You don't have to enter any search terms, just click search and see the +230 million results.
Narrow results by using facets. Click on 'more...' under a facet to get a pop-up with include/exclude checkboxes.
Mouse over the title or click on the magnifying glass next to the title for a pop-up with a description and an abstract when available.
Use the folder icon next to the title to save items to the RefWorks citation management program. Go to the 'saved items' folder to print, email, export to refworks, etc.
Save a search by copying the URL in the browser address bar, The URL can be emailed, embedded in Blackboard, bookmarked, etc.
Use the widget builder to easily embed customized search boxes into websites.
Use the RSS icon to add a feed for notification when new content is added that meets the search criteria.
Use the Options link next to the search box to narrow to words in title or a specific author or journal publication.
Use the Help link at the top of the page for tips on phrase searching, boolean, field limiters, and wildcards.
Use the ' Add results beyond your library's collection' to search all +1.9 billion items known to Summon. Click on the title of the citation to place an interlibrary loan.
No login required to search from off campus, only required to retrieve subscription content. Great for guest researchers.
QuickSearch provides a single search box to find books and articles across most of the library's collections. It is powered by Summon, a web-scale discovery service from ProQuest. QuickSearch is not a replacement for discipline-specific research databases, rather it is intended as an easy-to-use alternative to Google for library research.
QuickSearch is a central index of as much of library content as possible so that it is available in a single search engine. It includes over 160 million items:
On the Databases list, use the "databases type" filter to see what specific resources are in QuickSearch. To see if a specific journal is in QuickSearch, use the Options link next to the search box and switch from all fields to publication title to search by journal title.
QuickSearch is has several known issues and limitations: