Databases beginning with the letter W. HTML Wall Street Journal Access information: Available on campus and via the VPN through Factiva. Cookies must be enabled on your browser. Click on Source and select Wall Street Journal from A-Z list. ProQuest access is available on or off campus. Description: Full text of US daily business newspaper. Available online on day of publication. Various editions available including European and Asian editions. Also includes images. Some articles by freelancers, some features and some supplements may not be available. Coverage: From 13th June 1979. (Abstracts from 13 June 1979 to 1 January 1984. Selected coverage from 13 June 1979 to 1 January 1984) Saturday coverage: from 17th Sept 2005 HTML WARC - World Advertising Research Center Access information:Access on and off campus. Description:Services provide intelligence from more than 50 international sources including Admap, Advertising Association, IPA, Account Planning Group, Effie Worldwide, ESOMAR, Euromonitor and Futures Company/Yankelovic. In all areas of marketing communications the service has over 25,000 articles, case studies, research reports and summaries, best practice papers, practical guides, daily news and more. HTML Washington Post (2014-current) via Gale Historical Washington Post (1877-2004) via ProQuest Washington Post (1977-current) via Factiva Access information: Access on campus and off campus. Description: Full text of US newspaper available online on the day of publication. Some articles by freelancers, some features and some supplements may not be available. Coverage: Gale: 2014-current. ProQuest: 1877-2004. Factiva: 1st Jan 1977-current. Additional information: For more information on finding newspaper articles see the Library's guide: Newspaper content HTML Waterloo Directory of English Newspaper and Periodicals Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, is a subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of 50,000 publications, 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects. Coverage: 1800-1900. HTML Web of Science Core Collection Access information:Access on and off campus. Russian Science Citation Index is not presently included in the Web of Science.Description:Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available.Coverage:Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards).Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards).Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards).Help:Publisher userguideFinding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):Cited Reference Searching (pdf) Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Journal Impact Factors and other measures on JCR (pdf) HTML Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900 Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900 via ProQuest’s C19: The Nineteenth Century Index Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Wellesley is an index to the authorship of articles, and a bibliography of articles written by each contributor, and using each pseudonym. Citations of evidence are provided to support attributions of authorship, along with brief biographical and vocational details. 45 important monthly and quarterly titles are included, covering the period from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the end of the century. The exception to this is the Edinburgh Review, which is indexed from first issue, in 1802. Wellesley does not index poetry. HTML Welsh Newspapers Online Access information: Freely available Description: Welsh Newspapers Online is a free online resource from the National Library of Wales where you can discover millions of articles from the Librarys rich collection of historical newspapers. Welsh Newspapers Online currently lets you search and access over 1,100,000 pages from nearly 120 newspaper publications generally up to 1910. This resource also includes newspaper content that has been digitised by The Welsh Experience of World War One project. HTML Westlaw UK Access information: Access on and off campus. Westlaw International can be accessed via the More Resources box on the lower right hand corner of the Westlaw homepage. Description: Online legal research service delivering case law, legislation, journals, books, news & business information and current awareness. Scots law materials can be accessed through the More tab. Content includes Scottish Legislation, Cases, regulatory and guidance materials, journals and books. Covers EU law. Note: When registering for the first time, users should use their University of Edinburgh email address. HTML WGSNAccess information:Access on and off-campus. For off campus, please use the VPN - Access to the University network via the VPN.Description:The leading online fashion trend-analysis and research service providing creative and business intelligence for the apparel, style, design and retail industries. From the Menu choose "Future Strategies", “Market”, "Season", "Research and Create", "Category" or “Buying and Retail.” Our subscription to WGSN gives access to the Fashion module only.Access note:To access, users need to register an account using their university email address. Register your WGSN account here: https://www.wgsn.com/accounts/edu/Users need to be on campus OR using the university's VPN for first-time registration. Access also requires 2-factor authentication using a mobile number.Additional guidance is available here: https://www.wgsn.com/assets/common/pdfs/wgsn_edu_2019_EN.pdf HTML Who's Who and Who Was Who Access information: Access on or off campus. Description: Who’s Who and Who Was Who have been published since 1849, and contain biographical information about over 134,000 influential noteworthy and influential individuals worldwide. Approximately one thousand new entries are added every year. Wiley Digital Archives Collection - British Association for the Advancement of Science See entry for British Association for the Advancement of Science -Wiley Digital Archives Collection Wiley Digital Archives Collection - The New York Academy of Sciences See entry for The New York Academy of Sciences -Wiley Digital Archives Collection Wiley Digital Archives Collection -Royal College of Physicians Part 1 See entry for Royal College of Physicans - Wiley Digital Archives Wiley Digital Archives Collection - Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) See entry for Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) – by Wiley Digital Archives HTML Windsor Star Access Information: Access on and off-campus. Description: Since 1890, the Windsor Star has been the biggest daily source telling the local stories of Windsor and Essex County from the vibrant community's unique border city perspective. Coverage: 1893-2010. HTML Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919 - 2019 Access: Access on and off campus. Description: This database examines efforts to foster gender equity through expanded economic and social participation of women on a global scale. Covering a century, the database highlights and evaluates activism through individual efforts, organizational initiatives, and socio-cultural projects led by or for women in the Global South. It shows how women have negotiated power and status regarding private or public programs centered on their rights and social inclusion. Stressing the historical problem of the “feminization of poverty,” coupled with women’s invisibility within most foreign aid regimes and approaches to technical assistance, the project documents how women and their allies worked to balance economic growth and social improvement while navigating equity and the fairer allocation of resources. Accompanying essays by leading scholars in the field outline and critique significant shifts in approaches to development, including that of a gendered “post-development” perspective. HTML Women and Social Movements, International Access: Access on and off campus. Description: Women and Social Movements, International provides an unparalleled survey of how women’s struggles against gender inequalities promoted their engagement with other issues across time and cultures. Backed by a global editorial board of 130 scholars, Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials drawn from 300 repositories. Assembled and cross-searchable for the first time, these resources illuminate the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made. The collection lets researchers see how activism of the past shaped events and values that live on today, with deep insight into peace, human trafficking, poverty, child labor, literacy, and global inequality. More than 150,000 pages of primary source documents include a central core of 60,000 pages of the proceedings of more than 400 international women’s conferences. HTML Women and Social Movements in the U.S. - Scholar's Edition Access: Access on and off campus. Description: Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000 is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history generally and at the same time make those insights accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. HTML Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires since 1820 Access: Access on and off campus. Description: As the agents of empire, women acted as missionaries, educators, healthcare professionals, and women’s rights advocates. As opponents of empire, women were part of nationalist, resistance, and reform movements, and served as conservators of culture. Through more than 70,000 pages of curated documents, plus new video and audio recordings, Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 explores prominent themes related to conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality, as told through women’s voices. This archival database includes documents related to the Habsburg, Ottoman, British, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and United States empires, and to settler societies in the United States and South Africa. A large, innovative section focuses on the voices of Native Women in North America. HTML Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter & the Women's Army Corps Access: Access on and off campus. Description: This collection consists of two major sets of records. First, Records of the Women’s Bureau documents the Bureau as an investigative agency, a clearinghouse for proposed changes in working conditions, and a source of public information. Also included is a detailed study on the treatment of women by unions in Midwestern industrial centers, complete with background interviews; community studies on the influx of women to industrial centers; and subject files and correspondence on women’s work in war industries, including issues like equal pay and child care. Second, Women in the U.S. Military, Correspondence of the Director of the Women’s Army Corps, 1942-1946 documents the women who served in the Women’s Army Corps. Every topic of importance to the WAC is covered in the correspondence, with an emphasis on issues such as recruiting, personnel matters like discipline and conduct, education, gender roles and race. HTML Women's Magazine Archive I and II Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines published in North America. Issues are scanned in high-resolution colour and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Essence and Seventeen are just some of the titles included. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture. HTML Women's Magazine Archive III Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines published in North America. Issues are scanned in high-resolution colour and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Essence and Seventeen are just some of the titles included. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture. HTML Women's Studies Manuscript Collection from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics and Reproductive Rights Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Three series of collections cover voting rights, national politics and reproductive rights. The voting rights papers include documentation of national, regional and local leaders. Collections on reproductive rights are the Schlesinger Library Family Planning Oral History Project, and the papers of Mary Ware Dennett and the Voluntary Parenthood League. HTML Women, War & Society Access: Access on and off campus. Description: The First World War had a revolutionary and permanent impact on the personal, social and professional lives of all women. Their essential contribution to the war in Europe is fully documented in this collection of primary source materials sourced from the Imperial War Museum, London. These unique documents — charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs and press cuttings — are published here for the first time in fully searchable form, along with interpretative essays from leading scholars. Together these documents form a resource for the study of 20th century social, political, military and gender history. Coverage: 1914-1918. HTML Womens Wear Daily Archive Access: Access on and off campus. Description: Previously unavailable in digital form, the entire archive of Women’s Wear Daily and its supplements opens up new opportunities for research. This authoritative record of how the fashion industry developed provides valuable primary source material across the disciplines of fashion, business and history. Users can explore every page of every issue since 1910 in high resolution and full colour with searchable text. HTML Workers, Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century Access: Access on and off campus. Description: This module consists of a wide range of collections documenting the American workers and labor unions in the 20th century, with a special emphasis on the interaction between workers and the U.S. federal government. The collection opens with Strike Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as records on U.S. government surveillance of radical workers. Materials in this collection provide a view into the evolving policies of intervention in labor disputes and documentation on the major strikes between 1894-1920, as well as a window into the daily operations of private industry during a time of radical social change. Other topics covered include labor struggles by copper miners, deportation of workers and the tumultuous situation among workers in the Chicago meat-packing industry. The government surveillance files consist of U.S. Military Intelligence Reports on radicals from 1917-1941 and Department of Justice investigations of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Communist Party, and the use of military force by the federal government in domestic disturbances between 1900 and 1938. There is coverage on anarchist, socialist, social democratic, and libertarian groups, unemployment relief in the 1930s, farm tenancy, labor strife during World War II, and more. HTML World Bank: Documents & Reports World Bank: Data & Research Access information: Freely available Description: For global economic policies. Using Documents & Reports (previously known as World Development Sources (WDS)) search and a browse the full-text of 27,000 World Bank publications: Analytic & Advisory (in-depth background, strategic priorities, and direction for lending activities). Project Documents (loan documents released to the public according to the project cycle; Publications & Research (Formal publications, working papers & informal series from departments around the Bank). The Data & Research section provides access to statistics and research output, including: research briefs, policy research reports, World Bank economic classification of countries, Global Economic Prospects online. HTML World Christian Database Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: The World Christian Database provides comprehensive statistical information on world religions, Christian denominations, and people groups. Extensive data are available on 9,000 Christian denominations, 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as data on 5,000 cities, 3,000 provinces and 234 countries. Information is readily available on religious activities, growth rates, religious literature, worker activity, and demographic statistics. Additional secular data is incorporated on population, health, education, and communications. HTML World Health Organization (WHO) Institutional Repository (IRIS) Access information: Freely available Description: Search the entire collection of WHO publications. Access to online publications in full where available. Additional information: WHO's Regional Offices' web pages have links to full-text of their publications, their library services and information listed under health topics: Africa Pan-America South East Asia Europe Eastern Mediterranean Western Pacific HTML World Heritage Sites : Africa Access information: Access on and off-campus. JSTOR are providing institutions with free access to the World Heritage Sites: Africa database through June 30th, 2022. Description: World Heritage Sites: Africa is a versatile collection of more than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites. This collection aids researchers in African studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, geography, history, and literature, as well as those focused on geomatics, historic preservation, urban planning, and visual and spatial technologies. HTML The World of Archie Comics Archive Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: The World of Archie Comics Archive offers access to the backfiles of 100+ publications from Archie Comics, spanning the early 1940s to 2020. As well as Archie, this collection includes other major titles such as Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Betty & Veronica, and Jughead. HTML World Religion Database Access information: Access on and off campus Description: The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. It offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world's religions for the period 1900 to 2050. HTML World War I: British Foreign Office Political Correspondence Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Records from military attaché and diplomatic and consular personnel describe the political situation in European countries at the outbreak of the war. They cover the financial position of the warring countries and examine the technological innovations of World War I, particularly in air and naval warfare. This formerly confidential correspondence also includes a wide range of other wartime issues. HTML World War I: Records of the American Expeditionary Forces, and Diplomacy in the World War I Era Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: This resource offers extensive documentation on the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I as well as materials on U.S. intelligence operations and the post-war peace process. AEF documents consist of correspondence, cablegrams, operations reports, statistical strength reports and summaries of intelligence detailing troop movements and operations of Allied and enemy forces. The vast majority of the AEF documents date from April 26, 1917 - July 2, 1919. Coverage: 1915-1927. HTML World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes and Refugees Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: President Roosevelt’s files reveal the innermost workings of military planning during World War II. Firsthand accounts cover the internment of Japanese civilians. Primary sources from soldiers in the D-Day invasion deliver valuable context. Documentation on civilians in Europe focus on Jewish refugees. Other collections include FBI files on Tokyo Rose, Manhattan Project and more. HTML WorldCat Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Global database containing tens of millions of bibliographic records on all subjects from 1000 A.D. to date, for all types of material catalogued by libraries, including books and digital resources, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, manuscripts, films, videos. No abstracts. HTML Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: This database provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers. 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HTML Wall Street Journal Access information: Available on campus and via the VPN through Factiva. Cookies must be enabled on your browser. Click on Source and select Wall Street Journal from A-Z list. ProQuest access is available on or off campus. Description: Full text of US daily business newspaper. Available online on day of publication. Various editions available including European and Asian editions. Also includes images. Some articles by freelancers, some features and some supplements may not be available. Coverage: From 13th June 1979. (Abstracts from 13 June 1979 to 1 January 1984. Selected coverage from 13 June 1979 to 1 January 1984) Saturday coverage: from 17th Sept 2005
HTML WARC - World Advertising Research Center Access information:Access on and off campus. Description:Services provide intelligence from more than 50 international sources including Admap, Advertising Association, IPA, Account Planning Group, Effie Worldwide, ESOMAR, Euromonitor and Futures Company/Yankelovic. In all areas of marketing communications the service has over 25,000 articles, case studies, research reports and summaries, best practice papers, practical guides, daily news and more.
HTML Washington Post (2014-current) via Gale Historical Washington Post (1877-2004) via ProQuest Washington Post (1977-current) via Factiva Access information: Access on campus and off campus. Description: Full text of US newspaper available online on the day of publication. Some articles by freelancers, some features and some supplements may not be available. Coverage: Gale: 2014-current. ProQuest: 1877-2004. Factiva: 1st Jan 1977-current. Additional information: For more information on finding newspaper articles see the Library's guide: Newspaper content
HTML Waterloo Directory of English Newspaper and Periodicals Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, is a subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of 50,000 publications, 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects. Coverage: 1800-1900.
HTML Web of Science Core Collection Access information:Access on and off campus. Russian Science Citation Index is not presently included in the Web of Science.Description:Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available.Coverage:Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards).Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards).Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards).Help:Publisher userguideFinding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):Cited Reference Searching (pdf) Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Journal Impact Factors and other measures on JCR (pdf)
HTML Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900 Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900 via ProQuest’s C19: The Nineteenth Century Index Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Wellesley is an index to the authorship of articles, and a bibliography of articles written by each contributor, and using each pseudonym. Citations of evidence are provided to support attributions of authorship, along with brief biographical and vocational details. 45 important monthly and quarterly titles are included, covering the period from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the end of the century. The exception to this is the Edinburgh Review, which is indexed from first issue, in 1802. Wellesley does not index poetry.
HTML Welsh Newspapers Online Access information: Freely available Description: Welsh Newspapers Online is a free online resource from the National Library of Wales where you can discover millions of articles from the Librarys rich collection of historical newspapers. Welsh Newspapers Online currently lets you search and access over 1,100,000 pages from nearly 120 newspaper publications generally up to 1910. This resource also includes newspaper content that has been digitised by The Welsh Experience of World War One project.
HTML Westlaw UK Access information: Access on and off campus. Westlaw International can be accessed via the More Resources box on the lower right hand corner of the Westlaw homepage. Description: Online legal research service delivering case law, legislation, journals, books, news & business information and current awareness. Scots law materials can be accessed through the More tab. Content includes Scottish Legislation, Cases, regulatory and guidance materials, journals and books. Covers EU law. Note: When registering for the first time, users should use their University of Edinburgh email address.
HTML WGSNAccess information:Access on and off-campus. For off campus, please use the VPN - Access to the University network via the VPN.Description:The leading online fashion trend-analysis and research service providing creative and business intelligence for the apparel, style, design and retail industries. From the Menu choose "Future Strategies", “Market”, "Season", "Research and Create", "Category" or “Buying and Retail.” Our subscription to WGSN gives access to the Fashion module only.Access note:To access, users need to register an account using their university email address. Register your WGSN account here: https://www.wgsn.com/accounts/edu/Users need to be on campus OR using the university's VPN for first-time registration. Access also requires 2-factor authentication using a mobile number.Additional guidance is available here: https://www.wgsn.com/assets/common/pdfs/wgsn_edu_2019_EN.pdf
HTML Who's Who and Who Was Who Access information: Access on or off campus. Description: Who’s Who and Who Was Who have been published since 1849, and contain biographical information about over 134,000 influential noteworthy and influential individuals worldwide. Approximately one thousand new entries are added every year.
HTML Windsor Star Access Information: Access on and off-campus. Description: Since 1890, the Windsor Star has been the biggest daily source telling the local stories of Windsor and Essex County from the vibrant community's unique border city perspective. Coverage: 1893-2010.
HTML Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919 - 2019 Access: Access on and off campus. Description: This database examines efforts to foster gender equity through expanded economic and social participation of women on a global scale. Covering a century, the database highlights and evaluates activism through individual efforts, organizational initiatives, and socio-cultural projects led by or for women in the Global South. It shows how women have negotiated power and status regarding private or public programs centered on their rights and social inclusion. Stressing the historical problem of the “feminization of poverty,” coupled with women’s invisibility within most foreign aid regimes and approaches to technical assistance, the project documents how women and their allies worked to balance economic growth and social improvement while navigating equity and the fairer allocation of resources. Accompanying essays by leading scholars in the field outline and critique significant shifts in approaches to development, including that of a gendered “post-development” perspective.
HTML Women and Social Movements, International Access: Access on and off campus. Description: Women and Social Movements, International provides an unparalleled survey of how women’s struggles against gender inequalities promoted their engagement with other issues across time and cultures. Backed by a global editorial board of 130 scholars, Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials drawn from 300 repositories. Assembled and cross-searchable for the first time, these resources illuminate the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made. The collection lets researchers see how activism of the past shaped events and values that live on today, with deep insight into peace, human trafficking, poverty, child labor, literacy, and global inequality. More than 150,000 pages of primary source documents include a central core of 60,000 pages of the proceedings of more than 400 international women’s conferences.
HTML Women and Social Movements in the U.S. - Scholar's Edition Access: Access on and off campus. Description: Women and Social Movements in the United States,1600-2000 is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding about U.S. women’s history generally and at the same time make those insights accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools. The collection currently includes 124 document projects and archives with more than 5,100 documents and 175,000 pages of additional full-text documents, written by 2,800 primary authors. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
HTML Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires since 1820 Access: Access on and off campus. Description: As the agents of empire, women acted as missionaries, educators, healthcare professionals, and women’s rights advocates. As opponents of empire, women were part of nationalist, resistance, and reform movements, and served as conservators of culture. Through more than 70,000 pages of curated documents, plus new video and audio recordings, Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 explores prominent themes related to conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality, as told through women’s voices. This archival database includes documents related to the Habsburg, Ottoman, British, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and United States empires, and to settler societies in the United States and South Africa. A large, innovative section focuses on the voices of Native Women in North America.
HTML Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter & the Women's Army Corps Access: Access on and off campus. Description: This collection consists of two major sets of records. First, Records of the Women’s Bureau documents the Bureau as an investigative agency, a clearinghouse for proposed changes in working conditions, and a source of public information. Also included is a detailed study on the treatment of women by unions in Midwestern industrial centers, complete with background interviews; community studies on the influx of women to industrial centers; and subject files and correspondence on women’s work in war industries, including issues like equal pay and child care. Second, Women in the U.S. Military, Correspondence of the Director of the Women’s Army Corps, 1942-1946 documents the women who served in the Women’s Army Corps. Every topic of importance to the WAC is covered in the correspondence, with an emphasis on issues such as recruiting, personnel matters like discipline and conduct, education, gender roles and race.
HTML Women's Magazine Archive I and II Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines published in North America. Issues are scanned in high-resolution colour and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Essence and Seventeen are just some of the titles included. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.
HTML Women's Magazine Archive III Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines published in North America. Issues are scanned in high-resolution colour and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Good Housekeeping, Ladies’ Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Essence and Seventeen are just some of the titles included. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.
HTML Women's Studies Manuscript Collection from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics and Reproductive Rights Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Three series of collections cover voting rights, national politics and reproductive rights. The voting rights papers include documentation of national, regional and local leaders. Collections on reproductive rights are the Schlesinger Library Family Planning Oral History Project, and the papers of Mary Ware Dennett and the Voluntary Parenthood League.
HTML Women, War & Society Access: Access on and off campus. Description: The First World War had a revolutionary and permanent impact on the personal, social and professional lives of all women. Their essential contribution to the war in Europe is fully documented in this collection of primary source materials sourced from the Imperial War Museum, London. These unique documents — charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs and press cuttings — are published here for the first time in fully searchable form, along with interpretative essays from leading scholars. Together these documents form a resource for the study of 20th century social, political, military and gender history. Coverage: 1914-1918.
HTML Womens Wear Daily Archive Access: Access on and off campus. Description: Previously unavailable in digital form, the entire archive of Women’s Wear Daily and its supplements opens up new opportunities for research. This authoritative record of how the fashion industry developed provides valuable primary source material across the disciplines of fashion, business and history. Users can explore every page of every issue since 1910 in high resolution and full colour with searchable text.
HTML Workers, Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century Access: Access on and off campus. Description: This module consists of a wide range of collections documenting the American workers and labor unions in the 20th century, with a special emphasis on the interaction between workers and the U.S. federal government. The collection opens with Strike Files of the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as records on U.S. government surveillance of radical workers. Materials in this collection provide a view into the evolving policies of intervention in labor disputes and documentation on the major strikes between 1894-1920, as well as a window into the daily operations of private industry during a time of radical social change. Other topics covered include labor struggles by copper miners, deportation of workers and the tumultuous situation among workers in the Chicago meat-packing industry. The government surveillance files consist of U.S. Military Intelligence Reports on radicals from 1917-1941 and Department of Justice investigations of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Communist Party, and the use of military force by the federal government in domestic disturbances between 1900 and 1938. There is coverage on anarchist, socialist, social democratic, and libertarian groups, unemployment relief in the 1930s, farm tenancy, labor strife during World War II, and more.
HTML World Bank: Documents & Reports World Bank: Data & Research Access information: Freely available Description: For global economic policies. Using Documents & Reports (previously known as World Development Sources (WDS)) search and a browse the full-text of 27,000 World Bank publications: Analytic & Advisory (in-depth background, strategic priorities, and direction for lending activities). Project Documents (loan documents released to the public according to the project cycle; Publications & Research (Formal publications, working papers & informal series from departments around the Bank). The Data & Research section provides access to statistics and research output, including: research briefs, policy research reports, World Bank economic classification of countries, Global Economic Prospects online.
HTML World Christian Database Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: The World Christian Database provides comprehensive statistical information on world religions, Christian denominations, and people groups. Extensive data are available on 9,000 Christian denominations, 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as data on 5,000 cities, 3,000 provinces and 234 countries. Information is readily available on religious activities, growth rates, religious literature, worker activity, and demographic statistics. Additional secular data is incorporated on population, health, education, and communications.
HTML World Health Organization (WHO) Institutional Repository (IRIS) Access information: Freely available Description: Search the entire collection of WHO publications. Access to online publications in full where available. Additional information: WHO's Regional Offices' web pages have links to full-text of their publications, their library services and information listed under health topics: Africa Pan-America South East Asia Europe Eastern Mediterranean Western Pacific
HTML World Heritage Sites : Africa Access information: Access on and off-campus. JSTOR are providing institutions with free access to the World Heritage Sites: Africa database through June 30th, 2022. Description: World Heritage Sites: Africa is a versatile collection of more than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites. This collection aids researchers in African studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art history, geography, history, and literature, as well as those focused on geomatics, historic preservation, urban planning, and visual and spatial technologies.
HTML The World of Archie Comics Archive Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: The World of Archie Comics Archive offers access to the backfiles of 100+ publications from Archie Comics, spanning the early 1940s to 2020. As well as Archie, this collection includes other major titles such as Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Betty & Veronica, and Jughead.
HTML World Religion Database Access information: Access on and off campus Description: The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. It offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world's religions for the period 1900 to 2050.
HTML World War I: British Foreign Office Political Correspondence Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Records from military attaché and diplomatic and consular personnel describe the political situation in European countries at the outbreak of the war. They cover the financial position of the warring countries and examine the technological innovations of World War I, particularly in air and naval warfare. This formerly confidential correspondence also includes a wide range of other wartime issues.
HTML World War I: Records of the American Expeditionary Forces, and Diplomacy in the World War I Era Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: This resource offers extensive documentation on the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I as well as materials on U.S. intelligence operations and the post-war peace process. AEF documents consist of correspondence, cablegrams, operations reports, statistical strength reports and summaries of intelligence detailing troop movements and operations of Allied and enemy forces. The vast majority of the AEF documents date from April 26, 1917 - July 2, 1919. Coverage: 1915-1927.
HTML World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes and Refugees Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: President Roosevelt’s files reveal the innermost workings of military planning during World War II. Firsthand accounts cover the internment of Japanese civilians. Primary sources from soldiers in the D-Day invasion deliver valuable context. Documentation on civilians in Europe focus on Jewish refugees. Other collections include FBI files on Tokyo Rose, Manhattan Project and more.
HTML WorldCat Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Global database containing tens of millions of bibliographic records on all subjects from 1000 A.D. to date, for all types of material catalogued by libraries, including books and digital resources, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, manuscripts, films, videos. No abstracts.
HTML Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: This database provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
