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What Is This?
The UW Libraries is participating in a beta project of a new interface which:
- Features a simple search box
- Searches materials at UW, Summit (the Oregon & Washington academic libraries shared catalog), and libraries worldwide
- Displays the availability of materials
- Allows requesting of materials
- Finds research articles and provides links to full-text articles online
- Links to Your Library Account
- Links to AskUs services
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What does this service search?
- Resources that are owned by the UW Libraries, including books, journals, media, government publications, maps, and more
- Resources to which the UW Libraries provides access
- Resources that are found in Summit (the Washington and Oregon academic libraries shared catalog)
- Resources in libraries around the world, listed from a service called WorldCat.org
- Citations for articles included in the following sources: ERIC (education); MEDLINE (medicine and health); GPO (U.S. government publications); and ArticleFirst (articles from a wide range of journals in all subjects). Links are provided to articles available in full-text or print from the UW Libraries
What else does the service do?
- From within the system, you can request materials from the UW, from Summit libraries, and from other libraries in the United States
- Material owned by the UW Libraries is displayed first, followed by Summit and the region.
- An advanced search feature which allows limiting by language, format, and publication date
Searching tips:
- AND is implied between search terms
- The truncation symbol is a question mark (environment? Finds environment, environments, environmental, environmentalist, etc.)
- For phrase searching, put quotation marks around your words (“space needle”)
- Limit your search by using the Refine Your Search features on the left side of the display window
What is not included in this beta interface?
- Listings for materials included in some UW large online collections, such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Early English Books Online.
- Some journal titles
- Some Special Collections materials
- Records for books on order or in the process of being added to the collection
- The ability to mark, save, and email citations
- Article citations not found in ERIC, ArticleFirst, PubMed, and GPO
If you don’t find what you need in the beta interface, try the UW Libraries Catalog or consult the Resources by Subject page for recommendations for finding articles on your subject.
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