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Wondering what is meant by a primary source or a secondary source?

If a professor has ever referred to primary sources or required you to use secondary sources in your paper, perhaps you weren’t sure what that meant. This 6-min. tutorial will help you distinguish between them and use them appropriately in your research. No Flash plugin installed.

EBSCO improves ability to browse a journal issue

Have you ever wanted to peruse an entire issue of an electronic journal in a way similar to how you can a physical copy? It can be clunky. Now, when journals are in PDF format in one of our many EBSCO databases, the issue’s full contents will list on the left side of the screen […]

Txt us yr ?

Yes, you can now send us your question by texting on your phone! Put us in your contacts: 503-383-WOU1 (9681). This is just one of many ways you can reach us.

Game Nights at the library!

Game Nights continue at the library! Join in the fun Friday night, November 6, room 107, 6-8 p.m., for Guitar Hero 5, Wii Sports & Wii Play, and Mario Cart, as well as our selection of board games. And if you need more enticement, attendees could win the drawing for a $15 iTunes gift card! […]

Save paper by printing double-sided

To do this on most campus printers: 1. Select File –> Print from your document 2. Choose the printer (e.g., \krustyLab-HLRef) 3. Click the Properties button. 4. On the Paper/Output tab, find in the 2-Sided Printing dropdown menu and select “2-sided print.” 5. Click the OK buttons for the two windows. Want to be even […]

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 […]