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ICPSR
See Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research
Full-text access to all journals, transactions, and magazines published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers with coverage from 1988; Includes IEEE conference proceedings and all current IEEE standards. Note: this resource is limited to fifteen simultaneous users. Please logoff when you are finished.
This database allows users to search more than 1 million standards from over 370 standards organizations. Faculty and graduate students only may request individual standards for purchase through approval by the engineering librarian. Users need to set up a personal account to order standards. Undergraduate students need to contact the engineering librarian edward.eckel@wmich.edu for assistance with using our Interlibrary Loan service to borrow a copy of a necessary standard.
Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
Contains full-text articles from 49 periodicals, including 15 campaign newspapers, published from 1860 to 1865. Many of the publications are rare and hard to find, and include source materials from museum, library, and private collections, including the American Antiquarian Society. The database can be searched by date or topic, or one can browse each individual publication. The database also contains a sample selection of 300 Union and 300 Confederate letters from the larger database, American Civil War: Letters & Diaries.
Image Catalog
See WMU Image Catalog
Restricted to WMU Faculty, Staff, and Students.
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Covering subjects such as: Economics, History, Law, Literature, Religion, Social Sciences, and more. From 1906-Present.
Records over 23,000 Christian art works in worldwide collections from early apostolic time to 1400 AD. Records include subject and stylistic descriptors, school, object type, bibliographies and picture references, cross references, locations, and digital images, when available.(May not work from off campus.)
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
Indexes articles in over 900 law journals and other publications, including yearbooks and government publications, from the US and other English-speaking countries. Includes book reviews. Coverage: 1981-present. Updated monthly.
Print: KZ .I38x (Ref.) 1952-2000
Index to theses (in Great Britain and Ireland)
This indexes theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716, with abstracts since 1970. Full text of a theses may be requested through interlibrary loan, but may take a while and may be expensive. Please check the CRL catalog first, as they purchase some international theses.
Industry ratios
See Key Business Ratios.
A collection of Spanish language full-text magazines, covering business, health, culture, currents events, and more. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
InfoTrac is a large collection of full-text databases in a wide variety of subject disciplines. Listed below are some of the major databases are available from InfoTrac:
Books & Authors
Business and Company ASAP
Business and Company Resource Center
ChiltonLibrary.com
Computer Database
Educators Reference Complete
Expanded Academic ASAP
General Business File ASAP
Health and Wellness Resource Center
InfoTrac Academic OneFile
InfoTrac Newsstand
InfoTrac General OneFile
InfoTrac General Reference Center Gold
InfoTrac Health Reference Center Academic
InfoTrac Junior Edition
InfoTrac Student Edition
Informe!
Kid's InfoBits
LegalTrac
New York Times
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
Academic Onefile from InfoTrac contains full text articles from several thousand peer reviewed journals which cover a wide range of subjects including the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In addition it contains several hundred audio files and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and CBC. It also contains a number of national and international newspapers. Updated daily.
Indexes news and periodical articles on a wide variety of topics. Millions of articles are full-text. Coverage: 1980-present.
InfoTrac Health Reference Center - Academic
Indexes articles with abstracts and selected full text from medical journals and other publications about medicine, nutrition, and related subjects. Coverage: 1980-present.
Index to the full text of more than 1,700 newspapers from around the country and world, including the Detroit Free Press, London Times and the New York Times. Translate articles into 11 different languages, create email alerts, and more. Searches can be restricted to particular newspapers. Coverage varies.
Indexes and provides many full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books on a wide variety of subjects. Intended for high school students.
Indexes and abstracts over 30,000 publications, with some access to full-text on a pay-per-view basis. Search for the journal title under the Journals tab on the library home page before purchasing any articles.
In Principio
Contains over 1,000,000 incipits covering Latin literature from the Pre-classical Age to the Renaissance. Click Enter Databases, then then click on the link to In Principio.
This subscription is limited to three simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Indexes scientific and technical journals in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Coverage: 1969-present. Updated weekly.
Full text articles of titles subscribed to by the WMU Libraries and tables of contents access to all of their published titles. Create an account for e-mail alerting, to save searches or maintain a personal file of articles.
Set up a username & password here to submit automated requests from online indexes. Allow up to 2 weeks for materials to arrive.
DetailsInternational Directory of Company Histories Online
This multi-volume directory is available as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library and consists of over 8,500 historical profiles of the world's largest and most influential companies. Included is a list of subsidiary companies, and sources for further reading. The link will take you to "Basic
Search," click on the plus sign next to "Business," then select your
title to access the e-book. HD 2721 .I58x (Reference Collection) vol. 1-92
International Directory of Medievalists
Contains over 15,000 names and addresses of specialists from over 70 different countries. Click Enter Databases, then click on the link to International Directory of Medievalists.
This subscription is limited to three simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages
Contains peer-reviewed articles covering Dioceses; Prelates; Peoples, Tribes or Cultures, Scholastic authors, and more during the period 300 to 1500 CE. Click Enter Databases, then click on the link to International Encyclopaedia. This subscription is limited to three simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
International Encyclopedia of Communication Online
Scholarly, historical, and analytical articles on communication systems, organizations, modes, media, codes, behavior, and effects.
Biographical articles are focused on career development, not definitive assessments. Contains many cross-references, bibliographies, and a separate index and topical guide.
International Financial Statistics
This database provides statistics on international and domestic finances of countries since 1948. Information is presented in spreadsheet format and can be downloaded.
This subscription is limited to five simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
Indexes and abstracts articles, reviews and other features from more than 430 music periodicals, with full text coverage of 125 journals and magazines.
International Index to Performing Arts
This database provides coverage of dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, and more, indexes more than 250 performing arts journals and provides full text for more than 100 journals. Coverage varies.
International Medieval Bibliography
An index to articles in journals and other publications about Europe, the Middle East and North Africa within the dates 400-1500 AD. Coverage: 1967-present. To search, click Enter Databases, then click on the link to the database.
Print: Z 6203 .I62x (Ref) 1967-2004, This subscription is limited to three simultaneous users. Please logout when finished.
Includes the latest news and trends in U.S. trade policy, including regulatory, legislative, and judicial developments from U.S. Congress, the International Trade Commission, Departments of State, Treasury, and Commerce, World Trade Organization, and European Union. Also includes developments affecting U.S. trade and international business policy and the policies of major U.S. trading partners.
Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business. Coverage from 1995.
Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
A membership based organization which provides access to and archives of social science data for research and instruction. Areas of research range from crime, to economic indicators, to consumer behavior, and health information. Western Michigan University's membership provides "researchers affiliated with WMU the ability to access and download the data. To apply for a Username/Password, registration is required here.
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
This index lets users perform searches within letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies that are freely available on the Web and in Alexander Street databases. Users can access thousands of personal narratives in English from archives and repositories everywhere. Includes links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.
Provides International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of about 5,000 art songs and 800 opera arias.
DetailsIter - Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A non-profit research project enables more access to published materials about the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through online bibliographic databases. Includes books and articles.
