A-Z Databases: W
List of the databases you can use to access journal articles, reports, conference papers, ebooks, newspapers, and many other resources.
W - Databases
- The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals:1800-1900 This link opens in a new windowContains around 70,000 publications. Searching can be done by person, publication, town/county/country, issuing body or subject.
- WARC (World Advertising Research Centre) This link opens in a new windowCase studies, conference proceedings, journal articles and data on advertising and marketing
- The W. B. Yeats Collection (1885-1995) This link opens in a new windowfull-text; contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction, collected in 22 volumes.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science Core Collection includes the Science, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes, Conference Proceedings Citation Index for Science, Social Sciences & Humanities, Current Chemical Reactions and Index Chemicus.
- WebCSD - see Cambridge Structural Database This link opens in a new window
- Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900 - See under C19: the Nineteenth century index This link opens in a new window
- Westlaw UK This link opens in a new windowLegal database covering England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Who's Who and Who Was Who This link opens in a new windowa directory of the noteworthy and influential in every area of public life, published worldwide. Who Was Who includes 100,000 people, now deceased, who were included in previous editions of Who's Who creating the definitive roll-call of British history.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowa multi-disciplinary collection of journals and e-books. Full-text access is available to titles subscribed to by the University Library.
- World News Connection Archive 1995-2013 This link opens in a new windowa valuable research archive searching global events and issues. It includes unique editorial content from countries that have restricted information sharing with the rest of the world, and offers data from 1995-2013.
- World Shakespeare Bibliography Online This link opens in a new windowthe most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide since 1960. Updated quarterly.
Please contact library@st-andrews.ac.uk for username and password. - Worldcat This link opens in a new windowAvailable via OCLC First Search. OCLCs catalogue of books available in Libraries worldwide.
- Worldcat (Free version) This link opens in a new windowA free version of Worldcat - connecting you to the collections of over 10,000 Libraries across the world, contains over 2 billion records.
- WorldCatDissertations - see under OCLC FirstSearch DatabasesA database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat. Part of OCLC FirstSearch