Omni offers enhanced discovery and delivery of information resources at Queen's, our partner institutions, and beyond. Implementation of this tool involved collaboration among 18 Ontario partner university libraries. Please contact your subject librarian for a consultation on advanced research approaches within your discipline.
Please note: Omni times out after 30 minutes of inactivity, resetting itself to the default search page.
To work from off-campus, log in to the Off-Campus Access link on the library homepage. This is the gateway to full-text library content. The Omni Sign in link below is to manage your account and enable access to full text if you haven't already logged in. If you search Omni and click a link to an online resource without Off-Campus login, you will be prompted to give your NetID.
Access to multiple formats including books, articles, videos, maps, government documents, music, data sets, open access materials, and more. You can discover materials that are not available at Queen's (excluding e-books) but that you can freely request either within Omni or through interlibrary loan.
You want to find:
If you find it difficult to narrow your results, consider using a disciplinary database as recommended in the subject-specific Research Guides.
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Boolean logic |
e.g. If you type Canada AND election, you will find documents that contain both keywords. |
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Quotation marks |
e.g. If you type "human rights" in quotation marks, you will find documents that contain this phrase. |
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Truncation |
e.g. If you type Canad*, you will find documents that contain the words Canada, Canadian, canadienne... |
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Wildcard |
e.g. If you type wom?n, you will find documents that contain the words woman and/or women. |
Operators may vary from database to database: consult specific database help pages for more information.
Most databases ignore certain common words -- articles, conjunctions and prepositions -- such as the, a, of, for, but...