- A comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
- Music Index Online
- Indexes over 850 music related periodicals from more than 40 countries.
- Newspaper Source Plus
- A full-text newspapers source and newspaper index. The database contains comprehensive full-text for major newspapers such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Wisconsin Law Journal, and others.
- Novelist
- An electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.
- Science Reference Center
- A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content.
- SportDiscus with Full Text
- A database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, and more.
May 2009
- Reference Universe
- Index terms and article titles to both electronic and print reference works. Over 20,000 reference works are represented.
April 2009
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of specialized reference sources. Titles include: Contemporary Black Biography, Business Plans Handbook, International Directory of Company Histories, College Fellowships and Loans, College Blue Book, Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary, and the Writer's Directory.
March 2009
- Literature Criticism Online
- Literature Criticism Online brings together backfiles of several literary series from Gale: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism and Children's Literature Review.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)is a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, the world’s largest library of the printed book on microfilm. Access includes the original base collection of 135,000 volumes (ECCO I) plus a 45,000 volume supplement (ECCO II).
- The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974
- Documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America vividly conveying the zeitgeist of the decade and its effects into the middle of the next. Alongside 70,000 pages of letters, diaries, and oral histories, there are more than 30,000 pages of posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare audio and video materials. The collection is further enhanced by dozens of scholarly document projects, featuring richly annotated primary-source content that is analyzed and contextualized through interpretive essays by leading historians.
January 2009
- SAE Digital Library
- 1906-present; Over 135,000 bibliographic citations for all Society of Automotive Engineers publications, as well as citations for documents from other mobility publishers worldwide. Includes full-text of technical papers published from 1998 to present.
September 2008
- Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family
- Dates vary; Searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave. The collection provides a window into American social history by bringing together the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century.
May 2008
- GreenFILE
- 1948-present; information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment; connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
- MATERIALSnetBASE
- Dates vary; Full text of over 200 books in materials science.
- Public Administration Abstracts
- 1950s-present; bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
- Safari Books Online
- Dates vary; Full text of books from technology publishers.
- Teacher Reference Center
- 1984-present; Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
March 2008
- ARTstor
- Dates vary; a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
February 2008
- JSTOR
- Back to 1800; does not include recent years; full text, searchable backfiles of over 600 core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
- Urban Studies Abstracts
- 1980-present; Bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, and urban history.
January 2008
- American Periodicals Series
- 1740-1900; Searchable full text of over 1,500 magazines, journals, and newspapers.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts
- 1968-present; abstracts and citations of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Guide
- Tests in Print
- A bibliography to commercially available tests that are currently in print in English.