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• U.S. Congressional Serial Set - The bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives constitutes a rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial Set will consist of approximately 13,800 volumes and over 12 million pages.     
• U.S. Statutes at Large - is part of the Congressional Universe database. Full-text access to the laws of the United States from 1789 to the present. Includes public laws, private laws, concurrent resolutions, presidential proclamations, treaties with foreign nations (through 1849) and all treaties with Native American tribes.    
• U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978 - Contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978.    
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory - provides detailed profiles of nearly a quarter of a million academic journals, consumer magazines, trade publications, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, and other serials.     
• UM Digital Library - digitized Missouri materials    
• uments and publications. Also included are commercial publications and other non-UN sources held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. The coverage of UNBISnet is from 1979 onward, however, older documents are being added to the catalogue on a regular basis. UNBISnet also provides instant access to a growing number of full text resources in the six official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), including resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Security Council from 1946 onward.     
• United Nations Official Document System (ODS) - The United Nations Official Document System (ODS) provides full-text access to all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Important older UN documents are added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information.   

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• Vanderbilt Television News Archive - The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.

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• Wall Street Journal & New York Times Historical -The Wall Street Journal (1889-1990) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. more info... Coverage: July 8, 1889-Dec 31, 1990  | View titles - The New York Times (1851-2004) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. more info... Coverage: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2004  | View titles
• Wiley Interscience - provides table of contents and full-text access to over 250 electronic journals from John Wiley and sons.   
• World Almanac - offers basic reference sources including 6,000 records of biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics. Coverage is 1998 to date.    
•  World Development Indicators - provides access to World Bank data for over 200 countries. It includes time series data on national accounts, balance of payments, trade, social indicators, and natural resources. Coverage starts in 1960. This database is only accessible within Ellis Library.     
• WorldCat - is the OCLC Online Union Catalog containing over 41 million records catalogued by OCLC member libraries covering books and other materials held in libraries worldwide.   
•  Worldwide Political Science Abstracts - provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in Political Science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.