Reprints

The Limnology Library reprint collection

The Limnology Library maintains a reprint collection of over 20,000 journal articles, book sections, and conference proceedings on limnology and related subjects. Approximately 9,000 of these items are indexed in the library's in-house EndNote database. Nearly 2,000 of these items are digitized and Center For Limnology users may access these reprints through the digital library. The physical reprint collection is available for use by any Wisconsin resident. Please check our Location and Hours for information about when we're open and how to find us.

How to access the Limnology Library Digital Library

Digitized reprints can be found online at the CFL Digital Library users at the Center for Limnology or Trout Lake will be able to access a full text pdf copy of all digitized articles

How to access the Limnology Library EndNote Reprint Collection

Older items that are not yet digitized can be accessed using the EndNote Library found on the local network.

To access the EndNote library for this collection from off-campus you need to be able to log in to the Limnology File Server. Those who do not have a Limnology File Server account will need to contact Paul Hanson at the Center for Limnology.

The EndNote library for the reprint collection is located at O:\CFL\REFERENCE\ReprintsV8.enl for PC users and at groups\cfl\reference\ReprintsV8.enl for Macintosh users.

 

Using the EndNote reprint library

The Search References command is under References on the menu bar (the shortcut is Ctrl + F). It is a standard search engine that can be used with one or more search terms along with the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to refine searches.

Use Search to find works in our collections by a certain author or by the the title or partial title of the work.

Searches will be automatically truncated. This means that if you type in "fish" it will search for all words beginning with those letters, such as "fish", "fishery", "fisheries", "fishing", etc. This is useful if you are trying to do a keyword search but don't know the form of word that the author chose.

The default in EndNote is to search "Any Field", but you may refine your search by selecting a specific field in which to search. For example, if you want to find a paper written by Tom Frost instead of papers about frost, click on the first box and type in "frost". Choose AUTHOR from the FIELD drop-down menu on the right, and EndNote will only search the author field of every record instead of every field in each record.

Locating items in the physical collection

The item locator is the number in the ISSN or Reprint Number field of the EndNote record for the item.  In most cases, this is a 6-digit number (e.g. 730564). Reprints are assigned a unique sequential number as they arrive and are arranged in the filing cabinets in that order. New additions to the reprint collection are on display on the back wall of the library, next to the shelf of current journals.  If you find an article that does not have a reprint number listed, we may have the article in a bound journal in our collection, or we may be able to track it down for you elsewhere on campus or online. We can also order copies of journal articles from other libraries if they are not available at UW-Madison. Please let the librarian know if you are having trouble finding what you need.

 

Hints for searching the EndNote reprint library most effectively

  1. Keep in mind that the Reprint library does not give thorough subject access. Therefore if you are looking for every paper we've collected on a certain subject it makes much more sense to look in the indexes provided by the University, such as Biological Abstracts or Current Contents. This is because subject access is much harder to do than author/title access and the librarians do not have enough subject specific knowledge to do it well here. However, once you have a citation, check the EndNote Reprint library to see if we already have a copy of that paper in our collection so you don't have to go to another campus library to obtain it.

  2. Use author's last name only, no initials. Because names were entered as full as known or as seen on the reprint, the version of first and middle names may vary for the same author. For example, any of these three forms may be found for a given author:

    Anthony, Susan B.

    Anthony, S.B.

    Anthony, Susan Brownell

  3. The majority of the records currently in EndNote were transferred from another program called In Magic. Therefore you will find that the formatting is not always right; for instance, the author's name is frequently in all caps. To aid in retrieving all the citations of a given author whose works you are searching for, we recommend that you not use "match case".

  4. EndNote ® 6 Tip Sheets.

  5. Links to other library and institution pages about EndNote ®.