Just in time for the school year research rush, the State of Wisconsin has created BadgerLink, a statewide linking of public, school, academic and special libraries to magazine and newspaper indexes and library catalogs via the Internet. Badgerlink is available at the Appleton Public Library at the public access internet terminals.
A Plethora of Information Resources
Magazines and Newspapers
BadgerLink provides subject access to over 4,000 magazines, newsletters and newspapers, many in full-text, from two vendors, EBSCO and UMI.
Available via EBSCOhost are these databases:
Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 periodicals, plus searchable full text for more than 1,500 active periodicals. Subjects covered include general reference, business, health, and multi-cultural topics. Total coverage includes over 4 million articles. Wisconsin newspapers in the title list include Madison’s Capital Times, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and the Sheboygan Press.
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, and education. Also offers full-text for over 1,000 journals with many dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.
Provides abstracts and indexing for169 magazines and searchable full-text for
52 of the most frequently used magazines in middle school libraries, including
115 pamphlets. Total coverage includes nearly 400,000 articles.
Provides over 25,000 informative segments of the encyclopedia. Offers student and adult users abstract information for each topic. In addition, full-text for each topic may be accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display.
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full-text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Provides the full-text of 35 magazines for young readers and abstracts and indexing for 116 magazines. Primary Search is updated monthly and also includes The World Almanac for Kids and The World Almanac of the USA.
Provides comprehensive access to abstracts and indexing for over 1,500 titles, including The Wall Street Journal. Also includes searchable full-text for more than 750 business periodicals.
Provides abstracts and indexing for nearly 500 consumer health, nutrition and professional periodicals. Over 200 periodicals and 1,000 health pamphlets are covered in full-text.
Provides citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and documents from the Educational Resource Information Center dating back to 1967.
Provides complete coverage of the National Library of Medicine database from 1966 to the present. Includes citations and abstracts from medical journals.
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 400 general interest and research magazines plus the searchable full-text for 140 periodicals and thousands of Magill’s Book Reviews. The earliest abstracts begin in 1984 and earliest full-text in 1990.
WISCAT
WISCAT is the statewide union library catalog for Wisconsin. WISCAT contains cataloging information on nearly 6 million titles and lists over 28 million holdings from 1,137 contributing Wisconsin libraries. The libraries listed in WISCAT are willing to loan many of their books and media through established statewide interlibrary loan channels.
Reference and Loan Video Catalog
BadgerLink contains a searchable version of the Wisconsin Reference and Loan Library’s Videocassette Catalog. The video collection includes 7,000 titles which are available via interlibrary loan. This is an unannotated catalog without subject entries, although many of the titles are descriptive and keyword searching may locate videocassettes on a particular topic.
The videocassette collection contains titles in most major subject areas, from arts and humanities to science and social studies. Some subjects have received special emphasis. These include Native American studies, industrial safety, library science, education, literacy, business and management, Wisconsin studies, and how-to information of all kinds. In addition, theReference and Loan Library has included titles on specific topics for which videos are uncommon or difficult to acquire and therefore often not available from other library resource providers.
Wisconsin Library Directory
The Wisconsin Library Directory contains basic directory information including library name, community, address, phone and fax number for the state’s academic and public libraries and public library systems.
Wisconsin Library Web Sites
This page lists over 90 Wisconsin public libraries and public library systems that have Web sites. It also lists library-related sites, including Wisconsin library organizations.
Library Resource List
The Library Resource List provides links to over 500 Internet resources that will be of interest to the library community and the general population. It is divided into several topical pages including reference resources, new sites and search engines, government resources, library sites, library technology, and professional librarian resources.
Additional Government Sites
This site provides links to all Wisconsin state government agencies that have Web sites and also includes links to some federal agencies.
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