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Citation Linker

If you have a journal or book citation and would like to see if the full-text for it is available online, select Citation Linker and enter the information you have.  If it is available, you will be presented with a menu of full-text options.  If it is not available online, you will be given options to either find it in the UW Colleges library catalog or request it on interlibrary loan via ILLiad.


Accessing Licensed Electronic Resources From Off-Campus Via the Proxy Server

Most of the databases listed below have been purchased by UW System or UW Colleges and therefore are legally bound by software licenses, copyright restrictions and other contractual agreements which require access to them to be restricted to UW Colleges students, faculty and staff. Please contact your UW Colleges campus library for further information regarding accessing these resources via proxy server or for instruction on how to use these databases.


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BadgerCat via OCLC FirstSearch Description: BadgerCat is a statewide shared library catalog for Wisconsin libraries.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
BadgerLink Description: BadgerLink is a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning. Its goal is to provide access to quality online information resources for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's public, school, academic, and special libraries and Internet Service Providers.
Coverage: Varies by database.
Full-text: Some
Online guide or tutorial: FAQ is available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Baraboo News Republic Description: Online version of the daily Baraboo newspaper.
Coverage: Current day's articles only on main pages.
Full-text: Selected articles only.
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Bartleby.com Description: The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations via Bartleby.com Description: Including over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most of his original work intact.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: N/A
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Belgian-American Research Collection via UWDC Description: Digital collection of photographs, oral history tapes and abstracts, and select publications from the Belgian American Resource Collection of the UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library.
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: Some full-text is available.
Online guide or tutorial: Forms to request assistance are available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Bibliographie de Civilisation Medievale -- See Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies 
Biographies Plus Illustrated -- See Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated 
Biography (A&E) Description: The online counterpart of cable's Biography program from the A&E Network. Searchable guide to thousands of biographies.
Coverage: Contemporary and historical personalities.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: An FAQ is available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index via Gale Description: Biography and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
Coverage: Contemporary and historical figures
Full-text: No
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Biological & Agriculture Index Plus via WilsonWeb Description: Indexing to sources from 291 international journals in biology and agriculture, with about 45 percent of the focus on agriculture.
Coverage: 1983-present
Full-text: No
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) via Thomson Reuters Description: Indexes and abstracts over 4,200 international journals and life science periodicals on topics including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, the environment, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, public health and toxicology.
Coverage: 1994-present
Full-text: No
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available. A tutorial is available from http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/ba/.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
BioMed Central Description: BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to over 160 peer-reviewed biomedical research journals.
Coverage: Varies by title.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: FAQ and e-mail support are available.
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.
BioOne Description: An aggregation of full-text bioscience research journals including The American Biology Teacher, BioScience, Conservation Ecology, Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, and Wetlands. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.
Coverage: 2000-present
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Biosis -- See Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) 
Black Drama via Alexander Street Press Description: Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays writen from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Coverage: 1800s-present
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies via UW-Madison Description: Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies includes the International Medieval Bibliography and Bibligraphie de Civilisation Medievale. The International Medieval Bibliography is the major index to medieval studies (c. 400-1500). It includes citations to articles in approximately 4500 journals and "miscellany" volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften).
Coverage: N/A
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: N/A
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Britannica Online Description: Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition brings together the world-renowned content of the encyclopedia, with the speed and convenience of the Internet. Additional features of the site include World Data, Notable Quotations, and Gateway to the Classics.
Coverage: The first issue of Britannica was published in 1768, continuously revised.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries via Alexander Street Press Description: British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (BWLD) includes the diaries and correspondence of 500 women, as revealed in approximately 24,000 pages of diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years. The collection also includes an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
Coverage: 1500-1900
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: Online help and guided tour are available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server.
Business Full-Text -- See Wilson Business Full Text 
Business Source Premier via EbscoHost Description: Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Coverage: 1886-present
Full-text: 1886 to the present for some titles.
Online guide or tutorial: Online help is available.
Remote access: Yes, via proxy server or through BadgerLink.
Business Wire Description: Business Wire, the first newswire to establish an Internet Web site in 1995, delivers breaking news and multimedia content on business-related stories.
Coverage: Past 30 days.
Full-text: Yes
Online guide or tutorial: No
Remote access: Yes, via link to left.

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Last updated 11/9/2009. Comments to
Mary Rieder.

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