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"

  • "social media"

  • "social connectedness" 

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:

  • happ* = happy, happiness

  • manag* = manage, managing, managed

  • reduc* = reduce, reduced, reduction

OneSearch Search: putting it all together EXAMPLES

1. Example Topic: Social connectedness is one of the most essential elements to our pursuit of happiness.
   1. Example Search in OneSearch: "social connectedness" happ*
2. Example Topic: The effects of social media on a person's happiness
   1. Example Search in OneSearch: "social media" happ* (psyc* OR "well being")
3. Example Topic: Pet ownership and it's correlation to happiness
   1. Example Search in OneSearch: (pet OR animal*) owner* happ* 

Remember to take advantage of the limiters on the left of your search results to ensure you are getting current resources that you can access!