UW Libraries:
Services and Resources for English Faculty
| Research | Teaching | Collections |
Research Services & Resources:
- Summit/UW WorldCat : Locate books and other selected materials from
35 research libraries within the states of Washington and Oregon. Request material using your UW NetID and receive items in 2-3
business days. You can have items sent to any library on campus.
- Inter-Library Loan: Use your UW NetID to request books, articles, dissertations and other
materials not available at the UW or through other Summit Libraries. Some journal articles can be sent electronically, which takes
less time than a photocopy. Track your requests online.
- Your Library Account: Keep track of all materials you have checked out of the UW Libraries or Summit libraries. Renew books online as many times as you wish (note: this does not include Summit materials or UW materials that have been recalled by another patron!). Pay fines online.
- Connecting to Full-Text Resources Remotely: Use your UW NetID to search databases and full-text journals from off-campus.
- Preferred Searches in UW Libraries Catalog: You can search the UW Libraries catalog and create preferred searches for favorite authors, subjects, titles or keywords. You can either re-run the searches when you chose or receive email alerts when new records matching your search(s) are added to the catalog.
- Faculty Study Rooms: These study rooms in the Suzzallo Library are individually assigned to UW faculty on an annual basis and quarterly to visiting faculty at the UW.
- Know Your Copy Rights (ARL): FAQ for faculty & teaching assistants and using works in your teaching.
- Author Rights (SPARC): Tips to knowing your rights as an author - copy right issues, publisher agreements.
Teaching Services & Resources:
- Course Reserves: Place materials on reserve for your courses, including books, electronic articles and other media. Submission forms and guidelines are available online to assist you with placing materials on reserve.
- Specialized Resource Guides for Courses: Have a customized online research guide made for your course to guide students to appropriate resources for their class assignments. Please contact Faye directly to arrange for a guide that you may link from your own course page or the libraries' page.
- Research Skills for Students: Bring your students to the library and have them formally introduced to important research databases and library resources. We can meet in the Suzzallo Instruction Lab where students have computer workstations and can search resources with the assistance of a librarian. Please contact Faye directly to arrange this session.
- Research 101: This online tutorial provides a convenient way for students to interactively learn major research skills and concepts, such as the difference between a scholarly journal and a popular magazine, or primary sources versus secondary sources. Students can complete the tutorial outside of class time.
- UWill: This online tutorial is similar to Research 101 but has the option of customizable pages to achieve individual course research objectives.
- Chat with a Librarian : You and your students can interact live with a reference librarian 24 x 7 to assist with questions about library resources or search strategies.
- Research Competency Guidelines for Literatures in English: Guidelines to
aid students of literatures in English in the development of thorough
and productive research skills.
Collections & Online Resources:
- English Resources Subject Page: A guide to major library resources available in English language, British & American literature, and other literatures in English. The subject page includes links to major indexing tools (MLA), full-text journal packages (JSTOR), online reference resources and a variety of other tools that may be useful to your research.
- New Books Lists for English & American Literature: Curious to see what the library is buying in your area of interest? At the beginning of each month a list of new books purchased is linked to the English Resources Subject page. Items are arranged by LC classification (P - PS). You can also see older lists from previous months.
- Other Subject Pages: Not sure what database to use for finding economic literature? These webguides provide access to major research tools and library resources in other academic disciplines.
- Digital Collections: See what photographs, documents and audio/visual resources are available through the Libraries' digital collections.
- Special Collections: The Libraries' major resource of rare and archival materials are available here, and cover a broad range of topics, formats and periods.
- UW Digital Repository: Scholarly publications and other digital materials from various departments and researchers at the University of Washington.
