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Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc. The purpose of the Guide is to encourage and facilitate the incorporation of electronic resources into teaching. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies [Info] Full Text Resource!

Washington Information Directory Washington Information Directory (http://library.cqpress.com/wid/)Capsule descriptions and contact information for Congress and federal agencies, governors and other state officials, U.S. and foreign diplomats, interest groups, other nongovernmental organizations, policy groups, foundations, and institutions. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Washington Post (1877-1991) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Washington Post (1996 to current) The Washington Post, founded in 1877, is the largest daily newspaper in Washington, D.C. It is widely considered to be a newspaper of record and one of the most important newspapers in the United States. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals: 1800-1900, Series 2 Series 2, of a planned five series resource, provides information on 50,000 English newspapers and journals published between 1800 and 1900. The database may be searched by title, place of publication, issuing body, people and subject or by a combination of these terms. Library locations in the UK and North America are also available. (The database is updated daily.) [Info] Full Text Resource!

Web of Knowledge The Web of Knowledge provides access to the Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded for 1965 to present and Social Sciences Citation Index for 1990 to present), Current Contents Connect, and BIOSIS Previews as well as Journal Citation Reports (Science Edition for 1998-2004 and Social Sciences Edition for 2000-2004). [Info]

Web of Science -- Science Citation Index Expanded & Social Sciences Citation Index Contains complete bibliographic data as well as author abstracts for approximately 70% of the articles in the sciences and 65% of the articles in the social sciences since 1992. Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. It is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. SCI Expanded covers over 5,800 major science and technical journals and SSCI covers 1,730 leading social sciences journals across a wide range of disciplines. [Info]

Web version -- See Uniform Crime Reports / Crime in the United States

Web version from the Bureau of the Census -- See County Business Patterns, 1993-

Web version from the Univ. of Virginia -- See County Business Patterns, 1977-

Web version from the University of Virginia -- See County and City Data Books (CCDB), 1944-2000

Web version--most current -- See Forms and Publications - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [tax forms]

Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged This electronic version comprises the text of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published in 1961, and updated in 1993. The source data for this electronic version of Webster’’s Unabridged was obtained in 1996 and so includes additional material and addenda not included in the print editions. [Info]

WetFeet Independently researched reports on leading companies, industries and career advice providing inside information difficult to obtain from other sources. [Info] Full Text Resource!

White House Tapes This resource provides free access to the recorded White House conversations of six American Presidents (Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon) from 1940 and 1973 as well as relevant research materials. The site is hosted and maintained by the Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Who’s Who Who’s Who provides the full text entry of biographical information for over 1,000,000 newsworthy American and international figures in the areas of business, education, entertainment, government, health care, law, religion, and science. Searches can be done by name, occupation, birth or death dates, or other fields. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Wiley Online Library [Info] Full Text Resource!

Witchcraft Collection (Cornell University Library) "Cornell's Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft." The collection "...documents the earliest and the latest manifestations of the belief in witchcraft as well as its geographical boundaries, and elaborates this history with works on canon law, the Inquisition, torture, demonology, trial testimony, and narratives. Most importantly, the collection focuses on witchcraft not as folklore or anthropology, but as theology and as religious heresy." [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 Scholars' Edition Covers the period 1600-2000. Includes 57 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Altogether these document projects provide more than 1,500 documents, 600 images, and over 600 links to other websites. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Women Artists Archives National Directory (WAAND) "The Women Artists Archives National Directory unites online information on archival repositories into a single union catalog. Partnering with more than 80 institutions that include the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Library of Congress, and the National Association of Woman Artists, WAAND currently directs users to information on approximately 800 discrete collections indexed to more than 5,000 individual artists' names." [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Women in Politics: Bibliographic Database Women in Politics provides bibliographic references to books and articles produced throughout the world pertaining to women in politics. Titles cited represent international, regional, country-by-country, and thematic perspectives. [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Women Working, 1870-1930 This database is the "prototype of the Open Collections Program Women Working project. This site will provide access to digitized books (over 2,000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U. S. economy from 1870-1930." [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

Women Writers Online This database has full text access to works in English or translations into English by women writers prior to 1850. The Brown University Women Writers Project seeks to include texts not currently available in print but are needed by scholars. Basic information given about each work includes author's name, facts of publication of the original text, Wing or STC number, language and period, and genre. [Info] Full Text Resource!

Women's Studies sites recommended by Vanderbilt librarians [Info] (Free database--open to all users)

Women’s Studies Encyclopedia An updated electronic version of the Women's Studies Encyclopedia edited by Helen Tierney. Includes more than 700 entries prepared by 425 scholars from all disciplines. Provides a thorough analysis of women and society throughout history and around the world. Extensive bibliographic sources. [Info]

World Almanac and Book of Facts including World Almanac and Book of Facts, World Almanac of the U.S.A., World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and World Almanac for Kids Includes the contents of The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.The World Almanac covers arts and entertainment, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes, economics, national defense, historical anniversaries, information about U.S. cities and states, addresses and phone numbers for federal government agencies, information about key federal and state elected government officials, how to get help from government agencies online, major recent Supreme Court decisions, a political glossary, as well as information and facts in thirty-five subject areas of interest to lower-middle-school children and their teachers, including such topics as Amazing Facts, People in the News, Animals, Computers, Inventions, Space Travel, Sports, Weather, Puzzles, and Games. [Info]

World Bank eLibrary This database contains World Bank publications (books, reports, and other documents) in fulltext, as well as Policy Research Working Papers. Selected titles from the 1980’s and 1990’s, and all publications since 2000.

**********************COPYRIGHT NOTICE & USE RESTRICTIONS***********************
The Works included in the e-Library are the valuable intellectual property of the World Bank and all proprietary rights (including but not limited to copyrights) are and shall remain the property of the World Bank.

Access to the Works and the e-Library is provided for private or other personal use only. Any distribution whatsoever (commercial, gratuitous, or otherwise) of the Works as well as the alteration of the Works are prohibited.

While every effort has been made to ensure the high quality and accuracy of the Works, the Works and e-Library are provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. In no event shall the World Bank be liable to Vanderbilt for any damages arising out of the use or the inability to use the Works or the e-Library. [Info] Full Text Resource!

World Bank Group Documents and Reports Provides access to more than 65,000 World Bank documents, previously known as World Development Sources. Includes Country Economic & Sector Work (in-depth background, strategic priorities, and direction for lending activities); Project Documents (loan documents released to the public according to the project cycle); and Research & Working Papers (working papers & informal series from departments around the Bank). [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

World Biographical Information System Index (WBIS) (web version) WBIS is an index to two million biographical entries on microfiche. North and South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania are included in the index; Vanderbilt holds several of these microfiche sets:

American Biographical Archive I-Central Library Mifiche 869
Archives Biographiques Francaises I- Central Library Mifiche 815
Archivo biografico de Espana, Portugal e Iberoamerica I-Central Library mifiche 713
British Biographical Archive I-Central Library Mifiche 800
Deutsches Biographisches Archiv I-Central Library Mifiche 712
Deutsches Biographisches Archiv, Neue Folge-Central Library Mifiche 889

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World Christian Database Includes detailed information on 9,000 Christian denominations and on religions in every country of the world. Extensive data are available on 239 countries and 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as on 5,000 cities and 3,000 provinces. [Info] Full Text Resource!

World dataBank: African Development Indicators (ADI) Includes over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries and spanning the period 1961 to 2008. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.

**********************COPYRIGHT NOTICE & USE RESTRICTIONS***********************
The contents and design of World Development Indicators Online and any materials supplied to Vanderbilt in conjunction with the Database are owned and copyrighted by the World Bank. The software which operates WDI is a proprietary software and Vanderbilt or its authorized users may not copy, reverse engineer, modify, decompile or disassemble the Database or its operating software.

Access to WDI is provided for non-commercial educational and scholarly use only. Any distribution whatsoever (commercial, gratuitous, or otherwise) of data from WDI is prohibited as well as any act of alteration of the Database except for interactive use and statistical analysis.

While every effort has been made to ensure the high quality and accuracy of WDI, the database is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. In no event shall the World Bank be liable to Vanderbilt for any damages arising out of the use or the inability to use the database. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

World dataBank: World Development Indicators (WDI) and International Debt Statistics Select the countries, indicators, and years. Produced by the World Bank, World Development Indicators provides direct access to more than 500 development indicators, with time series for more than 200 countries and 18 country groups. International Debt Statistics (formerly Global Development Finance) focuses on financial flows, trends in external debt, and other major financial indicators for developing countries.**********************COPYRIGHT NOTICE & USE RESTRICTIONS***********************The contents and design of World Development Indicators Online and any materials supplied to Vanderbilt in conjunction with the Database are owned and copyrighted by the World Bank. The software which operates WDI is a proprietary software and Vanderbilt or its authorized users may not copy, reverse engineer, modify, decompile or disassemble the Database or its operating software.

Access to WDI is provided for non-commercial educational and scholarly use only. Any distribution whatsoever (commercial, gratuitous, or otherwise) of data from WDI is prohibited as well as any act of alteration of the Database except for interactive use and statistical analysis.

While every effort has been made to ensure the high quality and accuracy of WDI, the database is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. In no event shall the World Bank be liable to Vanderbilt for any damages arising out of the use or the inability to use the database. INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

World Development Indicators (WDI) - Beta Site Select the countries, indicators, and years. Produced by the World Bank, World Development Indicators provides direct access to more than 500 development indicators, with time series for more than 200 countries and 18 country groups. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)

World Investment Report (WIR) and Statistical Annex Focuses on trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide, at the regional and country levels, and emerging measures to improve its contribution to development. Includes statistical annex with data on FDI flows and stocks for 196 economies. [Info] (Free database--open to all users) Available in Central Library only

World News Connection (WNC) Access to worldwide news translated into English from 1995 to date. Includes full text and summaries of newspaper articles, speeches, TV and radio broadcasts, books, and reports. The material is wide-reaching with an emphasis on political, socioeconomic, scientific, technical, and environmental information. Online version of Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Index and full text. [Info] Full Text Resource!

World Newspaper Archive A project of the Center for Research Libraries The World Newspaper Archive is an ongoing project to make available historical newspapers (19th-20th centuries) from around the globe to members of the Center for Research Libraries (Vanderbilt is a member). It currently contains 35 newspapers from Latin America, published from 1845-1922, and a selection of newspapers from South Asia (India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), published from 1805-1922. INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE [Info] Full Text Resource! Vanderbilt and CRL member institutions

World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean [Info] Full Text Resource!

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online World Shakespeare Bibliography Online provides access to over 74,500 annotated entries for scholarly and popular Shakespeare materials from 1972 to date. Reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings are also included. [Info]

World Trade Database 1995 The World trade database covers commodity and industry data for 160 countries/territories from 1970, focusing on world imports and exports. It presents to the user a complete matrix of country trade flows at both a commodity and industry level. Commodity data are classified according to the Standard International Trade Classification SITC (Revision 2) and industries according to the Canadian Standard Industrial Classification. [Info] (Free database--open to all users) Available in Central Library only

World Who's Who (formerly International Who's Who) "The International Who’s Who outlines the lives and achievements of nearly 21,500 of the most distinguished men and women from almost every country in the world." [Info] Full Text Resource!

WorldCat WorldCat is the OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing more than 125 million records describing items owned by U.S. libraries and libraries around the world; each record contains library holdings. It is produced by the OCLC Online Computer Library Center. [Info]

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA) 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. Includes merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. [Info]

Wright American Fiction A collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. It includes over 2,000 texts by over 1,100 authors. The collection attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes 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. [Info] Full Text Resource! (Free database--open to all users)