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AccessScience
Get full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates - in all areas of science and technology - updated daily.

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ALLDATA® Online
The world's most comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information.

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ARTstor
ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.

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Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalents: the Orange Book
Brand and generic prescription and over-the-counter drug information provided by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

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CABI Animal Health & Production Compendium
A time-saving encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on all aspects of animal health and production. It includes information on diseases, breeds, nutrition, husbandry and treatment of livestock and poultry.

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CABI Crop Protection Compendium
An encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on all aspects of crop protection. It includes information on pests, diseases and weeds and their natural enemies, the crops that are their hosts, and the countries in which they occur.

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CABI Forestry Compendium
A multimedia tool for identification, learning about and selecting a specific tree species.

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WYLDCAT on the Web logoChilton Online Auto Repair
Automotive repair information for do-it-yourself people.

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WYLDCAT on the Web logo CQ Electronic Library
The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics covered range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.

The CQ Researcher web site offers online access to issues dating back to October 25, 1991.

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WYLDCAT on the Web logo Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, which provide high quality information to people providing and receiving care and those responsible for research, teaching, funding and administration at all levels.

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College Source Online
31,928 COLLEGE CATALOGS in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.

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Country Watch
Includes demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information and daily news coverage for every country in the world and a significant news archive made up of the compendium of regional news carriers

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DexOnline Telephone Directory
The official Qwest online telephone directory.

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eBrary
The Academic Complete collection of ebooks includes 34,000 electronic books across the spectrum of academic disciplines.

WYLDCAT on the Web logo eLibrary
eLibrary contains more than 1,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, web links and audio/video files.

WYLDCAT on the Web logo EBSCOhost
Indexes and abstracts of academic and general interest periodicals, as well as business and health information (provides a large percentage of full text articles).

  • Academic Search Premier - Contains full text for 3,467 scholarly publications; includes PDF images for the great majority of journals--many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color. This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc.
  • Agricola - This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1979 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. Now a full text database.
  • Alt Health Watch - This alternative health database provides full text for more than 140 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
  • Animals - Provides over 7,000 reports, in every-day language, describing symptoms, treatments, risks and after-effects of a vast array of medical topics and conditions.
  • Business Source Premier - Contains 2,804 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc. More than 200 of the journals have PDF full text back to 1965 or the first issue published.
  • CINAHL with Full Text - Provides provides indexing for 2,737 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,150 journals and provides full text for 329 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
  • ERIC - Provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
  • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
  • GeoRef - Produced by the American Geological Institute, this database contains over 2.6 million bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates.
  • Greenfile - GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.
  • Health Source Nursing and Consumer Edition - Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 580 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 615 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis. With Health Source - Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source - Consumer Edition features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
  • History Reference Center offers full text from more than 650 history reference books and encyclopedias, cover to cover full text from more than 50 history magazines, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies and 12,000 historical photos, maps and other images.
  • MasterFile Premier - Provides full text for over 1900 journals covering reference, business, health and much more.
  • Middle Search Plus - Provides full text for 80 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and jr. high school students.
  • Primary Search - Provides full text for over 50 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.
  • PsychArticles - from the American Psychological Association. This is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
  • Regional Business News - With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for business newswires (including PR Newswire and BusinessWire) and regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications).

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WYLDCAT on the Web logo Encyclopædia Britannica Online
A comprehensive, easily searchable online general encyclopedia suitable for all ages.

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Facts on File
A good general reference source with Top News stories 1940 - current, Issues and Controversies with in-depth investigation of current issues, Today's Science, and the World Almanac. This database offers more 200,000 full-text articles.

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Grove Art Online
Grove Art Online comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001). Articles that have been added or updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.

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Grove Music Online
Grove Music Online is the primary reference work for musicians. It includes The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Through a partnership with Sibelius notation software, over 500 of Grove's musical examples are now available in sound as well as notated examples.

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JSTOR
  • Arts & Sciences I Collection - Includes the complete back runs of 117 titles in 15 disciplines. The collection includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, sociology, humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
  • Arts & Sciences III Collection - Focused on the arts and humanities, the Arts & Sciences III Collection contains 120 titles. This collection covers language and literature, music, and the history and study of art and architecture.

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WYLDCAT on the Web logoLearning Express Library

Log on using your Library Card and PIN.

A completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial ourse series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

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LexisNexis Academic
The 5,900 sources include:
  • National and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources
  • U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information Shepard's® Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789
  • Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news

Lexis Nexis Congressional Documents
LexisNexis® Congressional allows you to explore Congress in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research. This databases provides access to the full text of publications dating back as far as the late eighteenth century. You can perform in-depth research in public policy, historical, and legal areas of interest. The basic subscription includes abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources.

Purchased by the University of Wyoming Libraries for statewide use.

 

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Lit Finder
Online full-text literature. Researchers can access poems, plays, speeches, and short stories.

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Literature Criticism Online
Literature criticism from the well-known series published by ThomsonGale publishers Children's Literature Review, Contemporary Literature Critcism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism and Short Story Criticism. This resource is a very extensive compilation of literary commentary and includes the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.

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WYLDCAT on the Web logo Literature Resource Center
Biographical, bibliographical and contextual information for literature researchers; students and researchers can access full-text criticism.

  • More than 300,000 full-text journal articles from more than 170 literary ournals
  • 38,000 critical essays
  • 4,329 work overviews, plot summaries and explications
  • More than 5,000 links to authoritative related Web sites
  • More than 123,000 author biographies
  • 2,500 author portraits
  • Merriam-Webster's® Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms

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MEDLINEplus
This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials.

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MICROMEDEX
A wide range of clinical databases, including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine. Learn More

CareNotes™ System:
- CareNotes™ provides your patients with complete, easy-to-understand information about all aspects of their care, medications, and health, in English or Spanish.

Micromedex Health Care
A wide range of clinical databases, including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine.

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WYLDCAT on the Web logo MyLibrary DV
Downloadable Video for Wyoming library users
On-Demand Video - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week . REQUIRES A WYLD LIBRARY CARD. You can access hundreds of hours of DVD quality programming on topics such as cooking, travel, and health as well as classic movies and more!

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NAXOS
A comprehensive collection of classical, jazz, world & folk, adult contemporary, Chinese and rock music. Music is organized by categories such as ballet, chamber music, concertos or by musical genre. Music titles or performers can also be searched from the opening screen.

5 users may listen simultaneously.

WYLDCAT on the Web logoNetLibrary
Search for, preview, download and listen to eAudiobooks and ebooks through the NetLibrary platform. Library users can download up to 10 high-quality, portable eAudiobooks, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Ebooks can be downloaded and consulted by chapter for research.

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19th Century U. S. Newspapers
Digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.

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Nursing Resource Center
The Nursing Resource Center provides authoritative information written in accessible language for students completing research papers, class assignments, and those preparing for their clinical experiences as they learn how to care for and treat patients.

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WYLDCAT on the Web logoOCLC WorldCat
58 million library catalog records from 23,000 member libraries. Find information about books, periodicals, audiovisual and other sources available in libraries all over the world.

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Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.  Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations

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Opposing Viewpoints Resouce Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides a one-stop source for information on social issues. This is an especially valuable resource for students researching the pros and cons on various topics. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

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Oxford English Dictionary Online
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. For each word in the OED, the various groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to the quotation evidence, i.e. the senses with the earliest quotations appear first, and the senses which have developed more recently appear further down the entry.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online site offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.

Oxford Reference Online Premium
Integrated and consistent information across the full subject spectrum - general reference, language and quotations, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional. It also includes English/French, English/German, English/Spanish, English/Italian bilingual dictionaries. Plus in-depth articles from the acclaimed Oxford Companions series.

NEW: the Literature Collection with 14 Oxford Companion to literature titles.

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ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals
ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index™ is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The database includes abstract and indexing for 240 titles, with more than 80 available in full-text.

PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals.

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RCLweb - Resources for College Libraries
65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects. Titles have been selected academic libraries by more than 300 subject specialists and bibliographers.

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Safari Tech Books Online
Safari Tech Books Online is a one-stop source for leading IT information. This ideal ready-reference resource, provides a level of authority, flexibility, and currency, covering technologies most essential to users including: certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linus/Unix, Web development, Windows, XML, and more.

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Science Direct
Science Direct's full-text collection covers authoritative titles from the core scientific literature. More than 2,000 journals in health and life sciences, social sciences and the humanities, and physical sciences and engineering are currently available online.

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WYLDCAT on the Web logo SIRS Researcher®
A general reference database that contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues. Articles are archived from 1989 to the present.

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Tales Online
A database of folktales, fairytales, myths of indigenous peoples, legends, sagas, and fables of world cultures in collections.

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Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
The most comprehensive resource for industrial information. The source of product, company information, CAD drawings and more.

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Theatre in Video
More than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all.

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Turfgrass
The Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) provides bibliographic and descriptive records of all types of works related to turfgrass culture. The ultimate goal of TGIF is to provide access to all published materials reporting on aspects of turfgrass and its maintenance.

Twayne Authors Series
Book-length introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors --

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U. S. Pharmacopeia -- NF Online
The United States Pharmacopeia–National Formulary (USP–NF) is a book of public pharmacopeial standards. It contains standards for medicines, dosage forms, drug substances, excipients, medical devices, and dietary supplements.
Requires a username and password for logon; please check with the Pharmacy Tech instructor or Library Director for access information.

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Virtual Reference Library
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research

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WYLDCAT on the Web logo WilsonWeb
One-stop searching for users with inquiries in areas that cross disciplines—ethnic studies, women’s studies, history, and more.

  • Full text of articles from over 1,750 publications.

  • Article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications.

  • Periodical research for all core undergraduate subjects.

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