Queen's School of English

Omni - Searching the Queen's Library
You can use Omni to find resources across many topics. Once you've started your search, use the limiters on the left sidebar to refine your search further. You can find tutorials for searching Omni here.

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database which provides indexing (with abstracts) to peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and reports.

Google Scholar
Use Google Scholar to locate articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles published on the "open" web.

Tips for Searching Google Scholar:

• Use quotation marks around phrases: "climate change"
• Use intitle: followed immediately (no space) by a word or phrase you want to see in the titles of items in your result list
• Use filetype:pdf to request PDF format only, if you want your results to be full text
• Example: intitle:"climate change" intitle:migration filetype:pdf will return you PDF files that have climate change and migration in the title.