ENVIR ST 600: Exploring the Depth of Place (Spring 2025) : Find Articles and E-Texts
Selecting and Searching Databases by Subject or Type
You can access databases from the library home page (library.wisc.edu). Use the dropdown menu at the Catalog button to navigate to Databases.
There are several ways to browse and to select databases:
1) Search by the title of the database (for example, GreenFILE).
2) Use the Browse by Subject/Type page to discover databases that index literature on your research topic.
3) Visit the Top 10 Databases page to quickly access a selection of popularly-used databases.
- Agricultural and Environmental ScienceFocused research tool for cross-disciplinary agriculture and environmental sciences research. Find articles from academic and trade journals.
- America: History and LifeSearchable access to journal articles covering topics related to United States and Canadian history.
- Ethnic NewsWatchAccess newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native press, from Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, and multi-ethnic communities.
- Google ScholarMulti-disciplinary search engine to scholarly articles.
Note: Accessing Google Scholar through our libraries will help you to bypass paywalls (i.e retrieve more full-text through our subscriptions). - GreenFILECovers aspects of human impact on the environment, including such topics as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
- Web of ScienceCollection of databases that index the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, as published in journals, conference proceedings, symposia, and more. Includes citation network data.
- Wildlife and Ecology StudiesSearchable access to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians from journals, monographs, conference proceedings and symposia, government reports, grey literature, books, theses, dissertations, field studies, and surveys from U.S. state agencies.
Searching Tips for Online Databases
- Use AND to combine search terms; retrieve records with those terms, in any order: friends AND communication
- Use OR to combine similar search terms or synonyms: friends OR peers
- Use quotation marks ( " ") to search a required phrase: "interpersonal communication"
- Use an asterisk ( * ) to retrieve singular and plural forms or suffixes for search terns: friend* = friend, friends, friendly or friendship
- Review "subject headings" or "descriptors" to identify additional and useful search terms.
- Apply limits or filters to your results (by date, document type, or other).
Get the Full Text
Follow (Find It button) or the "Find It at UW Madison" link in most databases to:
- get online full text (when available)
- see if the journal is available in print (Library Catalog)
- request a copy of the article if full text is not available online ("Request a Copy" link)
If you have a known article or citation for which you need to retrieve the full-text, run an Articles search from the library site or use this Citation Search.
Selected E-Texts from Library Collections
Pioneers of Ecological Restoration: the People and Legacy of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum by ISBN: 9781283692144Publication Date: 2012-01-01
