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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
Citation Managers such as RefWorks, EndNote, or Zotero are software tools for managing your citations. Citation Managers will help you:
- Create and organize a personal research database
- Download citations from online databases
- Format bibliographies and citations in papers
- Share your citations with others
- 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...
- Academic Search Good mix of research and popular articles on almost any topic under the sun.
- Communications & Mass Media Abstracts Includes communication journals not covered in most other databases.
- Lexis Nexis Academic News, legal, reference, business sources, radio & tv transcripts, most full text.
- Web of Knowledge The unique Cited Reference search allows you to find all the papers that have cited a specific author or article.
- Science Databases
- Databases by Subject
Newspapers
- Newspaper Source Plus Includes 1,520 full-text newspapers. Contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as The New York Times (from January 1985 to present), The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Mail (UK), The Irish Times (Ireland), The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times of London, The Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and others. Replaces Proquest Newspapers.
- NEXIS (LEXIS/NEXIS) Academic Universe Web Approximately 5,000 legal, news, reference, and business sources, Including Broadcast Transcripts
- Global Newsbank International issues and events. Covers Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Pacific Rim, Central and South America and the Middle East.
- Newspapers Research Guide Has sources of current and historical newspapers available in print, electronically, and on microform through the UW-Madison Libraries and beyond. Has tabs to newspapers by Local/Madison, WI, USA, Alternative/Ethnic, International, and Other Sources.
Public Policies & Opinion Polls
- CQ Researcher Contains weekly indepth reports that cover the most current and controversial issues of the day
- Opposing Viewpoints A complete one-stop source for information on social issues.
- PollingReport An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion.
- Polling the Nations Questions and responses from more than 14,000 national, state, local and special surveys in the U.S. and 80+ countries.
- iPoll Databank A full-text, question-level retrieval system for United States public opinion back to 1935.
- Pollster.com Political Surveys and Election Polls, Trends, Charts and Analysis.
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