• Selecting a topic
  1. Use sources that provide background information on broad subjects to find narrower topics within the subject area.
     • CQ Researcher UW restricted
       Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news covering health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
     • Reference Tools
       A wide selection of full text dictionaries, encyclopedias and more--a reliable Wikipedia alternative!
       
       • Gale Virtual Reference - includes related encyclopedias:
         Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics
         Privacy Protection for E-Services
         Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies
         Managing IT Professionals in the Internet Age
         Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace
         Integrating Security and Software Engineering: Advances and Future Vision

  2. Browse journal or magazines covering the subject area.
  • International Journal Of Information Ethics
  • Ethics and Information Technology
  • Daedalus
  • Technology and Culture
• Information Cycle
• Research Publication Process

• UW Libraries Catalog
  Search for items available in all 22 University Libraries. Request books and media using your NetID.

  Subject Searches: use to focus search by subject. Following the examples below, replace "Information Technology" with "Computers" or "Internet" or "Technology" to find additional sources.

• Information technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Information technology -- Social aspects
• Summit Catalog
  Request books and media available in over 30 academic libraries in Washington and Oregon.
• E-books
  Find an electronic version of a printed book. Some ebooks require you to set up a personal account in order to view them.
• FAQs
• How do I get a book in the catalog delivered to Tacoma?
• How do I get a book that we don't own delivered to Tacoma?

• ACM Digital Library
  Citations and full-text of Association for Computing Machinery articles from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings.
• IEEXplore
  Indexes and full text for IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and (IEE) Institution of Electrical Engineers) journal articles, conference papers, and technical standards from 1988 to present.
• INSPEC
  The INSPEC database indexes and abstracts articles from journals and conferences in the physical sciences, electrical engineering, and computer science.
  

Comprehensive listing of
UW Research Databases
 

• Expanded Academic Index
  Scholarly and general interest sources in humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
• ProQuest Databases
  Scholarly and general interest sources in business, news, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
• Philosopher's Index
  Indexing and abstracting of more than 270 scholarly journals in philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields
• Legal Trac
  Covers over 800 major English language legal journals
• PAIS International
  Covers social and public policy literature from thousands of periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources
• Communication & mass media complete
  Covers communication & mass media literature
• Congressional Universe
  Provides daily updated information, including full text of bills starting in 1989, public laws starting in 1988, committee reports starting in 1990, House and Senate documents starting in 1995, Congressional Record starting in 1985, Federal Register starting in 1980, National Journal starting in 1977 and other government information

Comprehensive listing of
UW Research Databases

• Is the article scholarly, peer-reviewed or popular?
• Ulrich's periodicals directory UW restricted
  Directory of consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly journals, and other serial publications. Peer-reviewed or refereed journals are marked with a column icon

• How to locate the full-text of articles
• Book & Article delivery/ILL
  Use this service to borrow materials or obtain copies of articles not owned by the UW Libraries.

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1. Proxy Server
2. UW Internet Connectivity Kit (UWICK)

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