Your Librarian: Sarah Leadley, sleadley@uwb.edu - phone: 425.352.5387 - office: Library, 310D Contact Sarah!

• Campus Library web page
• Connecting from Home - connect to UW restricted databases from off campus. Try this tutorial!
• Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan
• Library photo tour on Flickr
• Electronic Reserves - requires UWNetID
• Blackboard

• Citing sources and RefWorks
• Evaluating Sources
• UWB Writing Center
• UWB Quantitative Skills Center
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory - UW restricted

1. Before you begin, try this short tutorial on connecting to UW Restricted databases from off-campus

2. This brief (5-10 minute) tutorial on Boolean search terms might help you with your keyword searching in databases and the catalog. I also highly recommend the entire Research 101 online tutorial.

Books and Films

• UW Libraries Catalog - Contains over 6 million titles held by more than 20 branches of the UW Libraries. Requested items arrive in 2-5 business days.
  • Video search
• Summit Catalog - Access over 22 million books, sound recordings, films, video tapes, and more. Current UWB students may request items from this catalog and items take about 3-5 business days to arrive.
• Worldcat Local - Search locally and worldwide ; books and a limited collection of articles

Reference Books- finding background information

• Gale Virtual Reference Library UW restricted - Library of online encyclopedias spanning many disciplines.
• Oxford Reference Online UW restricted - Online collection of dictionaries and encyclopedias.
• More online reference tools

Articles

• Research Databases
  • Academic Search Complete UW restricted - Scholarly and popular sources
  • Expanded Academic ASAP UW restricted - Scholarly and popular sources
  • Google Scholar (UW restricted) Google Scholar Search Tips
    
    • If you're searching from home/off-campus click on the "off-campus access" link at the top of this page first - this will allow Google scholar to recognize you as a UW affiliated researcher so that you can access the full text of articles.
  • History of Science Technology and Medicine - UW restricted - Scholarly sources
  • JSTOR UW restricted - Scholarly sources
  • ProQuest UW restricted - Scholarly and popular sources
    

Workshop 2 - Annotated bibliographies

Worksheet

Sample guidelines for creating annotated bibliographies

Identifying Scholarly Journals

Research 101: About scholarly, popular and trade publications

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory - UW restricted

Citing your sources and Research Database and free citation generators

Workshop 1 - Selecting and focusing a topic; background research

Open this Word document, rename it, and then save it (to the desktop or your jump drive/disc)

At the end of class today you'll be submitting this worksheet online

Optional: Concept Map

Finding background info, issues and debates

• UW Libraries Catalog - find a recent (or classic) book; remember to search broadly, and use OR and AND to connect words:
  • example: evolution and creationism ; you can also limit to Bothell or request books from UWS and beyond
• Facts.com - (UWB/CCC on campus access only) News summaries and overviews
  • Select Issues and Controversies or Today's Science or Issues & Controversies in Science
  • Select Advanced Search and search across the combined Facts.com databases
• CQ Researcher UW restricted
  • Good for policy topics; search by keyword or browse topics; Pro/Con section
• Gale Virtual Reference Library UW restricted
  • A wide selection of subject encyclopedias, including:
    • Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics , 4v,  2005
    • Science and Its Times , 8v,  2001
    • Encyclopedia of Bioethics , 3rd ed.,  5v,  2004
• News Databases
• Google - advanced search
  

 Contact me with questions about how to find information on your paper topic! You can call, e-mail or IM me.

Sarah Leadley, American Studies Librarian
sleadley@uwb.edu
425.352.5387
Campus Library, LB1-310D

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