• Activate your library account, create a PIN, set up email notification
• Connecting to UW-restricted databases from home As a UW student, you have access to all the "UW restricted" databases via a proxy service. The proxy uses your UW NetID for authentication (your myUW username/password). To start a session with the new proxy, click here, or click on the "Off-Campus Access" link which appears in the upper right corner of many pages on our website.
• Course Reserves
• Online Document Delivery Forms

• UW Libraries Catalog: Find books in the entire UW Library system and in Summit, a combined catalog of academic libraries in the greater NorthWest region.
• Safari Tech Books Online - UW restricted
  Full-text technical reference books on topics such as networking, Java, Linux/Unix, Perl, .NET, desktop productivity, web development and more from O'Reilly and other publishers of IT books. Click here to see the list of titles in the catalog.

Selected Technical Communication Journals: 

The following is a brief list of journal titles related to technical writing and communication. Search within these titles that are available online and are directly linked below: 

• IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
• Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
• Technical Communication
• Technical Communication Quarterly: TCQ

Selected Databases:

Search these databases for articles, scholarly and popular, on a variety of Computer Science, technological, policy, legal topics, and more:

• ABI/Inform - UW restricted
  Extensive indexing and full text for business and management-related periodicals.
• ACM Digital Library - UW restricted
  Citations and full-text of Association for Computing Machinery articles from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings.
• Compendex - UW restricted
  Citations with abstracts to worldwide literature in engineering and technology, excluding patents; Internet version of Engineering index, covering 2600 journals.
• Expanded Academic Index - UW restricted
  Provides indexing and abstracting for approximately 1,500 scholarly and general interest periodicals, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
• IEEE Xplore - UW restricted
  Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, and IEE journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988, and all current IEEE standards.
• InfoTech Trends - UW restricted
  Formerly called Computer Industry Forecasts. InfoTech Trends indexes statistics and forecasts published in computer and telecommunication trade publications.
• INSPEC - UW restricted 
  Indexes and abstracts serials, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering & computer science.
• LEXIS-NEXIS academic universe - UW restricted
  Extensive array of full-text news (newspapers, wire services, transcripts and newsletters), business literature, industry and company information, legal, biographical, and reference resources.
• Research Library Complete - UW restricted
  Indexing and full text for a basic collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers; 1986 to present. Divided into Newspapers and periodicals sections.

  News Coverage of CSS current topics:

  Search these databases for articles relating to current technological and societal topics, company information, and to access thousands of full-text newspaper articles:

• ProQuest Newspapers UW restricted
  Includes Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles times, Oregonian, and other major U.S. national newspapers, international English-language newspapers, and selected regional/state newspapers.
• National Newspapers UW restricted
  Covers many major U.S. newspapers and other U.S., international, and specific interest papers. Most articles are full text.

Resources for Critical Evaluation of Texts:

The following links are tools to help you think critically about the articles you select for your research assignments.

• Criteria for Evaluating Information
• Distinguishing Scholarly Sources from other Sources
• Critical Reading questions

  Writing and Research Tools:

• The Information Timeline (PDF)
• Research 101: Information Cycles An interactive tutorial from the UW Libraries.
• Devising a Research Strategy (PDF)
• Reference tools Includes dictionaries and thesauri.

  Citation Style Guides:

• Citation and style guides
• APA
• MLA

• Technical Communication A subject guide to Technical Communication from the UW Libraries.
• EServer TC Library A free, nonprofit library for professional, scientific and technical writers.
• Computing & Information Technology A subject guide from the UWB/CCC Campus Library.
• Citation & Writing Guide A guide to writing and citation resources from the UW Libraries.

If you have any questions or need help with your research, you can contact us, or feel free to contact me individually!

Amanda Hornby
Media & Technology Studies Librarian
ahornby@uwb.edu
425-352-3167
Office: LB1 210A

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