"Know where to find the information and how to use it –
That’s the secret of success"
Albert Einstein
Search for books, articles, news and more in our library discovery service.
When you find the book you want you'll see its shelf or class number, this will help you find it in the library.
For online items, like eBooks, click on the link to read online.
Citation searching allows you to follow the research path forward and backwards in time, enabling you to understand how a research area has developed.
Looking into the past: Look at the references at the end of the paper to recognize which papers and researchers the author read and cited.
Looking into the future: Discover who has cited the article since it was published (Times cited).
To do a citation search Choose a core article or book that will form the target of your search (in publication for at least a year). Then locate a citation index such as Web of Science or Academic Search Complete.
Example
Here's an example of a Web of Science search sequence using Diener, E. (1999) Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress, as the target book citation:
We subscribe to over 70 databases, some are dedicated to a single subject others cover several subjects. It's important to note that most of our subscriptions are selective: we typically subscribe to only a portion of the content available on a given site. Just as we don't purchase copies of every book and journal in print, we don't subscribe to every e-book or online journal available!
There are a number of search strategies and techniques to help you retrieve relevant search results – including truncation and nesting - come to an advanced database training session to learn more.
Most of our databases are searchable on our library discovery service, this means you can search several databases at once.
However, some databases will have to be searched separately.
Click on the Databases button on the library website to: