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Need to order books for your research?Then see Ms McComb
Deadline for ordering new books for summer check-out is April 15.

ASW Library Collection

  • Search catalog to determine what books or DVDs may be relevant to your research.
  • Request books that will support your research to be purchased. This should be done by May 1 so you can use them over the summer.

These are the databases you should search:
Advanced Placement Source

  • For AP and IB courses
  • 5,550+ full-text academic journals and magazines
  • 502,000+ images

Global Issues in Context

  • Analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural
  • Focuses on broad issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming, as well as more specific events and topics in the news that are related to these broader issues.
  • Detailed information on nations to provide a foundation for cross-cultural studies
  • Overviews summarizing background information, historical context, and contemporary stances
  • Expert perspectives analyzing an issue or event through multiple aspects
  • Reference documents providing background information on all issues and nations
  • Full-text international magazines, academic journals, news source, and primary sources
  • Statistics, including interactive graphs, tables, and charts

JSTOR

  • 1,000+ academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources in all academic areas.

Literary Reference Center
  • Information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals
  • Detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.

Literature Resource Center
  • Critical, biographical and contextual materials
  • Information on authors and their works from all time periods and from around the world

Psychology and Mental Health
  • Comprehensive coverage all aspects of psychology and mental health.
  • 590+ entries cover such topics as theories, conditions, notable people, as well as anatomy and physiology
  • Every entry begins with standard information, including listing the type of psychology, as well as field of study and key concepts.
  • Based on the 4 volume encyclopedia set located in the library: HS 150.3 SAL

Science in Context
  • Reliable information for assignments and projects
  • Magazines and academic journals
  • Experiments and statistics
  • Audio and video resources