Use databases to find citations (and sometimes full text) to articles and other materials. There are specialized databases for various subjects. Listed in the boxes below are some selected database starting points for finding articles on topics in Native Americans.

Tips:

• AND returns results with both terms:  Native Americans AND treaties
  
  Makah AND fishing rights
   
• OR returns results with either term:  American Indians OR Native Americans OR Indigenous
  Good for use with related terms or synonyms
   
• Placing terms in parentheses ( ) indicates separate concepts, like an equation, (A or B) and C
  treaties AND ( American Indians OR Native Americans OR First Nations )
   
• Placing two or more words in quotation marks " " returns results using that specific phrase
  "American Indians"
   
• Truncation * returns results with a root word and any ending
  cultur* [finds culture, cultured, cultures, culturally ...]
   
• Many databases allow you to download, email, or print articles
   
• Some have built-in citation tools that will put articles found in the proper citing style format (APA, MLA, Chicago, AP)
   
• Articles not available at the UW Libraries may still be available from a Summit Library, or through Interlibrary Loan

Note:  some databases use different truncation symbols (* is most common; others include !, $,

The following are recommended starting points for finding articles. Use these tools to locate citations (and sometimes full text) for  articles and other materials.

Databases with this icon are accessible remotely (from off-campus) by UWNetID only.

Databases with this icon are accessible remotely by UWNetID only.

If the full-text of an article is not available directly in a database such as America: History and Life, then click on the purple Check for UW holdings button to find out if the UW has an electronic or print copy of the journal article you need. If there is no button, then search the UW Libraries Search for the title (name) of the journal to determine if the UW owns a copy.

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Search or browse journal titles held at UW. Can't find it? Request it through Interlibrary Loan.