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  • Newspaper Resource

Wall Street Journal Historical Archive offers full-text articles and abstracts from the newspaper covering world market news and data from 1889 to 2012.

  • Newspaper Resource

Wall Street Journal offers full-text articles and abstracts from the newspaper covering world market news and data from 1984 to the present. The weekday print subscription to the paper (Southwestern Edition) is also available at the McDermott Library Circulation Desk.

  • Newspaper Resource
Alternate Name(s):WSJ

Provides subscriber access to the full content of the Wall Street Journal online, including daily news and archives.  UTD students, faculty, and staff can sign-up for an account. Log in with your net-id and password and fill out the new account form using your utdallas.edu email address.


After creating an account, UTD users can download the WSJ app to access the same content.

  • Newspaper Resource

The Washington informs readers of the latest news from the Washington D.C , Maryland, and Virginia Metro areas. The paper also covers important National and World events. Content is updated daily and is thoroughly indexed.

  • Newspaper Resource

The first newspaper in Washington to publish seven days a week. Contains contributions by Joseph Pulizer and editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block (“Herblock”). The archive covers important events such as the Watergate Scandal, Civil Rights Movement, and the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Covers the period of 1877-2007.

The Web of Science (Core Collection) includes access to these WoS databases:

-Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-present
-Social Sciences Citation Index 1900-present
-Arts and Humanities Citation Index 1975-present
-Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science 1990-present
-Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities 1990-present and
-Emerging Sources Citation Index 2015-present.

Select any or all of the databases to search simulateneously. WoS allows citation searching to determine which scholar is citing another scholar. Citation searching can also be used to determine how many times an article has been cited since it was published. This data is often used to determine the importance of the research and the pros and cons of the article.
  • Access not available for Community Users
Alternate Name(s):WRDS

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) provides a research platform to analyze data across disciplines including accounting, banking, economics, finance, and statistics. WRDS provides access to S&P Capital IQ, CRSP, NYSE, Thomson Reuters, Global Insight, OptionMetrics, Revelio Labs, and other important business research databases.

UTD faculty, graduate students and staff gain access to WRDS by registering for an account.

Please note that WRDS began requiring two-factor authentication on December 5, 2022. Directions on setting up two-factor authentication may be found here.

  • E-book Resource

Wiley Online Library delivers full-text content for hundreds of leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and the full text of select Wiley print books online. This collection does not include access to all the publisher's journals and books, only those that the library licenses.

This database provides information and resources on the history of women in social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000 and includes collections of primary sources as well as over a hundred document projects, book reviews, thousands of images, teaching tools, and other features including a chronology, a biographical section, and links to other websites.
The Women’s Suffrage Collection includes full text of historical documents, newspapers, and books related to the struggle for women’s suffrage, women’s rights, and the temperance movement dating from roughly 1812 through 1920.
Developed by the World Bank, WDI provides online access to financial and demographic data for hundreds of countries and regions of the world. Data retrieved can be manipulated by adjusting output parameters and downloaded as an Excel file. Coverage begins in 1960.
The World Development Report contains the complete text of every annual report published by the World Bank since 1978 and includes all color illustrations, charts, and tables. WDR is the World Bank's major annual analytical publication with each report covering a different topic or challenge relevant to global peace, knowledge, and economic and social advancement. Users may also browse and search OKR, the Open Knowledge Repository, a collection of thousands of books and reports providing economic, social, political, and state of the environment data.
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean features primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean, academic journal articles, newspapers, maps and statistics. World Scholar covers topics such as politics, economics, religion, culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and technology. The collection includes manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, and more.
WorldCat contains the catalog records of thousands of libraries worldwide and provides information on millions of books, newspapers, maps, periodicals, government documents, etc. This is one of the most important resources for determining which library owns a particular work.
WPSA provides abstracts and indexing for articles in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Coverage begins in 1975, and the database links to full text when available.
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