Search the indexes and article titles from nearly 20,000 online and print reference books (encyclopedias, handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etc.) with Reference Universe!
If the UW-Madison libraries have online access to the e-book, you'll get a direct link. Or, if we have the book in print, you'll get a link to the MadCat library catalog record. For books we don't own, put in a request through Library Express Article & Book Delivery for a scanned PDF copy of the pages you need.
Some of the books you can now search inside:
- Agricultural Entomology
- The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
- Armitage's Garden Perennials: A Color Encyclopedia
- Bulbs for the Rock Garden
- Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science
- Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology
- The Cultural History of Plants
- Destructive and Useful Insects: Their Habits and Control
- Dictionary of Agriculture
- A Dictionary of Plant Pathology
- A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
- Encyclopaedia of Seed Production of World Crops
- Encyclopedia of Agriculture, Food, and Biological Engineering
- Encyclopedia of Entomology
- Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology
- Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
- Encyclopedia of Microbiology
- Encyclopedia of Pest Management
- Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science
- Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology
- Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment
- Encyclopedia of Virology
- Entomology: A Guide to Information Resources
- Field Crop Diseases Handbook
- Foliage Plant Diseases: Diagnosis and Control
- Fungi on Plants and Plant Products in the United States
- The Garden Plants of China
- The Glory of Gardens: 2,000 Years of Writings on Garden Design
- Glossary of Crop Science Terms
- Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology
- Handbook of Vegetable Pests
- Insect Sounds and Communication: Physiology, Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution
- Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity
- Latin American Insects and Entomology
- The Literature of Crop Science
- Magill's Encyclopedia of Science: Plant Life
- Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- Maples for Gardens: A Color Encyclopedia
- Minor Oil Crops
- North American Horticulture: A Reference Guide
- Our Earth's Changing Land: an Encyclopedia of Land-use and Land-cover Change
- Oxford Companion to Gardens
- Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants, 1640-1940
- Slash-and-burn Agriculture: The Search for Alternatives
- Weeds and Words: The Etymology of the Scientific Names of Weeds and Crops
- Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook
- Women in Agriculture: A Guide to Research
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- Google Books - Search inside 1000s of books, including many from the UW-Madison. Also, read or download the full text of those that are out-of-copyright or otherwise in the public domain. Click "Find in a library" on the left to search WorldCat for a copy to check out from the UW or to borrow through Library Express Article & Book Delivery.
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