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