Access to UW Madison Library Resources for UWEX Cooperative Extension County Classified Staff

Ask a Librarian

Email or phone Karen Dunn at 608-890-2666 with a request to have a librarian search for information on your topic for you. Identify yourself as UWEX Cooperative Extension staff for more comprehensive service. Librarians are expert searchers and CAN SAVE YOU TIME!

Free Internet Resources / Databases

• BadgerLink Full text licensed databases for Wisconsin residents, a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Supplies full-text EBSCOHost article databases such as Academic Search Elite, Business Source Elite, ERIC, and more. If your county or home Internet Service Provider is registered, you can access databases from the main Badgerlink page. If not:
  • Go to http://www.badgerlink.net/
  • Click Library Card Access
  • Scroll to find your local library
  • Use your public library card number to log in.
    

• AgEcon Search A fulltext library of agricultural and applied economics scholarly literature. (http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/)
• Agricola (National Agriculture Library) 1970- Ag, nutrition, & extension info. (http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/)
• Consultant: A Diagnostic Support System For Veterinary Medicine Fulltext. (http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultant/consult.asp)
• E-Answers Extension information. Can limit searches to North Central Region.
  (http://e-answers.adec.edu/)
• eXtension National extension organization. (http://www.extension.org/)
• FedStats Statistics from ~100 government agencies. (http://www.fedstats.gov/)
• EDEN: Extension Disaster Education Network
• ERIC Education database. (http://www.eric.ed.gov/) Also see BadgerLink licensed version (under EBSCOhost/Database List/ERIC).
• Google Book Search Search the fulltext of copyrighted and public domain books for excerpts and to identify books to borrow from your local public library. (http://books.google.com/)
• Google Scholar Search for scholarly web sites/article citations. (http://scholar.google.com/)
• GPO Access (U.S. Government Printing Office) Searchable, fulltext US Budget, CFR, Federal Register, etc. (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html)
• InfoPlease Almanac (http://www.infoplease.com/)
• Internet Public Library/Librarians' Internet Index (http://www.ipl.org/)
• Medline Plus Health Information (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/)
• PubMed (Medline) National Library of Medicine's (NLM) medical literature database (some fulltext) . (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed)
• Scirus Science specific web search engine to find scholarly papers and pages on web. (http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/)
• Social Sciences in Forestry (http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/bib/SSiF.phtml)
• Statistical Sources Subject guide with links to searchable databases.
• Thomas (Legislative Information on the Internet) (http://thomas.loc.gov)
• Trail Planning, Construction and Maintenance
  (http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/bib/trls.phtml)
• Treesearch. Searches fulltext USDA Forest Service publications. (http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/)
• Urban Forestry (http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/bib/urban.phtml)
• USA.gov Official web portal, browsable and searchable.
• Wisconsin's Water Library UW-Madison Water Library lets you search for books and has web links by topic. (http://aqua.wisc.edu/waterlibrary/)

Research Tips and Tricks

How to Access License Restricted Resources

• County classified staff do not have UW-Madison ID numbers and thus cannot access licensed UW-Madison resources. The Badgerlink databases that are available to all Wisconsin residents usually answer most questions and have links to many full text articles.
  
  
• If that isn't enough, you can email or phone Karen Dunn at 608-890-2666 M-F with a request to have a librarian search for information on your topic for you. Identify yourself as UWEX Cooperative Extension staff in your request.
  

Book / Material Loans

County classified CES staff use your local public library's interlibrary loan service to borrow materials identified in MadCat or Google Book Search.

MadCat is the computer catalog of the UW-Madison libraries. You can use it to identify books, government documents, and other materials available in more than 30 Madison campus libraries. MadCat Help.

Google Book Search lets you search full text copyrighted books and see a short excerpt from the book. In the left column, you can use the "About this Book" or "Table of Contents" to decide if you want to borrow this book from your library.

Research Guides / Websites

Websites selected by librarians, frequently in conjunction with CES teams, are available.

• http://steenbock.library.wisc.edu/guides.html