• Cascadia New Student Checklist
  
• UW NetID [ Important ]
  
• Off-Campus Access (Connecting from Home) - UW Restricted
  
• Ask a Question - 24/7 Library IM Service

• Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students - UW Restricted
  
  
• Colonialism: An International Social, Cultural and Political Encyclopedia - UW Restricted
  Browse articles on your country to understand its colonial history.
  
  
• A Dictionary of Contemporary World History - UW Restricted
  
  
• A Dictionary of Twentieth-century World History - UW Restricted
  
  
• Europa World Plus - UW Restricted
  Country-specific encyclopedia. Look up your country and then go to the "history" section to find out background information.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library - UW Restricted
  Collection of online encyclopedias that cover a broad range of topics, including history.

• Oxford Reference Online Premium: History - UW Restricted
  Use the tabs at the top of your search results to find longer or shorter entries.
  

See also: Additional Resources for Country Information

• UW Libraries Catalog - Find materials owned by the UW.
  Hint: Try limiting your search to see only items in the Bothell/CCC Library.

• Summit Catalog - Search even more academic libraries in Washington & Oregon state.

• America: History & Life - UW Restricted
  Index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present
  
  
• Academic Search Complete - UW Restricted
  A scholarly, multidisciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and others. Also includes full-text access to over 5,000 journals
  
  
• Historical Abstracts - UW Restricted
  Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present
  

• JSTOR - UW Restricted
  Searchable archive of full-text journal articles. Note: all of the articles are at least five years old
  
  
• Project Muse - UW Restricted
  Searchable collection of journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press
  
  
• ProQuest: Research Library - UW Restricted
  Collection of journal and newspaper articles related to the humanities and social sciences

Newspapers

• Ethnic NewsWatch - UW Restricted
  Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America
  
  
• Proquest Newspapers - UW Restricted
  Includes the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Oregonian, and other major U.S. national newspapers, international English-language newspapers, and selected regional/state newspapers

• UW Libraries' History on the Web

• Primary Sources in U.S. History

• Internet Public Library (IPL): History
  

• LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center)
  
  
• Librarians' Internet Index: Regions of the World
  
  
• NationMaster.com - Statistical resource

• UWB/CCC Library Citation Guides
  
  
• Research and Documentation by Diana Hacker, with research sources by Barbara Fister
  

If you need help with your library research, please contact me directly, or use IM reference 24/7 at: UW Q & A Chat Service.

Molly R. Flaspohler, Reference & Instruction Librarian
AIM/Yahoo IM: cclibrarylady
E-mail:  mflaspohler@uwb.edu
Phone: (425) 352-3467
Office: LB1-310c