Why should I sign in to OneSearch?

Search OneSearch

What is OneSearch?

What am I searching?

How are results generated?

When you sign in to OneSearch you can:

• Access external licensed resources
• Set search preferences for your current and future sessions
• Add items you found and queries you submitted to your e-shelf basket
• Set alerts and RSS feeds for your queries
• Use library services, such as requesting items
• Tag and review items

If using a public machine remember to log off 

Use OneSearch to search across a range of information resources.

• view ebooks, journal articles, UWA Research outputs, and much more, in a results list
• results are retrieved quicker than ever before
• refine your result list by availability, location, format, year, and topic, in a couple of clicks
• sign in to access your private workspace, e-Shelf, to view saved results and items
• sign in to add tags, notes, and reviews to individual items
• export to EndNote Web

Getting to OneSearch

OneSearch can be accessed through the UWA Information Services Homepage.

It is recommended UWA Staff and Students Sign In to OneSearch using their UWA Pheme Log In, to gain full access to all resources and full functionality of OneSearch.

It is recommended UWA staff and students Sign In to OneSearch using their UWA Pheme log in, to gain full access to all resources and full functionality, including:

• Databases
  • print and online journal articles
  • conference papers
  • book reviews
  • newspaper articles
  • and much more
• Library Catalgoue
  • books
  • ebooks
  • law reports
  • music scores
  • choral sets
  • journal titles
  • videos
  • and much more
• UWA Research Repository
  • UWA theses
  • UWA research
• e-Shelf
  • save searches
  • set up alerts
  • save references
  • export to EndNote Web
• Add reviews and tags

When you use OneSearch, by default, your results will include items that are not available in full text. This is because OneSearch searches across a large range of items including journal articles, books, reviews, and more, that are listed in the OneSearch database.

Items that UWA Information Services have access to will have either a location and call number information, or a link to the full text online version. For all items we don't have access to, a "No Online full-text" message and a Find It link appears.

To limit results only to items that UWA Information Services has access to, after you have run a search, select 'physical resources' under the 'Show only' option on the left hand side of the screen.

Note: OneSearch does not provide access to all of the key databases in all subject areas. Please see your Subject Librarian for further information.

OneSearch will 'boost' records further to the top of the result list based on where the search keywords were found in the record.  The degree of boost is as follows:

In addition, OneSearch includes a small number of local resources (i.e., results from the Library catalogue) in the top 10 results.  This helps provide a more blended result list of books and journal articles and also helps when searching for known items (such as databases) in the catalogue.