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• Visit the Campus Library or take the photo tour
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• Citing sources
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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.
• Wikipedia - Free online encyclopedia
  
• More online reference tools

Print reference sources

Below is a selected list of books and field guides that may be useful for your assignment.

Print reference materials are located in the Campus Library Reference area on the 1st floor of the Library.

Articles

• General interdisciplinary databases
  • Academic Search Complete - UW restricted
    A scholarly, multidisciplinary database.
  • Expanded Academic Index UW restricted
    Spans all academic disciplines from arts and humanities to social sciences, science, and technology.
    

• Scholarly databases
  • BIOSIS - UW restricted
    Provides comprehensive coverage of international life science journal and meeting literature.
  • Econlit - UW restricted
    Provides coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature.
  • Environmental sciences & pollution management - UW restricted
    Provides coverage of the literature of the environmental sciences.
  • Geobase - UW restricted
    Covers the earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography.
  • GeoRef - UW restricted
    Provides access to the geoscience literature of the world.
    
  • PAIS International - UW restricted
    Covers international social and public policy literature.
  • Social services abstracts - UW restricted
    Covers the fields of community development; crisis intervention; family and social welfare; policy, planning and forecasting; poverty and homelessness and more.
    
  • Web of Science citation databases - UW restricted
    Scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
    
    
• Find other subject-specific databases & information resources

Websites

• Local, state & federal
  • UW Emergency Management
  • Office of Emergency Preparedness - City of Bothell
  • King County Emergency Services
  • Washington State Emergency Management
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • Natural Disasters & Severe Weather - Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
  • Ready America: Community & State information - U.S. Department of Homeland Security

• International
  • ReliefWeb: Countries & Emergencies - United Nations
  • PreventionWeb - searchable or browsable by countries & regions, themes & issues, and by hazard
  • International Strategy for Disaster Reduction - United Nations