Databases & Indexes with CentralSearch                                      TIPS

CentralSearch searches across resources, a type of all-in-one search.  Select a category below for more subject-specific searching. Quicksearch searches multidisciplinary journals, newspapers, magazines, and CLICnet.

CentralSearch Tips:

Basics:

• CentralSearch is a good place to start your research.  It is not the best resource to complete your research. 
• Use CentralSearch to search several databases at one time.
• Use CentralSearch and UST research databases to find articles in newspapers, magazines, and journals, and books, dvds, scores, and cds in CLICnet.
• Use CentralSearch to help determine the best database for more in-depth research.  Then link directly to that database.
• Not all UST research databases are included in CentralSearch. 
• Limiting your search to 4-5 databases at a time in one subject area is a better and quicker search than searching all databases at once.
• CentralSearch can include CLICnet results.

Hints:

• Use quotes to search for specific phrases, rather than the same words in random order.
• The more specific you are, the better your results. For example, "global warming" and "economic impact" is a better search than "global warming." 
• This is a new technology.  Try different approaches when searching.  Switch from searching keyword to title searches for different results.
• If you are doing in-depth research on a topic, you will get better results if you use a database directly.

Things to remember:

• The technology behind CentralSearch will not work with all UST research databases.
• In-depth research is best done directly in a database instead of using CentralSearch.
• More searching features are allowed and understood in a database's native interface.