Communication - Finding Books

At the University of Washington

• UW Libraries Catalog
  Search for books, journals, magazines, newspapers, videos, and other items held in the UW Libraries.
• Summit
  Search for items held in UW Libraries, the UW Law Library, and other research libraries in Washington State and Oregon. Request books from Washington and Oregon libraries and receive them in 3 business days.

  At other libraries

• Center for Research Libraries
  CRL holdings are especially strong for archival materials, newspapers, and foreign dissertations.
• OCLC WorldCat
  Union catalog to research libraries worldwide.
• OhioLink
  This catalog includes the tables of contents for many, many books. Use it to identify chapters published about your topic in books published more than a few years ago (when the UW Libraries began adding tables of contents to the UW Libraries Catalog). Once you identify a book that has chapters about your topic, check the UW Libraries Catalog to see if we have the book.