Offers one-stop searching across most of our online resources, including library catalogs and those in your discipline

You may save time in your search process

You do not have to learn how to use multiple database interfaces to use Central Search

You may find articles in databases that you might not otherwise have searched

Not all of our research databases can be included in a Central Search. Link to Databases our complete list

You may get too many extraneous results

You can't use some special features that are unique to certain databases, such as limiting, thesauri, or truncation

Searching is limited to the lowest common denominator