Holman Library One Search
The library One Search searches for information in all library databases and collections at once.
Sometimes that is helpful - and other times, the results can be overwhelming and also not the most relevant.
Here are a few reasons to use the One Search:
- Use it for an overview of "the conversation" on a topic. Type in your keywords to get a sense of the range of things journalists, scholars, and others are looking at on the topic.
- Relatedly, the One Search can be useful for narrowing down an overly broad topic.
- Limit to Reference with filters on the left menu in One Search and you'll be searching in a broader reference collection than Gale eBooks.
- The One Search is useful for looking for scholarship across the library's different databases at once.
- The One Search is the only way to find print books - and a useful way to search print and ebooks at once.
- Click on the title of something found with the One Search to learn more about that item before reading/ viewing it.
Here are a few reasons to use individual databases:
- The One Search does not have a limiter for magazine or trade articles. To find them, it works best to go directly to individual databases and limit to magazine or trade at source type.
- Subject terms listed in the filters of the One Search are overly general. Academic Search Complete and ProQuest provide much more relevant and useful Subject Terms.
- It can be overwhelming to find so much at once - and thus difficult to find what you need.
