Your Librarian: Rob Estes - restes@uwb.edu - 425.352.5242 - Campus Library, 310G

• Campus Library web page - explore it!
• Activate your Library Account/Card
• Connecting from Home - connect to UW restricted databases from off campus
• Visit the Campus Library or take the photo tour
• Getting Started - academic support
• Electronic Reserves - requires UWNetID

• Citing sources
• Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan
• Online Reference Tools
• Evaluating Sources
• UWB Writing Center
• UWB Quantitative Skills Center

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 - 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.

Reference Sources

• Gale Virtual Reference Library UW restricted - Library of online encyclopedias spanning many disciplines.
• Oxford Reference Online UW restricted - Online collection of dictionaries and encyclopedias
• Britannica Online UW restricted - Comprehensive encyclopedia in electronic format.
• Wikipedia - Free online encyclopedia
  


• More online reference tools

Articles

• General Interdisciplinary Databases
  • ProQuest Research Library UW restricted - Broad collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers.
  • Expanded Academic Index UW restricted - Spans all academic disciplines from arts and humanities to social sciences, science, and technology.
    

• Scholarly Science and Interdisciplinary Databases
  • BIOSIS previews - UW restricted
    Supplies comprehensive coverage of international biological and life sciences.
  • Environmental sciences and pollution mgmt - UW restricted
    Provides citations and abstracts to the literature of the environmental sciences.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch - UW restricted
    Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America.
  • JSTOR search - UW restricted
    Database of full-text scholarly journals, some that range back to the 1800s.
  • PAIS international - UW restricted
    Covers international social and public policy literature from periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources.
  • PubMed
    Includes over 15 million citations for health and biomedical articles back to the 1950's.
  • ScienceDirect - UW restricted
    Contains abstracts, articles and full text journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
  • Web of Science citation databases - UW restricted
    Scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.


• Find other subject-specific databases & information resources

Other Sources

• Worksheet 1 & Worksheet 2


• CUSP 116 class page - Jackels
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory - UW restricted