OneSearch (EBSCO Discovery Service)
Through our OneSearch discovery service you will find both printed and online content. This is our main indexing service and most of our resources are collected here. OneSearch has many search features that you should take the time to familiarise yourself with, for example:
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Advanced searching with boolean operators - See our boolean searching guide for how to advice.
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Filters and limiters - refine your results by item type, publication year or source.
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Bookmarks, share items, and save searches to re-execute to organise into research projects.
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Exportation of citations and bibliographies to popular reference management systems (e.g., Refworks, EndNote, Mendelay).
Library catalogue
In our catalogue you will find all of our physical collection kept onsite at our Malmö campus, i.e., our print materials. This is the place to search if you know you want to borrow a physical book (as opposed to an ebook) or an issue from one of our journals available in print. Keep in mind; the catalogue does not search individual journal articles and book chapters, only book and journal titles. Items can be checked out to registered users and any loans, including dates due, can be viewed by logging into your WMU catalogue account.
Catalogue accounts are only created for students studying at the Malmö campus, however WMU students visiting from other locations may also request an account for the duration of their visit. We do not loan, or send whole physical books to students off campus. Offsite students can request an ILL from the library for articles and chapters, this must be done via your local library.
Database list
In our list of databases you can find the specialist databases that the library subscribes to that may or may not be indexed in OneSearch. While OneSearch attempts to aggregate the content from numerous databases into a single search, there will likely be times when you would benefit from searching a narrower range of content. The list summarizes the focus of each database, allowing you to select only those that are more topically relevant to your research.
Take a look at our database guide for how to access our most frequently queried databases.
TitleSearch
TitleSearch contains all electronic publications available in OneSearch but only searches the titles of ebooks and ejournals while OneSearch searches all metadata as well as the full-text, similar to the library catalogue for print searching. When searching for an ejournal title you can see at a glance the range of dates and issues available. This is a good resource when you have a title or citation in hand and are not interested in browsing through pages of results from a topical search in OneSearch.