• Finding Books
• Reference Resources
• Articles
• Web Resources
• Research Tips

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Finding Books

Using Catalogs:

Use the Stewart Library Catalog to find the location and availability of books and other media in Stewart Library. Most of the books located through the catalog may be found on level two of the library in the General Collection under the call number TK.  Another resource to find books in libraries outside the Stewart Library is Worldcat. It is a catalog of books, web resources, and other materials froma large number of libraries.

From Bookstores:

Order books online from Amazon Books or Barnes and Noble.  Also use Books in Print sources as needed.

Interlibrary Loan:

If we do not own a particular book or article you need, we will borrow it for you from another library through Interlibrary Loan.

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Reference Resources

Reference resources include encyclopedias, dictionaries and other materials you use to "refer" to. Use these resources for background information on a topic.

Online Reference Resources

• AccessScience

Print Reference Resources (available in the Reference area on the main level)

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Finding Articles

Online Journals Available at WSU

To determine whether the Stewart Library has electronic access to a specific journal, please check the Full Text Electronic Journal and Newspapers list.

Article Databases

To find articles on your topic you need to use article databases, also known as periodical indexes. Each database usually covers a group of subject related journals. Search by subject or keyword in these indexes.

• Academic Search Premier- Provides some full text articles in over a thousand magazines and journals
• Applied Science and Technology Full-text
• Computer Source
• FAITS: Faulkner Advisory on Info Tech Studies 
• Dissertation Abstracts/Digital Dissertations
• Institute of Physics (IOP) Electronic Journals  
• JSTOR  
• Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe  
• MathSciNet  
• NetLibrary  
• PapersFirst  
• ProceedingsFirst 
• Sam's Photofact Online
• Thomas Register of Manufacturers 

Browsing Current Periodicals

Current magazines and journals can be browsed in the Current Periodicals Area, in the TK section on the Main level. Bound volumes of older issues are found upstairs in the periodicals stacks.

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Web Resources

Here are some WWW sites to get you started. Most of these will take you to other links, so explore!

• ZDNET contains information and links related to computers and computing
• Developer.com contains links to software programs and articles on computing
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) promotes computer and information technologies
• Infomine (Scholarly Internet Resource Collections) Directory of scholarly information Web pages.  Search Physical Sciences, Engineering, CS, and Math category.
• TechXtra Free database to a variety of resources in Engineering, Mathematics and Computing.

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Research Tips

• Clearly identify your information need
• Identify key words and search terms to match your topic
• Develop search statements using advanced search techniques
  • Boolean logic, adjacency searching and truncation
• Use the Stewart Library Catalog to find books
• Use the Database Finder to find databases related to Applied Science and Technology.  You can then search these databases to find journal articles.
• Go back to the online catalog to see if the journals are in Stewart Library and where they are located
• Use interlibrary loan to get materials that are not in Stewart Library
• Use search engines to find Web information
• Carefully evaluate the information you find for usefulness and quality
• Revise your search terms and strategy to expand or narrow your results, be creative, look in other areas
• Once you have found information from an Internet site you can email the documents to yourself,
  print or save them to a floppy disk 
• Use appropriate style to document and cite research
• Ask for Assistance at  Reference, via phone or email

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