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.
• 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 and WorldCat via FirstSearch (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

• 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)