OneSearch is Hunter Library’s discovery tool, which allows you to find Books, E-books, and full-text articles from scholarly journals and magazines, media, and other library collections.
Your search results can be quickly narrowed using several different limiters. You can refine your search by full-text and scholarly/peer-reviewed; by content type - journal articles, jooks, newspapers, magazines, e-Books, etc. and by publication date.
Already know which article you need? The following information, known as an article citation, will help you find the full text of the article.:
An example of a complete citation:
Hallyburton, Ann, and Lisa Allison-Jones. (2023) Mental Health Bias in Physical Care: An Integrative Review of the Literature. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 30, 649–662.
Search the Library Catalog by journal title (not article title) to check if Hunter Library subscribes to the journal you are looking for. The catalog record will tell you if the journal is available online, in print, etc. If WCU does not have the journal you need, change the search to include the University of North Carolina-Asheville (UNCA) and Appalachian State University (ASU). Remember, we can borrow print item from those universities but online subscriptions are unique to each institution.
Click on the link below to do a journal title search. Enter the journal's title. The default search is set to Western Carolina University's Hunter Library. If you do not find your journal in Hunter Library, change the search to WNCLN (ASU, UNCA & WCU).
Can I search for articles from off-campus or home?
Yes! The Library's online resources are restricted so that only current WCU faculty, staff and students can view them from off-campus. In order to access these resources from an off-campus computer you will be required to log in with your WCU email ID and password, or, with your name and Banner ID# (920#).
If you do not see your journal title at WCU, ASU or UNCA libraries, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
Here are some simple search tips for finding relevant articles and books:
Use AND/OR/NOT to combine/exclude words or phrases (this is called Boolean Searching):
Example Search Phrases:
Basketball AND football = articles that have both basketball and football as topics together.
Basketball OR football = articles that have either basketball or football (or both) as topics.
Basketball NOT football = articles that are about basketball and that exclude football (be careful, this can exclude a lot of useful resources since it will exclude articles that have both basketball and football together).
Phrase searching:
Put quotation marks around words you want to search as a phrase. Not generally used for single words.
Example Search Phrases:
"North Carolina"
"Western Carolina University"
"confirmation bias"
Searching on the root word (also called Truncation):
Words may be shortened (truncated) using an asterisk. Most searches do this automatically, though Hunter Library's catalog search doesn't.
Example:
comput* will find:
computing, computers, computerization, etc.
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