Student Funded Resources
The resources described on this page were funded by UWL's Academic Initiatives Differential Allocation Committee (AIDAC), which is a Student Association group under advisement of the Student Life Office.
Expanded Hours
Students have consistently requested longer hours, especially later weeknight hours and expanded weekend hours. Thanks to Academic Initiatives, the library was able to address this need by adding 4 evening and weekend hours per week to its schedule of open hours.
The expanded open times will be in effect every week during the regular semester, not including holidays and semester breaks.
The hours that have been added due to student funding are:
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Sunday: 11:00 a.m.– midnight
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Monday –Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - midnight
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Friday: 7:30 a.m.- 7:00 p.m.
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Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Please note that these are general building hours and do not reflect hours for all departments within the library.
For a complete list of hours, including holidays, special hours, semester breaks, and specific library departments, please visit the complete Library Hours page.
Databases, E-journals, and Reference Works
The following is an alphabetical list of resources partially or fully funded by students through AIDAC.
- Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive database containing full-text academic journals, magazines and periodicals plus reports, books and videos covering virtually every discipline. Includes thousands of English-language and native-language full-text journals from Asia, Oceania, Europe and Latin America.
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, Series 1-5 (EBSCO) @ EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowProvides digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912, documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
- Criminal Justice Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowThe Criminal Justice Database (formerly ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index or CJPI) is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.
- Gale Access ProgramThe Gale Access Program is a large collection of databases covering a wide range of subjects. This link takes you to a library guide where you can find a full list of databases included in the subscription.
- Gale EbooksCollection of Gale reference ebooks on various topics purchased with AIDAC funding.
- Gender Studies E-Book Collection (Duke University Press) This link opens in a new windowThis ebook collection includes essential titles and field-defining scholarship in queer theory, gay and lesbian studies, transgender studies, feminist theory, and women's studies. Books can be read online or downloaded as PDFs by chapter.
- JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)Search or browse all issues going back to July 1883.
- JSTOR Arts & Sciences V-XV, Life Sciences, and Business IVAccess to the full text of over hundreds of scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines. Coverage: varies.
- KanopyKanopy is a streaming video platform that contains independent and documentary films on a wide variety of subjects.
- New York TimesLearn more about the pass, how to use the NYT Digital Edition, and other ways to access the New York Times at the New York Times at Murphy Library guide.
- Oxford English DictionaryThe Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowOxford Music Online includes access to The Oxford Dictionary of Music, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and The Oxford Companion to Music. Combined, these resources cover every aspect of the music world including bibliographies on composers and musicians and hundreds of carefully selected and classified links to international musical sites.
Note: This resource is limited to 3 simultaneous users. If access is unavailable, please try again later. - ScienceDirect (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowIncludes 2,500 journals and 11,000 books published by Elsevier in the areas of health & life Sciences, physical sciences, and social & behavioral Sciences. Thanks to funding by academic initiatives, we now have the "complete" collection, which includes pre-1995 Journal Content with deep coverage available back to Volume 1, Issue 1 and practically all Elsevier online books, including Major Reference Works, Books Series, Handbooks, eBooks Front lists and Back lists back to 1995.
- Springer E-BooksIn 2017, Academic Initiatives partially funded the purchase of several Springer e-book packages in the disciplines of Biomedical & Life Sciences and Mathematics & Statistics.
- The New Oxford Shakespeare This link opens in a new windowThe New Oxford Shakespeare Online presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship. It includes the Modern Critical and Critical Reference Editions of Shakespeare's complete works, along with an Authorship Companion, containing essays on questions of authorship and chronology.
- The Sunday Times (London) Historical Archive (Gale) This link opens in a new windowThe Sunday Times has provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week’s news and society at large since 1822. Despite the similarity of names, The Sunday Times was an entirely separate paper from The Times until 1966, when both papers came under common ownership. To this day, The Sunday Times remains editorially independent from The Times, with its own remit and perspective on the news. Coverage: 1822-2016.
- The Times (London) Digital Archive (Gale) This link opens in a new windowResearchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Coverage: 1785-2012.
- Vogue Archive (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowVogue provides a record of American and international popular culture; it is a unique primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history. Marketing students can research the history of a brand identity by viewing every advertisement for a brand such as Revlon, Coty, Versace or Chanel between specified dates. Researchers in cultural studies and gender studies can explore themes such as body image, gender roles and social tastes from the 1890s to the present. The latest issue will be added each month with no embargo period. Users can search through all text, captions, and titles throughout the magazine, including advertisements, covers and fold-outs.
- The Times Literary Supplement (London) Historical Archive (Gale) This link opens in a new windowSince 1902, the Times Literary Supplement has forged a reputation for fine writing, literary discoveries and insightful debate. The TLS has attracted the contributions of the world’s most influential writers and critics, from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in the 1920s and 30s to A.N. Wilson and Christopher Hitchens in the 1990s and 2000s. Coverage: 1902-2019.
- Wisconsin Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new windowA digital collection of Wisconsin newspapers with coverage going back to 1813.
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