QUT Library Search

Library Search

Library Search is a 'unified discovery layer.' It is in effect, a wide-ranging academic search engine. It lists and points to hundreds of thousands of items (of many different document types and formats, from many different publishers).

Find journal articles, books, eBooks (including book chapters), online videos and DVDs, standards as well as physical items (mostly books) available to borrow from the library shelves.

Why use Library Search?

• This is our recommenced way for you to commence your literature discovery;
• Library Search simultaneously retrieves a lot of information drawn from a wide range of sources;
• Library Search returns books, chapters, journal articles and conference papers in one result;
• The vendor of our library search product indexes much of the content in the major library databases;
• Think of Library Search as our biggest database;
• In Library Search it is a simple matter to limit your results to peer-reviewed scholarly content;
•  Library Search helps you find relevant information (from other disciplines) that you may not otherwise have thought of searching.

Use the advanced search interface to Library Search to perform more sophisticated search queries. 

Here are some tips to get better search results.

QUT Library Search (showing results filtering)