Research typically involves using a variety of sources:
Before starting your research, it's important to understand the types of sources available.
The videos below provide a broad overview of the information you can find in sources such as books, encyclopedias, almanacs, periodicals, electronic resources and more. If you need help locating any of these resources in the UTA Libraries, contact your subject librarian.
Wofford OneSearch is the best place for you as a researcher to start. You can search it using keyword, author/creator, and title. OneSearch includes all of our library's collections--books and e-books, e-journal articles, e-newspaper articles, streaming videos, streaming audios. It enables you to limit your searches to scholarly, peer-reviewed resources as well as to those produced, or published, within a specified range of years. When it comes to hunting for journal and newspaper articles, OneSearch covers all of our library's 200+ databases.
OneSearch is accessible from our library's homepage:
Once you run your search from the library's homepage to get results, you see the Advanced Search boxes. They enable you to modify your search and to identify each term specifically as a keyword, author/creator, or title:
