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Health Education Databases

Are you taking a HPE class? Good places to look for research articles are in SPORTDiscus, Physical Education Index, and Education Full Text (including ERIC). Or here is a complete list of our Health Education databases, with descriptions of their specialty areas.

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 […]

The library’s on Facebook. What next?

FB.init(“3a134a3e92537a478d5d94944d834d86”); Hamersly Library, Western Oregon University on Facebook

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 […]

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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 […]

Grand Prize winner of a Portable DVD palyer – Joanna Walker

Western Oregon University’s Land Acknowledgement
Western Oregon University in Monmouth, OR is located within the traditional homelands of the Luckiamute Band of Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya etc. Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in Western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.

Accessibility Public Records Privacy Student Consumer Information

WOU prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in all programs, activities and employment practices as required by Title IX, other applicable laws, and policies. Retaliation is prohibited by WOU.