Use databases to find citations (and sometimes full text) to articles and other materials. There are specialized databases for various subjects.
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Subject Guides)
Includes holding lists of archive, library, and museum collections.
Includes dictionaries, language dictionaries/translators, thesauri, and gazetteers (place name indexes).
Contact information for individuals and institutions including e-mail, postal information, telephone listings and resource lists of links to home pages.
UW Libraries digital collections of photographs, documents, and audio/video resources.
Consisting of over 30,000 items in a variety of analog and digital formats (LPs, DVDs, CDs, VHS), the Libraries' Media Center collections cover a broad and interdisciplinary range of subjects and genres.
An ebook is an electronic version of a printed book. Some ebooks require you to set up a personal account in order to view them.
Search for online newspapers. Use newspaper databases to find citations (and sometimes full-text access) to news articles written about a particular topic.
Includes electronic texts such as historical letters and diaries, government documents, and technical reports.
Use encyclopedias to find background information about your research topic.
Includes image collections, both still and moving images. Also includes aerial and satellite photographs.
Includes maps and atlases.
Includes electronic encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, telephone books and other reference resources.
Tools for searching the Web.
Search for librarian-selected electronic resources.
Downloadable software and interactive applications.
Use these subject guides to determine which tools to use to start your library research and find information about specific print and electronic resources.
Contains the holdings of the UW Libraries. Includes books, technical reports, journal subscriptions, musical scores, DVDs, videos etc.
Contains materials at UW, Summit (consortium of academic libraries in Washington and Oregon, including the UW Law Library), and libraries worldwide. Includes books, journals, media, government publications, maps, and more. Many Summit items can be requested directly.
