Brooks Library - Research Resources
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- Records of nearly 800,000 items physically contained within Brooks Library.
- All books, government documents, periodicals, maps and other materials owned by the Library.
- Does NOT offer the full text of periodicals articles.
- Provides links to full text of 13,000 online journals
- Searching Summit allows a user to access catalogs of over 30 universities and colleges in Oregon and Washington.
- Access to over 24 million books, sound recordings, films, video tapes, and more.
- If you don't find what you need in the Brooks Library catalog, repeat your search in Summit and request the item online.
- Pick up item at the Circulation Desk at Brooks Library. You can check it out for a period of 21 days, with one (1) renewal.
- Browse or search for thousands of Library catalogs from around the world.
Web access to more than 80 subscription databases (some are accessible only to on-campus and registered off-campus users), covering:
- periodical articles - citations, abstracts and/or full-text
- online journals collections
- financial and statistics databases
- government documents - indexing and full-text
- Web access to over 13,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers to which the library subscribes electronically.
- Includes the ability to browse e-journals by subject.
- Browse by 32 subject areas to locate quality websites based on campus disciplines.
- Links to a variety of web search engines, metasearch engines, subject directories, and search engines for children.
Provides recommendations of print materials, databases, electronic journals, and web sites based on CWU class programs.
- Choose subject area first
- Then choose source types of materials
- Select your retrieval preference (Web-based materials or materials in the Brooks Library)
- Choose whether to include item summaries in your results (recommended)