How to OneSearch (New User Interface)

A guide to the OneSearch revised platform implemented in June 2025

The Advanced Search Screen

Advanced searching can give you more options to formulate the search. At the same time, the complexity may lead to difficulties with getting search results that you need. Here is what you will find in advanced search:

Finding advanced search

The advanced search screen provides several search boxes to shape your search, and narrowing options

below those boxes:

Inputting into the advanced search

Limiters in advanced search

Search modes in advanced search

 

 

Download citations to a Bibliographic Manager

A bibliographic manager is an app that collects citations (and even PDFs), allows them to be put into folders, and helps you generate bibliographies, among other things. MyEBSCO (see above) is a bibliographic manager, though limited in function. Others are RefWorks, Zotero and Mendeley. The library supports EndNote Web. For more information on using EndNote, go to https://libguides.twu.ca/EndNote.

 Here is how to download citations to a bibliographic manager:

1. First select the citations you want to send to the manager and click on the Cite icon:

Downloading citations into a bibliographic manager part one

 

Downloading citations into a bibliographic manager part two

Your bibliographic manager will open and receive your citation.

You can also send up to 25,000 citations at once to your bibliographic manager.

Downloading citations into a bibliographic manager part three

 

This will open up several export options:

Downloading citations into a bibliographic manager part four

 

Once you have selected what you want to export:

Downloading citations into a bibliographic manager part five

 

Combining Searches

There are times when you are doing several searches and want to combine search results into a single list. To do this, first complete two or more searches and click on Recent Activity in the left: 

 

You will be prompted to make these an AND, OR, or NOT search combination. In most cases it would be OR. This will set your search into the search box above and then you can complete the search. The results will be a combination of the two searches you did initially: