OneSearch is exactly what its name implies: one place to search for many different kinds of sources -- including books, eBooks, scholarly articles, news articles, videos, and more!

Use the search tips below to improve your results:

General Search Tips:

• 3-5 keywords often works well
• Try different keywords (think synonyms)

Parentheses: Use with the word OR to combine ideas and expand your search. 

• EXAMPLE: 
• (campus OR university OR college)

Quotation marks: Use these around your keywords for an “exact search”. This tool will give you specific (aka fewer) results because it searches for your keywords exactly as you’ve entered them. 

• EXAMPLE:

  • "day care"

  • "car pool"

  • "social media"

Asterisk * : Use this to shorten a word and search for all possible endings of the root word. This tool will give you more results.

• EXAMPLE:

  • manag* = manage, managing, managed

  • happ* = happy, happiness

  • reduc* = reduce, reduced, reduction

OneSearch Search: putting it all together

• EXAMPLE starting sub-topic: depiction of minorities in media

  • Search in OneSearch: (minorit* OR "people of color") (media OR television) depict*

Peer reviewed articles (also known as scholarly articles) go through a specific process in order to be published in scholarly journals.  The Peer Review in 3 Minutes video explains what that process is and how peer reviewed articles can be used to support your research.

You can filter your results in OneSearch to "Peer-Reviewed Journals" in the "Show Only" menu on the left. This will only give you results that are from academic journals. 

Look for the icon in your results