Specialized Information

Database Search Guides & Tips

Evaluating Information

Specific Database Search Guides & Tips

Library and Campus Maps

• Activate your Library Account
• Subject Guides to databases, reference resources, and more (UWB/CCC)
• UW Libraries Subject Guides
• Online Reference Tools
• Connect to UW restricted resources from off campus
• Research 101 Tutorial
• Library Lingo guide to library terms

• ...for CCC Students
• ...for UWB Students
• Reserves/Course Readings

• Finding Books
• Browsing for Books using the Library of Congress Classification System
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• How to Search the Summit Catalog

• UWB/CCC Media Center
• OUGL Media Center

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• Citation Guides
• Quoting and Paraphrasing
• RefWorks UW restricted NEW! Use this software to format citations in your paper and bibliography
• Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
• Writing Centers UWB CCC

Annotated bibliographies

• Guidelines for creating an annotated bibliography
• Creating entries for an annotated bibliography (UWB Writing Center)

• Biographical Information
• Book Reviews
• Grants and Funding Resources
• Images: Finding and Using Digital Images
• Legal Research Guides from the Gallagher Law Library (UWS)
• Literature Reviews
• Statistical Information

• Criteria for Evaluating Information
• Critical Reading Questions
• Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from other Periodicals
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
• Reading Scholarly Sources

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• Campus Library and Media Center Map
• Third Floor Stacks and Study Rooms
• Virtual Tour
• UWB/CCC Campus Map
• UWB/CCC Campus Directions
• UW Seattle Libraries Map
• Other Libraries

• Finding Articles
• Article delivery from UW Seattle/Tacoma

Search Strategies

• Database search strategies
• Boolean Searching on the Internet
• Improving Search Results
• Searching the World Wide Web (WWW)

• Cinahl: Nursing and Allied Health Search Tips
• CSA Search Tools (ERIC, PAIS, Sociological Abstracts, etc )
• Gale Literature Series & Literary Index
• LexisNexis Tutorials
• Ovid Search Help (Cinahl, ERIC, PsycInfo, etc)

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• ProQuest Database Help 
• PsycInfo Tutorial UW Seattle
• PubMed
• Readers Guide to Periodical Literature/Readers Guide Retrospective
• Web of Science - Researching Cited References
• WebSPIRS (FIAF International Film Archive, Geobase)