What is Omni?
Omni is the library search tool used to find items in Queen's Libraries and our partner libraries, as well to access articles and other electronic resources but NOT everything is included.
Discover the features of Omni in our quick guide.
Detailed information about how to search Omni is available in the Omni Search Tips guide.
Search Omni to find books, journals, videos and other materials owned by the Library. You can search by keywords, author, title or subject headings.
Subject headings allow you to search for resources on a particular author or topic and are often more productive than keyword searches.
Keyword searches work best if you have multiple concepts or topics and need only a few books.
For a comprehensive subject search, search with subject headings as well as keywords.
Searching Omni
Start with a keyword search, but expect to revise it.
Keyword Searching TIPS
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Search Technique |
What It Does |
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quotation marks |
Searches for exact phrase |
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Truncation * |
Searches for all forms of a word |
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Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) |
Lets you broaden or narrow your search |
To find books by a particular author/person, search Omni by author:
To find books about a particular author/person, search Omni by subject heading:
riel louis
mcclung nellie
To find books on a topic, use a keyword search if you do not know the correct subject heading for a topic. Think of the focus (or key) words that describe your topic.
Select useful titles and look at the full record for subject headings.
Examples of subject headings relating to Canadian history:
Keyword Searching
The structure for organizing information has been and continues to be from a western perspective. For this reason, you will need to search various outdated and inappropriate terminology as well as new terminology to find relevant material.
Think of your keywords and then combine them with keywords relating to the concept of Indigenous identity.
General terms: Indigenous, Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, Métis, Native, Indian, First Peoples.
Specific terms: Haudenosaunee, Iroquois, Ojibwe, Ojibway, Anishinaabe, Cree, Dene...
Search: (Haudenosaunee OR Iroquois) AND (treaty OR treaties)
Subject Headings