Dept. 3035
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-2210
Fax: (307) 766-4044
Email: lawref@uwyo.edu
The library's databases are presented in alphabetical order below. Click on the title of the database to start researching or select "back" to view the category list.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W
The Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct is a well known treatise covering attorney conduct and legal ethics. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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BNA's biweekly Accounting Policy & Practice Report provides financial accounting policy-makers and their advisors with experts' insights and guidance on emerging, evolving, and complex issues. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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The BNA Accounting Policy & Practice Series extensively analyzes a specific financial accounting topic and provides real-life examples. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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BNA's Antitrust and Trade Regulations Report provides federal, state, and international coverage of competitive and deceptive trade practices law. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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The International Institute for Strategic Studies' Armed Conflict Database is a frequently updated source of information on armed conflicts worldwide. You can generate reports and download data as well as browse through the yearly analyses and fact sheets online. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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BNA's Bankruptcy Law Reporter provides regular, in-depth coverage of developments in state and federal bankruptcy law. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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The Berkeley Electronic Press publishes peer-reviewed journals articles, working papers, institutional repository materials, and other scholarly documents. These resources can be accessed for free on the internet.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education is the leading academic source for news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and administrators. This full-text periodical is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and off-campus with a UWYO username and password.
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Environment & Energy Publishing produces ClimateWire, an online source designed to bring readers coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Gale's Criminal Justice Collection allows the researcher to search in 150 journals specific to the topic. A search for articles may be limited to those in full text or to those that have been peer-reviewed. This database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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BNA's Criminal Law Reporter covers developments, trends, and emerging patterns in criminal law today. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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The Customary International Humanitarian Law publication was published in 2005 by the International Committee of the Red Cross and Cambridge University Press. The ICRC has made this updated electronic version of the text freely available to the public.
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Our law school was a founding sponsor of AudioCaseFiles, which later evolved into CVN Lawschool. CVN Lawschool contains downloadable audio files of court opinions, podcasts from law professors and law students, and a series of videos. Registering an account, with your law school email address, will give you unlimited, free access to this resource. The media is in MP3 format and once downloaded, the audio can be played from a personal computer, burned to a CD, or used on a portable player such as an iPod.
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Published daily, this report covers legislative and regulatory developments, court and administrative decisions, compliance news, government policies, and international standards. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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Get national and global perspectives on the digital economy with objective, vital news of trends and developments, insights and legal expertise from BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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BNA's Employment Discrimination Report provides comprehensive coverage of judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in the area of equal employment opportunity. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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Environment & Energy Publishing produces EnergyWire, an online source designed to bring
readers coverage of the politics and business of unconventional energy. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Environment & Energy Publishing produces Environment and Energy Daily, an
online source to track environmental and energy issues in Congress. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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BNA's Environment and Safety Library is a collection of federal and state laws, regulations, documents, and compliance tools for researching environment and safety information. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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BNA's Environment Reporter covers legislative, regulatory, legal, and policy news and documents federal laws, rules, cases, and mining regulations. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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Gale's Environmental Studies and Policy Collection allows the research to search in 200 journals specific to the topic. A search for articles may be limited to those in full text or to those that have been peer-reviewed. This database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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BNA's Family Law Reporter tracks new federal and state cases, legislation, trends, and issues in family law. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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The Fastcase primary law collection contains cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions. Also included in the resource are newspaper archives, legal forms, federal filings, people finders, and business intelligence tools. This full-text database is limited in use to College of Law students, faculty, and staff.
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The Federal Yellow Book list names, titles, addresses, emails, education backgrounds, career histories, and phone/fax numbers for staff in over 85 agencies including the Social Security Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, the General Services Administration, and others. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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Filmaker's Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum —race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Our link will take you directly to the documentaries under the topic "law." Access Filmaker's Library Online from any University of Wyoming computer or off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The Foreign Law Guide provides links to current sources of codes and basic legislation for more than 170 jurisdictions in the world. The primary goal is to provide English translations of full text legislation, but the editors have expanded their efforts to include translations in other languages such as French, German, Spanish, and Italian. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Environment & Energy Publishing produces GreenWire, an online source
designed to bring readers coverage of major environmental and energy action. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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BNA's Health Law Reporter covers developments that influence the health care industry, including new cases, federal and state legislation, rules from federal regulators, and enforcement trends. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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Hein Online provides access to primary law and secondary sources and is continually expanding. Primary law databases include the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, session laws, AG opinions, English Reports, Supreme Court opinions, and treaties. Hein Online's secondary source databases include the Legal Classics library and the Hein Online Law Journal Library which provide full coverage of almost all American law journals from their inception. Other unique modules include the American Law Institute Library and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Enter the database to view a full list of content modules. This full-text database provides PDF files of content, is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer, and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.(tutorials)
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Human Rights Documents Online (HRDO) will ultimately contain all human rights documents collected by the Human Rights Internet in Ottawa since 1980. These documents emanate from nearly 500 non-governmental human rights organizations worldwide. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is the major multilingual index to articles appearing in over 500 legal journals published worldwide. The index provides in-depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia. This full-text database provides PDF files of content, is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer, and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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BNA's Intellectual Property Library is a collection of resources available on patent, trademark, copyright, and other areas of intellectual property law — cases, statutes, regulations, and analytical materials. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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BNA's International Trade Reporter tracks regulations, cases, and policy developments affecting U.S. trade, international business, and major U.S. trading partners. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that maintains an archive of scholarly journals from many disciplines. JSTOR offers researchers high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. This full-text database provides PDF files of content, is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer, and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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KeyCite is West's citation research service which verifies whether your case, statute, administrative decision, or regulation is good law. KeyCite is available as part of Westlaw Campus Research or Westlaw Patron Access. (tutorials)
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BNA's Labor and Employment Law Library is a resource for cases, guidance, and news in labor areas including fair employment practices, individual employment rights, Americans with disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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Wondering if there is a title published on a particular area of law? LawTRIO is a law publications database combining looseleaf, newsletter, and CD-ROM directories to provide publishing information on over 7,500 legal titles. This database is accessible within the law library for all users and available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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The Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 increases success in identifying older law review articles. The resource indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The index conveniently links to full text articles when available and is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer, and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The Legal Scholarship Network is a part of the Social Science Research Network whose objective is to provide worldwide distribution of research to authors and their readers. Authors are invited to upload papers without charge, and any paper an author uploads is downloadable for free. Select the University of Wyoming as an affiliate when registering to have the highest level of access to full-text articles.
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LegalTrac indexes nearly 2,000 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Titles included in LegalTrac are selected by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries and are therefore highly regarded. LegalTrac offers limited access to the full-text of articles, so check in our WebHopper library catalog to see if our library subscribes to the needed journal. This database is accessible statewide via geolocation.
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Many legal researchers are familiar with LexisNexis. In this academic version of the powerful database, searchers can find full-text documents from news, business, and legal publications. Legal publications include primary material such as case law, statutes and regulations, and secondary sources such as legal news or law reviews. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password. (tutorials)
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The Law Library Microfilm Consortium is a non-profit consortium of libraries devoted to providing economical access to a wide range of legal and law-related material. The LLMC-Digital product has made the LLMC microfilm collection available as searchable or browsable full-text images. Collections are available for U.S. federal, U.S. states, U.S. territories, Anglo-American titles, foreign jurisdictions, international law and organizations, and multi-jurisdictional subjects. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password. (tutorials)
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The Making of Modern Law, Legal Treatises series includes American and British titles published from 1800-1926 providing full text access to more than 21,000 works. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password.(tutorial)
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Designed to complement The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, this
archive offers online access to state and municipal codes, documents
relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American
legal history. This full-text database is accessible from
any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO
username and password.
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This online Encyclopedia, written by over 650 scholars and practitioners from around the world and edited by a team from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, will be updated quarterly. In addition to extensive search functionality and click-through cross references to other Encyclopedia entries, users will have access to the Oxford Law Citator. The Citator offers easy access linking to related content available in all new Oxford online legal services. Access the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law from any University of Wyoming computer or off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The OGEL Journal is an international journal focusing on recent developments
in the area of oil-gas-energy law, regulations, treaties, judicial and arbitral
cases, voluntary guidelines, tax and contracting, and oil-gas-energy
geopolitics. Access is limited to University of Wyoming computers; off-campus
access is not available.
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Oxford Reports on International Law is intended to be a single point of reference for all international law jurisprudence, providing researchers access to the widest possible range of international law jurisprudence. Modules include Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law, Oxford Reports on International Human Rights Law, Oxford Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction and Oxford Reports on International Investment Claims. All reported decisions have a headnote, the full text of the decision, and are linked to the Oxford Law Citator. Access the International Law in Domestic Courts database from any University of Wyoming computer or off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Oxford Scholarship Online offers full-text access to academic monographs, providing quick and easy access to award-winning Oxford University Press scholarship. Our subscription allows full-text access to the law titles only. The database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal cites to the most important intellectual property cases, statutes, trends, and other key developments in all areas of the law. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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ProQuest Congressional, which contains House and Senate documents and reports, gives researchers access to full-text, original documents from the original U.S. Serial Set. The set begins in 1789 with the American State Papers and continues through 1969. The database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The Religion Case Reporter is an exclusively online electronic publication which reports and indexes U.S. federal and state judicial opinions addressing the free exercise of religion, state establishment of religion, the clergy and religious institutions. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The Rocky Mountain Oil Journal (RMOJ) is the oldest oil and gas publication
in the Rocky Mountains. Coverage includes oil and gas news from Arizona,
Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Northern New Mexico, Nevada, North
and South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. The publisher has provided a
complimentary subscription to UW students, faculty, and staff. Please contact a
law librarian at (307) 766-2210 or lawref@uwyo.edu for username and password.
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This resource provides full text access to materials published by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation since 1955. Content includes more than 2,000 articles and 176 books dealing with all aspects of natural resources law. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password. Best viewed in Internet Explorer.
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BNA's Securities Regulation and Law Report highlights federal and state developments in the regulation of securities and futures trading and accounting, with coverage of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, industry, courts, and Congress. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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Shepard's is the citation research service from LexisNexis which verifies whether your case, statute, administrative decision, or regulation is good law. Selected law reviews may be citated as well to expand your research. This is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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More than 70 BNA State Tax Library Portfolios examine topics of state taxation focusing on complex income tax, sales and use tax, and property tax issues. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff. (tutorial)
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BNA's Tax Management Federal Portfolios cover innumerable key tax issues. U.S. Federal income, estates, gifts and trust taxes; U.S. state income, sales and use and property taxes; and foreign income taxes for over 30 countries are included. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff. (tutorial)
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BNA's Tax Management Weekly State Tax Report provides weekly reports on state-by-state analysis of state code and regulations, state administrative and judicial court decisions, and state administrative pronouncements. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff. (tutorial)
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Checkpoint blends cutting-edge technology, editorial insight, time-saving
productivity tools, online learning and news updates with intelligent linking to
related content and software. Thousands of tax and accounting professionals rely
on Checkpoint every day to understand complex information, make informed
decisions and use knowledge more efficiently. This
full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis
available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The United Nations Treaty Collection contains the status of multilateral treaties, the UN Treaty series, recently deposited multilateral treaties, photographs of treaty signature ceremonies, and titles of multilateral treaties in UN languages. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Published by BNA, U.S. Law Week highlights significant cases and key legislative, regulatory, and pre-decisional developments, across the country, across all areas of the law. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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The second part of the Making of Modern series, the U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs database secures access to these often hard to find documents from 1832-1978. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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VersusLaw is a low-cost legal database which makes available federal and state statutes, and regulations and cases from the federal appeals courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, tribal courts, and states. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer andis available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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UW Libraries offers access to Westlaw Campus Research which includes thousands of news databases, hundreds of newspapers, newswires, magazines, and broadcast transcripts, business, trade, and professional journals, more than 800 law review and journals, and federal and state case law, statutes, and regulations. Access Westlaw Campus Research from any University of Wyoming computer or off-campus with UWYO username and password. (tutorials)
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The law library subscription to Westlaw Patron Access allows you to perform legal research in all primary law databases, Keycite, and within the legal research library which includes ALR's, Am Jur, Restatements, treatises and law reviews. Westlaw Patron access also provides tribal law resources not available in the Westlaw Campus Research subscription. Access is blocked to databases outside the library’s subscription, so you will not accidentally accrue charges for searching outside your library’s plan. To view the databases included in your library’s subscription, click Directory on the toolbar, then click the folders to browse all levels of the directory. Westlaw Campus Research is available from the three computers located in the library reference room only. (tutorials)
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BNA's White Collar Crime Report addresses developments affecting the prosecution and defense of fraud and other white collar crimes. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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OCLC's WorldCat is a global resource that allows researchers to search the combined catalogs of 72,000 libraries. It contains nearly 180million records for books, videos, articles, recorded books and music, electronic books, cultural artifacts, digital objects, web sites and more. Access WorldCat from any University of Wyoming computer or off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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