A-Z Databases: One Search: Finding your reading list items

One Search will be really useful for easily accessing books and journal articles - in a typical reading list, these will be the main components. To search for these effectively you have to use different searches to locate these resources.

Books: when you're looking for a book, whether print or electronic, use the Local Search function.

Journal articles: if you're looking for a journal article, use the Articles search.

If you're looking for a book, whether print or electronic, use Local Search.

As a general rule when searching for a specific book, when you know the author and title it's normally enough to use a couple of words from the title of the book and one of the author's surnames. (The more words you include the more time it will take and the more chance you have of making an error and the book you're looking for not coming up). So if you were looking for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling searching for Rowling Order Phoenix will be enough to find the book:

Troubleshooting

Too many results:

• Make sure you've done a Local Search.
• If so, add an extra word from the title or another author's surname.

The book your looking for isn't showing up:

• Double check that you've spelt all words correctly.
• Try removing one of the words from the title from the search.
• If you've tried everything and it's still not showing up, please contact Library@uws.ac.uk to see if the book is in stock.

When trying to open an e-book, a message pops up asking you if you would like to reserve it:

The publisher restricts the number of users that can access the e-book at the same time. If you receive this message, it likely means the access limit has been reached. Please enter your email address to reserve a place in the queue and you will be notified as soon as the book becomes available.

If you're looking for a specific journal article the easiest way to do this is to search by title using Articles search. 

Let's say we wanted to get hold of the following article from our reading list:

Paton, K., McCall, V. and Mooney, G. (2017) ‘Place revisited: class, stigma and urban restructuring in the case of Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games’, The Sociological Review, 65(4), pp. 578–594. doi: 10.1111/1467-954X.12423.

In order to find this, copy the title into the search box in OneSearch and select the Articles search option:

This should then bring up the article as one of the first results.

Alternatively if you can't copy and paste, you can search for one of the authors' surnames and three or four words from the title. Please note: it's common for researchers to produce a number of articles on similar subjects, so double check that the result is definitely the one you're looking for.

Troubleshooting

Lots of results are coming up and I can't see my article.
Click on Advanced Search and change the search field to Title. Copy and paste the title into this box and search.

The article I'm looking for isn't coming up.
First double check that the details are right - Google the article and see if you can confirm that the title is right. If it's still not coming up, it's possible we don't subscribe to it - please contact library@uws.ac.uk to confirm.
 

Once you've performed a search, it's possible to filter the results to suit your needs. This filter bar will appear on the right-hand side of the screen if you are using a computer; you can find it by clicking the filter symbol if you're using a smart phone.

Here are some of the most useful filter options:

Availability: either In the Library or Full Text Online.

Library: this allows you to limit results to specific UWS Library sites.

Type of Item: you can limit your results to Books, Journals, Theses, Dissertations etc.

Creation Date: use this to limit the results by publication date (e.g. only books published between 2015 - 2020).

Here's how you can get hold of the full text, once you've found what you're looking for. These work better if you're logged in so make sure you've done this before trying to access the full text.

To access any sort of item, first click on the title to get through to the full record.

Print Book
If it's a print book it will either say it's available or not. It will also tell you where you can find it. Here's an example of what this would look like: 

Paisley > Level 3 > 823.912 ORW

This means that it's available in the Paisley campus library and that it's on Level 3 of that library. 823.912 ORW indicates where it is held on the shelf - signage in the library will help you to locate this, but please ask for help if you can't find it.

If the book is not available, you will see an option to Reserve - this means that you'll join a queue to borrow the book once it's returned. Please note: the option to reserve will only show up once you're signed in.

Electronic Books and Journal Articles

Electronic books will say Online Access - clicking on this will take you to the full-text of the ebook.

Electronic journal articles will say Full-text Available - clicking on this will take you to the article home page.