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Primo 1Search Help

How to use the library's new combined online catalog and resource discovery tool to find books, articles, videos and more

Basic Searching

Enter your keywords in the search box. Select the best search scope for your search depending upon the kind of results you want. All Library Resources will include everything and is the default search. 
If you start your search from a search box on the library's main page or in a libguide you will be searching All Library Resources by default. You can search in a particular search scope as soon as your first results appear.

Use the Tweak Your Results sidebar to narrow your results. 

Explains and highlights important facets.

To view a result in the list, click on the title or the Available link. In order to actually proceed to full text, you will need to be signed into your account.

Click on result title or Available link to view full information.

The record provides access to the full text as well as permanent links (to the record, not the source), subject headings for further research, and the capability to print or email the record (NOT the source).

View of a search result showing and explaining the result tools.

 

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