Research, Citation, & Class Guides: SAFETY 485/685: Fire Protection/Prevention: Library Research Resources

Search Tips

Some of your fires are going to be quite obscure, not widely studied, or perhaps too new to have lots of scholarly studies done on them (this generally applies to fires within the last 5 years).

Here's help! These search tips apply for searching nearly any of the databases listed on this page:

Don't use the year of the fire in the search box.
If you aren't finding anything on your exact fire, think of the broader type of fire and what lessons could have been learned from similar types of fires, even if it wasn't your exact fire. For example, warehouse chemicals fire
Put the exact name of your fire in "quotation marks" -- this tells the database to search for those words in that order, as an exact phrase. For example, "Collinwood school fire"
But, if that gives you few or no results, take some words out of the quotation marks. "Our lady of the angels" school fire may give you more results than "Our lady of the angels school fire".

Don't hesitate to contact me (see right) for help with your specific fire.

Library Books

Research@UWW - Books, Media, & More (UW System)
Use this linked search to search Books, Media, & More across the entire UW System. Many results may not be held here, but sign in to your account, then items can be requested for free using UW Request. Most items are delivered within a couple of days.
WorldCat.org
Use this to search for books in libraries all across the world. You can request items found here for free via the Interlibrary Loan system.
Log on to ILLiad using your Net ID from the ILL page and request your item.

Scholarly Article Databases

You can do a basic, broad search of almost all of the articles we have, using Research @ UWW -- Articles on our homepage.

Alternately, Google Scholar is an even bigger search. Not all of the articles are full-text, though -- use the directions on the Google Scholar tab to link to UW-W and see what we have subscriptions to.

These are both very big searches and you will probably have to filter through many results.

Or, use these specific Library databases to find articles and fire codes related to your topic:

America History & Life with Full Text
A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Indexes over 2,000 English-language journals published worldwide.
Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a multidisciplinary e-journal archive with full-text access to back (historical) issues of scholarly journals. Journals include history, sociology, population studies, anthropology, business, and more.
Coverage varies by publication but typically begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue.

Partial funding for Collections V and VI from the Russell Moratz estate. Partial funding for Collection VII provided by Student Technology Fees.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect contains several emergency management/planning, safety, construction, and engineering journals that may have articles related to similar fires, even if not your specific fire.
Web of Science
A multidisciplinary database with citations to thousands of journals, books, and published proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
This resource also tracks how many times an article has been cited since publication, finds relevant items which share one or more cited references, reviews cited references that link to a full record display, and searches all cited authors.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.

Reference & Instruction Librarian

Rebecca Paulraj

Contact:

Andersen Library
Rm. 2105B
paulrajr@uww.edu

262-472-5519

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