Dorothy Smith, Research Express
Live in Poulsbo and want to know if your trademark has been registered by another company? Reside in Texas but need research on a famous Washington state resident? Run a Seattle business and need a regulation from another state, a technical document translated or a Japanese patent? Research Express, the Libraries' new fee-based research service, can assist with all of these information requests.
Aimed primarily at businesses, industry, government agencies, and other remote users of the UW Libraries, the service works closely with library units to provide more extensive research and reference than can be done on the phone or through electronic mail. Research Express offers computerized searches from hundreds of database services such as Dialog, STN, and Nexis/Lexis; provides photocopies of documents from the UW Libraries collections; or will order documents from commercial suppliers. Research time costs $50 an hour plus university charges, with a $25 minimum. Database, document, and delivery charges are additional.