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ABI/INFORM (FirstSearch)

Dates Covered: 1971 - present
Description: Indexes and abstracts US and international trade magazines, academic and professional journals; with some full text.
Restrictions: Library use only; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts

Academic Search Premier

Dates Covered: 1970 - present
Description: Indexes journals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies and education.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles and abstracts

Accounting Research Manager

Description: Provides information to current U.S. Accounting Standards such as FASB, AICPA, EITF, and IASB as well as Auditing Engagement Standards such as; AICPA, PCAOB, and OMB.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text documents.

ACS Journals

Description: Index and full-text for all of the American Chemical Society publications.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Abstracts and full-text.

AGRICOLA (FirstSearch)

Dates Covered: 1983 - present
Description: Indexes journals in agriculture and ecology.
Restrictions: Library use only; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts

Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch)

Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description: Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change.
Restrictions: Library use only; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts

AltHealth Watch

Dates Covered: 1990 - present
Description: Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles and abstracts

Art Museum Image Gallery

Description: Art images from major U.S. and World Museums.  Includes thumbnail, medium and large density photographs.  Note: while these images maybe downloaded they are only for "educational use only."  If you have questions contact a librarian.
Restrictions: Carroll users only and for "educational use only."
Resource Type: Images

ATLA Religion Index

Dates Covered: 1949 - present
Description: Indexes journals, books, book reviews and essay collections in religion and theology; with abstracts.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Book reviews and journal articles

Badger Cat

Description: Unlimited searching for the OCLC World Cat database which includes library records from all over the United States and some international holdings. 
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Online catalog

Bio Digest (FirstSearch)


Dates Covered: 1989 – present
Description: Life science information written in a non-technical style.
Restrictions: Library use only; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts

Bio One

Dates Covered: 1989 – present
Description: Indexes peer-reviewed bio-science journals and bulletins published by AIBS member societies.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles

BioMed Central

Description: BioMed Central Ltd., an independent publisher in London, England, provides free access to biomedical research publications. These publications include biology and medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. BioMed Central offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Abstracts only.

Books in Print (FirstSearch)

Description: Catalog of books currently published in the US.
Restrictions: Library use only; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Publishing information.

Business Dateline(FirstSearch)

Dates Covered: 1994 - present
Description: Indexes US and international trade magazines
Restrictions: Library use only; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts.

Business Management (FirstSearch)

Dates Covered: 1994 - present
Description: Indexes US and international trade magazines
Restrictions: Library use only; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts

Business Organizations(FirstSearch)

Dates Covered: 1994 - present
Description: Indexes US and international trade magazines
Restrictions: Library use only; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Organizational information

Business Source Complete

Dates Covered: 1886 - present
Description: Indexes journals in business, management, economics, finance and accounting; with full text. Contains company, market, industry, and country reports.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles and reports.

Business Source Premier

Dates Covered: 1984 - present
Description: Indexes journals in business, management, economics, finance and accounting; with full text.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Dates Covered: 1960 - present
Description: Contains over 250 volumes published since 1960, equating to around 196,000 pages of scholarship published by Cambridge University Press
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text ebook.

Choice Reviews

Dates Covered: 1988 - present
Description: Book and electronic resources reviews by subject specialists.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text book reviews.

  CINAHL Plus Full-Text

Dates Covered: 1937 - present
Description: Indexes over 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, back to 1937. Many items are full text PDF's. 
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials Dates Covered: 2006 - present
Description: Includes domestic and international drug trials.reviews.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Review

Dates Covered: 2006 - present
Description: Includes over 4,200 reviews, including the methodology reviews.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text.

College Source

Dates Covered: 1992 - present
Description: A virtual library of 27,417 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.
Restrictions: Carroll users only; On-campus access only
Resource Type: Full-text college catalogs.

Com Abstracts

Dates Covered: 1989 - present
Description: Indexes 48 journals in communication; with abstracts.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Journal abstracts.

Communications & Mass Media

Dates Covered: 1915 - present
Description: Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Corporate ResourceNet

Dates Covered: 1985 - present
Description: A collection of trade and some scholarly business journal and magazines.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects Dates Covered: 2006 - present
Description: Part of the Cochrane collection, includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text.

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals

Dates Covered: 1990 - present
Description: Provides links to journals in History, Religion, Philosophy and the Sciences.  All journals are open access journals meaning their research articles are available for free; however, they are still under copyright by the author and journal publisher.
Restrictions: None; open access journals.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Ebrary Computer Science

Dates Covered: 2000 - present
Description: A full-text ebook database with over 2,500 computer science books.
Restrictions: Carroll users only. Due to the changes with the new Ebrary Reader this resource must use the new PioProxy login. To login use your Carroll username and password.
Resource Type: Full-text ebooks .

ECO Index (FirstSearch)




Dates Covered: 1969 - present
Description: OCLC's Electronic Collections Online indexes journals, books, book reviews and dissertations in a wide variety of areas including politics, criminal justice, history, english, business, and science.
Restrictions: Library use only; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts.

Econ Lit (FirstSearch)



Dates Covered: 1969 - present
Description: Indexes journals, books, book reviews and dissertations in economics; with abstracts.
Restrictions: Library use only; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts.

Educational Administration Abstracts

Dates Covered: 1990 - present
Description: Indexes and abstracts for 60,000 records on education management, leadership, and research.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Index and abstracts, with links to full-text.

Educational Research Complete

Dates Covered: 1984 - present
Description:
Indexes and abstracts more than 2,150 journals, as well as full text for nearly 1,200 journals.
Restrictions:
Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type:
Index and abstracts, with links to full-text.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Description: Full-text online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Also includes an online version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Restrictions: Carroll users only
Resource Type: Full-text information, biographies, encyclopedias.

Environment Complete

Dates Covered: 1940 - present
Description:
This database provides full text for more than 1,900 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s.
Restrictions:
Carroll users only.
Resource Type:
Index and abstracts, with links to full-text.

ERIC

Dates Covered: 1966 - present
Description: Indexes journals and documents in education; with abstracts, lesson plans and some full-text ERIC documents.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Conference & working papers, curriculum resources, journal articles, and primary sources

Ethnic Newswatch

Dates Covered: 1960 - present
Description: Indexes US ethnic and minority publications; with full text.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text book reviews and newspapers

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text Dates Covered: 1990s - present
Description:
This The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 350 publications, with full text.
Restrictions:
Carroll users only.
Resource Type:
Index and abstracts, with links to full-text.
Dates Covered: 1990s - present
Description:
This database provides access to over 600 full length educational films in the area of Humanities.
Restrictions:
Carroll users only.
Resource Type:
Complete streaming video database. Need Window's Media Player or Quicktime to view the videos.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Description: Contains 17 books in the Nursing and Medical fields, Religion, Business, Education and more.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Electronic reference books.

GenderWatch

Dates Covered: 1970s - present
Description: Indexes unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, books, newsletters, etc.

General Science Full-Text

Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description: Indexes journals in the physical and life sciences; with abstracts.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

GeoBase (FirstSearch)

Dates Covered: 1980 - present
Description: Indexes publications in geography, geology and environmental sciences; with abstracts.
Restrictions: Library use only; Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts.

GPO Access - The Government  Printing Office

Dates Covered: 1990 - present
Description: The online listing of government databases, full-text access to current public papers of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the U.S. Government.
Restrictions: None
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

GreenFILE

Dates Covered: 1960s - present
Description: A free index to title in the environment science area.  It also includes link out to open access titles.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Some full-text journal articles.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Dates Covered: 1984 - present
Description: Indexes scholarly journals in many medical disciplines; with full text.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Journal articles

Heritage Quest Online Dates Covered: 1770s - 1930s
Description: Contains U. S. Census Records from 1790-1930, records from the Revolutionary War records, the Freedman's Bank Files, and other genealogical research documents.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Primary Source Documents
History Reference Center Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description: Includes reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, and full text journals. More than 112,000 historical documents, biographies of historical figures, historical photos, maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type:Full-text journal articles, books and reference sources.

Humanities International Complete

 

Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting for books, reference sources and over 1,700 journals in the humanities.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, books and reference sources.

Ingenta Connect

 

Description: Completely interdisciplinary indexing and abstract database of almost 30,000 publications. 
Restrictions: Free to search, no free full-text. Articles are available on a pay-per-use basis. 
Resource Type: Journal article abstracts, books and reference sources.

JSTOR

Dates Covered: 1900 to 2-5 yrs. ago
Description: The full text of more than 400 journals in business, social sciences, science, and the humanities; all searchable by author, title and date.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles

LexisNexis Academic


Description: Indexes newspaper articles, wire service reports and transcripts of TV and radio broadcasts; with full text in English and other languages.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Book reviews, broadcasts, and full-text newspapers.

LexisNexis Academic: Business

Description: Indexes journals and newspapers in business and accounting; with full text and company financial reports, SEC filings and reports.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, SEC filings, etc.

LexisNexis Academic: Legal


Description: Indexes newspapers, law reviews, government documents and other sources; with full text.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Case law, book reviews, government documents, Journal Articles.

LGBT Llife with Full-Text Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms. Contains hundreds of journals and rare monographs in full-text.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, books and reference sources.

LISTA

Description: A free index to library and information science journals.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Journal abstracts and citations.

Lit Finder

Description: Lit Finder incorporates three resources: Poem Finder, Story Finder, and Essay/Speech/Play Finder.  Each resource provides a search interface to thousands of full-text documents, literary excerpts and citations.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, citations.

Literary Reference Center Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description: Includes information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Master File Premier

Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description: Indexes general-interest and current-events magazines.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Dates Covered: 1998 - present
Description: Indexes major publications reference and journal articles in the medical field; including trials and materials in evidence based medicine.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles and reference books.

MEDLINE with Full-Text

Dates Covered: 1966 - present
Description: Contains the NIH MeSH subject headings and index. with contains over 1,470 full-text journals.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies Dates Covered:1900 - present
Description:
Iincludes: political affairs & law, international relations, economic affairs - business & industry, cultural heritage, arts & humanities, society & social welfare, ethnic diversity & anthropology, significant religious events & movements and recent history & archaeology.
Restrictions:
Carroll users only.
Resource Type:
Journal abstracts, and book reviews.

Dates Covered: 1975 - present
Description:
Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles pertaining to military and government news and history. 
Restrictions:
Carroll users only.
Resource Type:
Journal abstracts, book reviews, and some full-text.

Dates Covered: 1920s - present
Description:
Index contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers.
Restrictions:
Carroll users only.
Resource Type:
Journal abstracts, book reviews, and some full-text.

Dates Covered: 1920s - present
Description:
Index contains information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the Modern Language Association's International Bibliography.
Restrictions:
Carroll users only.
Resource Type:
Publisher and publishing information.

Description: Contains business financial information, including; stock reports, industry and bond reports.
Restrictions:
Carroll users only.
Resource Type:
Full-text analysis and financial figures.

Net Library

Description: Business, nursing, computer science and psychology books, along with classic titles from literature.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Electronic books

Description: Access to two databases: NY Times articles 1981 to the present and historical NY Times, 1851 to 1980.
Restrictions: None
Resource Type: An Index for the New York Times newspaper.

Newspaper Archive

Dates Covered: 1795 - present
Description: Includes early excerpts of the New York Times, Washington Post, and other regional, national and international newspapers.  Note: it is not complete.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text newspapers.

Newspapers(ProQuest)

Dates Covered: 1986 – present
Description: Includes national and leading regional papers such as The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlanta Journal / Constitution, Chicago Tribune, and the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text newspapers.

Newspaper Source Plus

Dates Covered: 1994 - present
Description: Indexes regional, national and international newspapers.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text newspapers

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

Dates Covered: 1985 - present
Description: A collection of an additional 100 full-text journals that are indexed in CINAHL.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Oxford English Dictionary

Description: Detailed etymologies for nearly every word in the English language.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Dictionaries

Oxford Reference Collection

Description: Contains over 150 dictionaries and encyclopedias in business, health science, art, history, religion and more.
Restrictions: Carroll users only. There is a 5 user maximum.
Resource Type: Dictionaries and encyclopedias.

Professional Development Collection

Dates Covered: varies - present
Description: Provides indexing and abstracting for over 595 education journals. Full text is provided for more than 500 of these, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

PsycArticles

Dates Covered: 1988 - present
Description: Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. Database contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 47 journals.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Dissertations, and full-text journal articles.

PsycInfo

Dates Covered: 1887 - present
Description: Indexes journals, dissertations, books and book chapters in all areas of psychology; with abstracts. Now includes PsycArticles, full text articles from selected journals.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Dissertations, book reviews, journal articles.

PubChem

Description: Includes three linked databases; PubChem Compound, Substance, and BioAssay.  Allows users to check out unique structure illustrations as well as known Bio-activity known results.
Restrictions: None, available freely from the NIH.
Resource Type: Deposited research reference materials.

PubMed

Dates Covered: 1966 - present
Description: Indexes biomedical journals from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Also links to molecular biology databases of DNA/protein sequences and 3-D structure data.
Restrictions: None, available freely from the NIH.
Resource Type: Journal articles
Tutorials: The new tutorial and manual can be found here

PubMed Central

Dates Covered: 1966 - present
Description: The full-text depository for most open access journals in the medical field and bio-sciences
Restrictions: None, open access journal articles.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles.

Ref Works

Description: A personal citation database, that the user can sort, store, apply bibliographic styles, and create a bibliography. 
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Personal citation tool and storage database.
Off Campus Access: Call the Reference Desk at 262-650-4892 the Group Code.
More Tutorial Information: Library's
Ref Works Instructions.

Regional Business News

Dates Covered: 1993 - present
Description: A collection of news sources, with some full-text.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Full-text journal and news articles.

Sage Journals Online

Dates Covered: 1999 - present
Description: Indexes and provides full-text journals in the fields of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Journal articles.

Science.gov

Dates Covered: 1998 - present
Description: Indexes publications and research articles published by the core science agencies of the U.S. Government.  Agencies include: Dept. of Defense, National Geological Survey, National Library of Medicine, National Science Foundation, NASA, and more.
Restrictions: None, available freely from the National Science Foundation.
Resource Type: Journal articles

Dates Covered: 2001 - present in full-text & indexes back to 1980s
Description: Indexes major publications in the life and health sciences.  Includes over 950 full-text journal titles and several reference titles.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, and reference books.

Science Reference Center Dates Covered: 1990 - present in full-text & indexes back to 1980s
Description: Contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, and reference books.
SciFinder

Description: Contains several databases including Chem Abstracts.
Restrictions: Carroll users only; limited number of concurrent users.
Resource Type: Abstracts.
First Time Users Registration: Click Here.

How to Guide: Click here for PDF
Tips and Best Practices Guides: Click Here.

SocIndex with Full-Text Dates Covered: 1895 - present
Description: The database features more than 2,066,400 records with subject headings from a 19,750+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographer.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, and reference books.
SPORTSDiscus with Full Text Dates Covered: 2001 - present in full-text & indexes back to 1980s
Description: Contains full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 490 journals.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Full-text journal articles, and reference books.

Teaching Books.net

Description: Included are original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, thousands of book guides with activities for the library and classroom for grades PreK-12.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Electronic books.

Teacher Reference Center

Dates Covered: 1989 - present
Description: A free index to educational magazines, journals, and books.
Restrictions: None
Resource Type: Citations.

Thomas

Dates Covered: 1989 - present
Description: A database of legislative information of the US Congress, provided by the Library of Congress. Includes; the Congressional Record, Committee Reports, bills and laws as well as other Congressional links.
Restrictions: None
Resource Type: Government legislative database.

Turn-it-in

Description: An online plagiarism and citation checking tool for students and faculty.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Online plagiarism and citation checking database.

Westlaw

Description: An online database that covers business, news and legal information. It includes; cases, journals and law reviews, Supreme Court Briefs, statutes and regulations, as well as European Union laws.  Our subscription also includes SEC filings and Hoover Business Reports as well as many news reports.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Index with full-text articles.

WisCat

Description: Online catalog of library holdings from 1200 libraries in Wisconsin.
Restrictions: Available to all Wisconsin Residents via Badgerlink.
Resource Type: Online catalog

Women and Social Movements


Description: An unique database that includes 26,000 pages of additional full-text documents, 1,900 primary source documents, and 1,520 primary authors. It also includes book, film and web site reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Primary sources and full-text articles.

World Cat


Description: Unlimited searching for the OCLC World Cat database which includes library records from all over the United States and some international holdings. 
Restrictions: Carroll users only.
Resource Type: Online catalog.

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