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- Core Article Database
- Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Business and Economics
- Newspapers and Popular Magazines
- Preprints and Working Papers
- Getting Full Text
- Manage your References
Getting Full Text
Follow the 
button or Find It at UW Madison link in most databases to:
- access online full text (when available)
- see if the journal is available in print (MadCat)
- request a free pdf of the article if full text is not available online (Request a Copy/Library Express)
If you already have a citation, use this do-it-yourself form to search for your article.
- How to Find a Specific Article
This video will walk you through the process of finding a specific article. Or, if you prefer, try this tipsheet
Manage your References
- RefWorks RefWorks is web-based software for managing your citations. It is free to all faculty, staff and students at UW-Madison.
- EndNote EndNote is desktop citation management software that you can purchase from the DoIT Tech Store. It may be more appropriate if you are writing for publication.
- Zotero Zotero is a free Firefox plug-in that allows you to save citations, documents and copies of web pages. It's easy to learn, but not robust enough to support writing large documents.
- Compare RefWorks, EndNote and Zotero
Core Article Databases
These databases are a good starting point for most topics...
Click on the 
next to the database name to find out how to transfer references from that database to RefWorks or EndNote.
- CAB Abstracts
Leading scholarly database covering agriculture and natural resources worldwide. QuickGuide - EconLit Leading scholarly index for economics; covers over 300 English language periodicals and books. Quickguide
- Google Scholar (Advanced) Interdisciplinary coverage of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities. Some important publishers are not included. Guide
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Archive of older scholarly journals in many subjects, including ecology, economics and sociology. It does not include articles published in the last 3-5 years. QuickGuide
- Web of Science (Web of Knowledge) Interdisciplinary database of articles from top scholarly journals. Quickguide
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- Agricola Scholarly articles and US government reports about agriculture. QuickGuide
- Agris Agricultural database from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; most useful for finding FAO publications.
- Biological Abstracts Largest scholarly database for biology. QuickGuide
- E-Answers Provides access to Extension and outreach publications from land grant universities.
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Leading environmental database, covers all aspects of pollution; ecology, toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, & water resources. Quickguide
- FSTA (Food Science & Technology Abstracts)
Business and Economics
- ABI/Inform
- Global Market Information Database
- Mintel Reports Mintel produces over 600 reports each year, covering different sectors and focusing on topical marketing issues in Europe (especially UK) and the United States.
- SocINDEX Leading sociology database. QuickGuide
Newspapers and Popular Magazines
Preprints and Working Papers
- AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics Provides full text reports of scholarly research in the field of agricultural and applied economics.
- Eldis Gateway to Development Information Gateway to free, online materials of strategic, policy or practical interest on development topics. Includes over 18,000 full text documents from over 4500 different publishers.
- IDEAS: Internet Documents in Economics Access Service IDEAS provides access to over 200,000 items of research, over half available free in full text. Also includes information about economic institutions and registered authors.
- RePEC/IDEAS: Reserch Papers in Economics Over 400,000 items of research in economics can be browsed or searched, and over 300,000 can be downloaded in full text. Some 500 institutions participate.
- SSRN: Social Science Research Network SSRN includes the Economics Research Network (ERN). It abstracts over 130,000 scholarly social science papers, with full text of over 100,000. Use this link to access both subscription and free content.
- TEKTRAN Database Provides selected pre-publication notices of research results from the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA.
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