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Tips for using LibrarySearch

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e-Journals

The quickest way to find journals by title. You can use the search box to search by either title or issn.

Databases

The list of websites that host our online e-journals, e-books, streaming videos and other online content. Search the Databases list by title or browse by subject area to access our extensive online resources.

Citation Linker

Citation Linker can take you straight to a specific issue of a journal, book or an article. Use it if you have the details for the item (for example, from your course reading list). ISSN and ISBN search options are also available

Resources not included in LibrarySearch

Industry/company information, market research, law resources, and Standards are not included in LibrarySearch.  For help accessing these resource, try these guides:

Improve your searches

Try these suggestions if you find too many or not enough results

LibrarySearch is using AND between keywords and phrases by default, so it will find records that include all words in a search.

To find records, which include at least one of the words or phrases, type OR between them.

For example:

film OR movie

Remember, always type OR and NOT (called Boolean operators) in uppercase letters. Otherwise, LibrarySearch will treat them as keywords.

To exclude words or phrases from your search results, type NOT before the word or phrase you want to exclude.

For example:

video NOT YouTube

Remember, always type OR and NOT (called Boolean operators) in uppercase letters. Otherwise, LibrarySearch will treat them as keywords.

Use parentheses () to group words you are searching for.

For example:

Shakespeare (tragedy OR sonnet)

With this search you’ll find records that contain ‘Shakespeare’ and ‘tragedy’, ‘Shakespeare’ and ‘sonnet’, as well as records that contain all three words. Without parentheses this search will not work properly.

Wildcards are single characters that allow you to expand your search.

Use an asterisk (*) wildcard to replace multiple characters in a word.

For example:

behavio*

With this search you will find records containing ‘behaviour, ‘behavioural’ and ‘behaviourally’, as well as ‘behavior’,‘behavioral’ and ‘behaviorally’ (American spelling).

Use a question mark (?) wildcard to replace a single character in a word. It does not work as a wildcard character at the end of the word.

For example:

wom?n

With this search you will find records containing both ‘woman’ and ‘women’. 

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