Access to UW Madison Library Resources for UWEX Cooperative Extension    

Services for Dane. Co., Specialists & Classified Staff (at UW-Madison)

UW-Madison Libraries provides UW-Extension Cooperative Extension library services for work-related research and programming. Library resources (articles, search results, books, etc.) should not be passed on to others due to copyright and licensing restrictions.

Search UW-Madison Licensed Databases

Go to UW-Madison Libraries Home Page www.library.wisc.edu

  • Top middle box links to databases in E-Resource Gateway.
  • (optional) Use circled (i) by database name for database coverage and link to Quick Guide of search tips.
  • Click database name to open database.
  • If on campus, database will open.
  • If off campus, YOU MUST ANSWER YES YOU ARE A UW MADISON FACULTY OR STAFF! If you have a UW-Madison Net ID and Password, use it. If not, when the UW System Authorization Hub appears, change from UW-Madison to UW-Extension and then type your UWEX CES NetID and password.

OR Go to Steenbock Library Journal Databases

  • Click database name to open database.
  • If on campus, database will open.
  • If off campus, YOU MUST ANSWER YES YOU ARE A UW MADISON FACULTY OR STAFF! If you have a UW-Madison Net ID and Password, use it. If not, when the UW System Authorization Hub appears, change from UW-Madison to UW-Extension and then type your UWEX CES NetID and password.

Research Tips and Tricks

Get Articles

From database citation

  • Check database citation for full-text html or pdf links
  • If no Full Text link in database:
    • Click FindIt or SFX button by citation.
    • Click Full Text online link in FindIt popup window.
    • If no Full Text online link in FindIt,
      • Click MadCat to see if a campus library has a print copy of the journal. If journal owned (check holdings for volume/year):
        • go to the library to get the article. Many campus libraries have copiers that function as scanners to email pdfs directly from the copier for free.
        • OR click Request a Copy-Library Express link in FindIt results page. Items are free.Log in to Library Express (11 digit ID number and last name in lower case).
          • Library Express has citation info from database automatically transferred to FindIt form. (Less typing for you!)

          • You will receive an email when the article is available in Library Express/View Electronically Received Articles.

          • Save article to your computer as article is deleted from Library Express in a few weeks.

If known article (from bibliography, etc)

  • Click Click here or from any UW-Madison Libraries page.
  • Type citation information. If you only have a Journal Title abbreviation, change Exact Match drop down to Contains and select correct journal from results.
  • Click Get Full Text Online link in FindIt results page.
  • If no Full Text link in FindIt:
    • Click Request a Copy -Library Express link in FindIt results. Items are FREE!.
      • Log in to Library Express (11 digit ID and last name in lower case)

      • Library Express has citation info from FindIt already

      • You will receive an email when the article is available in Library Express/View Electronically Received Articles.

      • Save article to your computer as article is deleted from Library Express in a few weeks.
    • OR Click MadCat to see if a campus library has a print copy of the journal. If journal owned (check holdings for volume/year):
      • go to the library to get the article. Many campus libraries have copiers that function as scanners to send pdfs directly from the copier for free.

Get Alerts

Get Books

  • Search MadCat and use MadCat's Place Request Button / Book Retrieval to have books delivered to a library close to you for pick up.

  • In MadCat, click UW-System Search button, search and then Place Request to have a book from another UW System school delivered to a library close to you faster than interlibrary loan.
  • Search WorldCat and fill out the Library Express link to have the book delivered to a library close to you for pick up.
  • Search Google Books, then use MadCat or Library Express to get the book.
  • OR Fill out a Library Express request form.
    • If the book is not at UW-Madison, it will automatically be interlibrary loaned for you and delivered to a pickup library you designated in Library Express.
    • If the book is at UW-Madison, the request will be cancelled with an email giving you the call number and library location

Use Research Guides

  • Research Guides, many developed with help of CES teams, highlight useful licensed databases and web sites. (Formerly known as webographies or subject guides.)

Get Grants

    Visit one of the WI Centers/Collections to search the Foundations Directory or to see their most current non-circulating books on grants. Contact information, grants guides and some databases are available from the web sites below.

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