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

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

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.