Assistance also available at:

Information/Reference desk
(1st floor of the library )

Library homepage:
http://www.wou.edu/provost/library/

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L-net provides reference service when WOU librarians are unavailable. L-net is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Email reference help is another option.

More about L-net.

Hamersly Library
These are books in our library

Summit
These are books at other universities from Oregon and Washington. Books take 2-4 days for delivery.

eBrary Academic Complete
Academic Complete contains more than 37,700 ebooks. You can read online and print multiple pages once you download the ebrary reader (available when you click on the title of a book).

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers citations and abstracts for articles found in more than 8,000 publications. Allows users to limit searches to scholarly/peer-reviewed journals only. 1984 to present; selected articles from 1975 (or earlier) to present

Want to know how to search Academic Search Premier? Click Here

Search Lexis Nexis for newspaper articles
[Hint--click on the NEWS tab upper left screen before you search for your topic]

Newspaper Source
Full-text articles from nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a subset of Google Web Search that enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including papers, theses, books, and reports. By searching Google Scholar via the WOU Library, you will also be connected to articles that are listed in Google and that we have or can get for you from our article databases.

Librarians Internet Index
Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website featuring dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by a team of librarians. Topics include current events and issues, helpful tools for information users, human interest, and more.

How to Format a Paper in MLA

SAMPLE MLA PAPER-PDF

MLA Formating and Style Guide

NoodleBib
An online tool that helps you collect citation information, keep track of your sources, and, when you are ready, generate a polished MLA Works Cited page. You must create an individual account (free) to access all features.

MLA Handbook

Located on 1st floor reference
PE1478.G44 M5

WOU Writing Center
The Writing Center is the only service unit on campus specifically designed to promote your development and success as a college writer. The consultant team is available to assist you both in person and online with writing projects for any course and any level of instruction.

More Hispanics Fluent in English

English a challange

The share and number of people 5 and older in the USA's most populous cities who say they speak Spanish and home and who speak English less than "very well"