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Welcome to the Subject Guide for students studying Information Systems at the Stafford Campus of the University of Mary Washington.
Please use the tabs at the top of the screen to navigate to different areas of technology, business and library related information. If you need to research an Information Systems topic, click the Databases tab at the [...]

In a peer-reviewed journal, the articles are all written by experts–usually professors or scholars in the field–and have been evaluated by an editorial board of scholars. In other words, the articles are written for scholars, by scholars, and judged by “jury” of the author’s “peers.” Such articles may also be called “scholarly,” “refereed” or “academic.” [...]

Evaluating articles that you have located in a database can be difficult to evaluate. Online articles do not always provide you with the same physical characteristics (advertisements, graphs, illustrations) that you would use to evaluate print articles.
Databases that search a variety of publications – such as magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers – will often provide [...]

Many databases will allow you to email articles directly from the databases to your personal email addresses.  If you choose to use this handy feature, be sure to check your email account to verify that these database emails have arrived in your email inboxes.  Network issues, web traffic, and spam filters will occassionally disrupt the [...]

If you want to see if the UMW Libraries owns a journal, magazine, or newspaper, then search the Journal Finder. The Journal Finder will search the UMW Libraries online and print collections to see if your publication is available within the University of Mary Washington Libraries system.

Do you need books or articles from Simpson Library but don’t want to make the trip? Items from Simpson can be delivered to the CGPS Stafford Library. Please use ILLIAD to place your requests.
Not finding what you need at UMW Libraries? Place an InterLibrary Loan (ILL) request via ILLIAD and we [...]

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