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Welcome to the Tennessee Wesleyan College Library. This video will show you the basics
of searching the library's resources using Discovery.
Discovery lets you search the library's catalog and many of the library's databases all at
once, so you can find physical books in the library's collection as well as electronic
resources like eBooks, journals, magazines, video and audio, in one search.
You can find the Discovery search box on the home page of the library's website, library.twcnet.edu.
You can search for keywords or for a specific title or author. Type in your keywords and
hit enter to search. Because Discovery searches so many databases
at once, you'll probably get too many results with your first search, and the results will
include many different types of resources. You can limit your results using the menus
on the left hand side of the results page. Checking "Full Text" will limit to results
that you can download, and checking "Peer reviewed" limits to scholarly articles. Use
the sliding bar to set a date range for your results. Source types allows you to choose
what types of resources you want: books, journal articles, videos, magazines, and more. Subjects
are tags given to each item telling you what it's about, like Facebook tags telling you
who's in a picture. Clicking on these will limit your results to items that have that
specific subject tag. The Subject section can also provide you with ideas for more keywords
to narrow your search. The search results are in the middle of the
page. Clicking on PDF full text or HTML full text will take you to the full text of that
resource. If you don't see a PDF or HTML link, click on Click here for full text to see if
the item is available in any other library databases. If the item is not available from
our library, there will be a link to request it through interlibrary loan.
Clicking on the title of a resource will take you to a detailed record for that item. When
you choose an item, you can print it, email it to yourself or a friend, or save that item
to a folder. If you create a free Discovery account, you can create custom folders for
different classes or assignments, save items to those folders, and even share those folders
with classmates. If you find an eBook, you can either read it online or download it to
read on a laptop, tablet, ereader, or smart phone.
Those are just some basic tips and tricks for searching the library's Discovery! System.
If you still need help, please come by the library or contact us through the Library
chat, phone or email.