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Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1989) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) AU staff and students onlySome Full Text

Access to one hundred years of back issues of the Wall Street Journal.

War and Terrorism Collection AU staff and students onlySome Full Text

Search this database for information on topics such as political science, business, government, defense systems, history, public policy and security.
 

Washington Post (1877 - 1990) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) AU staff and students onlySome Full Text

Access back issues of the Washington Post published between 1877 and 1990 has been provided through ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Web of Science AU staff and students only

Search the Web version of Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index.

Westlaw International AU staff and students onlySome Full Text

Westlaw International provides access to international case law and law journals from the United States, Europe, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Note: This database is now known as WestlawNext Canada.
 

WestlawNext Canada AU staff and students only Open Access

WestlawNext Canada provides access to the decisions and legislation that make up the law. It also includes supporting documents -- court filings, commentary, legislative history, and pending legislation -- which let you look behind decisions and current legislation to get a fuller picture. Finding Tools organize the law by issue and enable you to discover and tie together all the relevant authorities.
 
WestlawNext Canada subscriptions include LawSource & LabourSource
 

Wiley Online Library AU staff and students onlySome Full Text

Wiley Online Library, formerly known as Wiley InterScience now includes journal content formerly on Blackwell Synergy, providing access to more than 3 million articles across 2300+ journals. Coverage includes business, computer science, criminology, education, health, law, mathematics, psychology, sciences and social sciences.

Wiley Open Access Open Access

Wiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines.
 

Wind-Wildlife Impacts Literature Database (WILD) Some Full Text

WILD is a browseable collection of documents and document descriptions that cover the impact on wildlife from a variety of technologies including: Land-based wind energy, Offshore wind energy, Marine energy (e.g., ocean current, ocean thermal energy conversion, tidal, and wave), Power lines, Towers (e.g., communications and television).

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 AU staff and students onlySome Full Text

Focusing on women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000 this collection includes documents pertaining to women and social movements, “document projects” that interpret and present documents, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. Women's History, and teaching tools with lesson ideas and document-based questions related to the document projects.

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository ebookSome Full Text Open Access

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. The OKR contains thousands of research works including World Bank Group Annual Reports and Independent Evaluation Studies, all World Development Reports (WDRs) plus recent WDR background papers, books published by the World Bank Group, journal articles, and more.
 

World Christian Database AU staff and students only

The World Christian Database (WCD) includes detailed information on all major world religions. Extensive religious and secular statistics are available on 9,000 Christian denominations, 238 countries and 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as on 5,000 cities and 3,000 provinces. The WCD incorporates the core data from the World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE) and World Christian Trends (WCT).

World Higher Education Database AU staff and students onlySome Full Text

This resource is designed to assist you in finding information about higher education institutions globally. It also provides access to data about higher education systems.

World Religion Database AU staff and students only

The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. It offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world's religions for the period 1900 to 2050.

World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Some Full Text

The site allows you to look up acronyms (words formed from the initial letters of other words) and abbreviations. This dictionary does not distinguish initialisms (each letter pronounced separately e.g. CBC) from acronyms (pronounced as a word e.g. NATO). This is not an exhaustive source for acronyms, but is updated based on submissions and failed searches.

WorldCat Open Access

Access the world's most comprehensive bibliography, with millions of bibliographic records catalogued by OCLC member libraries. Includes holdings information from the world's libraries.

WorldLII Some Full Text Open Access

Use WorldLII (World Legal Information Institute) to search over 270 databases from 48 jurisdictions in 20 countries, including the databases of world-wide Legal Information Institutes such as CanLII. This is an excellent source for researching case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, and law journals from around the globe.