Library Guides: Guide to using Library Search: Start your search

Start with Library Search

Use Library Search to find books, articles, journals, video, audio, theses, past exam papers, course readings and more. Library Search lets you search across multiple Library systems and research databases in one place.

Click the pages in the side menu to find out how to use Library Search to find the results you need.

Access Library Search

Using Library Search

This video shows how to use Library Search to find information (YouTube, 2m 50s)

Borrowing and requesting

Request items
How to request items from the UQ Library collection. Request document delivery, request a purchase, or request access to special collections.
Find an item on the shelf
How to find physical formats in Library locations.
Your Library account
Check the status of your loans and requests in Library Search.

Find more results beyond Library Search

You may need to search further to find more results on your topic.

Find quality information has tips and techniques to make your searches more effective and save you time. The guide covers:

database searching
specific information formats
Google Scholar and the web
research alerts
evaluating information.