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ENGWR 300 - Professor Shapiro (Spring 2024): OneSearch

OneSearch

OneSearch Los Rios Libraries

Find books, articles, ebooks and more

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!

OneSearch In One Minute

Search Tricks in OneSearch

Use the search tips below to improve your results:

OneSearch Search Tips:

  • 3-5 keywords often works well
  • Try different keywords (think synonyms)
  • Use the filters on the left-hand side to narrow your search results

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

  • EXAMPLE(global warming OR climate change)

 

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:

    • "climate change"

    • "global warming"

 

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

    • reduc* = reduce, reduced, reduction

    • mitigat* = mitigate, mitigation, mitigating

 

If you are not finding what you were hoping for searching in OneSearch, this is a good time to ask Martee for help!