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Quick Guides provide basic instructions for many online databases available to UW-Madison students, staff, and faculty.

The chart below is organized by vendor interface. To locate a guide for a specific database, go to the E-Resource Gateway. Links to guides are available from the Info Logo Resource Details window for each database.

For a chart of search commands (Boolean operators, truncation, wildcards, etc.) listed by vendor, see Compare Search Features.

Quick Guides by Vendor Interface Sample Databases Covered Maintained By Last Updated
AIDA AIDA (Articoli Italiani di Periodici Accademici) Memorial 12/09
AND CompLex for Windows Masterplots Complete College 8/08
ARTstor ARTstor Memorial 12/09
Beilstein/Gmelin CrossFire Beilstein Chemistry 6/08
Bowker Web Books in Print Memorial 12/09
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) vendor help Ecology Abstracts
Technology Research Database Collection
Wendt 7/10
CASSI on CD CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index) Chemistry 8/08
CEEOL CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library) Memorial 3/08
Chadwyck Healey International Index to Music Periodicals
MLA International Bibliography
Memorial 6/08
China Academic Journals China Academic Journals Memorial 12/06
Congressional Quarterly CQ Researcher College 8/08
CRC Press (vendor help) ENGnetBASE Wendt 7/10
Dyabola Dyabola (web version) Memorial 7/08
EBSCOhost vendor help Academic Search Elite, Historical Abstracts,
PsycINFO, SocIndex, Social Works Abstracts
Steenbock 7/10
Encyclopedia Britannica Encyclopedia Britannica Online College 10/08
Engineering Village vendor help Compendex (Engineering Index)
Inspec
Wendt 11/08
Esp@cenet Esp@cenet International Patents Wendt 7/1-
Quick Guides by Vendor Interface Sample Databases Covered Maintained By Last Updated
Facts on File News Services Facts.com College 10/08
First Search WorldCat Memorial 4/09
Gale Health & WellnessResourceCenter
Opposing ViewpointsResourceCenter
Steenbock 7/10
Google Scholar vendor help Google Scholar Steenbock 7/10
IEEE vendor help IEEE Xplore Wendt 7/10
IHS Standards Expert vendor help IHS Standards Expert Wendt 7/10
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database ICSD Chemistry 3/10
ISI (Web of Science) vendor help Web of Science Steenbock 7/10
JSTOR vendor help JSTOR Steenbock 7/10
Knovel vendor help   Wendt 7/10
LexisNexis LexisNexis Academic Universe College 8/08
MadCat      
NetLibrary vendor help NetLibrary Wendt 7/10
Newsbank Global Newsbank College 1/07
NIST Critically Selected Stability Constants of Metal Complexes NIST Critically Selected Stability Constants of Metal Complexes Chemistry 6/08
Quick Guides by Vendor Interface Sample Databases Covered Maintained By Last Updated
OvidSP vendor help Biotechnology Abstract , Health and Psychosocial Instruments, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts Steenbock 7/10
Oxford English Dictionary OED Online Memorial 7/08
Project MUSE Project MUSE Memorial 7/08
ProQuest vendor help ABI/INFORM Global
ProQuest Research Library
Steenbock 7/10
PubMed / NCBI vendor help PubMed (includes Medline) Steenbock 7/10
RDS (Responsive Database Services) Contemporary Women's Issues Memorial 7/08
SAE Digital Library (vendor help) SAE Digital Library Wendt 7/10
Safari (vendor help) Safari Chemistry 1/10
SciFinder Scholar Chemical Abstracts Chemistry 1/08
SSP American Poetry Database Memorial 8/08
Times (London) Digital Archive Times (London) Digital Archive Memorial 8/08
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office U.S. PTO Full Text and Image Database Wendt 7/10
U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) Wendt 7/10
WebCSD Web Cambridge Structure Database Chemistry 3/10
Wiley Interscience Encyclopedias Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Chemistry 10/08
WilsonWeb Education Full-Text
Readers' Guide Full-Text
College 7/10