• Campus Library website - explore it!
• Connecting from Home - read about how to connect to UW restricted databases from off campus - or just click on the off-campus access link at the top of this page and enter your UW NetID
• Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan
• Electronic Reserves - your UW NetID provides access to these readings
• Research Guides - browse by subject
• Online subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and more

Research & Writing Links

• About scholarly journals
  • Ulrich's Periodicals Directory UW restricted
• Reading Scholarly Sources
• Evaluating Sources
• Citing Sources and RefWorks UW restricted
• Writing Center & Quantitative Skills Center
• Google Advanced Search and Google blogsearch

• Workshop 1: Responses to the Spellings Report (.doc)
• Workshop 2: Finding background information
  • In-class worksheet (.doc)
  • Database assignment (.doc)
• Workshop 3: Searching from bibliographies and the Web of Science research database
• Workshop 4:
• Optional: Research 101 - work through this online tutorial if you would like to review or update your research skills
• Link to Blackboard
  

• Search tips for finding films
• Campus Media Center - read about their hours, services and policies
• Odegaard Media Center - expand your search via the UW Libraries' media collection in Seattle, and have titles sent up to Bothell for check out
• The IMDB: Internet Movie Database

Books

• 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.
• Summit Catalog - A library catalog of regional universities and colleges. Search over 22 million books, sound recordings, films, video tapes, and more. Items take about 3-5 business days to arrive.

Articles - the databases below should help you find articles on your topic.

• General/Interdisciplinary Databases
  • ProQuest Research Library UW restricted - scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers
  • Expanded Academic Index UW restricted - scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers
    
    
  • JSTOR search UW restricted - scholarly journals, multidisciplinary
  • Project MUSE Search UW restricted - scholarly journals, multidisciplinary
  • Google Scholar - try out the "cited by" feature. Keep in mind that a only a fraction of the available scholarly sources are available via Google Scholar
  • More general and interdisciplinary resources
  • News Databases
    

• Social Science Databases- Education, Ethnic Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, etc.
  • Education Fulltext and ERIC UW restricted
  • PAIS International - UW restricted - Covers academic, research, and practice literature in political science and policy
  • Sociological Abstracts UW restricted - Contains abstracts of literature in sociology and related disciplines from approximately 2,500 journals.
  • PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES UW restricted
  • Social Sciences Citation Index: The Web of Science UW restricted - A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts and cited references, covering the journal literature of the social sciences.
  • EconLit UW restricted - Scholarly sources in economics
  • More Social Science , Ethnic Studies, Policy Studies , Gender Studies, Resources
  • Science Databases
    
    
• History & Humanities Databases- Arts, Literatures, Film, etc.
  • America, History & Life UW restricted - Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
  • Historical Abstracts - UW restricted - world history
  • Art Abstracts UW restricted - articles from art journals and magazines
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index: The Web of Science UW restricted - A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, with cited references.
    
  • Literature Resource Center UW restricted - Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, playwrights, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Includes full-text articles from literary journals, critical essays, plot summaries, author portraits and an encyclopedia of literary terms.
  • More Art, Music, Film, and History Resources

• More subject guides

• All Research Databases

• AAC&U - Assoc. of American Colleges and Universities
• NEA - National Education Assoc.
• Higher Education Associations - a general listing
• Google Advanced Search and Google blogsearch

• Facts.com Education Topics - Campus Access Only
  This database provides very, very general overviews of a variety of topics. While you'll want to move on to more substantial information sources as you refine your question, this database could be an excellent place to start, as it might give you some topic and keywords ideas.

• CQ Researcher - UW restricted
  Contains background information on topics of interest to Congress. Type the word "education" into the search box to get a list of topics. If you're interested in education topics that have sparked legislation that's either currently moving through Congress or did so in the past, try CQ.com. Note: CQ.com is also UW restricted and allows only 3 concurrent users to be logged into at a time. If access is denied, you might want to try back later.

• Online Encyclopedias
  The resources listed on this page are also well suited to helping you brainstorm.

• Print Encyclopedias and Reference Books
  The following are all located in the reference collection on the first floor of the library in the Information Commons:

Higher Education in the United States {LA225.H54 2002}
Fact Book on Higher Education {LA227.3 A44c 1997}
Encyclopedia of Education {LB15.E47 2003}
The Greenwood Dictionary of Education {LB15.G68 2003}
Historical Dictionary of American Education {LB15.H57 1999}
The International Encyclopedia of Education {LB15.I569 1994}
Learning Theories A to Z {LB15.L4695 2002}
World Education Encyclopedia {LB15.W87 2002}
Philosophy of Education {LB17.P485 1996}
Encyclopedia of American Education {LB17.U54 2001}
Handbook of Educational Ideas and Practices {LB17.H267 1990}