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

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• 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
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• Citing sources
• Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan
• Online Reference Tools
• Evaluating Sources
• UWB Writing Center
• UWB Quantitative Skills Center
• Preparing an Annotated Bibliography
• Ask us a Question

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
• Chemistry of the Elements - UW restricted
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics - UW restricted
• Lange's Handbook of Chemistry - UW restricted
• Wikipedia - Free online encyclopedia
• Ulrich's periodicals directory - UW restricted
  
• More online reference tools

Print reference sources

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

These books are not only a great source of background information on a topic, but they can be useful in helping you generate research questions.

Articles

• General interdisciplinary databases
  • ProQuest Research Library UW restricted - Broad collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers.
  • 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 science databases
  • BIOSIS - UW restricted
    Provides comprehensive coverage of international life science journal and meeting literature.
  • Compendex - UW restricted
    Includes chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, civil, mechanical, and materials engineering.
  • Environmental sciences & pollution management - UW restricted
    Provides citations and abstracts to the literature of the environmental sciences.
  • PubMed
    Provides access to over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
  • 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

• Scorecard - Chemical Profiles
• OSHA/EPA Occupational Chemical Database
• EPA - Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
• EPA - Envirofacts Master Chemical Integrator (EMCI)