Finding Books on Your Topic Books on your topic will provide, in one source, comprehensive expert opinions from the perspective of the authors. A search may be done by author, title, subject or keywords. The catalogue may also point you to printed bibliographies and guides in your subject area. Conditions under which these books may be borrowed are found here . Sometimes they are the only source for the information you need.
Some indexes are in paper format, while most are in electronic format.
Instructions on how to do your search can be found in the on-line help for each index. Additional help for each database may be found in the binders at the workstations in the UW Libraries. To get articles that are at WLU or University of Guelph, but not at UW, you must use the TUGdoc service. Evaluating What You Have Found It is always beneficial to evaluate the resources you find during your search. Follow these helpful hints to do this.