UWRF Library Catalog

The Library's catalog is the place to search for books, reference books, videos, DVDs, CDs, Government Documents, and more. By searching the Library's catalog, you can find a location for every item that's in the Library. Here are some helpful hints:

• When searching by "Advanced Search," use AND, OR, NOT to combine the keywords that you are searching for. For example, a search for "patents" AND "trademarks" will only get you items that have both "patents" and "trademarks" anywhere in their catalog descriptions.

• To search for an exact phrase, put it in quotation marks. For example, searching "old man and the sea" will get you only items which have that exact phrase in their catalog description.

• To search for multiple variations of a word, use a truncation mark. It allows you to place a symbol, usually an asterisk * or a question mark ?, at the end of a word. The search will then retrieve all the words sharing that word's root. For example, a search such as "child?" will retrieve items that have the words child, children, childhood, childlike, and children's.

• A wildcard mark, usually an asterisk * or a question mark ?, is used to replace one or more letters within a word in order to retrieve various forms of that word. For instance, a search such as "wom?n" retrieves items that contain either woman or women.
  • Cannot find a book in our Library? Try a Universal Borrowing search. Universal Borrowing is a service where you can get a book or any other item from Stout or Eau Claire or any of the other University of Wisconsin System libraries without driving there. All you need is the 16 digit number on the bottom of your ID card.
    

SuperSearch

Here is a link to the SuperSearch Custom Search English page. The databases listed below that have significant content for English classes plus the library's catalog are searchable from that page. Use the Simple or Advanced search box to enter your question, check the boxes for the resources you want to search & click GO. If you need help selecting or searching the databases, please see a Reference Librarian or try our SuperSearch Tutorial.

Journal Article & Newspaper Search Engines/Databases

Academic Search Premier. Journal coverage for most academic areas of study. Features selected full-text for over 4,650 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications; abstracts and indexing for nearly 8,200 popular & scholarly journals, with many dating back to 1975, also covers major national newspapers.

Agricola. Available through both the web and an enhanced CD ROM version, this database provides indexing of agriculture journals, conference proceedings, books, government documents, etc.

American Chemical Society Publications. Includes selected full-text, with images, from journals published by the American Chemical Society.

Applied Science and Technology Full Text. Contains abstracts and selected full-text from more than 400 journals.

Biological and Agricultural Index Plus. Provides citations from approximately 330 journals in the biological and agricultural sciences.

BioOne.Full-text coverage for over 30 journals in biological, ecological and environmental studies.

BIOSIS. (Biological Abstracts). Provides citations and abstracts to articles from the major biological science journals.

Business Full Text. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 345 English‑language periodicals.  It includes 160 full text titles

Business Source Elite. Provides full text from nearly 930 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,570 journals.

CINAHL. CINAHL® Plus with Full Text is The world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals.

CQ Researcher. Offers in-depth single themed, 12,000 word reports, researched and written by a seasoned journalist. Indexes reports dating back to 1991. PDF files are available for reports from January 1996.

Emerald Library. Includes full-text articles from several, mostly European, management, marketing, and operations journals.

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management. Indexes and abstracts more than 4000 journals and thousands of additional sources, including conference proceedings, reports, books and government publications.

ERIC. U.S. Department of Education, Educational Resources Information Center's immense education database.  Includes some coverage back to the mid-1960’s.

GenderWatch. Full-text database that includes articles from over 100 journals and magazines devoted to women’s issues, plus newsletters, regional materials, reports and conference proceedings.  Includes some coverage back to the mid-1970’s.

General Science Full Text. Provides citations and some full-text articles from about 300 popular and scholarly science journals.

GeoRef. Produced by the American Geological Institute, this database contains citations to nearly 2 million records related to geology and earth sciences

JSTOR. A not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the available back issues.

Lexis Nexis Academic. Indexes academic & popular journals, newspapers, news wires, news transcripts and more, almost all full text. The Business section includes: business news, company financial info, companies comparisons, SEC filings, industry, market, & accounting literature, business reference sources.

Lexis Nexis Statistical Statistical. Covers statistical publications of the U.S., State, and Intergovernmental organizations (IGO).

Medline. The National Library of Medicine's database. Which is the world's largest medical index.

New York Times Historical, ProQuest(1951-2004). Keyword searchable, it includes the complete paper cover-to-cover with full page and article images.

Omnifile Full Text Mega. A multi-disciplinary full text database containing providing the complete content of six of Wilson's full text databases: Business Full Text, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Reader's Guide Full Text, and Social Sciences Full Text. Indexing goes back to 1982, abstracts start in 1984, and full text coverage in 1994.

Project Muse. A unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

ProQuest Newspapers. Provides full text coverage of 300+ U.S. and International news sources. Coverage includes 150+ major U.S. and International newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. The database also provides coverage of many local and regional newspapers such as The Chicago Tribune, The Star Tribune, The Wisconsin State Journal, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and The La Crosse Tribune.

PsychArticles. The database contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 40 journals published by the APA and 9 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 49 journals. Coverage spans from 1988 to the present.

PsychInfo. 1887-present Available through EBSCOHOST.  Contains more than one million references to psychological literature ranging in date from 1887 to the present.  Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters.

Regional Business News. Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Science Citation Index Expanded. (Web of Science). Multidisciplinary database covering journal literature of the sciences. Allows cited reference searches. No fulltext.

Social Sciences Full Text. 1983-present. Available through WilsonWeb.  Indexes and abstracts more than 4000 journals.  It offers full-text from 115 of those journals, beginning in 1995.

Sociological Abstracts. 1963-present. Provides access to the worldwide findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Features journal citations and abstracts; book, chapter, and association paper abstracts; and book, film, and software review citations.

Women’s Studies International. 1972-present. An interdisciplinary database that contains records from Women Studies Abstracts (1984-present), Women’s Studies Database (1972-present), Women’s Studies Bibliography Database, New Books on Women and Feminism (1987-present), Women of Color and Southern Women (1975-present), The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology: a bibliographic guide to the professions and disciplines (1970-1995), Women’s Health and Development: an annotated bibliography (1995), Women, Race, and Ethnicity: a bibliography (1970-1990), WAVE: Women’s Audiovisuals in English: a guide to non-print resources in Women’s Studies (1985-1990), POPLINE Subset on Women (1964-2000).

Statistics

Our Government Documents Department has an excellent set of pages for federal, state, & local government information. Here's a link to its federal statistical sources page. From that page FedStats is a ncie U.S. govn't gateway. The American FactFinder is excellent. Here are some other good sites, County Business Patterns and ZIP Code Business Patterns. The Statistical Abstract of the United States digests the feds. major sources. Here are a couple that aren't from the federal government: Google, U.S. Government Search & The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Many of the public and private business statistical sources list information by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code.

Internet resources

Learn to do better web searches. The Web: Tutorials, Gateways, Images, Videoes, & Sounds link on our Research Guides page is a good place to start. UC Berkeley has perhaps the best web tutorial on the net, it's sub-section designed to help you evaluate web pages is very good: Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask.

Librarians' Internet Index (LII). Offers high-quality websites that are carefully selected, described and organized by a team of librarians from California and Washington State and other places. There are over 20,000 sites arranged in 14 main topics with 300 related subtopics.

INFOMINE. Maintained by a group of university librarians from arround the U.S., it is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

Additional Information

Citations. Check out the links on the Library's Citation, Style and Writing Guide page or stop by the Research Help Desk to see the MLA Style Guide or a variety of other citation guides.

Scholarly journal, a trade publication or a popular magazine. This table shows the differences between a scholarly journal, a trade publication and a popular magazine.

If you have questions at any point in your research project, remember the RESEARCH HELP DESK in the Library.

Call ext. 3343 or (715) 425-3343 or e-mail: refdesk@uwrf.edu 

T. Smisek