 OneSearch is a single search box on the Ray Howard Library homepage where you can search lots of items from our online and print collections. So what is the best way to use OneSearch to find information for your research? Because OneSearch works more like Google than an old-fashioned library catalog, we get a lot of results when we do a search. It's up to us to narrow those results down so that we can find the most relevant information for our project. Let's say I'm working on a project about the uses of graphic novels and comics and education. I can do a search for the phrase, graphic novels and education, and actually see a lot of relevant results right away. Later, I might want to vary my search terms to use words like comic books or classroom, but for now this is a great start. Unlike the old library catalog, OneSearch works really well if you begin with a broad search term or phrase, then narrow down your results until you get exactly what you want using the options in the left-hand navigation. OneSearch will tell you whether the full text is available and what type of resource you are looking at, for example an article or an online book. I'm going to narrow down my search to peer-reviewed items only. I'll also narrow it down to full text online. Finally, I'll narrow down the date range so that I only see recent articles. Now I'm seeing a shorter and more relevant list of results. Many of these look good, but the first item in the list looks especially relevant. If I click the record, I can see that the full text is available through a couple of different databases that we subscribe to. Click a link and it takes me right to my article. Yay! For more tips on using OneSearch, ask a librarian for help.