Use these databases to locate books in the UW Libraries and other libraries around the region. Books unavailable through these catalogs can be requested for free through Interlibrary Loan.

To search:

• Choose the keywords search
• Type in your topic keyword(s) - remember to use (AND and OR)
• Examples:
  • internet AND pornography
  • internet AND pornography AND censor*
  • internet and social movement*
  • vot* AND (internet OR online OR web OR electronic)

• Use the LC Subjects
• Examples:
  • information technology -- social aspects
  • computer crimes
  • information networks -- security measures

Catalogs of library holdings

UW Libraries Catalog
Contains the holdings of the University of Washington Libraries, including books, magazines, journals, newspapers, electronic info, and more

Summit
Contains holdings of academic libraries in Oregon and Washington State, including the UW

OCLC WorldCat Local
Contains the UW Libraries and Summit Catalogs. A listing of books, journal subscriptions, and other material available in hundreds of major libraries in the US and abroad.

Use Research/Article databases to find articles on a topic. There are databases covering all sorts of subjects, use those which best fit your research.

Once you identify articles that you need, make sure you have the complete citation (author, title, journal name, volume, pages, and year). If the full text of the article is not in the database, look the title of the journal up in the UW Libraries Catalog to see if and where the journal is kept (library location and call number or a different database). Don't search for the title of the article!

Articles in journals that the UW does not own can be requested for free through Interlibrary Loan.

• Academic Search Complete
• Expanded Academic
• ProQuest Databases
• Web of Science
• CQ Researcher

• ProQuest Business
• Business Source Complete
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Engineering Village 2
• PAIS International
• ProQuest Telecommunications
• Sociological Abstracts
• More article databases by subject ...

News Article Databases
Cover local, national, and international news
Many other newspapers are available in paper and on microfilm in the Microforms & Newspapers library

• Forrester
- technology news & reports
• LexisNexis Academic
• ProQuest Newspapers
• Washington State Newsstand
• Historic Newspapers:
  LA Times
  New York Times
  Wall Street Journal
• More news databases ...