OneSearch Help

OneSearch is

• One simple search box to find books, articles, films, images, and more.
• Multidisciplinary, pulling information from many different sources.
• A good overview of what you can find. It does NOT include all the resources the SU Library offers.
• A great way to begin your research!

When NOT to use OneSearch

• You need the special tools or features of a discipline-specific database.
• You need to search the full text of specialty ebook collections.
• You need to see if SU has access to a specific journal. Use the Full Text Finder for this.

OneSearch is our local name for the EBSCO Discovery Service, or EDS. In addition to OneSearch, we also subscribe to a number of individual databases from EBSCO.

EBSCO gets information from many sources: individual publishers, other database vendors, government publications, our own library catalog, and more.

Some items are searchable at the full text level, but many are limited to key data, such as authors, titles, abstracts, and applied subject headings and keywords. This all depends on the level of access EBSCO has to each of these sources.

When you type in search terms, OneSearch looks for matches in any of the searchable data it contains. It then returns the results it finds.

Results are ranked by relevance, but can easily be resorted by date.