Most of the databases linked from this page are restricted to UW students, staff and faculty and marked with a. To connect to these databases from home you will need to first click on the Off-Campus Access link in the upper-right hand corner and login with your UWNetId.
- UW Libraries Catalog
Catalog of the books, journal subscriptions and other materials held at the University of Washington Libraries.- Summit
Joint catalog of more than 25 academic libraries in Oregon and Washington. Books can be requested and shipped to the UW for pick-up.- OhioLINK
Use OhioLink to access chapters of books, use the "Words" search option.
Once you identify articles you need to make sure you have the complete citation, then look in the journal search portion of the UW Libraries Catalog for the journal name (do a title search for the journal name to see if the UW subscribes) to see if and where the journal is kept (library location and call number).
Articles from journals which the UW does not own can be requested through the Interlibrary loan.
Major index to articles in U.S. and Canadian history. Also includes selected coverage of dissertations and books.
Index to approximately 1800 journals and magazines in all disciplines. Includes some full-text articles.
Major index to articles in world history (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from the period 1450 on.
Index to magazine articles published from 1890 to the present. Good for finding primary sources.
One special project of the unit is the Ethnic and Special Audience Newspapers of the Pacific Northwest, a pilot project to compile a list of all ethnic and special audience papers with brief descriptions and sample pages. Currently the newspapers listed in the project are all held at the UW Libraries. For more information about the project and to identify other papers held at the University of Washington, check with the Microform and Newspaper Collections.
Other useful sources for news articles are:
This database goes back to 1960 and contains more than 300,000 articles from ethnic newspapers around the United States. "- Pacific Northwest Regional Periodical Index
"The Regional Index online contains citations for articles dealing with the Pacific Northwest published since January 1, 1997, in the Seattle Weekly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Daily of the University of Washington, as well as for pamphlets and other selected materials published both prior to and after January 1, 1997." See also an index to the East Side Journal published in Kirkland from 1918-1975.
Fulltext version of the New York Times from 1851 to 2001.
Local, national and international newspapers. Coverage from approximately the mid-1980s to present.
Portrait of Jackie Robinson, Rachel Robinson, and their three children, David, Sharon, and Jackie, Jr. courtesy of American Memory.
