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1Search Research Tips

Use “quotations marks” around words that you want searched as a phrase. For example, “liberal arts”

1Search allows you to use Boolean Operators: AND, OR and NOT. Important! Unlike other library tools, these words must be CAPITALIZED in your search. So:
- diabetes AND “blood pressure” will find both terms
- adolescent OR teenager will find either term,
- “martin luther” NOT king will exclude the second term
1Search will also use “wildcards”, which are symbols that can make your search more powerful
- the asterisk “*” will match multiple characters within or at the end of a word. For example: le*er will find letter, lender, etc. and adolesc* will find adolescent, adolescence, adolescents, etc.
- the question mark “?” will replace a single letter, so gr?y will find grey or gray

Facets

Once you have done your initial search, you can easily focus your results using the refining facets in the left-hand menu. You can limit to particular content types (like books or articles), narrow by date range, or just look at content available electronically.

Advance Searching

Advanced Search (link) lets you do more detailed searching of records and also allows you to include/exclude common groups of materials (like peer-reviewed publications)
Would you like to do more advanced searching of particular fields in your search? You can search a field using the following format: “field:(query)”. For example:
- Language:(French) will find items in French
- Author:(Augustine) will find items written by Augustine
- PublicationTitle:(Journal of Health Psychology) will find items published in this journal

Here is a list of fields that you can search in 1Search:

What is 1Search?