Open Web Resources

Article Databases (Popular and Research Literature)

• BadgerLink  Licensed databases (many with full-text) for Wisconsin residents–a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Supplies access to databases such as Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, ERIC, and more. How to access by location (in Wisconsin).
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• EurekAlert! (science news)
• Google Scholar Search for article citations, documents, working papers.
• Journal TOCs (Table of Contents service)
• Public Library of Science
• SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)
• Unpaywall (Free browser extension–Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox–that connects to Open Access versions of research articles)

Extension Information

• EDEN: Extension Disaster Education Network
• Journal of Extension (peer-reviewed e-journal)
• the Learning Store, (University of Wisconsin Extension Publications)

Government Information

• Data.gov (open data products; browse by topic or search)
• Google Patents Search
• GovInfo, US Government Publishing Office
• Congress.gov (Current legislative activities, contact information)
• USA.gov (Official Web portal)

Library Catalogs & Digital Collections

• Chronicling America, Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress
• Google Books (Search the full-text of copyrighted and public domain books for excerpts and to identify books to borrow from your local public library)
• HathiTrust Digital Library (not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items)
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• UW Digitized Collections
• WorldCat (catalog to library collections nationally, some internationally)

Reference Resources

• Encyclopedia of Earth
• Encyclopedia of Life
• InfoPlease Almanac

Theses and Dissertations

• Open Access Theses and Dissertations
• Open Dissertations

Resources by Topic

Agriculture, Life Sciences, Natural Resources

• AgEcon Search  Full-text library of agricultural and applied economics scholarly literature.
• AgData Commons (beta), USDA
• Agricola (National Agriculture Library Catalog) 1970- (see PubAg, below)
• agriRxiv, CABI Digital Library (pre-prints for agriculture & allied sciences)
• Animal Diversity Web
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Core Historical Literature of Agriculture, Mann Library, Cornell University
• National Wildlife Health Center, News
• Plants Database, NRCS
• PubAg, National Agricultural Library, USDA
• Scientific Manuscript Database (USDA, Agricultural Research Service)
• SORA (ornithological literature)
• Treesearch, US Forest Service Research Publications

Education, Human Ecology, Social Sciences

• ERIC Education Resources Information Center.  Also see BadgerLink licensed edition.
• Hearth (Home Economics Archive), Mann Library, Cornell University
• OER Commons (digital library, network)
• Open Textbook Library

Energy

• Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Publication & Product Library US Dept of Energy
• Office of Scientific and Technical Information, OSTI, US Dept of Energy

Medicine, Public Health

• Medline Plus (Health information–a service of the National Library of Medicine and NIH)
• PubMed National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) medical literature database (some full-text)