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Wall Street Journal  | 1984-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: The paper is considered the preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide.  Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly, so researchers can access not only top news stories but also detailed information from all the paper's sections. For each article cited in the database, an abstract of up to 75 words helps the researcher know if he complete text will meet his or her needs. [Also see Historical Wall Street Journal : This resource offers the complete pages images from the entire run of the paper, dating back to the first 1889 issue.]

The Washington Post  | 1977-present | Full Text | Vendor: NewsBank
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Contents/Info: With daily circulation of more than 800,000, and over 1.1 million on Sundays, The Washington Post ranks as one of the top five newspapers in the U.S.

The Washington Post  | 1987-present | Full Text | Vendor: ProQuest
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Contents/Info: Coverage of national, international, and local news. The Washington Post is renowned for its political reporting, editorials and columnists.

Water Resources Abstracts  | 1967-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: 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.

 Water Resources RouteNet  | Some Full Text | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Provides links to water related databases, Listservs, reference materials, reports and publications, conference information, and newsletters.

 Web of Knowledge  | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: Provides access to the Web of Science databases and MEDLINE.

 Web of Science | Vendor: Institute for Scientific Information
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Contents/Info: Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

WebLUIS/FAU (Library Catalog) see Aleph/FAU (Library Catalog)  | Vendor: FCLA
Open Access
Contents/Info: The web-based version of the online catalog for Florida Atlantic University Libraries.

WELDASEARCH  | 1967-present | Vendor: CSA
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Contents/Info: Weldasearch is a comprehensive database containing abstracts to journal articles, research reports, books, standards, patents, theses and special publications in all areas of welding and allied processes.

Westlaw Campus see Campus Research: Law | Full Text | Vendor: West
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Contents/Info: A web-based legal research tool for undergraduate and graduate students who need to research law-related issues. This resource includes access to the complete laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states, federal regulations, precedent-setting court decisions, KeyCite, American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, and current and archived articles from hundreds of leading law reviews and journals.

What Do I Read Next? | Full Text | Vendor: Gale Group
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Contents/Info: What Do I Read Next? includes over 100,000 recommended titles, more than 58,000 plot summaries, and awards information from 562 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures, find long-remembered favorites, and discover award-winning titles. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. A monthly highlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.

Wiley InterScience | Some Full Text | Vendor: Wiley 
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Contents/Info: More than 300 online publications for researchers and professionals. 

Wilson Business Abstracts (WilsonBusiness) see Business Full Text  | 1982-present | Some Full Text | Vendor: H.W. Wilson
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Contents/Info: Subject areas include accounting, acquisitions and mergers, advertising, banking, building and construction, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, communications, computers, cosmetics industry, economics, electronics, entertainment industry, finance, financial services, government regulations, health care, high technology, hospitality and tourism, human resources, industrial relations, insurance, international business, investments, management, marketing, mass media, occupational health and safety, oil and gas, paper and pulp industries, public utilities, publishing, purchasing, real estate, retail trade, small business, taxation, technology, and transportation.  Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

Wilson Science Complete  | Some Full Text | Vendor: H. W. Wilson
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Contents/Info: Searches all three H. W. Wilson science databases: Applied Science and Technology Full Text; General Science Full Text; and Biological and Agricultural Index Plus.

WilsonWeb  | Vendor: H.W. Wilson
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Contents/Info: A collection of databases provided by HW Wilson.

Women and Social Movements in the United States Scholar's Edition | 1600-2000 | Full Text | Vendor: Alexander Street Press
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Contents/Info: The resource, which examines perspectives on women’s social movements from Colonial times to the present, brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities.  This edition includes the Women's Commission Reports.

Women's Studies International | 1972 (& earlier)-present |  Vendor: EBSCO
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Contents/Info: This database covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.  This resource includes the following database files: Women Studies Abstracts, Women’s Studies Bibliography Database, Women’s Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research, and Women’s Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography.

World Development Indicators (WDI) | Full Text | Vendor: The World Bank
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 Contents/Info: WDI publication is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The 2007 WDI includes more than 900 indicators in over 80 tables organized in six sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.

World Law Index Part 1: Index to Hispanic Legislation  | 1976-1997 | Vendor: Eureka
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Contents/Info: Index to Hispanic Legislation, contains records describing the national laws, decree-laws, regulations, etc. taken from official legal gazettes of 29 countries studied by the Hispanic Law Division of the Library of Congress Law Library. These include the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, plus Haiti, Brazil, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, and nations from the Portuguese-African region. [This resource will no longer be available via Eureka after September 1, 2007.]

World Map Collections  | Full Text | Vendor: FCLA
Open Access
Contents/Info: World Map Collections are a cooperative project of several public and private universities of Florida and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to make digitized modern and antique maps available on the Web. The Florida and Caribbean collections are particularly strong, but Africa, the Americas, and the Middle East are also represented. These are growing collections; new maps are added.

The World of Learning | Full Text | Vendor: Europa Publications
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Contents/Info: The World of Learning is a directory of international scope that provides information on learned societies, research institutions, libraries, museums, and universities. Subject divisions include academies, learned societies, research institutes, libraries and archives, museums and art galleries, universities, schools of art and music, and colleges of technology. It provides contact information for more than 200,000 faculty, staff and officials at these institutions. It is updated throughout the year.

WorldAlmanac | 1998-present | Full Text | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: A full text searchable database containing the World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998, World Almanac of the U.S.A. 1998, World Almanac of U.S. Politics 1997, and the World Almanac for Kids Dec. 1997  

WorldCat  | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with over 48 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses | Vendor: FirstSearch
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Contents/Info: Provides access to to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries catalogs in the WorldCat database. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.

Wright American Fiction  | 1851-1875 | Full Text | Vendor: Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Open Access
Contents/Info: A collection of 19th century American fiction with access to more than 1,700 full-text books.

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