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- W.B. Yeats Collection
This database includes the complete works of Yeats, one of the most important and studied poets of the English language, available in fully cross-searchable format. The W.B. Yeats Collection is an invaluable tool in the debate surrounding the revision and textual editing of Yeats's corpus. It enables users to search across the final published versions of his poems and essays and to trace the development of his ideas and techniques.
- Walter De Gruyter Online
De Gruyter publishes books, journals and databases in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law, and also offer a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books.Authorised for ANU alumni access
- Wan Qing qi kan quan wen shu ju ku (1833-1911)
Founded in 1955, Quan Guo Bao Kan Suo Yin (CNBKSY) is a comprehensive search tool of nearly all of the Chinese newspaper and periodical resources available, with a time span of one and a half century from 1833 till present.
- War on Poverty: Office of Civil Rights; 1965-1968
The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes of meetings, convention programs, and other records concerning the activities of Maurice Dawkins, Assistant Director for Civil Rights in the Office of Economic Opportunity. Reports, assessments, and background documents also include: Justice Department Task Force on Civil Rights, 1968; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Report on Ghettoes, 1967; Poor People's Campaign and OEO, 1968; civil rights and the anti-poverty war; application of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Equal Employment Opportunities and the U.S. Civil Service Commission; OEO reports on Job Corps centers; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearings in Montgomery, Ala., for 1968; and 1967 Booz-Allen & Hamilton report on statewide education study in Mississippi.
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
The American WMD programs remain cloaked in secrecy, yet a substantial number of revealing documents have been quietly declassified since the late 1970's. Put together, they tell the story of how America secretly built up the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. The almost 2,400 documents in this collection explain the role these weapons played in a series of world crises, how they shaped U.S. and NATO defense and foreign policy during the Cold War, and what incidents and nearly averted disasters happened. Moreover, they shed a light on the dreadful human and ecological legacy left by decades of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons manufacturing and testing in the U.S. and overseas.
- Web of Science
The index is part of the Web of Science Core Collection. It indexes every piece of content cover-to-cover of over 1800 journals across 28 arts and humanities disciplines, providing cited references dating back to 1975.
- Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals
The vast majority of articles written for Victorian periodicals were published anonymously, or under pseudonyms. The Wellesley Index identifies the authors of articles within 45 major Victorian periodicals, and provides a bibliography for each contributor. It incorporates the Curran Index of corrections and additions to the original index.
- Westlaw AU
Provides access to Australian cases, legislation and commentary, including the case citator and digest, FirstPoint; authorised law reports, including Commonwealth Law Reports and Federal Court Reports; leading practitioner journals such as Australian Law Journal; legislation and commentary, updated to reflect current law; and The Laws of Australia encyclopaedia.
- Westlaw Classic
A collection of full text international legal resources including both cases, legislation, journals and commentaries from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, European Union, Australia and other jurisdictions.
- Westlaw Classic. Canada
A collection of full text international legal resources including both cases, legislation, journals and commentaries from Canada.
- Westlaw Classic. European Union
A collection of European Union legislation, court decisions, regulatory materials, parliamentary measures and treaties.
- Westlaw UK
A collection of full text and indexed UK legal resources including cases, legislation, journals and current awareness. The collection also includes EU legal materials.
- Wiley Online Library (incl. Blackwell journals)
Wiley Online Library hosts a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers integrated access to millions of articles from journals, online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. Included are the online journals and books previously published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd., which merged with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2007.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000
This database is organised around the history of women in social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000. The collection includes the full text of document projects, archives, book reviews, film reviews, website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
- Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to present
Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.
- Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South, 1919-2019
This collection looks at women’s global economic participation and activism over an entire century. It sets out to reveal and assess a realm of individual efforts, organizational initiatives and socio-cultural projects led by or for women in the Global South. Within this framework, the project contextualizes gender, opportunity, and struggle. It includes previously undigitized primary sources, hard-to-find materials, curated selection of government documents, and contextual essays.
- Women in the National Archives
This resource is comprised of two distinct elements: 1. Original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories; 2. A finding aid to women's studies resources in The National Archives. The original documents cover the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain, 1903-1928 and the granting of women's suffrage in colonial territories, 1930-1962.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Women's studies
A breadth of printed and manuscript sources over four centuries, providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history. This collection offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, but also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women.
Highlights include:
- Papers and rare printed works of important female writers and thinkers
- Life writing and autobiographies of a range of 18th and 19th century women
- The papers of Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, political activist and campaigner
- Diaries and correspondence of aristocratic women, giving insights into the social, political and cultural history of rich and powerful women of the 18th and 19th centuries
- Women's travel writing - manuscript and printed accounts of women travellers, missionaries, tourists and women living across the British Empire.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Women's Studies Archive: Women’s Issues and Identities
A comprehensive, academic-level archival resource focusing on the social, political, and professional achievements of women throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. Along with providing a closer look at some of the pioneers of women’s movements, this collection offers scholars great insight into the issues that have affected women and the many contributions they have made to society. Topics covered include: the history of feminist theory and activism; domestic culture; lay and ordained church women; women in industry; women’s sexuality and gender expression; women’s education; women’s movements; women’s health and mental health; women and law; women and the control of their bodies; and women’s roles and interactions within society.
- Wordbanks Online
The resource provides access to language data based on the Collins corpus of modern written and spoken English text. It contains 550 million words from a wide range of written and spoken genres, and accounts for no less than 8 varieties of English.
- World Bank Documents and Reports
The Documents & Reports (D&R) site is an official disclosure mechanism for the World Bank Group’s final reports. The repository contains official documents and reports which are made available to the public in accordance with the Bank’s Access to Information Policy to better share the institution's knowledge base. The D&R site contains final and official documents and reports from 1946 through the present, including: Board Documents, Country Focus, Economic and Sector Work, Project Documents and Publications and Research
- World Bank Open Data
The World Bank Open Data makes available free and open access data about development in countries around the globe including searchable datasets.
- World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
- World Constitutions Illustrated
Contains the current constitution for every country, in its original language/s, with an English translation; constitutional histories; texts on constitutional law; links to scholarly articles about constitutional development, and a bibliography of selected constitutional books. Searchable by country or resource.
- World Development Indicators (WDI)
Compiled from officially recognized international sources, World Development Indicators (WDI) presents global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. The database features an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. Users can create their own queries, and generate tables, charts, and maps.
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