The majority of the library's databases are only available to UWM students, faculty, staff and in-library users. However, the titles on this page may be freely accessed by the general public.
Current UWM-affiliated researchers should take full advantage of the many subscription-based databases on the Databases A-Z page.
- AGRICOLA
- 1970-present; citations to journal articles, books (15th century to present), and audiovisuals about food, nutrition, and most aspects of the agricultural sciences.
- AIDSLINE
- The journal article citations from AIDSLINE are now included in the PubMed version of Medline. Click on the link above to access Medline.
- ASCE [American Society of Civil Engineers] CE Database
- 1970-present; indexes all of the American Society of Civil Engineers journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters. Full text is available from 30 civil engineering journals.
- BadgerLink
- Dates vary; access to information resources for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's public, school, academic, and special libraries. Includes access to over 6,000 magazines, newsletters and newspapers. Many of the titles are in full-text.
- BioMed Central
- 1999 - present (varies); provides a collection of free, open access, mostly peer reviewed research articles from over 100 biomedical, medicine, health, biology and biotechnology related online journals. (Note: For a few journals, only the research content is free.)
- Bizjournals.com
- Dates vary; browse or search within selective full text from 42 metropolitan business newspapers, including The Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee.
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
- 1976-present; The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) indexes electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. Direct links are provided to those publications that are available online. Guide
- Census Data (2000) via American FactFinder
- The Census Bureau provides the primary source for the U.S. 2000 Census records. Includes the 2000 Census of Population & Housing, the 1997 Economic Census, and the American Community Survey. American FactFinder Guide | Census 2000 Guide
- Census Data (1990)
- 1990 Census of Population & Housing. Summary tape files are available online. Library CD-ROMs (
) are available for block statistics. Guide
- Chemistry Central
- Dates vary; peer-reviewed open access research articles in chemistry published by, or in cooperation with, BioMed Central.
- Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database
- 1965-present; indexes primarily English language books, journal articles, conference papers, and other sources on child abuse, its prevention and treatment. Includes sexual, emotional, and psychological abuse, and child neglect.
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Originated in 2000; provides patients, family members, health care professionals, and members of the public easy access to regularly updated information on thousands of federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its National Library of Medicine (NLM), has developed this site in collaboration with all NIH Institutes and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
- Cold Regions Bibliography (CRREL)
- 1950s-present; contains over 220,000 bibliographic records on Antarctica, cold regions science and technology.
- Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
- Dates vary; provides access to 1,400 bibliographies of literature in computer science. The collection contains more than 1.4 million references to journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports; many records include abstracts and links to full-text documents; updated monthly.
- DIRLINE - Directory of [Health] Information Resources Online
- Dates vary; National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information on over 8,000 information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine.
- ERIC
- ERIC Database 1959-present; Full-text ERIC Documents, 1993-present. Source for information on all aspects of education for all age groups, including counseling, tests, and measurement.
- Google Scholar
- Dates vary; records and citations from Google's Web index calculated to be scholarly. Although useful for most topics, it still contains a small subset of available publications; other databases on this page will have additional items on your topic.
Note: You never have to pay to retrieve results. The full text of some results are linked, but for others the Citation Linker must be used to track them down. Firefox users can install our Google Scholar Find It! Extension for help with this step.- HealthSTAR
- The journal article citations from HealthSTAR (Health Services Technology, Administration and Research) are now included in the PubMed version of Medline. Click on the link above to access Medline. The citations for books, book chapters, technical reports, and conference papers previously found in HealthStar are included in the National Library of Medicine's online catalog, LOCATORplus.
- HighWire Press
- 1948-present; indexing and selected full text to over 800 journals in the life sciences, medicine, physical and social sciences. Guide
- Index Translationum
- Current; UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) publishes a free, web-accessible database of literature in translation. Use this resource to identify translated works, then search the Library Catalog for availability. The database can be searched by original language, target language, translator, keyword and other options. The print predecessor is available in the UWM Libraries (Z6514 .T7 I42).
- Information Bridge [U. S. Department of Energy]
- 1995-present; over 58,000 full-text DOE research and development reports. Reports included in the database cover a wide variety of subjects in the sciences, including physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, and renewable energy.
- IngentaConnect [Formerly Carl Uncover]
- Current; free abstracting service covering over 29,000 scholarly journals in many academic fields including engineering, library science, medicine, science, and technology. Full-text of selected journal articles is available to signed in UWM users. Individual users can order articles for a fee. Free e-mail alert service is also available. Guide
- MEDLINE via PubMed
MEDLINE via EBSCOHost- 1950-present; indexes over 4,800 journals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and the preclinical sciences. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 14 million citations in MEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. Guide | Tutorial
- MedlinePlus
- Originated in 1998; National Library of Medicine's selective list of authoritative health information sources from the National Institutes of Health and other government and professional organizations in the U.S. Updated nightly, it has over 4,000 articles on various diseases, symptoms, drugs and procedures, as well as interactive health tutorials, research news, local resources, directories of hospitals and physicians, clinical trials and links to MEDLINE for journal citations.
- National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
- Dates vary; includes databases, research and current general information about substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment policies, programs, and practices. Also includes the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive.
- Paper of Record
- Dates vary; full text of historical newspapers from the early 1800s to the mid 1900s. Free registration required.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
- 1972-present; citations and abstracts to federal, state, and local government documents, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research in the field of criminal justice. Some publications are available in full text.
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
- Present; data from more than 100 sources about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States. Over 600 tables.
- TeachingBooks
- Dates vary; information on children's literature authors, activity, discussion guides, and related links. E-Mail registration (Under "Sign In") is required to view results.
- TRIS [Transportation Research Information Service]
- 1960-present; provides over 500,000 bibliographic records covering transportation research published in books, journal articles, technical reports and other media.
- Wikipedia
- Current; a community-built encyclopedia with over 2,000,000 articles. Note that because articles can be "vandalized," information on Wikipedia is not always accurate. As with other encyclopedias, however, it is sometimes a good starting point in the research process.
- Windows Live Academic
- Dates vary; peer reviewed journal articles contained in journal publisher portals. Currently indexes content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas. More than 6 million records.
- World Factbook
- Current; country profiles for each nation, including history, people, government, economy, military, industry, flags, and maps.
See also the Online Reference directory for more free Web resources, and the Good Starting Points page for a better list of databases for beginning research.
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