Category Archives: featured resource

Organizing Citations with EndNote Web

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Ellen Latorraca

Do you sometimes think you spend crazy amounts of time formatting your citations, footnotes, and in-text citations? Did you know that there are tools available that allow you to organize your citations in one place (online!), import citations from databases, catalogs, and some websites, … Continue reading →

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Searching for Shakespeare

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Martha

Are you looking for something Shakespearean? Is your curiosity excited by titles like “Bard’s Love Potion Brewed” Continue reading →

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Insect Love

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Martha

With Valentine’s Day not far away, the word on many a mind is love. We all know what happens when boy meets girl in our world, but what about the world of…insects? Continue reading →

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Remote control library

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Carol

Jack Frost is already tapping on the window panes — and Winterim is just around the corner. Cold, snowy weather can pose problems for getting to campus. And since many Winterim classes are taught online, you might be planning to … Continue reading →

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Brill ebooks ‘r’ us

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Martha

Are you tired of carrying around a ton of books on your research topic? If so, Brill can help alleviate the problem. Continue reading →

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10 years later: September 11

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Ronna

If you’re old enough to remember when September 11 was just another day on the calendar, then you probably remember where you were on September 11, 2001. I was in graduate school at UW-Madison. I learned the towers had been … Continue reading →

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Featured Resource: Passport GMID

Posted on May 5, 2011 by kyle

Researching countries can be a tricky thing. Using Google to pull together information presents its own pitfalls, with a lot of seemingly bogus sites out there filled with ads and usually only basic facts about countries. What if you need … Continue reading →

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Featured Resource: Ethnic Newswatch

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Barbara

Ethnic NewsWatch is a interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) database that gives the “other side of the story” by providing articles in newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. Read articles from sources such as Arab American … Continue reading →

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Where’s the full text?!

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Ronna

We’ve all been there. You’re searching in a library database, you find what appears to be the PERFECT article for your research paper–but all you see is the citation and a short little abstract. Now what do you do? Well, … Continue reading →

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Featured Resource: America’s Newspapers

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Carol

If you’re looking for fulltext articles from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel or Chicago Tribune, you’ll be disappointed to learn that these newspapers were recently withdrawn from LexisNexis and EBSCO Newspaper Source Plus. But don’t despair. The Library now subscribes to America’s … Continue reading →

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