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November 12, 2009

E-RESOURCE: BizJournals

Cruiseship BizJournals brings you headlines about local companies and industries in 40 local major metropolitan areas across the country. This UW-restricted subscription through the UW Libraries includes the Puget Sound Business Journal and its Book of Lists, a great source for local industry rankings.

October 19, 2009

E-RESOURCE: Subject and Class Guides

Ape With more databases to choose from than varieties of breakfast cereal, how do you decide which to use? The UW Libraries' newly improved Subject and Class Guides can help. From Aeronautics to Zoology, you'll find the best librarian-recommended research databases for every UW subject taught.

September 23, 2009

E-RESOURCE: Academic OneFile

Radiology

Find scholarly and general interest articles quickly using Academic OneFile, a premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles in the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, and other subjects. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC. Academic OneFile replaces Expanded Academic Index with even more content. This UW-restricted resource is on trial until June 30, 2011. Try it today.

August 17, 2009

E-Resource: CQ Almanac

Congress What are the main points of the USA-PATRIOT Act, and which legislators voted for it? Find out with CQ Almanac, an online reference source that offers authoritative coverage and analysis of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session from 1945-2006. Browse this UW-restricted resource by subject or decade and view tables, graphs, and charts that help explain the issues.

July 22, 2009

E-RESOURCE: Global Road Warrior

Eiffel_Tower Traveling this summer? Get answers to your practical questions about travel to 175 countries with Global Road Warrior. This UW-restricted travel guide includes information such as country facts, climate, culture, maps, points of interest, security, transportation, and more.

June 22, 2009

E-RESOURCE: Social Explorer, Census Reference

WashingtonState Historic Census data have never been so easy to access and manipulate. Social Explorer provides user-friendly tools for analyzing U.S. demographic changes at various geographic levels. Explore thousands of interactive historical data maps and tables back to the first U.S. Census in 1790 with this UW-restricted tool.

June 15, 2009

E-RESOURCE: Ancestry

Family Ancestry (Library Edition) is a UW-restricted database for genealogical or historical research. It includes census, birth, marriage, death, military, immigration, emigration, and naturalization records. It also houses photos, maps, historical newspapers and biographies, and online tools such as an ancestral chart.