Databases & Journals
Tips for using LibrarySearch
Looking for something specific?
Journals search
The quickest way to find specific print and e-journals by title or ISSN by entering Journal search box below and click search button. Then you can either use the Journal search box to find more specific journal titles.
Journals by category
The quickest way to browse print and e-journals by category listed below. Then you are brought directly to the journal list available by subject on the library catalog.
- Arts, Architecture & Applied Arts
- Business & Economics
- Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Engineering & Applied Sciences
- General
- Health & Biological Sciences
- History & Archaeology
- Journalism & Communications
- Languages & Literatures
- Law, Politics & Government
- Music, Dance, Drama & Film
- Philosophy & Religion
- Physical Sciences & Mathematics
- Social Sciences
Database search
The quickest way to find a specific database name by entering keywords on the Database Search box below. You are brought directly to the specific one on the library catalog, then you can browse databases available by category.
Citation linker
Citation linker can take you straight to a specific issue of a journal, book or an article. Use it if you have the details for the item (for example, from your course reading list). ISSN and ISBN search options are also available.
Improve your searches
Try these suggestions if you find too many or not enough results
LibrarySearch is using AND between keywords and phrases by default, so it will find records that include all words in a search.
To find records, which include at least one of the words or phrases, type OR between them.
For example:
film OR movie
Remember, always type OR and NOT (called Boolean operators) in uppercase letters. Otherwise, LibrarySearch will treat them as keywords.
To exclude words or phrases from your search results, type NOT before the word or phrase you want to exclude.
For example:
video NOT YouTube
Remember, always type OR and NOT (called Boolean operators) in uppercase letters. Otherwise, LibrarySearch will treat them as keywords.
Use parentheses () to group words you are searching for.
For example:
Shakespeare (tragedy OR sonnet)
With this search you’ll find records that contain ‘Shakespeare’ and ‘tragedy’, ‘Shakespeare’ and ‘sonnet’, as well as records that contain all three words. Without parentheses this search will not work properly.
Wildcards are single characters that allow you to expand your search.
Use an asterisk (*) wildcard to replace multiple characters in a word.
For example:
behavio*
With this search you will find records containing ‘behaviour, ‘behavioural’ and ‘behaviourally’, as well as ‘behavior’,‘behavioral’ and ‘behaviorally’ (American spelling).
Use a question mark (?) wildcard to replace a single character in a word. It does not work as a wildcard character at the end of the word.
For example:
wom?n
With this search you will find records containing both ‘woman’ and ‘women’.
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