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| WTO ilibrary | Publications and statistics on trade from the World Trade Organization. |
| Writings on Art, From the 18th to the 20th Century | Texts of art criticism by notable French and other artists and writers, specifically focused on salons and important literary works written from 1741 to 1927. This important primary resource includes works of aesthetics, philosophy and art history by such individuals as Apollinaire, Balzac, Baudelaire, Chateaubriand, Delacroix, Diderot, Dumas, Falconet, Gauguin, Mallarme, de Maupassant, Michelet, Proust, Rodin, Sand, Stendhal, Viollet-le-Duc, Winckelmann, and Zola. |
| WRDS | |
| Worldwide Political Science Abstracts | Provides citations and abstracts of the international literature in political science, including journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, and reviews. It also covers such areas as international relations, law, sociology, economics, and public policy. Provides references to reliable websites. |
| WorldTradeLaw.net | Legal research tool for WTO dispute settlement. |
| Worldscope | Presents fundamental data for major international companies. Searchable by company name, country, exchange, or fundamental items. Available through WRDS. |
| WorldCat | Comprehensive online catalog of library holdings. Lists books, journals, maps, recordings, films, scores, and other materials located in public, academic, corporate, school and specialized libraries all over the world. Check Worldcat for holdings of material that are not available at Princeton. Available items may be requested through Interlibrary Loan. |
| World's Fairs: A Global History of Expositions | World's fairs showcased the newest ideas and inventions on a global stage, and are valuable for interdisciplinary research. Includes documents from over 200 fairs covering 1851-2015, including governmental records of early financial appeals, international diplomatic documents, minutes and correspondence of fair committees, plans and design concepts, contemporary ephemera (tickets, pamphlets, posters), personal accounts, and official guidebooks. Includes in-depth case studies. |
| World's Fairs and Expositions: Visions of Tomorrow (Smithsonian Collections Online) | Materials published between 1834-1940. Includes Books of the Fairs: Smithsonian Libraries holdings; world's fairs titles in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology and in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library. |
| World Who's Who | Basic biographical data on more than 23,000 prominent living or recently deceased individuals from around the world. |
| World War II Memorial Book | Provides the name, date and place of death, class year, and rank and branch of service for each Princeton student or alumnus who died in service to his country during the Second World War. |
| World Treaty Library | Collection of over 160,000 treaties, covering 1648 to the present. Also includes important secondary and scholarly material related to treaty research. |
| World Tourism Organization Database | Fully cross-searchable portal of World Tourism Organization publications in their respective languages. |
| World Shakespeare Bibliography Online | Provides listings for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1960 and the present. |
| World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean | Digital edition of over 30 historical collections of primary source documents related to Latin America and the Caribbean. Materials include books, manuscripts, U.S. government records, pamphlets, and ephemera. |
| World Religion Database | Contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. |
| World Press Trends Database | Primary source of data on the newspaper industry world-wide. For each of more than 70 countries and territories, a broad range of annual data includes elements such as the number of titles and circulation, advertising costs and income, sales revenue, number of journalists and employees, salary costs, and costs for newsprint. |
| World Population Prospects | Demographic indicators including measures of fertility, life expectancy, migration, and measures of the impact of HIV/AIDS. |
| World Newsreels Online | Streaming video of international newsreels produced between 1929 and 1966. All are accompanied by transcripts, with those in foreign languages translated into English. |
| World Newspaper Archive - South Asian Newspapers | Historical newspapers include Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka), Indian People (Allahabad), Kayasare hinda (Bombay), Leader (Allahabad), Madras Mail (Madras), Pioneer (Allahabad), and Tribune (Lahore). |
| World Newspaper Archive - Latin American Newspapers | Provides full-text access to historical newspapers from Latin America. |
| World Newspaper Archive | Provides full-text access to historical newspapers in the United States, Africa, and Latin America. |
| World News Digest (Facts on File) | Digest of major news stories around the world. |
| World News Connection (Eastview) | Foreign News Alert Service from the U.S. Government. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, focusing especially on local media sources. Covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. 1995-2013. (For earlier years see Foreign Broadcast Information Service.) |
| World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) | World Bank and UNCTAD data on trade, tariffs, and non-tariff measures. Requires registration. World Bank and UNCTAD data on trade, tariffs, and non-tariff measures. Requires registration. |
| World History in Video | Digital collection of BBC, PBS and independent documentaries covering world history. Includes transcripts. |
| World Factbook | Annual publication of the Central Intelligence Agency provides profiles of countries throughout the world. Each profile begins with a brief historical background and includes information about geography, population, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues. |
| World Economic Outlook | Presents the IMF staff's analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups (classified by region, stage of development, etc.), and in many individual countries. Focuses on major economic policy issues as well as on the analysis of economic developments and prospects. |
| World Development Indicators | Includes annual economic, social, educational, environmental and health data from many of the World Bank's major statistical publications. |
| World Defence Industry | |
| World Constitutions Illustrated | Provides current constitutions for every country, constitutional histories for many countries, and a variety of full-text sources covering constitutions worldwide. |
| World Christian Database | Contains statistical information on world religions, Christian denominations, and people groups. |
| World Biographical Information System | Gives name, occupation, birth, and death dates for millions of individuals who are treated in thousands of reference works, and provides digital facsimiles of biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 21st century. |
| World Bank e-Library | Online access to World Bank publications. Useful for research in international social and economic development. Also see the World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository which contains open access materials. |
| World Almanac of Islamism | Designed to track the rise or decline of radical Islam on a national, regional and global level. Focuses on the nature of the contemporary Islamist threat around the world, and on the current activities of radical Islamist movements worldwide. |
| WordNet | Princeton hosted database of English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. |
| Women’s Wear Daily Archive | Comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last 12 months, reproduced in high-resolution images. Every page, article, advertisement and cover has been included. |
| Women's Magazine Archive | Complete archives of the foremost titles of consumer magazines aimed at a female readership, including Good Housekeeping and Ladies’ Home Journal, which serve as canonical records of evolving assumptions about gender roles and cultural mores. In combination, the publications cover topics such as family life, home economics, health, careers, fashion, and culture. |
| Women Writers Online | Full text collection of early modern women's writing. |
| Women Working, 1800-1930: Women's Bureau Bulletins | Explores women's roles in the United States economy between 1800 and the Great Depression. |
| Women Working (1800-1930) | Access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections that explore women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. |
| Women in the National Archives | Consists of a finding aid to women's studies resources in The National Archives of the United Kingdom and original documents covering the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain, 1903-1928 and the granting of women's suffrage in colonial territories, 1930-1962. |
| Women and Social Movements International | Writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made. |
| Women and Social Movements in the United States | Collection of full-text primary and secondary sources. |
| Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 | Contains primary source documents written by women in response to imperialism, colonialism, missionary work, Native American affairs, and war. |
| Wollstonecraft: Works | Searchable electronic edition of The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. |
| Wittgenstein: Tagebucher und Briefe | Includes correspondence with Ludwig von Ficker, Ludwig Hansel, Rudolf Koder and Stanislaus and Adele Jolles. The diaries cover the years 1930-1932, 1936-1937. |
| Wittgenstein: Nachlass | The Bergen Electronic Edition. Includes Wittgenstein'ss philosophical Nachlass of some 20,000 pages |
| Wittgenstein: Letters and Lectures | The lectures are those based on the notes of John King and Desmond Lee from Cambridge University, 1930-1932. |
| WiseSearch | News items from over 1,500 newspapers and other media sources from the Greater China region, both national, provincial and regional. Some English-language sources from Asia are included, as is company news. See the EAL pages for more info. |
| WiserTrade | International trade database which includes U.S. state level export series, U.S. exports and imports by customs district & by individual port, as well as EU, Canadian and Chinese (by province), Chilean and Colombian (by region), South African (district and port), Taiwanese, and Japanese trade statistics. |
| Wilson Social Sciences Index | |
| Wilson OmniFile | Multi-disciplinary database providing select full text articles, abstracts, and indexing. Consists of databases for scholarly sources in agriculture, applied science and technology, art, biology, business, education, general science, humanities, law, library and information science, social sciences, as well as popular appeal titles. |
| WhoSampled Academic Pro | Detailed data on sample-based music, cover songs and remixes from a crowd sourcing community. |
| WhoPlus (Japan) | Biographical information on hundreds of thousands of historical and contemporary people. Entries link to data in MagazinePlus. |
| Who's Who in the Classical World | Includes the full-text of more than 100 dictionaries and reference books published by Oxford University Press. |
| Who's Who | |
| Wharton Research Data Service (Princeton only) | Interface to various financial and economic databases including Compustat, CRSP, IBES, Optionmetrics, and TAQ. |
| WestlawNext Campus Research | Comprehensive database of legal materials, including cases, statutes, and regulations of the U.S. government and the various state governments; includes the legal encyclopedia American Jurisprudence 2nd and American Law Reports; case law from 1789 to present; current statutes and regulations. Documents can also be accessed through broad subject categories such as Civil Rights, International Law and Environmental Law. |
| Westlaw (commercial version) | Comprehensive database of legal materials, both primary and secondary sources, from the United States and selected foreign countries and international organizations. Password required. Please try searching WestlawNext Campus Research which contains similar coverage and features. Contact dholland@princeton.edu for Westlaw commercial log-on if still necessary. |
| Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900 | Indexes 43 Victorian periodicals by author, subject, and book review. |
| WebCSD | |
| Web-ban Nihon Kindai Bungakkan (Taiyo + Bungei Kurabu) | |
| Web-ban Fuzoku gaho | A graphic magazine of Japanese manners and customs. Contains illustrations, photographs, and cartoons that describe Japanese cultural life during the Meiji and Taisho periods. Covers the complete issues of Fuzoku gaho including special issues. |
| Web Oya-bunko | Indexes to 2,000,000 articles from 400 popular journals in Japanese. Updated monthly. |
| Web of Science (ISI) | Multidisciplinary index to journal literature in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Offers the option to find cited references, which are the authors lists of articles used in their research. Journal coverage in the social sciences, arts, and humanities is not comprehensive. Includes conference proceedings in the sciences and social sciences. |
| Weapons of Mass Destruction | Documents from the United States military, Atomic Energy Commission, Department of State, Central Intelligence Agency, White House, and other agencies detailing the development of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons for use by American forces, from 1942-present. |
| Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 | Subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of 50,000 publications, 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects. |
| Water Resources Abstracts | One of 12 subfiles in the cluster that comprises the Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management database. Covers scientific and technical world literature about water. The abstracts describe journal articles, books, conference papers, and technical reports, from the physical and life sciences as well as engineering, legal and government publications. [Known as Selected Water Resources Abstracts and was published by the USGS, the United States Geological Survey, until 1994]. |
| Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | |
| Washington Post | Digital edition of The Washington Post. Not available via mobile app. |
| Warfare in North America (c. 1756-1815) - British Perspectives | This collection makes available a wide selection of original documents held at The National Archives, London, concerning warfare in North America from the Seven Years’ War to the War of 1812, giving a unique insight into the turbulent transition of the American colonies from British rule to independence. Collections included are Amherst Papers, British Army Headquarters Papers, Colonial Office Papers relating to Canada, and Admiralty In-Letters. |
| Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies | |
| Wan fang Xue wei lun wen | Full text doctoral dissertations and master theses from China, mostly post-2000. |
| Wan fang Xue shu qi kan | Comprehensive full-text articles from Chinese periodicals and journals, mostly post-2001. |
| Wan fang Xue shu hui yi | Articles given at academic conferences in China. A minority is abstract-only. |
| Wan fang Xin Fang zhi | Full text versions of post-1949 Chinese local gazetteers. |
| Wan fang Fa lü fa gui | Chinese policies and laws. |
| Wall Street Journal Digital Edition | Last 4 years of the digital edition of the Wall Street Journal. For older issues, see Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) (1982+) or Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) (1889-2003). |
| Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) | |
| Wall Street Journal (Factiva) | Quick way to read by section. Includes editorials and select images. |
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