Omni, the library's discovery search tool, searches through collections of books and e-books, scholarly journals, newspaper articles, theses and dissertations, conference proceedings, and numerous academic databases, simultaneously from a single search box.
When searching Omni for books or journal articles, use the facets located on the search results screen, to limit your search results.
It can be a good starting point to find material but if you are doing high level research, you will want to search relevant subject specific databases.
Look it Up
To find journal articles by title, you can use Omni. Type the title of the article in the search box and as much information to distinguish the article.
To find the following article:
Adelman, Richard. "Idleness and Vacancy in Shelley's 'Mont Blanc'." Keats-Shelley Journal, vol. 62, pp. 62-79, 2013.
Try searching this:
Adelman AND "idleness and vacancy in Shelley"
Google's scholarly search engine, Google Scholar, searches for scholarly materials including journal articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Because of the variety of sources that Google Scholar uses, not every result you’ll see is necessarily peer-reviewed. It is still important to evaluate the sources for credibility.
Enabling the Get it @ Queen's links
On campus: access to Queen's resources is available via Google Scholar.
Off-campus: access Google Scholar through the Queen's library link where you will have to enter your NetID and password or if you go to Google Scholar directly (https://scholar.google.ca) you will need to configure your Google Scholar preferences to allow automatic access to our Library subscriptions to journals and databases.
Scholar Preferences
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Click on the Settings "gear" located in the upper right hand corner of the Google Scholar search page to view Scholar Preferences (choose Library Links and add Queen's University, Kingston - Get it at Queen's). Click Save.