• 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.
  • Books and videos on reserve for this class - an excellent resource
  • Search the UW Libraries Catalog for films
    
    
• 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.
  
  
• Worldcat Local - Search locally and worldwide

• Research Databases
  • America, History & Life UW restricted - Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
  • JSTOR search UW restricted - scholarly journals, multidisciplinary
  • Project MUSE Search UW restricted - scholarly journals, multidisciplinary
  • Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) - UW restricted
  • Expanded Academic Index UW restricted - scholarly journals, also - magazines, and newspapers
  • Web of Science UW restricted scholarly journals, multidisciplinary
  • Black Studies Center UW restricted
  • Left Index, [1982]+ UW restricted 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 Art, Literature, Music, Film, Womens Studies, and History databases
    
    
• More subject guides and All Research Databases
  
  
• Reading tips: Reading Scholarly Articles and Reading an academic article
  
  
• Ulrich's Periodical Directory UW restricted
  Use this to see if a journal as a whole is considered scholarly, and if it's peer reviewed/refereed. Remember that not all articles in a scholarly journal
  are themselves scholarly - you'll also find book reviews, editorials, reviews of the literature, etc.
  
  
• Requesting articles order form - this is a free service
  
  

• FBI Weather Underground files
• American National BiographyUW restricted
• Who's Who in the 20th CenturyUW restricted
• Wilson Biography Plus Illustrated UWB/CCC Campus Only
• Biography & Genealogy Master Index UW restricted
• Biography.Com
• Subject encyclopedias in American History

Databases:

• Access World News (Newsbank) UW restricted
• Historic New York Times (1851-2004) UW restricted
• Readers Guide 1890-1982 UW restricted
• Historical Los Angeles Times (1889-1990) UW restricted
• Chicago Defender 1905-1975UW restricted
• The Wall Street Journal (1889-1989)
• Newsbank Retrospective (1970-) Source List- UW restricted
• Left Index, [1982]+ UW restricted
  
• more U.S. primary sources, includes newspapers, magazines, statistics, government documents
• more news databases

Public Records searches:

• Ancestry.com - UWB/CCC campus only
• http://websearch.about.com/od/governmentpubliclegal/tp/publicrecords.htm
• http://www.libraryspot.com/publicrecords.htm
• please send us other good *free* public records search sites!!

• U.S. primary sources, includes newspapers, magazines, statistics, government documents
• Government documents
• Images, ads and films in American History
• Primary Source Analysis Worksheets
  

• Search tips for finding films and film studies resources
• 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
• Film Index International - UW restricted In-depth listing of over 115,000 current & classic American/international films, and biographical information for almost 57,000 directors, actors, etc. Produced by the British Film Institute.
• The IMDB: Internet Movie Database
  
  

• American History
• Wikipedia entry on the Weather Underground
• PBS - the Weather Underground
• CQ Researcher: Political Terrorism report from 1970 UW restricted
  
  

• Review evaluating Information
• RefWorks UW restricted
• Style Guides for Citing Sources
• Find out how you can automatically generate citations with the databases you use for research
• Other Research and Citation Guides
  
  

• Electronic Reserves
• UW Bothell Writing Center
• Campus Media Center (CMC) supports the use of media and technology