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WRI-H102-A - First Year Writing II, Professor Nicholas Frangipane: 'OneSearch' box

"Science, the Unknown and Ethics" using the example of the science of quarantine vs. the ethics of restricting movement.

OneSearch: The First Option on the Sawyer Library Home Page

OneSearch Features

OneSearch is provided by EBSCO, the same vendor that produces Academic Search Complete, and the two products share many of the same features.

Results may be limited to articles from Peer Reviewed journals.

If an item is used, it must be cited. Look for the CITE button in the right margin of the article's landing screen.

Evaluate Your Sources

Look at the search results carefully: there will be a mixture of source types and quality.

OneSearch may provide a "Start Your Research" feature (not one of the results depicted here), which leads to an overview essay from an online encyclopedia.  This would be reliable background information, but it is not considered scholarly.

  • Some results may be from reputable magazines, intended for the layperson, such as TIME Magazine.
  • Some results may lead to books, (e-books, or physical books).
  • Some results may be articles from scholarly, peer reviewed journals. Use the LIMIT to Peer Reviewed box to find the articles from peer reviewed journals.

OneSearch

OneSearch Results Screen

  • The OneSearch option returned over 31,000 results for the search term quarantine.
  • After adding a second concept, (quarantine AND ethics), the results were narrowed to 380 items.
  • Expect to find a mixture of articles (magazines, newspapers, and scholarly) and books. 
  • Use the Peer-Reviewed limiter to restrict the results to scholarly sources.