THE WINGS OF HISTORY -- USEM 1000
RESEARCH RESOURCES

SPU Catalog

• Books  [primary area in collection: TL500-TL778 (aeronautics & aerospace)].
• In-house paper and microfilm periodical holdings by title of periodical.

SPU Reference Collection

• 100 Years of Flight: A Chronology of Aerospace History, 1903-2003   [Ref. TL515 .W526 2003]
• Aviation & Space Dictionary   [Ref. TL509 .A8]
• Dictionary of American History   [Ref. E174 .D52 2003 v.1-v.10]
• Discoverers: An Encyclopedia of Explorers and Exploration   [Ref. G200 .D53]
• Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History   [Ref. E468 .E53 2000 v.1-v.5]
• Encyclopedia of the American Military  [Ref. UA23 .E56 1994 v.1-v.3]
• Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century   [Ref. E740.7 .E53 1996 v.1-v.4 + Index]
• Great Events from History II. Science and Technology   [Ref. Q125 .G825 1991 v.1-v.5]
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology   [Ref. Q121 .M3 2002 v.1-v.20]
• Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists   [Ref. Q141 .N73 1995 v.1-v.4 + Suppl.]
• Oxford Companion to Military History   [Ref. D25.A2 O94 2001]
• Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia   [Ref. HQ1115 .W6 1999 v.1-v.17]

SPU Periodical Indexes & Image/Full Text

• Off-campus login required from SPU Databases web page.
• EBSCOhost databases:
  • Academic Search Premier (general) -- indexing & abstracts; some image/full text.
  • Military & Government Collection (all branches of the military & government) -- indexing & abstracts; some image/full text.
  • Health Source: Nursing Academic (health sciences) -- indexing & abstracts; some image/full text.
  • MEDLINE (health sciences) -- indexing & abstracts; seamless access to some image/full text from other EBSCOhost indexes.
• ProQuest databases:
  • Research Library Complete (general) -- indexing & abstracts; some image/full text.
• OCLC databases:
  • ArticleFirst (general; science & technology) -- only indexing; NO abstracts; NO image/full text.
  • PAIS International (politics, human rights, international relations, military, & law; 1972-<>) -- only indexing & abstracts; NO image/full text; PAIS Archive also available from 1915-1976.
• CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) database:
  • Sociological Abstracts (sociology) -- only indexing & abstracts; NO image/full text.
• E-Journal Portal (direct access to SPU's image/full text periodical collection; indirect access through databases).

Obtaining Resources from Other Libraries

• Summit Borrowing -- obtain books through Orbis Cascade Alliance library consortium within 3 working days. Access through SPU catalog or directly through consortium Summit union catalog.  Borrow only books with Summit Borrowing.
• WorldCat -- an SPU database showing the books held in library collections throughout the U.S.  Borrow only books with WorldCat.
• Interlibrary Loan ("ILL") -- use if no other ILL requesting feature available.  Borrow both books and photocopies of periodical articles from libraries in U.S.