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McNair Scholars: 8. Choose Disciplinary Resources & Find Your Librarian

Where to Start?

The Library provides access to numerous article databases. You can find a full list of databases here and use the dropdown All Subjects menu to select your specific area(s) of research. If you're not sure where to start, you might want to try some of the multidisciplinary databases listed to the right. This page has suggestions for students studying topics in the following disciplines:

Art & Design
Business
Computers and Technology
Education
Environmental Studies
Gender Studies
Health and Medicine
History
Social Work and Psychology

If you're still not sure which database is best, get in touch with the librarian liaison for your department, or contact the librarians reference desk via phone (262-472-1032) or email (library@uww.edu). We're available weekdays 9-4:30 pm even though the library building is closed this summer.

Art & Design Databases

The librarian dedicated to Art & Design is Carol Elsen. Feel free to contact her if you have questions or would like suggestions on how to frame your research question and search these resources.

Phone: 262.472.5
Email: elsenc@uww.edu
Office: Andersen Library 2105B

Make an Appointment

Business Article Databases

The librarian dedicated to the College of Business and Economics is Naomi Schemm. Feel free to contact her if you have questions or would like suggestions on how to frame your research question and search these resources.

Phone: 262.472.5519
Email: SchemmN@uww.edu
Office: Andersen Library 2105A

Make an Appointment

Business Premium Collection
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Formerly known as ABI/Inform, but expanded to include some other business collections. Thousands of full text journals, articles, country- and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
Business Source Complete
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Includes professional and scholarly business journals dating back as far as 1886.Also includes company and industry profiles, market research reports and country studies.

Funding provided by the College of Business & Economics.
EconLit
EconLit provides subject indexing and abstracts of journals, collective volumes, books, dissertations, and working papers from the American Economic Association. Note: Restricted to 4 users at a time.

Computers and Technology Article Databases

The librarian dedicated to Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics is Martha Stephenson. Feel free to contact her if you have questions or would like suggestions on how to frame your research question and search these resources.

Phone: 262.472.4366
Email: stephenm@uww.edu
Office: Andersen Library 2105C

Make an Appointment

MathSciNet
MathSciNet is a database of reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. It is also available via the Ebscohost platform.
Science Citation Index Expanded
Part of the Web of Science Core Collections, Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary database that indexes more than 5700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. It tracks how many times an article has been cited since publication, finds relevant items which share one or more cited references, reviews cited references that link to a full record display, and searches all cited authors.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides full-text access to hundreds of Elsevier's peer-reviewed journals, and indexes thousands more, in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
Wiley Online Library
Full-text access to journals, books, and research resources, covering the humanities and life, health, social, and physical sciences.

Partial funding for ebooks provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.

Complete List of Computer Science Databases

Education Article Databases

The librarian dedicated to the College of Education and Professional Studies is Ellen Latorraca. Feel free to contact her if you have questions or would like suggestions on how to frame your research question and search these resources.

Phone: 262.472.5525
Email: latorrae@uww.edu
Office: Andersen Library 2110A

Make an Appointment

Education Research Complete
Topics covered include all levels of education, from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties.

Access provided by Wisconsin DPI via Badgerlink.
ERIC (via EBSCOhost)
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a source of education research found in journal articles, books, and grey literature such as government reports, curriculum guides and standards.

Access provided by Wisconsin DPI via Badgerlink.

Complete Listing of Education-related Databases

Environmental Article Databases

The librarian dedicated to the Biological Sciences is Martha Stephenson. Feel free to contact her if you have questions or would like suggestions on how to frame your research question and search these resources.

Phone: 262.472.4366
Email: stephenm@uww.edu
Office: Andersen Library 2105C

Make an Appointment

Environment Complete
Contains full text for more than 680 journals and provides full text for 120 monographs related to environmental studies.

Partial funding provided by Student Technology Fees.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment and includes scholarly, government and general-interest titles.

Access provided by Wisconsin DPI via Badgerlink.
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)
GREENR focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia.
JSTOR Sustainability
This database contains journals, e-books, and research reports on environmental stresses and their impact on society. Content spans the Biological Sciences, Business & Economics, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Law, Public Health, Urban Studies, and many other disciplines.

Complete List of Environment Databases

Gender Studies Article Databases

The librarian dedicated to Women's & Gender Studies is Diana Shull. Feel free to contact her if you have questions or would like suggestions on how to frame your research question and search these resources.

Phone: 262.472.5011
Email: shulld@uww.edu
Office: Andersen Library 2110B

Make an Appointment

GenderWatch
Contains international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
Brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities.

Women's Studies International
A combination of nine contributing databases covering women's studies, women's issues, and gender-focused scholarship from throughout the world.

Health and Medicine Article Databases

The librarian dedicated to Health and Medicine Psychology is Diana Shull. Feel free to contact her if you have questions or would like suggestions on how to frame your research question and search these resources.

Phone: 262.472.5011
Email: shulld@uww.edu
Office: Andersen Library 2110B

Make an Appointment

CINAHL PLUS with Full-Text
Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Online full-text access to JAMA from 1998 to present.
Medline with Full Text
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline covers all aspects of biomedicine including nursing, dentistry and veterinary medicine.
Complete Listing of Health and Medicine Databases

History Article Databases

The librarian dedicated to History is Jennifer Motszko. Feel free to contact her if you have questions or would like suggestions on how to frame your research question and search these resources.

Phone: 262.472.5515
Email: motszkoj@uww.edu
Office: Andersen Library L1125D

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Accessible Archives
Contains primary source material from 18th & 19th century publications, including eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of everyday life, editorial observations, and commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records.
America: History and Life with Full Text
A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.

Complete Listing of History Databases

JSTOR
(JSTOR has temporarily activated all archive and primary source collections until June 2021 due to COVID-19.)
An archival full-text multi-disciplinary journal database, coverage varies by publication but typically begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue. Covering over 60 academic disciplines in more than 2400 scholarly journals, UW-Whitewater Library has acquired Arts & Sciences I-VII Collections as well as the JSTOR Life Science Collection.

Partial funding for Collections V and VI from the Russell Moratz estate. Partial funding for Collection VII provided by Student Technology Fees.

Social Work and Psychology Article Databases

The librarian dedicated to Social Work and Psychology is Diana Shull. Feel free to contact her if you have questions or would like suggestions on how to frame your research question and search these resources.

Phone: 262.472.5011
Email: shulld@uww.edu
Office: Andersen Library 2110B

Make an Appointment

PsycINFO
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. In addition to full-text journals, it contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.

Partial funding provided by Student Technology Fees.

Complete Listing of Psychology Databases

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