9.  oneSEARCH is the primary search tool to look for books and articles in the Library’s collections.

Go to the big search box on the Library’s website. This is oneSEARCH. It searches print books, e-books, e-book chapters and many (but not all) of our article databases at the same.

While oneSEARCH (unlike most other library databases) does understand natural language searches, it is still a good idea to set up your searches in terms of keywords, and linking them together using AND.

For example, if you're doing research on soca music in Trinidad then some possible searches could be:

    "soca music"

    "soca music" AND trinidad

Sample results from oneSEARCH:
 

The first result is a print book, the second result is an audio CD available both in print and online, and the remaining three results are articles in scholarly (peer reviewed) journals. Note the PEER REVIEWED tag beneath the citation. Click on the “Available Online” link to access to the full-text of the source.

To limit your search to ONLY peer reviewed articles in OneSEARCH, click on the “Peer Reviewed Journals” filter on the left-hand side of your search results. To limit your search to ONLY online sources (not print), click on the “Full Text Online” filter.

Now that you’ve found some sources using oneSEARCH, let’s go into some article databases. The Brooklyn College Library subscribes to over 400 different article databases and although oneSEARCH searches a lot of them at the same time, it doesn’t search all of them.