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Warc : World Advertising Research Center

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Full-text articles, reports and case studies on advertising. Includes advertising expenditure data. Can search by brand, advertiser, and agency.

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Water and Agriculture Information Center

Provides access to information on water quality and agriculture.

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This is a freely accessible resource protected under copyright. Please check the resource website for Terms and Conditions regarding use restrictions.

Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals (Series 3) 1800-1900

Publication details for 73,000 nineteenth-century English periodicals and newspapers.

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Web of Science Core Collection

To use Journals Citation Reports at the same time as WoS, open JCR in a new tab as well now.

Multidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.

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Web OYA-bunko

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Web OYA-bunko indexes serial publications held by Ōya Sōichi Bunko, a periodical library in Tokyo with a comprehensive collection of approximately 12,000 popular journals. Coverage: 1988-present. Not full-text.

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West's Encyclopedia of American Law (via Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics.

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Westlaw Edge Canada

Restricted to current Allard School of Law faculty & students.

  • Transfer / Exchange / Visiting / New LL.M. / New Ph.D. Students / New Faculty (in UBC’s Allard School of Law): should send an e-mail with their student number to Elim Wong in the Law Library to obtain registration associated with Allard School of Law. 
  • 1Ls: You will receive registration instructions from your Legal Research & Writing instructor on how to register. 
  • UBC’s Allard School of Law Faculty and Students: without a password should send an e-mail with their student number to Elim Wong in the Law Library.
  • Everyone with a misplaced/forgotten password should follow the instructions at Forgot password; if this does not work, please contact Technical Support.

Comprehensive case law and legislation.

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Wiley Digital Archives

Digitized archives of academic and scientific societies. UBC Library has purchased 4 archives: Royal College of Physicians, Royal Anthropological Institute, New York Academy of Sciences, and Royal Geographical Society.

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Wiley Online Library

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Wiley is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with many of the world's leading societies.

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Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000

The resource, which examines perspectives on women's social movements from colonial times to the present, was developed by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar of SUNY at Binghamton.

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Women in the National Archives

Documents from the Colonial Office and the Dominions Office relating to i) the status of native colonial women and ii) the debate over universal suffrage throughout the British empire.

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Women Writers Online

Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English.

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Women's Studies International

Contains content in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education.

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World Bank Data

Development-oriented statistics from the World Bank: social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for over 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering 1960 to the present.

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World Bank eLibrary

The World Bank eLibrary offers full access to nearly 9,000 World Bank books, reports, journal articles and working papers published since the 1990s.

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World Cinema Collection

Films produced in the silent era to contemporary times from around the world

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World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources (via HeinOnline)

A growing collection of constitutional documents, books, periodicals, articles, bibliographic references and Web sites.

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World Heritage Sites: Africa

World Heritage Sites: Africa links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites.

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World News Connection Archive

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Archive of translated and English-language news and information compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources.

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World Shakespeare Bibliography

Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions produced from 1960 to present.

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World's fairs and expositions: visions of tomorrow

Access is available to all residents within British Columbia via the "Points to the Past" Portal HERE.

Documents the rise of world's fairs as symbols of cultural and technological progress beginning with London's Great Exhibition of 1851.

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WorldCat

Alternate URL: https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ubc.ca?url=https://firstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP

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The world's largest library catalogue.

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Worldscope

Worldscope Data is accessible through the Datastream platform.

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User limit: 50 maximum

Data on international public and private companies, including annual and interim/quarterly data, detailed historical financial statement content, per share data, calculated ratios, pricing and textual information.

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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Find literature in political science, international relations, law, and public administration and policy. About 2500 journal titles from around the world are monitored for coverage.

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WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)

Current UBC students, faculty, librarians, staff  who wish to use WRDS can request an account. The requestor’s status as a current UBC student,faculty or staff member must be verified before the account can be approved by WRDS.  No walk-in users.

By submitting a request for an account, you consent to the process of verification and approval.

Please use a working UBC email address. If you don't have a UBC email address, please  visit UBC IT Services (https://id.ubc.ca/) to create an account.

Apply for a new account here.

Please be advised that the personal information you disclose to WRDS once your account is approved may be stored on servers located outside of Canada. 

 

WRDS is a Web platform hosting data from S&P's Compustat, CRSP, CSMAR, Execucomp, Global Insight, I/B/E/S,Thomson Reuters Mutual Fund (s12) Holdings, and Institutional (13f) Holdings and more.

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This resource contains multiple collections. License permissions vary by collection. For license permissions specific to a collection, please consult the full display for the resource page. If you require assistance, please contact here.

WTO iLibrary

Publications and statistics from the World Trade Organization. Includes 3 trade statistics databases: Trade Profiles, Tariff Profiles, and Time Series on International Trade.

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Alumni Access? Yes
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