United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) gives access to full-text copies of US patents since 1976.

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The Victorian Women Writers Project is a collection of the full text of works of British women writers from the Victorian period.

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The Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition) is considered the preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide with full-text coverage.

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Web of Science (WoS) indexes leading scholarly journals, books, proceedings, and other formats. Its major subject areas include the natural and social sciences and arts and humanities with coverage back to 1900. The heart of WoS is the Web of Science Core Collection, which indexes thousands of scholarly journals by author, author affiliation, and cited reference. In addition to the Core Collection, Web of Science provides access to several regional, subject, and format-specific database.

The suite of video tutorials teach aspects of searching, analyzing results, creating a researcher profile, and more. EndNote Web, the bibliographic management tool, is integrated into WoS.

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Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals contains the table of contents for 45 British periodicals, many of which are not indexed elsewhere. Hekman Library owns this index on CD-ROM and in print. (See full annotation for further access information).

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Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has rapidly grown into the largest reference website on the Internet. The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. This website is a, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit, correct, or improve information throughout the encyclopedia, simply by clicking the edit this page link (with a few minor exceptions, such as protected articles and the main page). [from website]

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Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.

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Worldcat is a catalog of materials found in hundreds of libraries throughout the world. It is also available in a free internet version at WorldCat.org.

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WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. Updated daily, this database contains dissertations, theses, and other published materials cataloged around the world.

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Wright American Fiction is considered the most comprehensive bibliography of American adult fiction of the 18th and 19th centuries. It includes full-text works by well known writers along with lesser known writers whose works were popular in their own time.

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The Zoological Record is the world's oldest continuing database of animal biology, going back to 1864. It acts as an unofficial register of animal names. The broad scope of coverage ranges form biodiversity and the environment to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.

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