OneSearch

The University of Brighton Library has a online resource called OneSearch. This is used to be able to search for books, ebooks and most journal subscription the university is subscribed to.

How to use OneSearch

  1. Navigate to OneSearch through clicking the library services button on MyBrighton and scrolling done until you see OneSearch An image showing the library serrvices page of My brighton, in the middle of the image is the link to OneSearch.
  2. Type into the search bar key terms related to what you want to find. In this example I am trying to find books or journals on CSS and Web development An image of the homepage of OneSearch. It has a simple design with a search box in the centre. In the searchbox are the words 'Web Development CSS'
  3. To make your search more specific, click on advanced search, here you can add a lot more specifics such as how recent the publication was, what type of content shows up and manyother things An image of the OneSearch advanced search page, it has an option to fill in key words, author title and isbn, buttons to select a publication date or to select a specific date, a place to refine your search to specific types of content such as ebooks or library, as well as content type and discipline checkboxes
  4. The centre column contains all the relevant books and journals that the university has access to, on the left has the same options as the advanced search so you can lessen the amount of content to look through. On the right has a link to take you to subject guides, these are good if you need a place to start as your lecturers reccomend books tha you can read. An image of OneSearch's results page.
  5. When you click on a book in the middle a new page will open showing you more information about that book ,such as where to access it. for books with no online access you can check wether the library has a copy. for some there will be a pdf or online access button on the page beforehand, clicking those buttons will take you to the online copy of the book. An image of A book aboout CSS with information about the book such as title publication date and language.
  6. If you need to cite a book you can click on the cite button, once you select which type of referencing style you need, it will automatically gentrate the refernce for you to copy into you work An image showing the citation feature of OneSearch
  7. You can also email books to yourself for future reference. and image showing the emailing feature of OneSearch
  8. You can also share the book to social medias or messages. and image showing the option of where to share an artile or book found using OneSearch

Other Resources

Another good resource for increasing your research skills are the univeristy's subject guides, these contain all the subject and school guides as well as information about your schools library. These subject guides are a good place to start for any research you need to do.

The university Of Brighton has a youtube video from students explaining what they wish they knew about the librarys here. For extra advice this video can be a good starting point