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ARTFL Project

The database consists of some 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing primarily from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.


ARTstor
A digital library of approximately 750,000 images in the fields of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences.


BadgerLink
BadgerLink is a program supported and funded through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction - Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning.  Its goal is to provide increased access to information for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's library community.


Books in Print
Books in Print provides current information for over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles.


Britannica Online
Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, and Britannica Book of the Year.


Citation Guides and Styles
Link to various online style manuals including the MLA and APA styles.


CollegeSource Online
includes the complete college catalogs for over 36,000 colleges and universities in the United States.

Credo Reference
Credo Reference, formerly Xrefer, is a "giant online reference library" that enables users to find
authoritative answers fast. It features content from 391 reference books, both generalized and specialized, on a broad range of subjects.


Dictionary of Wisconsin History
The dictionary provides brief biographical descriptions for over 2000 Wisconsinites, dozens of  historical events are summarized, historical jargon is explained, and more than 100 other broad topics are summarized.


Electronic Reference Desk
A listing of useful web sites including newspapers, dictionaries, directories, government sites, statistics, weather, style and citation guides, etc.

Encyclopedia of Social Work
Co-published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, the 20th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work includes demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster.

 

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A searchable electronic reference collection including subject encyclopedias, handbooks and guides, and covering many subject disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

 

Kelley Blue Book - New & Used Car Prices
The Blue Book is the most popular automotive book in the United States for determining used car values.


NAICS (North American Industry Classification System)
NAICS is a unique system for classifying business establishments. It is the first economic classification system to be constructed based on a single economic concept. Economic units that use like processes to produce goods or services are grouped together.

Naxos Music Library
This sound library contains over 150,000 tracks, including classical music, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music, which users can access by composer, artist, period, year of composition, solo instrument or genre.  The music is streamed in wma format, and Windows Media Player 9/10 is recommended.  Please logout of the service when you are finished.

NewsDirectory.com
A guide to English-language media online and includes over 8,000 newspapers and magazines.

Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC)
Provides online access to reference resources in African American studies, including history, literature, and women's studies. Other material and features include bibliographies, interactive timelines and maps, photo essays and image collections, key primary sources, and selected Internet links.

 

Oxford Art Online
The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day.

 

Oxford English Dictionary Online

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.


PubList
PubList contains over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals titles.


ThomasNet
ThomasNet is a comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America.


Uniform Crime Reports
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is responsible for collecting and archiving various crime statistics; online statistics are available from the mid 1990s to present.


University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Provides quality digital resources in the arts and sciences.


Wisconsin Blue Book
Published every two years, the Wisconsin Blue Book is a one volume reference source containing information on the state and the organization of its government.

 

 

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