OneSearch

If there are no results matching your search...

• Make sure that all words are spelled correctly.
• Try a different search option (e-books instead of books in the library collection, for example)
• Try different keywords.
• Try more general keywords.
• Try fewer keywords 

If there are too few results matching your search...

• Use wildcards to expand your search:
  • Asterisk (*) will match zero or more characters within a word or at the end of a word

    • educa*will find education, educating, educator

    • psycholog* will find psychology, psychological

  • Question mark (?) will match any one character. 

    • gr?y will find gray or grey

    • m?n will find man and men

• To search for a phrase, type quotation marks around the phrase. You can combine both words and phrases in your search.

• For more help with basic searches, visit Performing Basic Searches in Primo VE.

If you get thousands of results...

• Use more specific keywords: "Mendocino County history" rather than "Mendocino County"
• Slide the "personalize" button above the first result of your search to limit your search to your preferred disciplines (history, psychology, sociology, for example).
• Refine Your Results in the left column
  • "Sort By" lets you select listing your results by relevance, date (oldest or newest), title and author
  • Choose "subject" to further refine your search 
  • "Availability" can limit your search to a resource type such as peer-reviewed journals
  • "Creation Date" lets you limit your search to a creation-date range (2014-2019), for example.

Saving your searches...

• Sign in with your student ID/password

• Renew materials that are not already overdue. Note that there many exceptions to this, so please email libraryhelp@mendocino.edu to renew items.
• Request materials from one of the Centers, please send an email to libraryhelp@mendocino.edu
• Save your searches.

Check the links to the Library in your handouts and Canvas. 

• Our homepage link stays the same:  https://www.mendocino.edu/library
• Link to the A to Z list of databases is now: http://libguides.mendocino.edu/az.php
• To link to a particular database, hover your mouse over the name such as "Academic Search Complete" > Right-click > Copy Link Address > Paste it where you need it. This link takes you directly to Academic Search Complete

https://mendocino.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,url&profile=ehost&defaultdb=a9h

• The direct link to the Library's catalog is Mendocino College Library OneSearch 

Please do let us know if you encounter any issues when trying to access OneSearch or any of our databases.