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Library Databases by Letter: W
| Database/Description | Guide |
|---|---|
| Web of Science: Social Sciences Citation Index Provides current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references to more than 1,800 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines plus individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. Updated weekly. Coverage: 1997 to present. |  |
| Wharton Research Data Services WRDS is a platform that provides instant access to important databases in the fields of finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing and public policy. Currently Pepperdine subscribes to COMPUSTAT, CRSP, and KLD. Access is limited to Pepperdine faculty, staff, and doctoral students. Users must apply for account access and be approved by the Pepperdine WRDS representative the first time they log in. | |
| Wiley InterScience Wiley InterScience provides access to the full-text of 213 journals plus access to the citations and abstracts of approximately 800 additional titles. Wiley InterScience also provides access to Steven's Handbook of Experimental Psychology. | |
| Women and Social Movements Scholar's Edition Women and Social Movements currently includes 76 document projects with more than 2,200 documents, 30,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,640 primary authors. It includes as well book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools. The Scholar?s Edition will include The Women's Commission Reports, an archive of the publications and documents of local, state, and federal Commissions on the Status of Women from 1963 to the present. At this time, the database includes the full text of 590 reports and publications issued by commissions in more than thirty states. When complete this collection will contain 75,000 pages of publications from commissions in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The publications include reports, pamphlets, posters, and ephemeral materials. | |
| Women Writers On-Line Full-text database consisting of pre-Victorian women's writing in English. The database is a collection of primary source, rare works encoded in SGML providing search capabilities. The database includes Renaissance Women Online, which contains topic essays and contextual pieces as well. | |
| World Education Encyclopedia (2d ed. 2001) This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. | |
| World Marketing Data and Statistics World Marketing Data and Statistics allows one to access market research reports, forecasted economic data, demographic information and company profiles. 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52. All figures can be converted to US Dollars for easy cross-country comparison and downloaded to Microsoft Excel. [Now available as part of the Global Market Information Database] | |
| World Press Encyclopedia: a survey of press systems worldwide Comprehensive survey of press and electronic media which covers nearly 200 countries. Entries include an overview of the background, economic framework and general characteristics of each country's press plus the number and type of media, press laws, censorship issues, state-press relations, news agencies, electronic news media, education and training in journalism. | |
| WorldCat OCLC's Online Union Catalog contains bibliographic records of all types of materials owned by libraries around the world. WorldCat covers materials dating back to the 11th century, includes holdings information from libraries in 45 countries and is updated daily. | |
| Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations (12th ed. 2007) Presents information on 200 countries and dependencies from around the world. Entries discuss a variety of topics in detail, from banking and securities to climate, from government data to demographic statistics. Also includes biographical essays on national leaders. | |
| Worldwide Internet Music Resources This music resource list of worldwide internet journals, magazines, newspapers, and periodicals is offered as a service of the William and Gale Cook Music Library at Indiana University's School of Music. |
