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Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a scholarly search tool from Google, separate from its main search engine. Its purpose is “to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.” The full text of many items is available online (either freely or by using the […]

See what WOU faculty are publishing

Subscribe to the Ebscohost feed Subscribe to the Google Scholar feed   WOU faculty are constantly publishing articles, books, and chapters in books. The library is now offering two ways of locating some of these (shown below): a feed of items appearing in the Ebscohost Databases and a feed of items appearing in Google Scholar. […]

Google goes scholarly

Google Scholar is the newest search tool from Google, separate from its main search engine. Its purpose is “to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.” The full text of many items is available online (either freely or by using the […]

ebrary

[](https://wou.edu/library/proxy/index.php?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/westernoregon)ebrary is a company that provides electronic books to libraries.   WOU’s Library and Media Services has purchased access to ebrary’s Academic Complete collection, which contains the full-text of nearly 40,000 ebooks covering topics from the classics to the cutting edge. Try a search: Find ebooks on your topic right now. Enter keywords   You […]

Global Road Warrior

Global Road Warrior is an international resource for social, cultural, travel, and business information. Information is available for 175 countries and territories, including demographics, economy, holidays, climate, entry and departure, emergencies, internal travel information, country and regional maps, airports, traditions, and even recipes.

New Summit is here!

The new Summit is now live! You can begin searching and requesting any time. In the first few weeks, there may be a little bumpiness as the system develops and we appreciate your patience as we work through this. One “bump” may be encountered when you request items: To request items, you may need to […]

Worldcat.org

The new Summit is coming December 1! Want a preview of what searching will be like? Try Worldcat.org. The new Summit is based on Worldcat.org, which lets you search and borrow from the collections of libraries around the world. You can search for books, music CDs, videos and all the types of materials that you […]

New library homepage

After months of planning, the Library and Media Services homepage has received a makeover. We’ve taken feedback and suggestions from you and designed a site that strives to be easier and more convenient to use. Poke around a bit and let us know what you think. We’ll be seeking feedback and making adjustments to our […]

New and improved Summit catalog, coming in late 2008

Work is currently underway on an upgrade to the Summit unified catalog, which allows you to request books and materials from other regional academic libraries in the Orbis Cascade Alliance. The new Summit catalog will be fully installed by the end of 2008. Summit borrowing services will continue without interruption during this transition. More…