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Database Title	Summary - Full Description	Coverage	Full Text
Wall Street Journal	The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.	1982-current	Yes
Wall Street Journal, Historic	The Wall Street Journal (1889-1988) 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.	1889 - 1988	Yes
Washington Post Online	Coverage of national, international, and local news. Full-text of articles 1987-present. The Washington Post is renowned for its political reporting, editorials and columnists.	1987 - current	Yes
Water Resources Abstracts	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. <p> Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings, and techincal reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications. <p>About 1000 journal titles are selectively indexed by Water Resources Abstracts. Until 1994, the database was produced by the United States Geological Survey, when it was generally known as Selected Water Resources Abstracts. Since that time, Water Resources Abstracts has been produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, which broadened the scope by including more material published outside the U.S.A.	1967 - present	Partial
Web of Knowledge	ISI Web of Knowledge provides access to Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, BIOSIS Previews, MEDLINE, Web Citation Index, and Journal Citation Reports.	1900 -	No
Web of Science	Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Collectively, these indexes cover 8,700 scholarly and technical journals completely and 13,300 selectively, in more than 230 disciplines. The Web of Science gateway allows searching the indexes singly or in combination. Features include cited reference searching, access to records related to a particular article, and number of times an article has been cited. Coverage extends back to 1977	1977 - present	Partial
Web Of Science Proceedings	Web of Science Proceedings is an index to the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines. <ul><li>The source publications for the Web of Science Proceedings are books, journals, reports, and series produced by publishers or societies. </li> <li>This index contains approximately 2 million records from more than 60,000 conferences, and includes the abstracts of proceedings articles.</li>	1990 - present	Partial
WetFeet	Fulltext Insider Guides for researching jobs. Containing information from surveys, publicly available information, and employer interviews.	Current	Yes
Wharton Research Data Service WRDS	Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) was developed by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for data management and research.		Yes
Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide	Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide provides global coverage of the literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians with about 590,000 bibliographic records, many of which include abstracts. The database is composed of eight databases: (1) Wildlife Review Abstracts (1935 and earlier to present) contains about 590,000 records and covers all aspects of wildlife, including: studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, parasites and more. Sources scanned are journals, monographs, conference proceedings and symposia, websites, government reports, grey literature, books, theses, and dissertations. (2) Swiss Wildlife Information Service (SWIS, 1974 to present) SWIS has about 104,000 records and contains a main database on birds and mammals and special files on protected animals and wildlife interaction with traffic, disturbance and agriculture. (3) Wildlife Database (1960 to present) Produced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Reference Service, this database contains over 21,000+ records, 90% of which are drawn from unpublished research reports, field studies, and surveys from U. S. state agencies. (4) BIODOC (1970 to 1999) From the National University of Costa Rica, BIODOC has 9,000 records and emphasizes Central and South American fauna. (5) Waterfowl and Wetlands Bibliography (Duckdata, 1838-2000). Produced by the U.S. Geological Survey, Duckdata contains over 13,000 citations with a focus on game birds and their habitats. (6) IUCN - The World Conservation Union (1946 to present) Contains over 4,300 citations to IUCN literature related to conservation. (7) Natural & Cultural Heritage of Africa (NATCHA, 1960 to present and earlier) This database of about 14,000 records provides extensive coverage of natural history journals relating to wildlife in Africa, especially Southern Africa. (8) Afro-Tropical Bird Information Retrieval Database (Afro-Tropical BIRD, 20th century to present with some coverage of the 1800s) It covers comprehensively journals, newsletters and reports on Afro-Tropical birds. Duplication of records is avoided with the generation of composite records from the contributing databases.	1935 - present	No
Wilson Business Abstracts / Full Text (use OmniFile Full Text)	Wilson Business Abstracts / Full Text is included in OmniFile Full Text, which is a multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full text from hundreds of journals in multiple subject areas. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full-text rights to individual journals may vary.	1982 - present	Partial
Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000	Books, letters, images, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, all of which document the multiplicity of American womens reform activities from the colonial period into the 20th century. Primary document projects cover a broad range of topics; books, pamphlets, and related materials provide scholars with in-depth access to the published histories and records of womens reform organizations throughout the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries; there is also a extentsive Dictionary of Social Movements, and a Chronology of Women's History.	1600-2000	Yes
Women's Studies International	An index to over 255,800 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Popline Subset on Women, Women of Color and Southern Women, and Women's Health and Development.	1972 - present	Partial
World Advertising Research Center--WARC Online	WARC.com provides the largest single source of intelligence for the marketing, advertising, media and research communities worldwide, drawn from more than 40 international sources.	Current	Yes
World Aviation Directory==>Aviation World Intelligence Network	Provides a comprehensive database of all the companies in the world that do business in the aviation or aerospace industries. The companies include airlines, training schools, manufacturers, corporate aviation departments, distributors, military units, and government-related organizations. The database lists company contact information and has a basic profile for all of these companies. Profile information contains the type and dollar amount of business the company does as well as the names of the company's top executives. Companies are sorted and indexed based on their function within their industry. Job seekers may find the background information helpful.	Current information	Partial
World Bank Data	1,000 books, reports and other documents. Browse or search all titles by keywords, title, author or geographic regions.		Yes
WorldCat	WorldCat is an index to library cataloging records for over 40 million items, including books, journals, music, computer programs, etc., from 1000 AD to present. The cataloging records are submitted from over 30,000 libraries.	1000 A.D. - present	Partial
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts	Up-to-date indexing, abstracts, and full-text Internet links in political science, international relations, law, sociology, economics, and public administration/policy. Has backfiles from 1975 onward of the ceased Political Science Abstracts and the ceased ABC POL SCI. Book & film reviews; dissertation info.; abstracts of journal articles, books, & book chapters. Relevant items in 34 languages. Advanced searching includes author affiliation. Thesaurus available.	Thorough: 1975-present. Some coverage 1960-1974. A few items from even earlier years.	Partial
WWD	Often called "the fashion bible," Womens' Wear Daily serves as the voice of authority, international newswire and agent of change for the fashion, beauty and retail industries. In 1999, all the properties carrying the Women's Wear Daily name were reorganized under a single umbrella, creating WWD MediaWorldWide.		Yes