Access to UW Madison Library Resources for UWEX Cooperative Extension  

Ask a Librarian

Email or phone Barbara Lazewski at 608-263-3899 M-Th with a request that 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 WI residents by WI DPI. Has full-text EBSCOHost article databases such as Academic Search Elite, Business Source Elite, ERIC, and more. BadgerLink also has Proquest newspaper databases. If your county or home Internet Service Provider is registered, you can get to databases from the main Badgerlink page. If not:
  • Go to http://www.badgerlink.org/
  • Click Library Card Access
  • Scroll down to your local library
  • Click EBSCO for magazine & journal articles OR click Proquest for Newspaper articles
  • 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/)
• EDEN: Extension Disaster Education Network
• ERIC Education database. (http://www.eric.ed.gov/) Also see BadgerLink licensed version.
• 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/)
• Librarians' Internet Index (http://lii.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)
• 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 EBSCO Academic Search Elite and ERIC and the PROQUEST Newspapers databases that are available to all WI residents usually answer most questions and have links to many full text articles.
  
  
• If that isn't enough, you can Email or phone Barbara Lazewski at 608-263-3899 M-Th with a request that 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. You may need to register for a free googlemail account to see some excerpts. 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.

Subject Guides / Web Sites

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

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