Beyond Google for your research: Library Catalogue

The Library Catalogue is a good place to start your search. You can use it to find books and e-books, videos, journal articles, papers, reports, conference proceedings, theses, digital media, and more.

The Catalogue also helps you manage your research. Sign-in in order to:

• View your loans and make requests
• Create saved searches and lists
• Export citations to EndNote or EndNote Web

Work through the interactive tutorial to learn how to search the Catalogue effectively. 

Hints:

• use double quotes around phrases e.g. “higher education”
• use the * truncation symbol to find plurals and alternate forms of the word e.g. stud* finds study, studied, studies etc.
• use AND, OR, or NOT in between keywords to combine terms

Refine Search

If you find a large number of results, try to reduce them by using one or more of these limits:

• Show only - e.g. articles from peer reviewed or scholarly publications
• Resource Type - e.g. book / ebook
• Subject - choose an appropriate subject to refine the search e.g. higher education (you may have to select the more... link to see it)
• Publication Date - choose a narrower date range e.g. 2015 to 2019

Save selected results and searches

Selecting results: Click on the pin icon to the right of the publication. To view selected items click on the pin at the top right of the web page.

Save results: You will need to sign in to the Library pages using your UniSA username and password. Select the 'Sign in' option from the top right of the web page.

View results, search history and saved searches: Click on the pin at the top right of the web page to view your search history. From this screen you have the option to save your searches or results.