There are many ways you can stay up to date using tools like email alerts or RSS feeds to learn about new articles or books from your favorite journals or databases. In this tutorial, we will show you how to setup email alerts from journals and the UW Library Catalog.

Finding scholarly journal articles will be necessary throughout your academic career. In this tutorial, learn some techniques for searching EBSCO's Academic Search Complete database, which is a good general starting point for most research.

Would you like an easy to understand explanation of a congressional bill you have been following? Would you like to track a bill and how it impacts other bills or laws? Would you be interested in reading news stories about congressional bills from a highly respected news source? These are just a few of the useful tools you can find through CQ.com.

Find dissertations and theses written at any institution and also specifically by UW students

Do you need to find an online newspaper article on a specific topic? You can access current local, national and international newspapers online through the UW Library website.

RefWorks is a tool that you can use to keep track of your citations and automatically create bibliographies. Access your RefWorks account with your UW NetID.

Trying to find chemical information? Search for chemical literature, chemical structures/substructures, reactions and property information, molecular formulas, crystallography and more.