Montessori Teacher Education

Always sign in to Search@UW before beginning a search! You will have more access to the resources and tools it provides to manage your resources. 

At the top right of the page, click Sign in, and use your Student ID (W#) 

Tip: Bookmark Search@UW to your preferred browser to make it easier to get to the catalog.

Underneath "Refine my Results" on the left-hand side of your search results, you can do the following:

-Click on "Available at River Falls" to find a physical book or article

-Click on "River Falls Online Resources" to find items that are NOT physical books or articles

-Use the links under "Resource Type" to find other types of resources that you may need (ex- articles, newspapers, etc.)

-Hover your mouse over the words underneath "Topic." You can click on the orange circle with an X to exclude any of these from your search.

Here are some simple tricks for making your search better. Remember, our reference librarians are happy to help you with these steps of your search!

1. Take out topic words like "impact of" and "importance of." 

2. To search a whole phrase, put it into quotations to keep the words together in the search. Example: "emerging avian disease."

3. Searching for an author? Try the Advanced Search to the right of the search box and choose "author/creator" in the first drop-down that appears. 

4. Some words have a lot of endings. You can search all of the different endings by adding an asterisk at the end of its root. Example "child*" will search child, children, children's, and more. 

5. Adding some capitalized words between your search words can help improve it (and yes, they must be capitalized to work). AND, OR, and NOT can all be used to make your search words work together. 

One of the most frequent problems we see with Interlibrary Loan Requests is that the title is in English, but the article is not. Many international journals will publish the article titles and abstract/summary in English, but the article text will be in a variety of different languages (Dutch, German, and Italian seem to be common for Montessori subjects).

Fortunately, it is very easy to remove non-English language content in Search at UW or limit it just to the languages of your choosing.

Using the Search Filters on the left, scroll down to the Language Filer and select English. then select Apply Filters.