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Walt Whitman Archive
Provides online both facsimile and e-text versions of all the editions of Leaves of Grass as well as other poetry manuscripts.


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WAO : World Affairs Online
World Affairs Online is one of the largest social science databases in Europe, currently containing over 665,000 references, mainly journal articles, book chapters, hearings, and grey literature.


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War Times Journal Archives
Contains the full text military memoirs, headquarters dispatches, correspondence, eyewitness accounts, and photo galeries.


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Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public CompaniesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Wards Business Directory provides updated company and industry profiles on thousands of companies. Includes brief company data such as sales, officers and company rankings and allows users to search or browse by location and industry.


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Water Words Dictionary
A compilation of technical water, water quality, environmental, and water-related terms. Produced by the Nevada Division of Water Planning, Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources.


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Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the 12th-18th centuries.


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Web of ScienceON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences, arts and humanities, and the social sciences.


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Web Resources for SACO Proposals
In addition to a very extensive list of geography and geographic names sources (both world-wide and arranged by country name), this list provides links to Internet resources from a broad-based array of topics covering area studies, arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.


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WebCASPAR
The Integrated Science and Engineering Resource Data System maintained by the National Science Foundation (NSF) provides access to a large body of statistical data resources for science and engineering at United States academic institutions.


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WebSCIMS
SCIMS is a serials database containing all serial subscriptions maintained by the New Delhi Library of Congress Office including current, changed, and ceased titles from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.


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Webster's Online Dictionary
The Rosetta Edition of the Websters Dictionary contains the origins, histories, and meanings of words.


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Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Author index to articles published in the 19th century, including biographical information, pseudonyms used, and bibliography of articles written.


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Western Waters Digital Library
The Western Waters Digital Library aims to be a searchable comprehensive digital information resource about water in the western United States.


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WHO Statistical Information System
WHOSIS is a guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization.


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Whole Brain Atlas
An atlas of color images of the brain, including brain injuries and diseases, such as cerebrovascular, neoplastic, degenerative (Alzheimer's disease), and inflammatory or infectious diseases.


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WHOLIS : World Health Organization Library Database
WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present.


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Wildlife and Ecology Studies WorldwideON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index to scientific and management literature on mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians from journals, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations and other publications.


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Wiley InterScienceON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search journals, read abstracts, browse through any journal tables of content, and view the full-text of a small number of subscribed to articles.


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Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection
Indexes journal articles and books in Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Development and Biology, Chemistry, Engineering Materials Science.


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William Blake Archive
The Blake Archive contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of 27 copies of 16 of Blake's 19 illuminated works.


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Wilson DatabasesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search over 15 databases to locate books, periodical and newspaper articles, theses, films, recordings, and other types of material on a wide variety of topics.


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Wilson OmniFile Full TextON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of articles from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications covering virtually any subject.


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Wilson Retrospective IndexesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search the Wilson Applied Science & Business, Art, Humanities, Legal, Readers' Guide, and Social Sciences Retrospective Indexes (1890 - 1982), as well as Bibliographic Index Plus, simultaneously.


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Wind-Wildlife Impacts Literature Database
WIND is a bibliographic database covering the effects of energy development (including towers, power lines, and other wires) on birds.


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Windows on the Past
Grouping of selected historical materials hosted by the Cornell University Library which have been digitally scanned and are available for online browsing and searching.


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WISQARS
The Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control databases provide injury-related mortality data useful for research and for making informed public health decisions.


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Women and Social Movements in the U.S.ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
WASM includes tens of thousands of primary documents and images focusing on women's historical developments in the United States.


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Women in Congress
Contains biographical profiles of former women Members of Congress.


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Women Working, 1800-1930
This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between 1800 and the Great Depression.


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Women's Studies InternationalON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers the core disciplines in Women's Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research.


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Word on the Street
The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides printed between 1650 and 1910.


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WordIQ
A comprehensive and searchable reference tool for the web offering search results from a diverse array of dictionaries, encyclopedies, thesauri, and other valuable references.


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Working America Job Tracker
Database of more than 60,000 companies listing information about executive compensation, oversea job outsourcing, and violations of labor safety and health standards.


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World AlmanacsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains biographical information and provides facts and statistics covering arts and entertainment, science and technology, sports, cities, states and territories, historical anniversaries, national defense, and nations of the world.


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World Biographical Information SystemON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
WBIS contains biographies of some 4 million men and women, living and deceased, from all social classes and professions, from all countries and regions, from 4000 BC to the present.


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World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
WDC-MARE collects, scrutinizes, and disseminates data related to Global Change in the fields of environmental oceanography, marine geosciences, and marine biology.


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World Fact Book
CIA World Fact Book is arranged by country providing information on the following: geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.


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World Health Report
Published annually by the World Health Organization (WHO), the report combines an assessment of global health, including statistics relating to all countries, with a focus on a specific subject.


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World Legal Information Institute Databases
The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) provides access to worldwide law from countries in six continents.


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World News ConnectionON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full-text summaries and translations of international newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports and local media sources from the Foreign Broadcast information Service (FBIS).


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World of LearningON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The premier source of authoritative information to global institutions of higher education and learning, and to the people who work within them.


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World of Maps
Guide to locating maps, spacial data and GIS on the Internet.


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World Press Review Online
Offers full text articles, search options and direct links to foreign media by country.


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World Shakespeare BibliographyON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions,audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare.


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World Vital RecordsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
An international genealogy database containing more than 1 billion records from more than 45 countries.


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World War I Edition of Stars and Stripes
Full text of the complete seventy-one-week run of the official newspaper of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF).


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World Wide Science : Global Science Gateway
Searches an array of databases found in over a dozen science portals with only one query.


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WorldCat ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The OCLC Online Union Catalog contains the collective records of books, periodicals, maps, scores, films, recordings, websites, and other materials cataloged by over 41,000 OCLC member libraries.


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Worldwide NGO Directory
Search for NGOs (institutions focusing on international development that are entirely or primarily independent of government) by region, then by country.


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Worldwide Political Science AbstractsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.


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Wright American Fiction, 1851 - 1875
Collection of 19th century American fiction, including works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time.


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WTO International Trade Statistics
World Trade Organization detailed data on merchandise and services trade patterns worldwide.

Links to Library of Congress print editions of the WTO International trade statistics, 2000- .


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