Synthesis 302 Reading about Reading: OneSearch

OneSearch is a great place to start your research and get ideas for your assignment.  It helps you quickly find relevant resources on a subject, without having to decide which database(s) to search.  You can also limit your search results in a variety of ways, including date range, publication type, subject, and geographic location.  The library's cataloged resources, such as books, eBooks, and DVDs and are also integrated into the search results.

LION One Search is an online research tool that “pulls together” almost all of our Library resources so that they can be explored using a single search box. In other words, rather than searching the cataLION library catalog for books and one of the Albright Library databases such as Academic Search Complete for journal articles, you can do a LION One Search and get results which include books, e-books, journal articles, and government documents in one list. In fact, you could think of LION One Search as the Library’s version of Google searching for quality library resources.. 

1. By default, the OneSearch searches all terms you have entered, without the need to use AND.  For example: Teens Game Violence will find items that contain all 3 terms.
    
2. By default, the OneSearch searches through the full text of documents (if available).  This may cause a large number of results, and not all are relevant to your subject.  Results are returned in a relevancy ranked order.
    
3. To improve the relevancy of your search results, enclose phrases in "quotation marks".  For example:  "London England" or "global warming". 
    
4. Include the apostrophe.  For example, use "handmaid's tale" rather than "handmaids tale"
    
5. To find variant endings for a word, use the * asterisk (truncation symbol.)  For example:  delinquen* finds delinquent, delinquents, delinquency
    
6. To find books, e-books. videos or other items in the Albright library, refine your search by selecting " Catalog (cataLION) Only"
    
7. To find scholarly journal articles, refine your search by selecting "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals"
    
8. You can refine a search by limiting to Language. However, be aware that many English language articles have not been tagged as English, so will be missing from your search results.
    
9. Many items have direct links to retrieve the full text. For those that don't, use "Find Full Text" to determine if Albright Library has the item in print or online.

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